The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1888-06-27

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and mob violence. And, above all. stands
for the protection Of the santtity and hap
piness Of the American home. 1t wei
comes to our shores the down-trodden
and oppressed of every land, but il in
sists that the inestimable blessings 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 principlesofourg government
and who will loyalty support the sacred
provisions of the Constitution ofthe Uni
ted States. And it holds that Congress
has the power to save American oiviliza-
ton and morality from the leprosy Of
Asiatic paganism, degradation and con-
tagion. 1t maintains that the nation
should extend the benefits of free gov
ernment to all true lovers of liberty, but
it demands that the law of the land shall
be shield only 10 those who obey It,
and that for the Anarchist, the Com
munist and the criminal, American JUS
tice has nothing to offer but the sword.
SATISFIED oFFIcE-HoLDERs.
The reconstructed Democracy has now
been in power nearly four years. Its ad-
ministration has been most satisfactory
to those who hold office under IT, Its
| loyalty has received the approval of ev-
cry enemy of the government The
courage of IFS foreign policy has amused
the great powers and pleased every cow
ard. Its civil service has been so thor
oughly reformed as 10 delight Mr.. Hig-
gins. Its justice to the disabled soldiers
has won golden opinions from those who
| gave them their wounds. Its financial
/ management has been safe because Of its
inability to destroy the resulting pros
perity of Republican legislation, and its
unparalleled straddle of the tariff ques-
/ ton. has been a source of wonderment
to Gods and man." 1t is strong in the
imbecility of "InnOcuous desuetude," and
deserves to live as a reminiscence of
promises forgotten and pledges unre-
deemed
There are those in this land who seem
to believe that the mission of the Repub-
lican party is at an end that the eman-
cipation proclamation, Appomatox and
the constitutional amendments are at
once the monuments of its glory, and the
gravestone of its demise. But the work
of the Republican party will not be done
until every American citizen enters into
his unquestioned inheritance of liberty,
equal rights and justice; until represent
alton in Congress is based upon votes
freely counted until adequate provision
has been made for the helplessness and
old age of the disabled veterans and
widows and orphans of their dead COM
rades; until those policies of govern
ment which insure national and indi-
yiiual prosperity are firmly established,
and until patriotism and loyalty are the
only qualifications, except fitness, for Off
cial position in the service of the Rspub-
lie.
MASON AND DIXoN~ LINE.
There are those in the land who insist
that the Republican party keeps alive
the old-time sectional feeling. and that
it refuses to let the dead past bury its
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 forever when fraternal lines, com
mon interests unite us all when the
whole people are found rejoicing togeth-
er that the inherited institutions Of sla-
very was destroyed by the justice Of
God when together with the holy bonds
of Union could not be severed hopeful
together for magnificent national des-
tiny loyal together to a cannon coun-
try and to its unc )nquered 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 slumbers in the un-
troubled shadows of protected homes
The Republican purity turns to the new
South with wide open arms.
1t offer; loyal assistance in the devel- |
opment of its agriculture, the opening of
its mines, the building up of its manu- I
factories. 1t proposes to break down the /
barriers of unpleasant memories, with (
hope of a new prosperity. The great dis /
tinctive issue of the present campaign is
the issue of tariff. To the support of pro- /
tectiye tariff there will rise an overwhel- I
ming army of intelligent, thoughtful and 1
practical men, and the East and West, {
the North and South will join hands to- 1
gether to forever exterlninate in this Re Z
public the pernicious doctrine Of free 1
trade.
MEMORIES OF LINCOLN.
As we gather here we remember the 1
other great convention held in this city .
in 1860. We remember how it was in
spired with the wisdom and courage to 1
name the great man of the people that
Moses who led US through the parted wa
tiers of the sea, past the wilderness Of I
battle, over the Jordan of safety into the /
promised land In 1854 we were driven 4
10 the wilderness again. tod give us
the wisdom to find another Moses who .
can limit our wandering TO four years
instead of forty. The mighty past is
with us here to-day. 1t fills US with the .
spirit of freedom, spirit and devotion
which breathed into the common dust Of .
ordinary humanity the sublime inspira-
ton of heroic deeds. Let us read its les 4
sons rightly and hold its precepts dear. /
When Robert Bruce, King of Scotland, 4
lay upon his dying bed he requested that .
hisiheart should be taken from his inani 4
mate body and borne by knightly hands 4
to the savior's sepulcher. After his death .
James. Earl of Douglass, undertook the /
mission. and with the heart encased /
in golden casket set upon his pilgrim I
ag TO the Holy Land. On their way .
thither. himself and comrades were set .
upon by great host of Moorish warriors 1
Though they fought with all the valor Of
mortal men they were borne backward .
by sheer force of numbers, and their 1
overthrow seemed certain. Then Doug I,
lass, drawing from his bosom the price
less casket, cast it far out into the oncom- (
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