West-Jersey pioneer., 1883-08-09
behind devices for temporary effect; it

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 exist
ence; 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 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 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 trodden down and
oppressed 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, capa-
bility and faithfulness from which it was
degraded by Democratic cupidity; it has
fostered education; it has protected the
labor of the country.
By its legislative enactments and by
the protests of its Conventions and the
grand intelligence of it's press the Re
publican party has stood for years and
it stands to-day, as a 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
prostrated and destroyed the interests
of free labor. The Republican party is
the only shield to-day that protects the
industries the educated, the intelligent
masses of American laborers from the
blighting influence of the cheap labor
and degraded habits of the pauper mil
lions of foreign lands
On this one great issue the Republican
party can well afford to ask Judgment
of the American people, while the De
mocracy in their press and in their con-
ventions palter in double sense, and
fear to challenge the popular verdict by
a candid avowal of their free-trade doc
trlnes. In dealing with the tariff the
Republican party champions the inter
ests OF every great national industry,
and its beneficent policy since its acces-
sion to power has united capital and
labor in the harmonious development of
a prosperity unparalleled in it's grandeur
and in its diffusion among all the people,
Against the theorizing of doctrinaires
and the sophistry of demagogues the
Republican party holds up the magnifi-
cent record of the last two decades. in
which the fostered and protected indus
try and skill of the United States have
lifted and borne the burden of mighty
civil war with hardly slackening in
the great strides of progress, until to-
day the diversity of our resources and
the general welfare of our $4,000, 900 of
people are the envy and admiration of
the world. With such a record of the
past and such a testimony of the present
the Republican party is justified in MAX
ing confident 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 it's history,
its career, and the purposes they SO un-
mistakably indicate be brought into
power without any guaranty, without
even promise of better government in
the future? And shall this beautiful
country, with all these splendid institu-
tions. the handiwork of Republican ad-
ministrations, be. turned over to the
blighting sirocco of Democratic rapacity?
Or shall the Republican party, rein
dorsed by the American people, rein
structed from the source of all political
power and intelligence-th voice of the
people-be commissioned to go for
ward in its great work, and continue to
guide the nation upon it's glorious path
way to ultimate perfection? In the Ian
guage of the third resolution of our
Philadelphia platform: I'VE call upon
the masses of the Republican party
throughout all the States of the Union
to stand together in support of the prin-
ciples of the Republican party, and to
labor together at the primary meetings,
at the conventions, and, finally, at the
polls, to aid that party to secure harmo-
NOUS action and ultimate victory, and
to this end we urge aggressive opposi-
ton to the Democratic party, believing
it to be now, as heretofore, the exponent
OF political views hostile to the best in
terests of the country"