Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-12-18
From Chicago.

Benefits OF the Forthcoming Administra-
ton" have concluded TO withhold
for certain reasons connected with the
counting of the votes in New York
State, and have therefore prepared a
letter herewith of a somewhat different
tenor, but nevertheless political. The
aforesaid article may keep four years
and then be of service, for the present
1t will be, like the subject of which it
treats, Laid on the shelf . This is a
day Of thanksgiving. and we should be
thankful for what we received if moth
ing more. A certain philosopher by the
name Of Josh Billings says that the
hardest thing in the world for man to
do is to fall down on the ice and just
escape death by hurt and get up and
thank the Lord thatit wasn't any worse.
think we have reason to congratulate
ourselves, that in the year of grace, 1884,
we are on footing of peace and pros
perity, and have nothing more to fear in
the future than the temporary ascend
ency of a political faction Most Of the
northern states will be under Republi-
can rule, and | am happy to know that
Wisconsin will be classed among SUCH
The vote of Wisconsin shows that the
heart OF its people is sound, healthy and
loyal on political issues. On questions
affecting loyalty and in municipal cleo
tions we are sometimes disunited and
careless enough to allow a Democratic
victory; but when National issues are
involved, and the principles of tariff, of
stability of our currency. of the sover-
eign powers of government, of protec-
ton TO our loyal living are at stake,
Wisconsin is without doubt a Republic
can State, sound to the core and mighty
good eat'n." The Republican party
can afford now to take rest, / think.
The country is on a pretty firm basis,
having enough of the us Uiua of Republic
four years of Democratic hindrance and
at the end of that time will doubtless
have another opportunity to boost it
upward and onward.
There are many speculative questions
as to what a Democratic administration
will be. We know what it was the last
time, when the Democratic party had
chance, and we can only guess now
what that party will do, by looking at
the guide boards it has set up If its
representatives are loyal to their plat
forms and their public utterances, they
must do certain things. They say this
100000 surplus ought not 10 be.
What are they going to do with ita They
say Chat is hendricks says) that the
specie reserve which we have in our
treasury vaults To maintain resumption
and keep our geenbacks at par is not
necessary. Do they propose to take
away our only prop for the maintain
ance of our paper at par, and divert this
specie into other uses
They say our tariff on imports is too
high-brings iu too much revenue, and
that it oughtto be adjusted; and in their
last National platform they put in an
adjustable plank to difine their position.
What they meant by it has been unex-
planned throughout the canvas; but of
one thing we are certain. they opposed
the broad ground of a protective tariff
on which the Republican party fought
its fight and won every Northern and
Western state Except New York, New
Jersey Indiana and Connecticut,) which
states embrace by a large proportion
the commercial and industrial interests
of the country viii the Democratic
party adjust or reform cut down, or
obliterate our system of tariffs?
Now, these questions are very promi-
nent in Democratic platforms and creeds
and if they fulfill all they have promised
we shall undoubtedly be landed in perdi-
ton, and if they don't fulfill it they will
be landed in predition for lying SO like
Ananias.
But it is serious, as well as a glori-
Gus pride that leads'us to reflect what a
splendid record closes the career of the
party just dismantled for the first time
in quarter of a century. 1t will go
for time from the throne of political
power, but it will never be lost sight of
in this generation; and if the emergen-
cy shall come, that same old party that
conserves the true principles Of Republi-
canism, and has welded them in the
fabric of a strong Republic, will be call
ed upon to reign, as surely as the voice
of the people called upon it in the past
They say that Republics are ungrateful
but ingratitude will never compass the
destruction of the Republican party; for
long that organization upheld the
very existence of the Government. Its
life-blood to-day beats in thousand
arteries on this continent; it has created
a thousand channels for the upliftment
of the poor, provided homes for the
yeomanry of the country and rewarded
the loyal living tits bone and sinew)
which then can never forget. Its cardi-
nal principle was Liberty to the slave,
and upon that it ''nourished youth
sublme;" but the overt acts Of treason
in 1861 cemented it into party for the
Union. Then began its battle for the
Republic. This sturdy warrior armed
with the shield of the peoples patriot
ism, and urged by the voice and by thai
mighty spirit of Liberty which has car.
ried many a field, fought the fight
against treason; and though that little
day star, of Liberty to the ensaved, was
dimmed in the greater st 'uggle of saw
ing the Republic it suddenly famed out,
and the victory of Liberty and Union
was won.
The arts of peace, have they ever beer
so grandly cultivated by any political
faction? If the prosperity of the people
such rs ours has been, is any measure
of this, then has this party been sue
cessful? The heroes of the age, to what
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