The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-10-25
WHY WE ARE A REPUBLICAN

taches fortunes TO those OF a polltl
cal party, he should know why he
does so, and be able to tell the gov
erning principles Of the party o
| his choice.
We are a Republican, and ad
here to the organized Republican
party, because we have an abiding
faith IN its justice and true patri
otisln, and believe in the great prin
ciples upon which its party struc
ture is erected.
The Republican party is the out
growth of the worlds conscience
against the corrosive and bitter
wrongs of the past, and in opposi
tion to the oppression of capital
upon labor now and in all time to
come. 1t is no new battle that fol
the last twenty-four years the Re
publican party has been urging
with such ceaseless and potential
power. 1t had its origin far back
in the history OF our race. 1t was
the impulse that executed the first
Charles of England, and directed
the Indignation against Wentworth
that moulded the eloquence of
Hancock, Patrick Henry, and Tom
Paine; the governmental philoso-
ply Of jefferson, and became of
enduring force through the success
of the American Revolution, and
the grandeur OF George Washing
ton. The Republican party is to-
day the embodiment of personal
and political freedom, and the one
great and true exponent OF the
rights and reward of labor. Its
principles are not ideal and specu-
lative, but are embodied in benifi-
cent and enduring civil institutions
beneath whose shadow a great ma
ton now rejoices ever jealous in
behalf of private rights, afraid Of
authority unless distributed and
checked kecn-eyed where prerog-
ative is concerned ; champion to
the death for personal freedom ; it
has not the narrow and irregular in
stinct of liberty, embittered by the
discordant and otiice-hungrY hord e
of the opposition, but an instinct
so broad and comprehensive as to
reach the majesty OF conscience !;
therefore. its fundamental, under
lying truth is, that liberty is not a
luxury, not an elect privilege, but
a right, and the true care Of all
genuine manhood. That its gov
erning power stands unrivalled, is
demonstrated by the fact that in
the period of its rule it has given
free farm homes to hundreds Of
thousands of poor families, abol-
ished slavery, enfranchised mil
lions of laborerS, created a curren.
cy that is par in every portion of
the world, and secured its circula-
ton to the people beyond the pos
sibility of loss. 1t has also set to
the world the new and iust exam
pie of purifying its own ranks OF
every taint Of fraud and pecula-
ton.
Not resting upon its mighty
achievements Of the past, il is now
graphing with the complex social
and political questions OF the day,
and seeking solution thercirom that
shall redown to the interest Of the
laboring and producing Glasses, -
No other party or organization has
yet proposed any measures tending
to the present or future benefit OF
man or humanity True, there is
an opposition to the Republican
party, but it ennunciates no policy
or principle, and its entire creed
thus far is one of negative obiec-
tions its component elements are
antagonistic, one with the other,
composed on the one hand of the
oligharchic remnants of Democra-
cy, and on the other OF selfish, con
ceited, and feeble minded politi-