Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-03-22
REPUBLICAN RALLY,
The Republican Club Convention Held
AZ Madison on Thursday and
Friday March 10, .6. Largely
Attended.
Several Able Speeches Were Made and
Great Enthusiasm Prevailed.

I N~'- NfAN'tNs -hANNA IAh1NA bl IN Mon
ard,, Mr.. Iia Toilette addressed the dele.
| gates as fellows:
1t is my honored privilege to give YOU
cordial welcome to the work which we are
called TO do.
new and potential tc7oe has come in.
/ to American politics. Let as indulge
the hope that it has come 10 stav. The
organization OF permanent republican
CLUB. throughout this nation is the mani
iestation OF mighty power moving
| through the masses, testifying uudimin-
ishcd enthusiasm for the republican
party undying loyalty TO republican
! principles and the condolences of con,io.
/ tion in republican triumph.
/ II these organizations should serve
only TO speak our unity and our faith.
| should serve only to aid in marshalinQ
again our gallant forces, in giving them
sest and spirit as they sweep from politi-
cal power IN the good old way that bad
old party and its mugwump mistress, we
ehall not have organized in vain.
But believe we have larger mission,
that we have entered upon a more ey-
tended service.
The politics of to-day are the politics
OF fact and reason. For more than a
generation economic questions have not
so pressed uppermost for consideration
The sacred issues thought ont ana fought
out within the last thiI of a century have
engrossed the public mind and left soc.si
and economic subjects TO the specialist in
study and in legislation. They rise nov
| to claim Of the individual voter self in
yestigation and personal judgment Every
man ia now quickeued TO the conscious
ness that in these times legislation and
| the administration of government con
/ Germ agriculture, affect manufactures,
/ regulate commerce, dominate the tinan-
| cial world. Their influence extends to
every business, is felt in every home.
! A period has come in politics when the
torch-light alone will hardly illumine the
pathway OF any political party TO power.
! Uniformed ranks, waving banners, nod.
| ding plumes, cannot be envoked TO deter
mine the issues of the present. Angry
contention, violent harangues, bitter per-
sonal abuse will play no part in the ap-
| peal to the judgment Of the people
! Outside OF valid substantial. existing
reasons which convince the mind no man
will be bound to his party. The support
which each citizen gives to o particular
| political organization will be measured
by Just the value of tina. party as nearly
as he can ascertain 1t TO his country to-
! day.
This is the test ths republican party
courts, this is the key note TO the work OF
permanent republican clubs. Within
these clubs will be expounded the princi-
pies of sound republican government, of
wise, honest progressive administration.
From these clubs there shall go out into
every community an intelligent public
sentiment on political questions; a just
criterion Of the relative value Of the two
parties; q demonstration Of the inherent
weakness of the one, and the organic
strength OF the other; a demonstration
of the relative value OF govern
ment by party composed OF diseordant
elements with conflicting principles war;
ing for supremacy, capable only of cap
ricious, spasmodic and mischievous action
reflected in every act of its administra-
ton; its hypocritical pretensions of
reform TO oajole the mugwump, its open
and secret evasions Of civil service rules
to satisfy the r8venous and capacious
NAV of the spoilsmaE-, its jugglery with
the treasury TO create surplus IN the
interest of banker and bond holder and
as weapon of attack on silver and pro
lection, its perpetual menace to all pro
duction, though an incompetent, inefficient
tinkering with the tariff, its utter and ab-
ject subserviency TO the south, aiding 70
commit and conceal their crimes against
the ballot-more threatening 10 republi
can institutions than the open assault on
the constitution in 81, pandering TO
southern prejudioes, fawning even on
their shameful ard wicked past paying
any price, from poor little pension veto
to a life place on the supreme bench, for
the sneaking privilege Of again sitting
at their feet--from these clubs there shall
grow, | say, a demonstration Of the rela
tive value Of such a party-giving the
country ssoh an administration, and of
that grand old organization, united IN
principle, standing for strong national
| government, liberal construction of the
constitution, fair revision Of the tanff,
but for protection TO American interests,
from the farm To the factory, standing
for the equal rights Of all citizens, for
! full, free participation in representative
| government by all, 10 the end that legls-
| lation shall be for ALI remembering not
alone tho money debt Of the great rebel
! lion, but that other ana more sacred obi
| CATION written in scars and wounds, IN
lines OF pain aud suffering no language
| can ever voice in whitenvd hairs and
shattered forms and broken homes,
party holding always TO Uniform con
sistent policy commanding the jealous
support Of every intelligent honest
voter.
Connection with the club work will
| inspire personal interest, insure indiyi-
dual research and practical understand.
! ing OF government not heretofore attain
ed. To participate in it, members msst
read az they have not read before mast
retain, appropriate, digest, reflect, must
(, hold opinions which are fortified b. the
best of reasons.
Thus we shall grow into batter com
prehensiOn Of questions Of legislation;
we shall learn to take broader views, to
grasp the relation Of each business 20
every other, to see in a. its com pleTity
the Independence OF all our industries, TO
know exactly the different conditions OF
Europe and this country tho difference
in wages and standards of living, the
difference in this dependence of the em.