The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1888-07-05

exaction and combination
of aggregated capital and corporate
power; stands also for the protection OF
both capital and corporation from con-
fscation and mob violence; and, above
all, stands for the protection of the
sanctity and happiness of the Ameri-
can home.
1t welcomes to our shores the down.
trodden and oppressed of every land,
but it insists that the inestimable
blessing of American citizenship, pur-
chased 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 prin-
ciples of our government, and who
will Loyalty support the sacred provi-
sions of the constitution of the United
States. And it holds that Congress
has the power to save American civil
ization and morality from the leprosy
of Asiatic Paganism, degradation and
contagion.
1t maintains that the nation should
extend the benefits of free govern
ment to all true lovers of liberty, but
it demands that the law of the land
shall be a shield to those only who
obey it, and that for the Anarchist,
the Communist and the criminal
American, justice has nothing to offer
but the sword.
The reconstructed Democracy has
now been in power nearly four years.
Its Administration has been most sat-
isf.ctory to those who hold office un-
der it. Its loyalty has received the
approval Of every energy of the Gov
ernment. The courage of its foreign
policy has amused the great Powers,
and pleased every coward. Its civil
service has been so thoroughly re-
| formed as to delight Mr.. Wiggins.
It's justice to the disabled soldiers has
won golden opinions from those who
gave them their wounds It's fnan
cial management has been safe, be-
cause of its inability to destroy the
resulting prosperity of Republican
legislation. And its unparalleled strad-
die Of the tariff question has been a
source Of wonderment to ''gods and
men, It is strong in the imbecility
of ''innocuous desuetude," and deserv-
ed to live as Renaissance of prom
ises forgotten and pledges unre-
deemed.
There are those in this land who
seem to believe that the mission of
the Republican party is at an end
| that the emancipation proclamation,
Appomatox and the constitutional
amendments are at once the monu-
muments Of its glory and the grave
stones of its demise. But the work
of the Republican party will never be
done until every American citizen en-
ters into his unGuestioned 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
comrades, until those policies of gov
ernment which insure national and
individual prosperity are firmly estab-
lished, and until patriotism and loyal
ty are the only qualifications, except
fitness, for official position in the SER
vice Of the Republic There are those
in the land who insist that the Repub-
lican party keeps alive the old-time
sectional feeling, and that it refuses
to let ''the dead past bury its dead. y
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 blot
ted out forever; when fraternal ties
and common interests unite US all
when the whole people are found re-
joicing together that the inherited in
stitution of human slavery was de-
stroyed by the justice of God; glad to-
gether that the holy bonds of union
could not be severed; hopeful together
for a magnificent national destiny
loyal together to common country
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 Republican party turns to the
| New South with wide-open arms. Ii
offers loyal assistance in the develop
ment Of its agriculture, the opening
of its mines, the building up of its
manufactures. It proposes to break
down the barriers Of unpleasant mem
ories, with the hope of new prosper.
ity.
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 overwhelm-
ing army of intelligent. thoughtful
and practical men; and the East and
the West, the North and the South,
will join hands together to forever ex-
terminate in this Republic the perni-
cious doctrine of free trade.
As we gather here we remember
that other great Convention had in
this city in 1850 We remember how
it was inspired with the wisdom and
courage to select that great mali of
the people-that Moses who led us
through the parted waters of the sea,
past the wilderness of battle, over the
Jordan Of safety, into the promised
land. In 1884 we were driven back
into the wilderness again. God 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 same spirit
Of freedom. patriotism and devotion
which breathed into the common dust
Of ordinary humanity the sublime in
spiration of heroic deeds Let us read
its lessons rightly and hold its pre-
cepts dear.
When Robert Bruce, King of Scot
land, lay upon his dying bed he re-
quested that his heart should be taken
from his inanimate body and borne
by knightly hands to the Savior's sep