River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-03-29
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.


vote-PatrIotie Doctrines C4earIy Enun-
eiated b. IndianR's Popular Statesman.
CHICAGO. March 2l.--The second annual
banquet of the Marquette Club, a social
political organization composed OF the most
Influential young Republicans OF Chic lgo,
was held last evening. Ex-senator Ben
I jamin Harrison. of Indiana. grandson of
President Harrison and powerful aspirant
for Presidential honors. delivered the prin-
I cipal speech, which was received with I'M
I bounded enthusiasm.
Mr.. Harrison, in speaking of The Re
I publican party said, when the tremen-
dOus applause which greeted his uprising
had subsidized that he counted il privilege
to spend the evening with so many young
/ Republicans The party was young. He had
not yet begun to call himself an old man,
and yet he was one OF the oldest Republicans
\ In che party Mossback could not be
/ predicated of the Republicans That was
/ tine peculiar distinction of the DEM
ocrats, anu Cor once he was not disposed to
/ deny them. The last seemed 20 have a
/ past, present and future tense about it, II
/ suggested history. The influences that
/ formed the Republican party was elective
/ in character 1t was called TO sacrifice. not
/ TO spoil Republicans ed for their creed
as was evidenced in their book OF martyrs
/ There had followed Lincoln a great army
OF men that d led for love of the political al
legiance After lincoln triumphed over
/ Douglas the party carried the debate TO the
/ battle field and forever declared the truth of
the doctrine of eternal liberty.
/ No party was ever so beset with difficulty
/ when they took up he reius of government
/ The very first act of Republican I'd minis ra-
tion was TO establish armies to subdue the
rebellious S ates. In the days of tie rebel
/ lion the party saw by faith the restoration
OF authority where it had been torn down.
/ but, AN incident of this restoration, the
emancipation of a race rought about I'M
/ der tie administration of the first Repub-
/ lican President--an act that was well calcu-
| listed 10 immor5alze it England and
( France not only gave to the billigerent
States sympathy, but even threatened to
I give them vet more practical aida
brutal desire to make capital out of another
nations woe--yet out of this distressing
/ q .flieulty the Republican party guided the
l Nat on with safety No financial secretary
ever had a heavier burden laid upon him
( than Chase who provided for the enor-
nous maintenance of our armes yet III ir
/ public credit was not only maintained
| through the W r but the debt that was ac-
( culnulating, and which his Democratic
/ friends said could never be pad, they be-
7 gan at once TO discharge when the armies
disbanded The party had brought the
ship of the Nation into a haven of pros
! parily. What unfinished work remained to
be done! Nothing but to make the fran
chise to the people, the colored people of
the South, living reality. What was the
condition of things ia the Southl
The Republican vote, said the speaker, is
absolutely suppressed Elections in many
fRf haxsa In
the last Congress Onal election in the State
of Alabama there were several Congress
sional districts where the entire vote for
members of Congress did not reach ., 600;
whereas in most of the districts of the
North the votes cast at orJr Congressional
elections goes from 50 600 to 90. 900
had occasion to say day or two ago that
in single Congressional district in the
State of Nebraska there were more votes
cast to elect one Congressman than were
cast in the State OF Alabama at the same
election to elect their whole delega ion.
Out of what does this conner The sup
preston Of the Republican vote; the
understanding among our Democratic
friends that it is not necessary that they
should vote because their opponents are
no. allowed to vote. But some one will
suggest: 81 Is there a remedy for thiss"
do not know, my fellow citizens how far
there is legal remedy under our coustitu-
ton, but it does not seem 10 me to be an
adequate answer IL does not seem to me
20 be conclusive against the agitation of
this question even if we should be COM
PEELED TO respond to the arrogant ques uon
that is asked Us: 1What are you going to
do about itl" Even if we should be COM
PEELED to answer: I'VE can do nothing but
protest" is it not worth while here, and in
Q Fnln fn IN baf wa
should at least hit up our protest; that we
should at least denounce the wrong; that we
should at least deprive the perpetrators of
il of what we used to call the usufructs of
the crimoS II you can not prevent burg
Jar from breaking in your house, you
viii co a great deal toward discourage
ing burglary if you prevent him from
Ct Iying of any hing, and so 1t seems to
me that if We can, upon this question,
arouse the indignant protest of the North.
and unite our efforts in a determination
that those who perpetrate these wrongs
against popular suffrage shall not by means
OF those wrongs seat President at Wash
/ ingtOn to secure the Federal patronage in a
4 State. we shall have done much to bring
this wrong 10 an end But at least while
we are protes ing by representatives from
I our State Department at Washington
I against wrongs perpetrated in Russia
/ aga INST the jew, and in our popular Assem-
/ bies here against the wrongs which En-
| gland has inflicted upon Ireland, snail we
not at least in references to this G glntjc
/ and intolerable wrong in our own country,
| as a party. ftup stalwart and determined
/ protest against it?
| But some of these Independent Journal
! lists call this the bloody shirt" They say
I we are trying TO revive the strife of the
/ N MI ha
/ kind the fire again. / want IL unders. God
that for one l have no quarrel with the
/ South for what took place between 1861
and 1868 am will ng 10 forget that they
/ were rebels at least as soon as they are Will
/ ing to forget it themselves and TIA e time
/ does not seem TO have come yet SO them
/ But our complaint is against what was
/ done in 1854, not against what was done
Z during he war Our complaint is aga INST
what viii be done this year, not what
w done between 1861 and 1868 No
/ bloody shirt-though that cry never had
any terrors for me. l believe we greatly
underestimate the tmpor ance of br nging
the issue to the front, and with that offs
/ time Republican courage and euspoken
/ fidelity 10 truth cenoancing it the land
/ over If We can not do any thing else we
! can ei her make these people ashamed of
/ this outrage against the ballot or make the
world ashamed of them.
There is another question TO which the
! Republican p, Tty b committed itself, and
! on the line of VIII CHI 1t has accomplished as
| believe, much for the prosperity of the
| country. believe the Republican party is
/ pie iged and ought to be pledged co a
doctrine of the protection of American in
I dus5ries and Amer can labor heiieve that
/ in so far our native inventive genius
/ which seems to have no limit - our
/ pro iuctive forces can supply the American
market, we ought 10 keep Il for ourselves
1 And ye5 this new captain on the bridge
/ seems to congratulate mself ON the fact
/ that the voyage is still prosperous notwi h.
/ Standing the change of comman iers; who
seems to forget that the reason that the
! voyage is still prosperous is because the
course OF the ship was marked out before
/ he went on the bridge and the rudd r tied
/ down He has attempted to take new
I direction since he has been in command
/ with view of changing the sailing course
I of the old craft. but it has seemed to me
/ that he has made the mistake of mistaking
/ the tiashlight of some British lighthouse
/ for the light Of day l do not intend here
1 tonight in this presence to discuss
4 this tariff question in any detail |
/ only want 10 say that in the passage
/ Of what is now so fpp lntly called the
I war tariff, to raise revenue TO carry on
/ the war out of the protective duties
which were then levied there has
come To this country n prosperity and