Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-09-06
Close up the Ranks.

The campaign of 1884 is long ways
ahead, but there is one thing Republic
cans great and small, high and low,
can mark down in some place where it
can be conveniently referred to, name
1y: that if success is to crown the Re-
publican banner next year, it will only
come through the united and earnest
work of a consolidated party. In 1874
the party had become so pulled up with
power that it lost, to a certain ex-
tent, its centripetal power, and split up
into minor factions. The result OF this
folly was shown that year where in
many places the tidal wave came near
burying it out of sight. The lesson,
although severe was accepted with due
humbleness and an united party two
years later wrested victory from the
jaws of defeat. But intervening time
scared over party memories and for a
year or two past the close observer of
political phenomena could have observ-
ed signs of coming danger in the dis
cordant factions which were arising
in every quarter. Again the party was
beginning to be troubled with that
common and vulgar complaint known
as "big head" The cause being pres
ent it was not difficult to prophesy the
effect. 1t came last year in the shape
of another tidal wave which nearly, if
not quite, equalled in Importance its
predecessor of the previous decade. 1t
now remains to be seen whether the
party will accept the lesson of the hour
with the same good sense and humility
that marked its course in the former
Instance. IL it does there is no reason
to fear that the Republican colors will
be trailed in dust next year. If it does
not there can be but very little question
that they will become only too well
acquainted with that finely sifted upper
crust of mother earth.
The need of the hour is unity with
very large U. The influence from this
on, must be centripital and not CEN
trifugal. 1t is time for factions every
where, from the school district to the
state convention, to remember that the
members owe duty to their country
and their party many times greater
than any personal claims, and that all
lesser interest should be absorbed in
the one great problem of party success.
Success because under the fostering
care of Republicanism this country has
advanced with rapid strides to pros
perity never before deemed possible
and it is necessary that in order to con-
tiilue that advance, the reins of govern
ment remain in the hands of thatparty
The hour calls for men, not whippers
in. Patriots, not partisans The I'M
DERIVING principles of Republicanism
are as grand to-day as they ever were.
Their beniticent influences are as all
pervading Although they have for
space been obscured by the factional-
ism of personal chickering's and cor
rupt ambitions, they mean as much
to-day as they did ten, fifteen, or twenty
years ago, and properly applied will
repeat their past successes and con-
tinue the nation in the broad road of
prosperity in which it is now travelling.
IT is not mere party success but
the happiness of great nation that
demands the merging of every interest
into one grand chord, whose note shall
reach every heart and rally every one
to the support of the party which repre-
sents the enlightenment, the progress,
and the best needs of the nation. Pri-
vate jealousies can well lie dormant
when such grand end is in view. 1t
is one worth working for. ennobling
rather than enfeebling the individual
atoms which go to make up the grand
total of this great party. With unity
all things are possible, with out it ruin
approaches over the hill. Which will
YOU have? Seemingly there can be but
one answer from every true Republican
and lover of his country.
Long silk gloves are worn with full
FLATS this suunnpr