The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-08-09

always met the great, diversifie and
growing questions OF the day ana ho9r
IN the spirit that brought il fso exis-
tencei it has settled every question by
the touchstone Of Its birthrighi-iIbeEty,
justice, freedom and equality.
The Republican party stands today
the champion and protector of frec bal
lot and pure elections and demands the
security by law Of the right Of every
man TO vote In accordance with his DIVA
convictions. The Democratic party has
been and il the p0lluteEs of the ballot
box, the enemy OF free elections, and the
promoter Of dishonest election returns.
Under the administration Of the Re
publican party America has opened
wide her doors, and the doWntrOdden,
and oppressed of other countries have
come here TO seek an asylum and pro-
lection from tyranny and poverty
abroad; it has restored the civil service
of the country to the plane of honesty,
capabillty and fsithiulness from which
IL was degraded by Democratic cupidity;
IL has tostered educztion; il has pro-
Lected the labor OF the country.
By its legislative enactments and by
the protests OF its conventions and the
grand intelligence OF Its press the Re-
publican party has stood for years and
Il stands to-day, as wall of fire against
the determined assaults OF the Demo
cratic party upon the industries of the
country, with its pernicious heresy of
tariff for revenue only" that dogma
which, wherever it has been tried, has
Frustrated and destroyed the interests of
free labor. The Republican party is the
only shield to-day that protects tine in
dustrioHs. the educated. the intelligent
masses Of American lxborers from the
degraded habits OF the paupeg millions
Of foreign lands.
On thls one great issue the Republi-
can party can well afford to ask the
judgment of the American people,
while the Democracy in their press and
their conversations palter in 9 double
sense. and fear to challenge the popular
verdict by q candid aYowal of their free
trade doctrines. In dealing with the
tariff the Republican party champions
the interests OF every great national In
dustry, and its benefcent policy since
its accession to power has united capital
and labor IN the harmonious develop
ment of q prosperity unparalleled
In Its grandeur and in its diff. |
fusion among ali the people. Against |
the theoriZing of doctrinaries and the |
sophIstry Of demagOgues the Republican |
party holds up the magnificent record of |
the last twO decades, in which the fos-
tered and protected industry and skill 1
of the United States have lifted and |
borne the burden of mighty civil war |
with hardly sfackening in its great /
strides of progress, until to-day the d. /
versity OF our resources and the welfare |
OF our fifty millions Of people are the |
admiration and envy of the world. |
With such record of the past and such |
testimony of the present, the Republi. |
e Snoff6nA IN R1nOtTfn0 fanVnA Il
dent appeal to the intelligent suffrages |
of the working people of the country.
The issue Immediately before the |
American people is simple one; shall |
the Democratic party, with its history, |
its career, and the purposes they so un- |
mistakably indicate, be brought INTO
power without any guaranty, without |
even q promise of better government |
in the future? And shall this grand and
beautiful country, with all these splen-
did institutions, the handiwork of |
Republican administrations, be turned /
over to the blighting sirOcco OF Dem
ocratic rapacity? Or shall the Re
publican party, Reimbursed by the |
American people, re-instructed from the |
source of all political power and intelli- |
gence-the voice of the people-be re
commissioned to go forward in its great |
work, and continue to guide the nation /
upon its glorious pathway to ultimate |
perfection? In the language of the |
third resolution of our Philadelphia |
platform: 1--WE call upon the masses Of |
the Republican party throughout all the |
states OF the union, TO stand together in |
support Of the principles OF /
the republican party, and to labor |
together at the primary meetings, ct the
conventions, and finally at the polls, TO
aid that party TO secure harmonious
action and ultimate victory, and 70 this |
end we urge aggressive opposition 70
the Democratic party, believing 1t to be
now, as heretofore, the exponent of
political views hostile to the best inter-
ests of the country"
q. Fl. GRosvENoR,