St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-20
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loyal men,
THE GREATEST LIVING AMERICAN,
and the worthy object of our undying
love. But the Republican party is not
left without great men to place upon its
ticket. We have that honest, able and
experienced financier, statesman and
senator from Ohio, and his no less dis
tinguished colleague from Iowa. Indi-
ana, Michigan and Wisconsin present
to US gallant soldiers, while New York.
New Jersey, Kansas, Connecticut and
other states offer worthy and favorite
sons. From this splendid galaxy of
political store 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
faithfulncss an unbrokcn record of serv-
Ices performed for freedom, union and
national prosperity. Its pre-eminently
the party of protection. 1t was born of
the irrepreSsible desire to protect the
slave from the lash of the master and to
save our civilization from the blighting
curse of its crime against humanity. 1t
performed
THE SACRED MISSION
Of protecting the republic from seces-
sion and disunion; and in the later
time it succeeded in protecting the
credit and currency of the nation from
population and imitation. Its platform
spitomiZed stands for the protection of
popular government on the Americon
continent: stands for the protection of
all governmental and international
rights from restriction or invasion;
stands for the protection of the life, lib
arty and prosperity of the individual;
stands for the protection of all the i'm
munities and privileges of American
citizenship; stands for the protection of
the ballot box from the crimes OF intlm-
idation, robbery and substitution:
stands for the protection of American
commerce, American manufacture and
American agriculture from destructive
foreign competition: stands for the pro-
lection of home invention, home skill
and home labor against the free trade
heresies which would pauperiZe and
degrade them all; stands for
the protection of the people from
the unjust and oppressive ex-
action and combination of aggregated
capital and corporate power. Stands
also for the protection OF both capital
and corporation from cOnfiscation and
mob violence. And, above all. stands
for the protection OF the Sanctlty and
happiness of the American home. 1t
welcomes to our shores the down-trod-
den and oppressed of every land, but it
insists that the inestimable blessing of
American citizenship. purchased with
the priceless blood of our heroes and
martyrs, shall be extended to those only
who are in full sympathy and accord
with the fundamental principles of our
government, and who will Loyalty sup
port the sacred provisions of the cOnSti-
tuition of the United States. And it
holds that congress has the power to
save American civilization and morality
from the
LEPROSY OF ASIATIC PAGANISM,
degradation and contagion. 1t MAIN
tains that the nation should extend the
benefits of free government to all true
lovers of liberty. but it demands that
the law of the land shall be shield to
those only who obey it, and that for the
anarchist, the communist and the
criminal, American just has nothing to
offer but the sword.
The reconstructed Democracy has now
been in power nearly four years. Its
administration has been most satisfac-
tory to those who hold office under it.
Its loyalty has received the approval of
every enemy of the government. 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 Mr..
Higgins. Its justice to the disabled
soldiers has won golden opinions from
those who gave them their wounds. Its
financial management has been safe be-
cause of its inability TO destroy the re-
sulting prosperity of Republican legis-
lation. And its unparalleled
STRADDLE OF THE TARIFF
question has been a source of wonder
ment to goods and men," 1t is strong
in the imbecility of ''innocuous desue-
tude," and deserved to live as re-
miniscencP of promises forgotten and
pledges unredeemed.
There are those in this land who seem
TO believe that the mission of the Re-
publican party is at an end. That the
emancipation proclamation, Appomat-
toX and the constitutional amendments
are at once the monuments of its glory
and the
GRAVESTONES OF IT'S DEMISE.
But the work of the Republican party
will never be done until every Ameri-
can citizen enters into his unQuestioned
inheritance Of liberty, equal rights and
Justice: until representation in congress
is based upon votes freely cast and fairly
counted: until adequate provision has
been made for the helplessness and old
age of the disabled veterans and the
widows and orphans of their dead COM
rades: until those policies of government
NIlCH lllSulC udliOlldl dIIu
prosperity are firmly established, and
until patriotism and loyalty are the only
qualifications, except fitness, for of
fetal position in the service of the re-
public. There are those in the land
who insist that the Republican party
keeps alive the old-time sectional feel
ing, and that it refuses to let the
DEAD PAST BURY IT'S DEAD"
The Republican party longs and prays
for the coming of the millennium of its
hope when in spirit and in truth Mason
and DiXon's line will be blOtted out for
ever. When fraternal ties and common
interests unite us all. When the whole
people are found rejoicing together that
the inherited institution of human
slavery was destroyed by the Justice of
God. Glad together that the holy bonds
of union could not be severed. Hopeful
together for magnificent national des-
tiny. LOYAL together to common coun-
try and its unconquered flag. But,
when that glad time comes, black and
white must march side by side in the
broad sunshine of safety, and lie down
to peaceful Slumber in the untroubled
shadows of protected homes. The Re
publican party turns to the new South
with wide-Open arms. 1t offers loyal
assistance in the development of its ag-
riculture, the opening of its mines. the
building up of its manufactures. 1t pro-
poses to break down the
BARRIERS OF UNPLEASANT MEMORIES
with the hope of a new prosperity. The
great distinctive issue of the present
campaign is the issue of the tariff. To
the support of a protective tariff there
will rise up an overwhelming army of
intelligent, thoughtful and practical
men, and the East and the West, the
North and the South will join hands to-
gether to forever eXterminate in this
republic the pernicious doctrine of free
trade.