Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-08-04
Of million Of the best citizens Of the re.
public; it placed upon the nation tue
fearful burden Of q great debt, and stead

ating nothing.
1t is enough to say of the republican
party that it has made powerless for
harm every principle that the democratic
party has advocated during the past
quarter OF century. 1t has stood in |
the gateway OF power. with q drawn
sword in its hands, beating back the ag. |
gressivc forces OF democracy, and shield. |
ing the nation from the baleful influ. |
ences Of the vicious principles of it's
opponents; it has received nationality;
it has re-educated public opinion; 1t has
re established loyalty; it has made liz.
crty universal and eternal; it has oblit.
Grated all distinctions from among men
before the laws of the United States; it
has lifted up the down-troddep; 1t has
encouraged the weak; it has rebuilt the
waste places Of the nation: it has spread
abroad prosperity like mighty canopy.
Under the benign influence OF the
teachings and administration of the re-
publican party, material growth has
come to US, such as no other nation ever
experienced on earth; we have grown
mighty 10 population; we have grown
mighty in wealth; we have grown
mighty in education, in intelligence. in
virtue and christian civilization; our for.
mer circumscribed commonwealth has
spread itself out to the very waters of
the Pacific, until the steady march of
population and enterprise has peopled
every foot of soil over which the Ameri-
can flag has jurisdiction. adding farms,
villages, cities and states to the material
strength Of the country.
The history of the republican party ia
all brilliantly studded with the gems of
righteous government; it has punished
misconduct in its own ranks; it has de.
manded falthfulness to the country; it
has restored the credit of the nation
until it stands higher than that of any
other on the earth; it has discharged its
sacred obligation ito bind up the ma.
tion's wounds, to care for him who has
borne the battle, and for his widow and
his orphan" it has lifted the old flag to
place of higher dignity and granduer
in the great galaxy Of the nations.
The republican party has not hest.
tated to remedy its own mistakes; it has
not been blind to its own errors; it has
not been cowardly; it has never lodged
behind devices for temporary effect; it
has always met the great, diversified and
growing questions Of the day and hour,
in the spirit that brought it into e1is.
tence; it has settled every question by
the touchstone of it's own birthright-
liberty, justice, freedom and equality.
The republican party stands to-day
the champion and protector of a free
ballot and pure elections and demands
the security by law of the right of every
man to vote in accordance with his own
convictions. The democratic party has
been and is the polluter of the balIot-box,
the enemy of vile elections, and the pro.
moter OF dishonest election returns.
Under the administration of the repub.
lican party America has opened wide
her doors, and the wn-trodden aud op.
pressed of other countries have come
here to seek an asylum and protection
from tyranny and poverty abroad; it has
restored the civil service of the country
to the plane of honesty, capabllity anc
faithfulness from which it was degraded
by democratic cupidity; it has fosterec
education; it has protected the labor Of
th country.
By its legislative enactments and by
the protests of its conventions and thu
grand intelligence of its press the repub
lican party has stood for years and i
stands to-day. as wall of fire against tn,
determined assaults of the democratic
party upon the industries Of the coun
try, with its prenicious heresy of "tarif
for revenue only" that dogma which
wherever it has been tried, has PROSTATE,
and destroyed the interests of free labor
The republican party is the only shiel
to-day that protects the industrious, til
educated, the intelligent masses Q
American laborers from the blightin
influence of the cheap labor and dc
graded habits of the pauper millions g
foreign lands.
On this one great issue the republ
can party can well afford to ask jude
ment of the American people, while th
democracy in their press and their cor
ventions palter in double sense, an
fear to challenge the popular verdict b
candid avoxal of their free.trade dot
trines. In dealing with the tariff the r,
publican party champions the interest
, of every great national industry, and i
benefcent policy since its accession [
|, power has united capital and labor in Il
harmonious development of q prosperit
unparalleled in its grandeur and in i
! diffusion among all the people. Again!
the theorizing of doctrinaires and IL
sophistry of demagogues the republics
I party holds up the magniicel
= record of the last tv
decades, III which the fostered and pr
q tected industry and skill of the Unite
. States have lifted and borne the burde
i of a mighty civil war with hardly slac
ening in its great strides of progres
until to day the diversity of our resourc
and the general welfare of our fif
millions OF people are the admiratic
= aud envy OF the world. With such
record of the past and such a testimor
i of the present. the republican party
' justified in making confident appeal
the intelligent suffrages of the workil
i people of the country.
e The issue immediately before Il
4 American people is simple one: shs
d the democratic party, with its histor
e its career, and the purposes they so n
l. mistakably indicate be brought in
!. power without any guaranty, witho
4 even promise of better government
y the future? And shall this beautif
q country, with all these splendid instit
!, tions, the handiwork of republican a
!, mlnistrations, be turned over to t
d blighting slroaco of democratic rapacit
3. Or shall the republican party, reindors
by the American people, reinstruct
d from the source Of all political pow
i. and intelligence-the voice of the pt
i. ple-be recommiseioned to 20 forward
d its great work, and continue to gui
d the nation upon its glorious pathw
'e to ultimate perfection? In t
language of the third r
"a olution of our Philadelphia platform
=, 1--WE call upon the masses of the repr
,e lican party throughout all the states