Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-10-09
Political Pro verbs.
REPUBLICAN

From Blaine's letter of acceptance
We seek the conquest of peace.
A free ballot is the safeguard of
Republican Institutions.
He who corrupts suffrage strikes
at the very root of free government.
The strength of the republic is in
creased by the multiplication of land
holders.
Experiments in the industrial and
financial system is the country's
greatest dread, as stability is its
greatest boon
Citizenship of the republic must
be the panoply, and is a safeguard
Of him who wears it.
1t is a good land which the Lord
our God doth give us, but we can
maintain our heritage only by guard
ing with diligence the source of
popular power.
Consuls should be commercial SEN
tinels encircling the globe with
watchfulness for the country's inter
ests.
The agricultural interests is by
far the largest in the nation, and en-.
titled in every adjustment of reve-
nue. laws to the first consideration.
The law does not interfere with
what a man believes; it takes cog
nizance of what he does.
Religious liberty is the right of
every citizen of the republic.
The South needs capital and oc-
cupation, not controversy.
The institution of the United
States rest upon the intelligence and
virtue of all the people.
The people have the right to the
most efficient agents in the discharge
of public business, and the appoint.
ing power should regard this as the
prior aud Interior consideration.
Labor is indispensable to the crea-
ton and profitable use of capital
and capital increases the efficiency
and value of labor.
Wages are unjustly reduced when
an industrious man is not able by
his earnings to live in comfort, edu-
cate his children, and lay by suti
cient amount for the necessities of
age.
DEMOCRATIC.
Mr.. Cleveland has recently again
attempted to clothe in language
something which occupies on the
barren waste of his alleged intellect
the place which an idea should oc-
cupy. He says:
81 believe that the voters of the
country are fully alive to the neces-
sity of installing an administration
of public affairs which shall be truly
their own, not only because it is the
result of their choice, but because
its selected instrumentalities are di-
rectly from the body of the people,
and impressed with the peoples
thoughts and sentiments"
The only thought apparent
through this cloudy mass of verbal
redundancy is that the voters know
that it is necessary to vote for vot-
err for president. If he had said
this simply, in so many words, no.
body would have mistaken it for
anything but the quintessence of
nonsense and stupidity. But, being
democratic candidate for president,
he says:
/. That the voters of the country
are fully alive to the necessity of in
sailing an administration of public
affairs which shall be truly their
own.
2. Not only because it is the re-
suit of their choice, but,
3. Because its selected instrument
talities are directly from the body
of the people, and,
4. Impressed with the peoples
thoughts and sentiments.
In other words, the voters will
vote for a voter for president, who
will be truly a voter, not only as the
choice of the voters, but because he
is one of the voters, and impressed
with the thoughts and sentiments of
the voters. Gould anything be more
ridiculous?