The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-06-20

his devoted followers. honored an
respected by all honest and loyal men
the greatest living American, anc
worthy object of our undying love
But the Republican party is not LET
without great men to place upon III
ticket. We have that honest, able snc
experienced financier, Statesman anc
Senator from Ohio, and his no less dis
tinguished colleague from Iowa.
Indiana. Michigan and Wisconsin
present to US gallant soldiers, whiIe
New Jersey, Kansas Connecti-
cut and other States offer
worthy and favorite sons. From this
splendid galaxy OF political stars, we
cannot choose amiss. The Republican
party points with pride to the great
achievements of its past and offers as
an earnest of its future faithfulness an
unbroken record of services performed
Tor freedom, union and national pros
perlty. Ii is pre-eminently the party of
protection. 1t was born of an irrepres-
slble desire to protect the slave from
the lash Of the master and to save cur
civilization from the blighting curse of
| its crime against humanity. 1t per
formed the sacred mission of protect
ing the republic from secession and
disunion, and in later time, it sue
| oeeded in protecting the credit and cur
rency of the nation from reputation
and imitation. Its platform, epitom-
lied, stands for the protection of popu-
lar government on the American CONT
nent; stands for the protection
OF all governmental and international
rights from restriction or invasion;
stands for the protection of
the lie. the liberty and the property of
the individual; stands for the protec-
tIon of all the immunities and privileges
OF American citizenship; stands for the
protection of the ballot box from the
crimes of intimidation. robbery and
substitution: stands for the protection
OF American commerce, American
manufacture and American agriculture
from destructive foreign competition;
stands for the protection of home in
vention, home skill and home labor,
against the free trade heretics that
would pauperize and degrade them all;
stands for the protection of the people
from all unjust and oppressive exactiOn
and the combination of aggregated
capital and corporate power; stands
also for the protection of both capital
and corporation from confiscation and
'OO 'AOANdSOI o1o, oOOTC u41y oIdAoS lO1
the protection of saDctity and the hap
piness of American homes. 1t welcomes
to our shores the downtrodden and op-
pressed of every land, but it insists that
the inestimable blessing of American
purchased with
THE PRICELESS BLOOD OF OUR HEROES
and martyrs, shall be extended to those
only who are in full sympathy and in
accord with the fundamental principles
OF our government, ana who will Loyalty
support the sacred provisions of the
ofvthe United States, ind
il holds that Congress has power 10
save American civilization and moral
ity from the isprosy of Asiatic pagan
ism, depreciation and contagion. 1t
maintains that the nation should ex-
tend the benefits of free government to
all true lovers of liberty, but it de-
mands that the law of the land shall be
a shield to those only who obey it, and |
that FOR the Anarchist. Communist |
and criminal, American justice has |
nothing offer but the sword.
The recohsracted Dem0eTacy has |
now been in power neal l. four,years. |
Its administration has been most salts |
factory TO those who hold office under |
it. It's loyatty has received the ap-
proval of every enemy of the govern
ment; the courage of its foreign |
policy has amused the great powers and |
pleased every coward; its civil service |
has been SO thoroughly reformed as to |
delight Virgins; its justice to disabled
SOLDIERS has won golden opinions from
hose who gave them their wounds; its
financial movement has been safe be-
'ause OF its nobility to destroy the re-
ultiHg prosperity of Republican legis-
atlor; aud its unparalleled Straddle OF
he tariff question has been a source of
to God and N 4u." 1t is
strong IN the imbecility of ''iGnocuous
and deserved to live as q
of promises forgotten and
pledges uCredeemed. There are those
n this land who seem to believe thatithe
mission of the Republican party is at an
nd; that the emancipation proclama-
ion, AppomattoX and the Coustitu-
ional amendments are at once monu-
nents of its glory and the gravestones
# its demise. But the work of the Re
'ublican party will never be done until
very American citizen enters into his
Inheritance of liberty,
quail rights and justice; until the
representation in Congress is based
n tine votes freely cast and
airly counted; until adequate
revision has been made for helpless. ;
ess and old age of disabled veterans
nd widows and the orphans of their
cad comrades; until the politics of :
overnment which insure national and .
Individual prosperity are firmly es- i
.blished, and until patriotism and g
'yalty are the only qualifications, ex-
ept fitness for official position in the c
.rvice of the Republic. There are e
lose in the land who insist that the
epublican party keeps alive the old
me sectional feeling and it refers to c
lie dead past bury its dead" The T
epublican party longs and prays for d
lie coming of the millennium of hope s.
hen, in spirit and in truth,
MASON AND DIxoN's LINE
i'll be blotted out forever; when fra Il
rnal ties and common interests are a
usual; when the whole people are C
und rejoicing together that the in
,rited institution of human slavery e.
as destroyed by the justice of God, I;
ad together that the holy bonds of the Y
MON coUld not he severed hODpful to- p