The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1882-05-24
ADDRESS or THE REPUBLICAN
STATE COMMITTEE.
Headquarters Republican State !
Committee, 50. Cloud Hotel,
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cooperation of oil active Republicans,
to the end that the details of what
must prove great canvass may
receive the most careful attention.
The Harrisburg Convention has
submitted to the suffrages Of the peo.
pie a great ticket and a glorious plat.
form. The ticket embodies a group
of names which for ability, fitness and
representative character, it is impos.
sible to excel. General Beaver is not
only the type of our soldiery-of that
host which counted in its ranks nearly
quarter Of million of Pennsylva.
mans when the Union of the States
was imperrilled-but his deeds and
sufferings for the cause place him in
the front rank Of the heroes of that
war. AS Republicans We vowed in its
darker hours that political ingratitude
should never be shown to any of these
heroes, "all other things being equal"
In this instance all other things are
more than equaled; they are excelled
in so far that our manned soldier can
didate for Governor embodies all the
highe. qualities Of the statesman, the
orator and christian. Senator Davies
for Lieutenant Governor, represents
the free, unshackled talent of the
section which gave us Wilmot and a
Grow. VIM. Henry Rawle, for the
Supreme Court, is the best product of
Philadelphia's brilliant bar, and in the
world of legal letters bears fame so
bright that our continent cannot bind
it. John M. Greer, for Secretary of
Internal Affairs, is as strong in politics
as in physique, and throughout dis
tiuguished career in the State Senate
has been recognized as the champion
of the men who have developed our
rivers of oil and made the world their
channel. Thomas M. Marshall, the
most independent of all independent
thinkers in our West, is the best ex-
ample our State affords of the citizen
whose qualifications have compelled
the Office to hunt the man. He will
aid in keeping intact what the nature
of things must be very narrow Re.
publican margin in the lower House of
Congress.
The ticket thus fairly and fully rep
resents every living element of Repub.
licanism. The platform is more pro-
nounced than any ever before adopted
in the State-pronounced in seeking
every legitimate political advance
touching improvement of methods and
the earliest possible triumph of princi.
pies.
Pennsylvania is now freer in her
forms of Republican primary action
than any other State in the Union.
The inaugarated district representation
in National Conventions, and now
more fully enforces this policy than
any of her sister States. The present
platform and the rules embodied there.
in secure to primary action for State
Conventions every tangible claim to
increased liberty, and these are polit-
ical reforms of more rapid gIoth than
any known to our history.
AS rule good things in politics
which come to stay, come step bv step,
the pace increasing only as all become
moro and more ready to receive. The
progress of the Republican party
torcibly attests fact which has grown
into maxim. In its infancy the
party could but announce its opposi-
tion to the further extension ofslavery.
Extension once forbidden, its wisest
champiOn-the martyred Lincoln-
patiently struggled in the earlier years
of his first administration for compen-
sated emancipation. His appeals
were rejected by the parties interested.
Wars grim necessity emancipated, and
then great struggle followed for
equality before the law-but another
step, and one which looks timid now
yet which was bold enough then. Civil
rights accomplished, manhood suffrage
came through even more painful
stages. To have demanded the greater
boon from the beginning-the final
step which included and outreached
all others--would have led to fatal
slip. The men who proved their
powers in these struggles were those
who had the wisdom to guide with
care and good cheer, and so 10 stand
with the people as not to lose their
opportunities for increasing useful
ness. Ofsuch wele Lincoln, Stevens,
Goreol1