The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-10-13
Republican Popular Sovereignty.
fpb,ladelphia Press

Warner Miller's temperate and manly
speech before the Republicans OF New
York 90 TO the root of a question which
of late years has enlisted the concern OF
Republicans and, more than any other
consideration, divided the party into
"wings' in States In which it should
alway be united. 1t touches the
quickest nerve Of the Republican
organization, for it involves the popu-
lar sovereignty within the party lines.
"The Republican psfty, said Sena.
tor Miller. ''is q patty Of freemen,
every one of whom is entitled to be
considered and to be trusted in the
party and it's councils. Organization
is necessary, machinery is necessary,
for the carrying out of any political
work, but the machinery and the
organization must he broad enough
and wide enough to take in every
Republican and to give him a fair
share of the government" This ID
the democratic-republican idea; it is
the idea of the Republican parry for
government of the country and OF
itself. 1t requires no painful or dishon
] orable sacrifice Of any party member.
1t does not deny to superior intelli-
| gence, character, industry persever-
ance, the advantages which those
qualities of right. draw with them.
1t does not attempt to- smooth out
those natural and fnirly-acquiretl
inequalities which make one man
more to be respected and admired and
trusted than another. 1t merely
adopts the American idea of the free
dom and equality of all men, but ii
appropriates aud indorses that high
conception in its fullest force All
men are to be held equal before the
law, whether it he the law of the
country or the law of the party.
Insisting upon its claim to be con-
sidered party of liberty--a claim
which it has maintained in the field.
in tie halls of legislation, in whatso
ever arena of contention-the Repub-
lican party can never deny to the
humbiest of its members the fullest
freedom of opinion and speech and
action without loss to it's distinctive
character, without blurring its hon
orable history and discrediting the
illustrious deeds Of fts ,hohored dead.
1t is sound Republican doctrine
that every Republicau.''is entitled to
be trusted in the party and its councils
"A right only to he forfeited by inf
deity to the sacred trust reposed III
each individual member.
Organization in necessary"-su.
| premely necessary. Because men OF
large and selfish ambition have prac-
ticed on this necessity to gain unwar-
rented mastery and exert unlawful
power to the prejudice of other indiv-
idual rights and the hurt of the party
the very terms organization and ma
chinery have come to be of unsavory
odor. The misuse of essentials does not
prove them non-essentials. Organiza
ton we must have, and machinery
but the organization must be fair and
popular, embracing the whole party
membership; the machinery must bt
devised and operated on basis of jus
tice, equality and right, for the ligi
innate purposes of party work-fol
the most successful campaigning
against the enemy-not for the punish
ment or enslave:neilt Of any, the least
considerable, element of the whule
force. "rhe machinery. and the or
ganization must be broad enough and
wide enough to take in every Repub.
lican and TO give him fair share o
the government"
Senator Miller spoke to men who
realized that this only true theory fol
the government of Il free party has
not always been respected in New
York but his words. are not more
fitted to that locality than to this. Ii
Pennsylvania there is serious and
deep seated discomfort because the
equal rights of all Republicans have
not at ali times been allowed; because
the popular will has been overruleO
by methods the reverse of Republican
The disaffected contingent of Reput
licans which has taken the field t,
further the election of u Democrat as ,
rebuke to the usurpation of party au
thority represent small part of tina
great majority which feels as deeply
but with more patience and discretion
bides Its time.
The true theory OF Republican gov
ernment again prevails in New York
Popular sovereignty will regain the
mastery in Pennsylvania. In New
York the victorious people, still speak
ing through tie temporary Chairman
of the Convention, willing to forget
the past, desiring 10 punish or pro
scribe nobody, anxious to take a new
harmonious and aggressive state, de
ciaires tnat To-day we throw wide
open the doors of the Republican
party. We invite into it all classes
and say to tnen, one ani all, 'rlis il
your party; come into it, take charge
OF il, and make it aS it may seem be,l
to yourselves. SO it will be il
Pennsylvania.
MRS. E. CRAYSTON.
In returning thanks for past favor