The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-08-09

Reasons Tor Bcing fSepuohcan-
Twenty-six years ago, when
young man asked why he should
Join the Republican party, he was
answered: Because it means Free
Soil, Free Speech and Free Men,
Twenty years ago, when a young
man asked the same question, he
was answered Because it means
LOYALTY to the Union and defeat to a
shareholders rebellion" Fifteen
years ago, when young man asked
the same question, he was answered
Because it means loyal government
in every State, based upon impartial
suffrage" Eight years ago began
TIE struggle of repudiators and pa
per-money infiationists to seize the
government, and the battle for pub
! lie honor and honest money contin-
ued until the Republican party
triumphed in specie resumption, IN
the grand prosperity which followed,
| in the election of President Garfield,
and in the funding of s?00,0O0,OOO
of public debt at 81 per cent in a
few weeks. Now what is to be ali.
swered when a sincere young man
asks: "Why should | become Re-
publican ?"
The history Of the country sug-
gests one sufficient reason BE
cause it is worth while to guard and
keep the fruits of grand deeds in the
past" Freedom in the Territories
was worth much, but the Democrat
ic party armed border-rufiians
against it. The Union was well
worth the life blood of our bravest
and best, but every man of those
who shot them down, and fired up
on the flag, and resisted the authori-
ty of the United States was Demo
crat. There could be no freedom
for all without equal suffrage, but
the Democratic party contended and
still contends for white mans gov
ernment. Reputation would have
dishonored, wrecked and cursed the
land, but every repudiator was a
Democrat or gravitated to the DEM
ocratic party as his natural home.
To this day that party denounces
resumption as wrong, and would
undo the work if it could, as it has
shown in hundreds of votes. 1t is
not true that every grand achieve
ment of the Republican party can
still be undone. Some of them have
so changed the National life, and so
imbedded themselves in the very
foundation wall of the government,
that no return to Democratic the
ories or practices is possible. Sla-
very cannot be in form reestablished,
though Democratic laws might easi-
ly make colored labor free only in
name. The Union can never be
broken by secession into warning
fragments, but the Solid South
keeps alive, CONTROLS and ownes the
Democratic party, and gives IT
the only chance of success it has,
and Democratic victory would
merely mean the gray above :he
blue-a capture of the Union by
those who tried to break it up and
failed. Reputation, initiation, re-
turn to dishonored promises having
forced circulation as money--all these
are possible and probable results OF
Democratic success.
But youth often thinks lightly
of preserving the result of past
heroism. To many a young man il
seems certain that the past is safe
and infinitely necessary that he
should find a new duty, and room
for a new heroism in the presen,
and the future. BE it SO For such
a man, honest patriotic and eager tc
make his country better by his po
litical activity, the Republican party
only offers field for work. To join
the Democratic party is to go dowr
among the dead men at once, and tC
chain ones self to the dead past for
ever. Not to past of cruelty anc
treason, assassination and perjury
dishonor and chronic defeat. Above
that past the Democratic party new
er rises. By it the better impulses
OF the party are overborne, its bes'
aims are defiled, its abler men debas
ed, and all its action is shaped. HI
who wants to do anything good fol
the country must act in and through
some other party, or miserably fail
The Republican party has done
much since the war, but still ha:
more 10 do, to reduce the taxation
that was made necessary by Dem
ocratic rebellion. Its aim for sixteer
years has been to reduce taxation a.
fast as possible, without subjectins
the public credit to assault or Amer
lean industry to destructive compe
tition. The people trust it because
it has shown the will and the capac
ity to promote q marvellous growth
ofindustry even while paying off thu
public debt with unprecedented ra
pidity. The party believes in popu
lar education, in the rightfulness o
expenditure for improvements o
National utility, and in the encour
agement of a thrifty immigration b.
offering free homes to actual settlers
But the young man who believe:
heartily in the necessity of hones
elections will find his way into th,
Republican party, whether he agrees
with it in all other matters or not
And he who agrees with it on man,
other points, but wants force anC
fraud to prevail in the election o
the peoples representatives,, belong
in some other party and has no bust
ness to call himself a Republican.
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