The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1888-02-10

sppsua = pnrsy spiris and srsdisioas
instssi % ; readjustmeut q he party
- We cluek That. indeed. may no
- pracsieable with any party The
signal illustration a ~ di1icnIfys =
least. Il fcSnd IN he earnest endesvoP
oDshe Conseienes WhIss IN Massachu-
sctis forty years ago 70 persuade tho
Wing party 10 adopt the anti-slavcry
issue IN 1sl7 they propo>si : Fesolu-
fion in the State convention that Mas-
sachnsetts would not support any can
didafe for the Presidency Who was not
= vell-knovn and active anti-slsvery
nan The debate w. very hot Mr.
Webster opposed he resolution u
~ defeated. snd TIE Conscience
Whigs renowned the party and organ
izsi The Free-Soil party. and IN 1853
he wings Disappeared
since 1884 ths Republican party
seems 20 hare lost - power % 10
cuperafion Il has csrtainly done very
little 10 show that il y The party o
progress and reform II chief can
vass during this year was in Ohio
There IL vas successful. after : cam
paign conducted upon hostility % the
Southern States But Nr. Foraker
was reelected not because q such hoe
tilify. but bee ause q the general hon
esty u his administration The argu-
ment, however. that Republican Ma
tional ascendency would necessarily
Be moro honest than Democratic
ascendency i annulled By the history
Of the whisky ring-s scandal Of >
kind from which the Democratic Adj
ministration has been wholly free
and By the fact that the candidate
under whom the Republican party was
defeafcd. and who has > stronger sup
port in the party than any other leader
Is the only leader who . believed BY
many Of his own party 70 have
trafIicked in his Office. and was Tor that
reason defeated Nothing has oc-
CURED TO show that be would not b
= acceptable candidate in 80 - ho
was in "a; and 90 far - the enthu-
siastic preference Of the party b con-
cerned. he il stiIl the favorite candi-
date The Significance Of this TACT -
Indicating the condition Of the party.
escapes the attention Of many Re-
publicanA
Last spring Mr. Sherman made :
speech a Nashville which seemed %
show that the progressive movement
Of the party. IL such an impulse there
va would find in him > represents
tive This vas 20 evident that aP-
| parently he was himself alarmed - 4
| be had venturcd quite beyond the gem
ersl sympathy q the party. Soon
after. Il Springfield in nlinoi& he
made another speech, in which b
withdrew all the lights Of hope that
he had displayed at Nashville and
blew them out He has now mnzie :
third speech. in the Senate. which Of
. fers to the country. - Mr.. Sherman'f
: view Of the true Republican pslicy.
repeal Of the internal taxes except the
whisky tax profuse public e.
|, penditure 70 extinguish surplus and
! maintensncc Of high protective taxin
= and ne has 1ire14y e0SEcsteo Nseso4e
Z regulation q elections in the Southern
. Statea But this spirit Of 6nancia
! reckIessncss and expense i one Of III
causes which disturbed National con
. fidencc in the Republican party. tn
, policy Of taking money from the Peopl'
1 merely to divide Is again - no
. one which the country will approve
. and the effort 70 regulate elections
!. would not only be repudiated By -
! country. but even i 4 should pas int1
I law. could NOT possibly accomplish y
|. ,5ntended purpose Mr. Shermsn''
I, speech. both in what il says AID 4
4 what it omits. does mot seem % Prov
: that the Republican party i resolves
!. 70 show thai Il b - it once wns. tn
!, party Of today and Of Tho future -
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