Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-09-07

for that is what tariff for revenue has all
ways done. During the session just closed,
when the Tariff Commission bill was before
the House, on the 7tb of May last Mr.. Mills,
of Texas, moved to recOmmit the bill to the
Committee on Ways and Means with instruc-
tions to report back bill based on the Rob-
ert j. Walker tariff of 1846. Seventy-five
Democratic members of the House, voted for
this proposition Many Ct you remember the
effect of that ruinOus measure, vastly increas-
ing our imports, destroying our manufactures,
prostrating our industries till it ended in the
great panic of 1857, when President Buchan>
an himself said, in his message of that year,
that thousands of laborers were reduced to
want.
The Republican party has established and
maintained for 20 years that protection under
which our agricultural and manufacturing
industries have att9ined such mighty proper
tions that they have become the marvel of the
world But the highest triumph of this sys>
TEN is the benefit and the elevation of the
citizen, for as Garfield well said: alt is our
glory that the American laborer is more in
telligent and better paid than his foreign COM
petitor." (Applause).
The Republican party stands pledged to
vindicate the rights of voters in the South.
That pledge has been redeemed in the pres
ent Congress. Have you not, within few
months, seen the whole legislation of the
country brought to deadlock to shield the
tissue ballot and the rife>club, because sim
gle hour of discussion would expose the out
RACES whereby whole States had been rif1ed
from the ballot-box, and the highest rights of
freeman trampled in the dust under the
bloody and brutal feet of might and murder.
Our crowned rule is the popular will and
Ill ,x~fy
and Of justice and aims at the very life of our
sovereign and our system.
When the convention of this district met
two years ago we were just entering on a
great National contest. The wonderful leader
who was then our standard -bearer-one OF
the grandest men who ever trod the highways
of power-broad as Webster, brave as Custer,
stainless as Washington, and tender as Lin>
coln--has been borne to his deathless rest,
while theworld stood uncoveredaDd mourning.
But the principles OF his party, 80 dear to his
great heart, will not and cannot die. That
party, like the Nation itself, has perpetual
succession, not in line Of rulers like dynas>
ty, but in the line of its masses.
The party which gave to the country and
the world Lincoln and Garfield is still to>day
the party to which the people turn with
abiding trust for guidance and safety. 1t still
goes forward in its grand uncompleted work,
with these illustrious examples to light its
pathway of power. Its character is written in
its history. Its record, full of grand achieve
ments and American glory, is its great, inde>
structible platform. Its triumphs are the re-
suits of an irrepressible conflict of social,
moral and political forces, and they represent
those which conquered and survived. Demo-
cratic theories embody those which the peo.
nle have condemned and beaten If the Re
publican party is true to itself, the coming
contest will bring it another victory.
The columns are already forming. Oregon
is in the lead Maine is now coming into line.
Ohio will join them in October, and the party
which rescued the country in its hour of peril
shall still guide it in Its great career. Great
annlaucal