The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-21

is not satisfied to support the ticket so enthu-
siastically and so popularity and fairly chosen,
the great body of the party is loyal still.
Now, while the personnel of the party has
not changed; while the principles of the party
are the same, they have been modified only
to adapt them to the needs of the times;
while the rank and file who were in at the
birth, and who nave ever been loyal to Repub-
licanism and are loyal still, this one three
thousandth part of the organiza-
ton threatens its death. If there
be any doubt of their purpose one
needs but look at this weeks issue of Harp
ers Weekly, in which Nast's ever-ready
crayon has produced a double-page cartoon,
representing the ''free" Republican in the
character of Virginius, holding the dead body
of the Republican party in his arms, and, with
his assassin's knife held aloft, exclaiming to
Blaine, attired as a Roman emperor: 0 thee
and on thy head be this blood" That this
modern Virginius is not friendly toward his
ancient enemy and the enemy of his
country is evidenced by the equally
significant cartoons in this same issue of the
Weekly, in which the unenviable character
istics of the Democratic party are graphically
portrayed.
If, then, it be the declared purpose of the
independent" Republicans to not only aban-
don the party that confessedly represents their
sentiments, but to treacherously attempt its
tage of the enemy; if no appeal to patriotism
and reason is to avail, there is nothing left for
the great Republican party to do
but to say the one word, $50"
Four and a half million patriotic
Republicans will go down again into the
fight, regretting the treachery of former COM
rades in arms, but animated by the confident
expectation of winning again on principles
that must prevail if our common country is
to prosper and grow in material wealth.
Loyal Republicans do not forget that the
death of the Republican party means that the
nation must go back half a century in nearly
all that has marked our progress during the last
past twenty years. They do not for
get that the Democratic party, the bene-
fciary of such a revolution in American poll
tics, has ever been, and is to-day, the foe of
progress, the enemy of all that goes to make
the American republic great among the nations
of the earth. The infamy of such adefenseless
betrayal, actuated by the fell spirit of rule or
ruin, is such as to call for the most unquali-
fed condemnation. Five Thousand Republic
ans in Indiana have as much right to clutch
at the party's throat to compel its
obedience to their demands as have
these men who now fling all
public interests to the winds because they
were not permitted to dictate the party's can
didates in defiance of the almost unanimous
will Of the party. The Republican party,
undismayed, but wishing still to enjoy the
fellowship of all who have ever believed in
Republicanism, extends the invitation to these
and to all others to unite with it in perpetual
ing the advantages wrought out by it during
the past quarter of a century. But
in any event, the fight is going on with every
indication of successful issue. That the Re
publican nominees are popular among the
people, and that they will be hard to defeat,
is conceded by even the enemy. The mag
nifcent proportions of Blaine as a statesman
are the admiration of the people, who are
proud of the man who seems adequate to any
occasion. He has been the target Of malice
and envy, the common fate of all men
prominent before the people, but is to-day
the pride Of a people who believe
in American institutions and in decently
maintaining them against all opposition. That
he will be elected is as reasonably certain as
anything in politics can be. Nominated by
the people, elected by the people, he will be
the peoples President, fully alive to the needs
of the nation and properly impressed with the
high dignity of the office. His tide of popu-
larity is swelling, and will steadily grow I'M
der threats against the majority who exer-
cised their rights as Americans and Repub-
licans.
NOT so FLAT, AFTER ALL,
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