National Republican., 1883-03-14
Work for ,ho Republican Pnrtr.

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the friends of its adolescence. Tho great
corporations want to be in" with every
party, and are always ready to aid the one
most likely to succeed They folded their
hands last fall while the democrats
and republican dcserters used ox-republcan
newspapers. with which to fight the republi-
cans, and they are now waiting to see which
wagon seems most likely to be ahead in 1884
before jumping unbidden to n seat beside the
driver. If Mr.. George could realize his dream
of rallying the corporation ridden masses to
n new party, wherein should be advocated the
doctrines Of the declaration of independence,
he would see John Kelly and Samuel j. Til.
den struggling for the control Of its primaries
in New York city, wheeling old party war
horses making its candidate and platform in
national convention, and the great money
power in close communion with its national
committee prior 10 the September election in
Maine and the October election in Ohio.
The love of liberty and the enthusiasm of
humanity are dominant in the character OF
Mr.. George, but they do not, we grieve to say,
constitute as great n political force among
men generally as the greed for money and
place. To be wisely selfish is the duty of
people, for intelligent self interest would de-
stroy the boodsuckers and bloodhounds which
deplete and tear society A wisely selfish
man would SEQ that every blow at liberty and
equality was a wound to himself, lessening
the whole sum of a most valuable possession
in which he was an equal shareholder. If the
views of Mr.. George 1--WE speak generally, OBJ
jecting to some Of his dogmas) could obtain
among the people most to be benefited by
them, 1t would matter but little which party
obtained power, for then the people would bo
all democrats and all republicans in the true
sense of both terms. Then the public senti-
ment would be so elevated that coarse plum
dering from the government would be rs dan
gerous to those engaged in it, without and
within, as midnight burglary is to its perpe-
traitors.
1t is not 80 much a new party that is needed
as that existing parties shall refuse to be used
for merccnary purposes by few. Let Mr.
George so on in his good work of making
new democratic party; it can never be worse
than the old one, which made the nation a
Dahomey and set up King Cotton to rule over
it. But let republicans 60 to work earnestly
for the elevation of their own party until it
shall seem u new republican party, en-
bracng all who arc now republicans and
as many more as will come. Let it rally
under whatever leaders will most bravcly
invite contest for the right of tho
people to govern themselves. In slavery
days men were prescribed in democratic coun-
ellis who had ever faltered in their obedience
to the EXTREMIST demands Of the slavery lead
ers The pro-slavcry journals slaughtered tho
regulations of all who questioned the divine
right of their masters to rule. Let repub-
licans beware of the day when in their con-
vontions n similar tyrant shall usurp the
power which only the people should wicld.
Let them prepare to cast out from their polit-
for their own private business.
The government will surely be made the
servant of great material interests, to the
{ dctrimcnt of the body of the people, unless
there can bo such an uprising in behalf OF
better and moro general objects as cannot be
; resisted. The love Of law liberty, educa-
, tion, progress, and Of somewhere near an
equal start in life must be aroused with
mighty power, or our institutions will be but
the chariots in which our masters shall ride
over us.
Tho power in this country before which
ambition prostrates itself for leave to aspire
is the RAILROAD. A country in which any
one interested is allowed to make rulers /,
: fastening to decay. republic can confcl
no honor on any citizen when its favors arr
wrested from it by purchase or violence ant
distributed by robber hands among accom-
plices. No, Mr.. George, 1t is not so much ,
new party that is needed as a renewal among
the people of determination that they viii
not be governed without their consent, aud
new declaration of independence against tn,
corrupt tyranny of insolent corporations
We want free conventions, free elections
and free legislatures, and these canno
be unless the people care to have it SO. If tn
favorte formula that railroad control mus
, go with ownership" be correct, then let tn
millions whose government this is proclaim
that government control shall also 90 trih Owner
, ship. Such taste of liberty as that woul,
give would unfit the people for any new yoI
for many years to come. The republican
party was the instrumentality to whicl
slavery had to succumb; 1t is fitting tina
through it the new tyranny should be over
come.
. Chalmers OF Mississippi.
G For tho purpose of affording our mornin
: contemporary an opportunity to mention tn
q name of Chalmers of Mississippi, which al