Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-06-28

citizenship; stands for the protection of
the ballot-box from the crimes of intini-
dation, robbery and substitution; stands
for the protection of American com
mercs, 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 that would pauperize and de-
grade them all; stands for the protection
of the people from the unjust and op-
pressive exaction and mbination of
aggregated capital and corporate power;
stands also for the protection of both
ca pital and corporation from confiscation
and mob violence; and, above all, stands
for the protection, of sanctity and hap
piness of the American home.
II welcomes TO our shores the down
trodden and oppressed Of every land, but
it insists that the in estimable blessing of
American citizenship, purchased with the
priceless blood of our heros and martyrs,
shall be extended TO those only who are
in full sym pathy and accord with the
fundamental principles OF our Govern
ment, and who will Loyalty support the
sacred provisions % the Constitution 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 CON
tagion
II maintains that the nation should ex
tend the benefits of free governnen to
all 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
Anarchists 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. The
administration has been most satlsfac
tory to those who hold office under it,.
lis 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
thoroughly reformed as to delight Mr..
Virgins. It's justice to the disabled
soldiers has won golden opinions from
those who gave them their wounds. Its
financial movement has been sefe because
of its inability to destroy the resulting
prosperity OF Republican legislation.
And it's unparalleled straddle of the
tariff question has been source of
wonderment to gods and men, 1t Is
strong in the inbecility of "innocuous
desuetude," and deserves to live as q rem
il iscence of promises forgotten and
pledges unredeemed.
There are those in this land who seem
to believe that the mission of the Repub-
lican party il at an end. That the eman
oipation proclamation, Appomatox and
the Constitutional amendments are at
once the monuments of it's glory and the
gravestones of its demise. But the work
of the Republican party will never be
done until every American citizen enters
into his unquestioned inheritance of
liberty, equal rights and justice, until
representation in Congress is based upC n
votes freely cast and fairly counted until
adequate provisions have been made for
tbs hslplessness and old age OF the dis
abled veterans and the widows and or
phans of their dead comrades. Until
those policies of government which III .
sure national and individual prosperity
are firmly established and until patriot
ism and loyalty are the only qualifications
except fitness, for official position in the
service of the Republic.
There are those in the land who insist
that the Republican party keeps alive the
old time sectional feeling, and it refers TO
the dead past burying its dead" The
Republican party longs and prays for the
coming of the millennium of its hopes,
when in spirit and in truth Mason and
Dixon's l.me will be blotted out forever;
when fraternal ties and common interests
unite us all; when the whole people are
found rejoicing together the inherited
institution of human slavery was destroy
ed by the justice of God; glad together
that the holy bonds of Union could not
be severed hopeful together for mag
nificent national dissiny, loyal together
TO a comon country and it's anconquered
flag
But, when that glad time comes, black
and white must mate side by side ia the
broad sunshine of safety and lie down to
peaceful slumber in the untroubled shad-
ows of unprotected homes. The Republi
oan party leans TO the new South with
wide open arms. 1t offers loyal assist
ance in the development of agriculture,
the opening of its mines, the building up
of its manufactures. 1t proposes TO
break down the barriers of unpleas-
ant memories with the hope OF rev pros
perity.
The great distinctive issue of the pres
ent campaign is the issue of the tariff.
TO the support of protective tariff there
will rise up an overwhelming army of IN
telligent, thoughtful and pratical men,
and the East ard the West, the North and
the South, will join hands together TO
forever exterminate in this republic the
pernicious doctrine of free trade.
AS we gather here we remember that
other great convention held in this city
in 1860. We remember how it was in
spired with the wisdom and courage to
select that great man 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 we're driven
back into the wilderness again. God give
IA the wisdom 10 fine another Moses
who can limit our wanderings to four
years instead of forty.
The mighty past is with us here to day.
| IL fills us with that same spirit of free
! dom, patriotism and devotion which
breathed into the common dust of ordin-
airy humanity the sublime inspiration of
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