The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1884-06-28

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as clean in the promotion of peace as
when lent to the defense in war, and the
interest which you take in National affairs
proves that you are periodically deter.
mined to maintain what you fought for
and that which our lost comrades gave
up their lives to secure for the benefit of
those who survived them. Applause
long continued
During the last twenty years, In
which we have been blessed with peace,
the Republican party has been continued
in administration of the Government
When the great question of preserving or
giving up the Union of States was pre-
scented to us it was the Republican party,
which affirmed its perpetuation. l open
no wounds, nor do resurrect any bad
memories In stating this as an undenaple
fact. When you and l, my friends, and
that vast body of men, who, having de.
clared in favor of preserving the Union,
were compelled to resort to the last
dread measure, the arbitrament of war,
we did so under the call of the Republi,
can party. Many of us had been
educated by our fathers in the Democra-
tic schools of politics, and many of us
were acting with that party at the TING
the issue of the war was presented to US,
welded the destinies of our government,
and had served its purpose under MARI
rover views of the ideal Republic, which
then existed. But the matter of time has
developed q new child of progress, which
saw the light of day under the name OF
the Republican party. Its birth an.
nounced the conceptions Of higher and
broader principles OF human government
than had been entertained by our FORE
fathers. But few of us, perhaps none,
took in the full dimensions of the COM
ing fact at that early day. 1t broke
upon us gradually, like the morning
sun as he rises in the misty dawn above
the mountain top. at length it came In
full blaze, and for the first time In the
history of our Republic we began to
give genuine vitality to the declara-
ton. of 1875, that Gall men are created
equar' and entitled to the inalienable
rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness. [Cheers.1 The Republican
party was unquestionably the agency
which bore these rights to waiting
age, and it was the Democratic idea
which disputed their value first upon the
field of battle and subsequently and up
to this moment, at the polling places of
the country.
uC represents I0e
latest fruition of governmental progress,
and Is destined to survive upon the theo-
ry that the strong outlives the weak until
the development of principles still more
advanced shall compel it to measure its
step with the march of the age, or go to
the wall as the instrument which has full
filed its destiny. So long as the Demo-
cratic party shall cling, either in open or
covert manner, to the traditions belong
ing to an expired era of our development,
just so long will the Republican party be
charged with the administration of our
Government.
In making this arraignment of the De-
mocracy, my friends, l appeal to no pas
sions, nor reopen sealed questions. l
but utter cain, sober words of truth. 1
say, that until every State in this broad
and benefcent Union shall give free rec
ignition to civil and political rights of
the humblest of it's citizens, whatever his
color, until protection to American clti-
zens follows the flag at home and abroad;
until the admirable monetary system, es-
tablished by the Republican party,
shall be placed beyond the power
of subversion; until American labor
and industry shall be protect
ed by wise and equitable laws, so
as to give full scope to our immense re-
sources and place every man upon a
plane to which he is entitled by reason
of his capacity and worth Icheers1
until we shall have established wise
American policy, that will not only
preserve peace with other nations;
but will cause every American
citizen to honor his govern
ment at home and every civilized nation
to respect our flag. Renewed cheering.
United, the American people shall per-
manently establish a thoroughly economic
system upon an American ideal which will
preserve and foster their own interests
unlnfluenced by English theories or
''Cobden Clubs" and until 1t Is conceded
beyond subsequent revocation that this
Government exists upon the basis of a
self-sustaining, self-preserving Nation,
and the fatal doctrine of Gin
dependent State sovereignty "upon
which the civil war was founded,
shall be stamped as political heresy
out of which continued revolution is born,
and wholly incompatible with the idea of
Republic, the Republican party will
have much work to do and an
unfulflled mission to perform. At
this point the speaker was inter-
rupted some time by cheers and APP
plause.] The standard-bearer of the party
in the ensuing campaign is Hon. James
G. Blaine Cgreat cheering1, known
throughout the land as one of its truest
and ablest representatives. He has been
called to this position by the vote of the
people, in recognition of his es-
pecial fitness for the trust, and
IN admiration of the surprising
combination of brilliancy, courage, faith
iulness, persistency and research that
has made him one of the most re-
markable figures which have appeared
upon the forum of statecraft in any
period OF this country. That such man
should have enemies and detrac-
tors is as natural as that our best fruits
should be infested with parasites, or that