Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-11-03

UuIS CdiI3 DtO lOU PAO
devotion to home and country. We
know that everywhere in our land
are patriotic women; they love the
flag; they waved it in holiday splen.
dor under the blue sky of national
prosperity !; they revered it when its
brightness was dlmmed by the
smoke of war. 1t is precious as the
blood of kindred, sacred as the
shroud of beloved dead. To all who
believe that the flag is worth what
it costs-to all loyal women this adj
dress comes.
The Republican party is not Sec
tional-it is a national party. In its
counselS are wounded veterans OF
the Union army, and soldiers of the
late Confederacy, and enfranchised
slaves; the party knows no east, no
west, no north. no south. Eastern
culture and western enterprise have
nurtured Observation-Disclosures
as contiguous and continuous as is
the Continental railway system
which the Republican policy of in
ternal improvements made possible.
Across the /" Bloody Chasm "a
part Of our historic past-are the
clasped hands of growing industries,
sensitive and responsive with nerves
of trade, steam and smoke and
flame from furnace, factory, and mill
are the cloud by day and the fire by
night, renewedly attesting Republi-
can principles, and guiding the coun-
try out from the wilderness of Sec
tionalism into the promised land of
a perfectly restored nationallsm.
In the ranks of the Republican
party are found many citizens Of
foreign birth.
In America they are Americans;
they do not forget the mother coun.
try nor the fatherland, but here
they are loyal to the stars and stripes;
their loyalty was tested even to
the shedding of blood in war; with
whatever makes for good citizenship
they are welcome in the party their
rights under the flag command re-
specU.
The achievements of this great
party have made luminous this CEN
tury's history. Under Gods bless
ing it rescued the imperrilled nation,
saved the Government our fathers
left us, and maintained the institu-
tions which assure 70 American wo
men the exalted position they now
enjoy. The Republican party has
always been the party OF protection
protection to the citizen, protection
to the negro, protection to the ballot
box, protection to the wage Garner,
protection to the wage payer, and
now in line with past professions and
performances 1t declares for PRO
LECTION FOR THE "HOME."
Can American women fail to re-
spond?
This party is not a squad of I'M
skilled, unframed recruits, reckless to
attempt, and helpless to secure poll
tical defence; it is not troop OF
detached soldiery out on picket duty;
it is
THE REGULAR ARMY OF AMERICAN
PROGRESS.
It was raised from the fire sides of
the people; it's ranks are kept full
by the farm, the shop, the school,
! the mill; it is sworn to champion at
the command of the sovereign peo
pie" Whatsoever things are pure,
whatsoever things are lovely, what
soever things are of good report" in
Government.
American women, this is tue party
to whose service we call you. What
position will you take and hold dur
| ing the month of the coming cam
paign +? Do you realize the mora
side. the heart-side of the economic
Questions which are being discussed
in the campaign? Do you remem
Der that when labor is degraded
woman is degraded? The shop girl
the factory operative, the sewing
woman, indeed every working wo
man whether she toll in home, o.
shop, or school, Is interested in thu
maintenance of the American stand
ard of values in labor, and its re
turn to the home. In Noyembe
next, twelve millions of voters vii
go to the polls and determine VIII
shall receive the highest honor il
the gift of the American people. Il
this anything to you? Does it max
any difference to you who this mai
is, and for what set of principles b
stands
Would not the choice of
BENJAMIN HARRISON & LEVI r
MORTON,
as chief executives of this great ma
ton, tend to establish a popula
standard of private morals and put
lie service which any mother Nigh
present to the aspirations of be
, sonsi Do not their lives illustrat
that purity in personal character a
consonent with the highest world
success That the dealings in th
heart of trade, the court of justice
the legislative cham Der, or the cam
of war need never cause a blush i
the home? Is it not vital TO th
Nations life that these truths be en-
phasized in the characters oil tn
I peoples chief representatives.
T Young women of the land bav
: you no debt to pay to that establish
led order of things which we ca