The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-08-09
From The Ren,,hlican-

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There are thousands of young men
in Kansas who will this year cast
their first ballot. The majority of
these are intelligent. thoughtful young
men who desire better reason for
voting with any particular party than
because their fathers vote with it.
They want to vote intelIlgently and
patriotically, and form political assoc
Citations of which in after years they
will not be ashamed. To all such we
would commend the following excel
lent reasons from an exchange why
they should vote the Republican ticket
and become identified with the Repub-
lican party:
81. Because there is everything in
the record of the Republican party of
which one may be proud, and nothing OF
which he will need TO be ashamed. 1t
saved the Union, emancipated the
slaves, restored specie payments and
reduced the national debt one-half.
| Unlike the Democratic party, it has
never been in alliance with slave own
ers and the rum power; it never pro-
nounced the war for the Union failure
and sued for a craven peace: and it
never arrayed itself against the pr1n-
ciples of honest fnancs and national
/ honor.
2. Because Republicanism docs not
| stand for the suppression of single
Democratic vote in any state of the
| Union. In every Republican state
please, and their ballots are counted as
they are cast. Democracy stands for
the suppression of Republican votes by
/ intimidation, crime and fraud IN every
state formerly in rebellion.
SO. Because the Republican party in
its tariff legislation laid the founda-
tions of national prosperity unexam-
pied in modern times, and defends the
cause of American industry to-day
against the combined attack of Eng
lish manufacturers and the free trade
Democracy. The SOLE! south in the
confederate constitution pronounced
for free trade precisely as the party of
Buchanan, Breckenridge and Douglas
had done before the war, and as the
party of Tilden, Hancock and Cleve-
land has done since. Republicanism
is the cause OF industrial inde-
pendeuce.
"a. Because the Republican party
is American in its sympathies and its
policy. believes in governing and de
VelOping America for the benefit OF
Americans and would neither change
its tariff policy for the accommodation
and profit of foreigners, nor lower the
country in the estimation of the world
by surrendering American rights o.
compromising American honor through
pusillanimous diplomacy. The Demo
cratic party is equally un-American IL
its foreign and domestic policy.
t'5. Because the Republican party
is recruited from the more Intelligent
and progressive elements of American
population, and is the organization IL
which all friends of civil service re
form, practical temperance legislation
or other movements in the direction OF
good government naturally belong
The Democratic party is not hosplta
bic to any reform in govern
ment. as civil service TeformerI
have learned to their shame
To these we will add one more, viz
Because the Republican party repre-
sents in the future as in the past TIT
perpetuatiOn OF the Union and tn
preservation of the results of the war
because it opposes the present politica
Southern Confederacy, which now con
trolls the executive and the lower hous
of Congress, as it did the belligeren
COnfederacy quarter of a century age
and because it believes in hOnoring tn
; country's defenders and rewaFdin
them, in so far as they can be rewarded
for their priceless sacrifices by givin
them adequate pensions and position
of honor and profit under the govern
? ment they saved, and because the Dem
I ocratic President is hostile to them an
: honors and rewards the unrepentan
traitors they conquered