Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-24

$ government is restored to unity and power, and although it took half 6 million of lives to do it, the achievement was worth the sacrifice. Our national credit has ! been redeemed, our 3 per cent. bonds are | worth nearly double in market that our 6 per cents. were in 1861, our currency is the best in the world, American citizenship re- ! spected, and wherever our flag floats it guar antees protection to it's subjects, slavery is abolished and the races put upon equal po- Htlcal footing, business enterprises have prospered and labor and industry are re- warded. All of these achieved under the policy and rule of the Republican party All of these Republican measures the Democratic party has opposed and fought against from first to last. In it's party creeds for twenty years past the Democratic party has de nounced the Republican policy as impractica- ble, futile and failure.
 The Republican party since 1861 has gone forward achieving grand results for the na- tion, and holding to it's achievements with promises of further grand results in the flu ture development of our national resources and possibilities, while the Democratic party. having opposed all in the past proposes nothing good for the future.
 It will not do to say that the past issues between the parties are dead issues and should be ignored in the future They are living, vital issues, facts interwoven into the history of the parties, fought for by the enc
 
 And the record stands without an apology from either. The life blood and heart throbs of the Republican party are quickening to new life and devo- tion to the interests of the people, as those interests widen and expand under the inspi- ration of the genius, wisdom and fidelity of Blaine and Logan, while the Democratic party, represented by its candidates, is joined to it's past idols and tainted by the corpses it bears
 Looking at the recent conventions of the two parties we find the Republican composed In the main of eminent statesmen men who have been identified with the party in heart, sentiment and action since 1861, while the Democratic convention had large percent age of the old rebel element to dictate its policy and help formulate a tricky catch vote platform that means all things to all men, and ticket that means all things to all men in general, and to bourbon chiefs and rebel generals in particular is it commended.
 The Republican party is the living embodl- ment of all that is valuable in this govern ment to-day It is proud of it's past history, and has no apology to offer for the past, or in the present. It stands out in shining light boldly and pre-eminently the American party that has rescued the nation from its perils incident to Democratic rule, and it proposes to stand by it and save it in the flu tnre.
 There are no safer hands in which to in trust it's future than those who have fought it's battles and won it's victories in war and in peace. No safer, abler, purer men can be found to whom to entrust the command of the ship of State for four years to come than Blaine and Logan, supported by the Repub- ican crew, who have rescued and recon structed the ship, manned her spars, furnished her rigging and launched her out on prosperous voyage. "It is no time to change horses in the midst of the stream" So it is unwise to change commanders when the voyage is half finished. What reason or argument do Democrats pre- sent for the election of their candidates MT. Hendricks, the candidatefor Vice President, one of the ablest and most persistent oppo- nents of Republican policy and ablest expo nent of Democratic policy, strikes the key note in a comprehensive summary of reasons why it's candidates should be elected. He says there are 60, 900 Repu bican ofice-hold- CTS who must be removed, and their places filled by Democrats when they come into power And this is the civil service reform pap thrown out to the Independents to come over and help beat Blaine. How the dear little coddlings with Republican ante cedents can go over and nestle down into the Democratic nest and partake of the unnatu- ral foster mothers milk without it's souring upon their stomach, is prat comprehension
 T., F. MUNSON