New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-08-21
CAMPAIGN LITERATURE.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY:


Forty years ago voters were dependent upon
poorly-equippcd press and occasional visitation
of public men for the elements OF political educa
tion In a Presidential canvass large editions o.
few political almanacs were issued. but no at
tempt on large scale was made to INFORM the
country or to convince wavering voters py cam
pafgn literature in the form OF books pamphlets
end circulars. Now the presses are kept IN motion
from the beginning TO the end OF Nauonal
election In place of Mr. Raymond's modest
sketch of Mr. Clay in a dozen pages OF " Tribune
Almanac or Mr. Greelcys bref essays
on Protection, printed in the same
manual forty years ago, the author
Of @Ben Hur, writes the life of General Harrison
and many Of the most conspicuous leaders Of the
marty contribute chapters to an elaborate volume
on the history. principles and policies of Repub-
nicanism There ore many excellent histories
of the Republican party already in Libraries and
book-stalls, and apparently there was no popular
demand for q new presentation Of that famous
record. There was however, urgent need OF q
volume such as this in which the living issues
of American politics are discussed by men com
petent &c deal with them. Thousands OF Repub-
licans who desire to he well-informed respecting
the principles and policies of their party will
welcome this book and will consider it priv
lege 10 study its pages with painstalSing care
The historical chapters in this volume are al
mirably written The first contributed by the
Hon John d. Long. is a comprehensive survey I'D
thirty-ive pages of the rise movement and down.
fall of parties from the Revolution to the organi-
xation of the Republican party. The second, writ
ten by the Hon. Edward Mcpherson, is an equally
lucid and stirring account of the sacrifices fort
unes and policies of that party from $50 TO 1888.
Then follow chapters on vital questions of the
day: on Public Lands. by the Hon. l.. Il. Payson.
of Illinois; on Pensions, by the Hon. f. n. Nor
rll, of Kansas: the Fisheries, by Senator Frye;
on the American Navy, by Senator Chandler on
Coast Defenccs, by Senator Hawley; on the
American Merchant Marine by the Hon. Nelson
Dingcy, jr., of Maine on Foreign Trade, by the
Hon. J. c. Burrows, Of Michigan; on Internal
Revenue, by the Hon. Green B. Raum, of Illinois;
ON Protective Tariff, by the Hon. William Mckln-
ley, r., of Ohio; on Internal Development, by
the Hon. Benjamin Buttcrworth and F. ID. Mus
sey; on the Civil Service. by the Hon. Henry
Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts,; on the New
South by the Hon. John s Wise of Virginia
on q Fair Vote and an Honest Count by Senator
ingalls,: and on the Future Mission Of the Party
by Senator 1Ioar. The list of contributors ls
remarkable for strength and ability, and every
one discusses subject which he has mastered
Perhaps the most striking chapter is Captain
Wise's on the New South, the spirit OF which
can be caught from these extracts:
The New South is really Republican. | do not
refer TO the fact that if the vote were honestly
counted il would show Republican results.
mean that the who are voting WITH ana
asserting to the stufling of ballot-boXes for the
Democracy to-day are really Republicans In their
views, and being such viii vote the kcpubncap
ticket as they learn, what II takes
little time to teach them, that they cannot give
effect to those views in the Democratic party,
and as they overcome some lingering
preiudices against the name Of Republican and
4l.,t ic 70 yt-ln
them ultimately to Republicanism is broad
policy of Cancellation. It is idle to say we DO
not want them. We do To succeed in the
South the Republican party must have more
white men than she has yet had So long as
the whites banded together in the South IN
the Democratic party they VII control: lney are
ment to the negroes, whether under the name OF
Republicans or Democrats; and until the Repub-
white voters in the South 20 deprive its victories
there Of the aspect Of a triumph OF blacks over
whites it had as well stop trying to succeed for
by far means foul, by trickery or by violence.
the Whites will Illustrate negro domination. L do
not state this fact approvngly but state it as it is
There is no trouble about getting this accession
of white voters with proper management We
have principles in exact accord with tho needs
of the New South, and thousand times more
attractive than those Of the Democracy. The peo-
pie of the South becoming emlnently practl |
cal. and applying themselves to all sorts of new
enterprises The passions and preiudices of slav |
cry and war arc fast dying ont. The feeling is in
favor OF to-day and tomorrow broad as q |
continent and against yesterday narrow as !
section. As they feel that way themselves, they |
are repealed from a party that insists on past !
recolcctions and sectionalisn. True, they in |
such an one now. but they are not satisfied with |
It; and as the Repuhcan party becomes more |
broadly National in spirit thousands, nav hun |
dreds Of thousands. in the New South who have |
heretofore been Democrats rather from circum- |
stances and surroundings than from choice will |
flock 70 It's standard. . Take, for eX- |
ample, the tariff question. In the days of slavery |
the South had no manufactures But what do |
we behold there now? No sooner were her people |
forced 10 abandon slave agriculture than all sorts
Of industries sprung up In Vlxlnla1 coal and
1ng towns furnaces, railroads, granite quarries.
mills, and factories In Georgia, every branch |
road enterprises to patent medicines Of National
reputation. In Alabama and Tennessee, the devel-
opment Of wonderful iuxtaposition of coal and
iron that has turned thcir scdgcpatches into cities
where town-lOtS sell high in Wall Street.
And even an South Carolina we find her Compel
ing, with her cotton fabrics for the markets of
Shanghai. in this land which n quarter Of a
century back knew nothing but corduroy roads
and transportation, ralroad-building is pro-
TO its nlettle TO keep apace and the New South
is perfect network Of iron. The first fruit of oil
this is what? VIII these infant industries
they will long consent TO remain in the party of
[" tariff for revenue only" Older and well-es-
tablished manufacturing communities may be
voice of the New South. the South which was but
yesterday the free-trade South, is clamorous for
IS beginning TO find out that it needs Republican
principles TO achieve its greatest possibilities at
about the same time that the Republican party
Is 'eginning I, learn how much it needs the South.
1 his a happy conjunction of knowledge. 1t
shows that the South is b Oadening and expand
ng in every view; and it imposes upon the Rcpub-
ican party the duty OF realizing that its princi-
Pies, so admirably adapted, in the present and
hc future, TO all sections of our land and all its
people, are only marred and weakened by that
lass Of persons who feel called upon on all oc-
,asons TO thrust forward things of the past which
ire sectional and embittered however glorious
hey may be- In the approaching campaign it
)ehooves every Republican. North, South. East
md West, whether in antecedents he was Union
nan a Confederate, TO unite in making the
republican party what it really is the only truly
National party in America. Ihe Democratic party |