Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-02
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.


There is no greater fallacy than that so
industriously fostered by the Democracy,
that the mission of the Republican party
is at an end. Democrats point to the fact
that there were some OBJECTIONS in the
party III the late national campaign, as an
evidence of disintegration. On the con-
trarv, such manifestations testify to unex-
hausted purpose. 4 party in a free gov
eminent that represents intelligence, prog
ress and the most advanced ideas in the
schemes Of society cannot be said to have
a mission with possible end Its work
rs constant, and its aims always beyond the
present. The theory and practice of Re
publicanism makes it an absolute essential
in free government. The National Repub-
lican party was born, not of one principle,
but Of all substructural principles of human
progress. 1t represents to-day in as broad
q sense as ever, the cause of human
freedom, tolerance and civil and religious
liberty. 1t is the only political organiza-
ton in this country that has at all times
proved itself equal to any and all emer-
gencies. A party with advanced ideas
such as are entertained by the Republican
party regarding education, the elective
franchise, human rights, the conservation
of order, the supremacy ofthe law and the
encouragement of all progressive measures
and ideas, cannot fulfill and close up its
mission twill ever be found the opponent
OF churchly schemes to involve the con-
science Of the citizen as such, ofthe spoils-
men towhom the machinery of government
L but the means to selfish rewards, and to all
influences that would shear men of a single
right. 1t has always been and must re-
main the advocate of economic admins
tration of the Government, the discharge
of official trusts for the best interests of
the people rather than for the advance
ment Of partisans, and the unwavering
friend of the broadcast schemes of enlight-
eminent. The very fact that the so-called
mugwumps TUNED aside from party rule
hut recently, is an evidence of that indie
pendenoy Of spirit and observation-disclosures
to the dictatorial mandates of party man
ayers that so conspicuously distinguishes
Republicans as a class and as individuals
The so-called division in the Republican
ranks was only apparent, not real. That
Lrbicb mod, fbo NIL I-ao,,
Republican in all essential respects. He
can have no political sympathy with spoils-
men, or the party that esteems the adj
ADMINISTRATION Of Governmental trusts to be
but the means to party ends. Whatever
of detection there has BEEN is of the past.
The causes that apparently led up to it
have ceased. The dead past is to bury its
dead; the ranks of the Republican party
are closing up, unifying as of old the
common bond that made Republicans patri-
cts in the days of the infancy of the
party, still exists. The men of principle
who have had the courage, on more than
one occasion, to rise up and rebuke the
party of their utilization, are such as are
found within the Republican organization
They are not hide-bound rartisans nor
mere party servitors In such indepen-
dence Of spirit Republicanism had its ORR
gin. So long as forms of government
endure such independency will crystalline
into organization. So long as the Repub-
Gcan party is the loftiest example of indie
pendence in politics. and courageous devo-
tion to principle, it cannot decay. The
mugwump contributed to the defeat of the
standard-bearer of the party in 1855, but
the party cannot, and be true to its own
regard for independence of spirit, close its
doors upon these men. They have not
CEASED to be Republicans. They adhere to
the same fundamental theories and doc
trlnes. They are neither to be snubbed
nor reviled at this day The time has
gone by for any contention with them
The party purposes lie too closely to the
national heart to permit the prescription
of men who are in thought, spirit and their
daily political walk, with it. 1t is time
that by-gones should be by-gones, and
campaign revilings he heard no more. The
Democratic machine is at work upon
schemes to throttle i reform that the
Republican party has cherished from the
outset, and to which It's committed as mat
ter -of principle. Opposed to it is divided
party, the major portion being determined
to break it down regardless of disastrous
results upon the efficiency of the public
service. That element proposes boldly