The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1884-09-18
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I MARCH 1S47.

mistakes, and has scored a marvellous
list of grand successes, not only in
saving our country from division and
ruin, but in building it up in every
way that makes a nation truly great.
This, in short, is tie party which has
recently called James G.. Blaine and
John A. Logan to be its standard
bearers for the next four years in ad-
ministering the Government life
long statesman and fighting General
to succeed a fighting General, and a
a thorough business man and states
mana very appropriate succession,
in my opinion. 1t will be sorry day
for this country when the fighting
soldier who aided in saving our Gov
ernment shall not be thus honored by
her citizens, or when the experienced,
practical, and brilliant statesman is
not joined in political wedlock with
the soldier to perpetuate our institu-
tiOns.
The unanimity Of the choice of
these men by the Republican Conven-
ti"n (which came nearer peoples con-
ve1ation then any one that has gath
cred since the War; should go long
ways to settle especially every Rspub-
lican voters mind, as to his duty at
the polls.
A few malcontents have criticised
the wisdom Of this choice, fewer
still have declared hostoiity to it, even
after sharing in the councils of the
Convention that made the nomina-
tions. The party can afford to spare
all such timber. 1t cannot help make
a seaworthy craft.
The few will wheel into line, on
second, sober thought, and the fewer
still, may as we'll join the Democratic
Party at once, where rebellion is fash
Unable, it not profitable, and be at
home, with the thrashing that they
will surely get. equal to their deserts.
That party has made its nomina-
tloas Its convention was composed
OF able men from all parts of the
country.
Here and there a soldier was
sprinkled in among them, but very
many more who bore arms against the
flag than Of those who fought for it.
Having suffered defeat so many
times, with soldiers as well as civilians
on their ticket, the better Judgment of
this Convention was that Northern
soldier at the head Of their ticket, or
the tall of il, would still be regarded
as blind, and that no decoy ducks
would answer for this present Presi-
Dental hunt.
The rememb brance of poor Greeley.
the best exponent of the principles of
a protective tariff, and Of General
Hancock. the best individual expo
nent in their party of defensive and
protective war for the Union, neither
Of which cardinal planks in the Re-
publican Party's political creed were
ever indorsed by their party, convinced
them that the semblance. at least, of
fealty to their old political dogmas,
and to the country's interest, at the
same time. must appear in their can
didates and platform. The best they
could do was to present drafted man.
who furnished substitute to preserve
his part of the Union, and consist
ent fire in the rear" Democrat, to
represent both wings Of their party
in making up their ticket.
To encourage Northern soldiers in
the Convention, Southern soldier re-
minded them that the Southern States
would send the Democratic candidate
North of Mason and Dixon's line with
$50 Of the 200 electoral votes needed
tn elect him. and hence they conld.
with becoming mod-sty, present Car
Isle as ''peace offering" candidate
Thus. now. as in the Olden time. y
Solid South" clings "to the hope that
soon again, Notwithstanding Their
War record, they will shape and rule
the destinies Of this great country
Even a Northern soldier, who was
honored to be their chairman, so far
forgot the sober facts of history as to
assert that the Democratic Party
''would rescue the Republic" I could
only think of the man who fell among
thieves, on the way to Damascus, be-
ing rescned by the robbers from the
kind offices of the good Samaritan for
another hepeing.
This platform is devoted almost en-
tirely to damning the Republican Par
ty, which oustpd them from power in
the interests Of human freedom.
The tariff question was fairly strad-
died. To decide against protection to
our labor and its products would be to
condemn the main factor in paying
war debts, and at the same time CIV
ing vitality to our prosperity since the
War. The country is too wise. now.
to be fooled with free-trade theories.
plausible in themselves, but which.
when put in practice at the beck of
Democratic rulers, aided and abetted
by Englands advice and England's
gold, have always paralyzed every
nerve of our political economy, and
given us depression and poverty. To
decide against free trade would have
insplted the past history of their par
ty, aud its present champions, whose
political digestion never was, and nev-
er can be, normal, while they have not
the ''post Offices even though the
country should march forward, under
a protective tariff, to challenge even
England's right to the commerce of
the world.
The great mass of our Irish and
German-American voters are having
their eyes opened by the actual results
of protective tariff ON our national
prosperity, as compared with free
trade before the War, and, remember
ing the starvation prices they received
for their labor in the fatherland, and
the full meal and good clothes prices
they have received IN this country,
need only an honest jogging of their
memories on these facts to see where
their interests lie in this canvass.
A vast army Of those who went to
the War to save their adopted country
from the despotism of Southern sla-
very (which degraded labor even lower
than England aud Germany and did
their work we'll, cannot but kno,o, as