Daily Republican., 1880-09-28
why am a Republican.


correspondent can old Democrat" l
will try to tell your readers my reason
why am a Republican.
The Republican party is the party OF
liberty and freedom in preference to
seryitude and slavery.
II is the friend OF this Union, which
is the friend Of humanity all the world
over.
1t is the friend Of the oppressed OF
all nations and invites them to our
shows to partake In equality Of all that
we enjoy, living, clothing and suffrage;
religion, education and good wages for
labsr.
II is in favor OF representation &C.
cording to population" Of abolishing
q landed sristoeracy as right to hold
Office; OF free right to vote and to have
it counted, no matter on which side 1t
is cast.
1t favors not only the right but the
duty to protect the laboring man in his
effort to make the best living for his
family and himself. To effect this, pro-
teotive duties are laid upon foreign i'm
ports that enter into competition with
our own workingmen.
It teaches that the workers of Europe
would improve their condition to come
here and take part in our rights and
citizenship, and earn q better living
than they can in the old country; but
not to shut our shops and beggar our
selves for the purpose Of enriching few
merchant princes Of New York, Boston
and Philadelphia, and thus enable them
to carry imports cheaply, and reduce
the wages of the American workingmen.
The Republican party has home prin-
ciples, and teaches that as our own
working class are twice as well fed land
clothed, and paid, that it IS far more
preferable to have good class OF con-
sumsrs able to buy and pay our pro-
ducers fair living price for what they
may raise, than to have a pauper com
munity living on the refuse OF what
NAV fall from the rich mans table.
The teachings Of the Republican par:
ty do not make war between capital
and labor, but that they are each de-
pending upon each other.
1t teaches also that this is q nation,
fully endowed with all the rights and
power that any nation Of the earth
possesses. That the whole is greater
than the part. That as this nation has
the right to draft men to the army and
to destroy property, so it has the right
to protect its citizens at the ballot box,
and guarantee to every man the ex'
preston Of his vote, and to have 1t
honestly counted.
The Republican party is founded on
the principles Of the Declaration Of
Independence, upon which is built the
Constitution Of the United States, the
greatest instrument Of law under the
sun that spreads and teaches the
principles Of equality, free thought and
the rights of man intelligence, order
and the free untramelled suffrage OF
manhood.
It teaches that every man should
learn the true principles of our politl.
cal temple.
Il teaches that every man however
lowly is the equal of every other man,
however wealthy there IL no high
born, nor emo poor where freedom ls."
These are few Of the reasons "why
am Republican, Ov1R TWENTY YEARS
Now Jersey Central Railroad.
The conflict between the Standard
Oil Company and the Central Railroad
Of New Jersey, at Bayonne, has been
extended so as to include the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad. On Saturday night the
Standard Company's pipes were laid as
far as Newark, when the Pennsylvania
Company finding that the object Of the
Standard Companies was to connect
their Communipaw works by pipes
with the Erie Railroad, refused to per-
init the pipes to be laid across the
Hackensack river bridge, and spiked
the approaches to the structure. The
Pennsylvania Railroad tug boats were
out Yesterday, protecting the bridge
by playing streams Of water on the
Standard Oil Pipe men," Pipes were
laid acress the unused dummy tracks
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
at Avende G. in Newark, and the
Standard Company's police were on
guard to prevent them from being torn
up.
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