The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-04-05

unwary. In no essential particular
has the Republican party, as par
ty, fallen away from the high stand
ard of principles and measures
wrought out and adopted, amid the
fires of the late rebellion under its
wise and bening rule the country
has advanced and prospered, as it
never did before; its course is up
ward and onward, and all reason
able things appear possible of ac-
complishment. And now, with its
dazzling future of prosperity and
advancement before it, if the same
wise and beni6cent policy is pur.
sued, comes a cry of halt And why
halt9 Because certain men and
newspapers who attempted to dis
rupt the party in 1872, by uniting
with the Democrats, are now pre-
pairing to play the same game. Then
the & independents flying the BAN
ner of Horace Greeley, struck hands
with the Democrats in q vain at
tempt to overthrow the Republican
party, and now, these same "Inde-
pendents," under the pretext Of
REFORM" and with the unmeaning
cry of hostility.to Bossism and
" Stalwartism" on their lips, are
planning to again coalesce with the
Democracy, and again attempt the
destruction of the party to which
they profess to adhere.
That the Republican party has
been, and possibly ever will be
divided as to men, is not to be gain
sayed. That some of its members
have always been brave, bold, strong
in short stalwart, while others
have been timid, conservative, vas.
cillating and selfish, is also true.
As a matter of course, the bold and
strong men have come to the front
and have nodded the policy and des-
tiny of the party, at.i now the timid
and the selfish, the men who hadn't
the grit and grip to push into the
front rank, raise the cry of " boss
ism," of REFORM" of "indepen-
dence" against the successful lead
ers, and threaten the disruption of
the party unless they are permitted
to dictate to and control it. To the
voters, the rank and file, the men
who are Republicans from principle,
the business men, the toilers in the
field, and the delivers in the mines,
the question comes home as a plain
and practical one: Are we content
with the present prosperity of the
county, the promise of continued
advancement, the maintenance of the
principles of the party under which,
by which, and through which all
this has come? If yea, then stand
by the organization of the party of
your choice, of your hopes, the
country's y'ssurestay the workingman's
safe prop against all dangers and
fallacies from without or within.
But if it matters to you above all
these things. that discord should
prevail in our ranks, under the guise
of reform that so-called indepen-
dence of organization shall shiver
the unity of the party; if you
believe that the principles of your
party are endangered, and your
chosen leaders have betrayed you,
and that all this car be amended
and the halcyon days of peace in
our ranks be restored, by raising the
standard Of revolt and coalescing
with or playing into the hands of
your lifelong Democratic adversaries,
the way is plain and the path an
open one.
The fe, 70. fun" !" cry would scarce
intimidate children, while men of
sense laugh it to scorn. Since the
Devil raised the first revolt without
cause, there have been men who
would rather reign in hell than
serve in Heaven, and so it will be to
the end of time.