Telegram-herald., 1888-08-26
REPUBLICAN WOMEN
rres WILL oReANlze a Gus.
Ase. Usasssrssa ~ MOcksry or kioieaiss
wiA BEsssly Eatsr Wtthest Pear @Aa
Wfth E@rssst Hearts late AoIiss
Calapsags Wsrk.

Prof George h Rhodes : in receipt of >
circular letter ff0m the Womsn's Nsnonal
Republican Committee. " winch Ars. J.
Z sn Foster, Of Iowa. is Chairman. and
Nrs Thomas ". Chxes. of Rhode Island,
Secretary, urging he necessity Of 3
WomaAs Republican Club IN thls city.
Several prominent w0iDsh Of Grand Rapids
have the matter IA kxnd AID neetlag
viii soon be called fsT the purpsse oi organ
ilsuon. Among other tnluss tne leiieF
SAYS
Responding heartily 20 the noble senu-
msuls oi political truth concerning s8clsl.
economic and neTsi questions contained
IA the comprehensive declarations 0i the
national Republican pssfSra. Ne send
greeting 10 gse wOmeB OF the United states,
and ask them 10 make uttefsnce Of Their
devotion 10 home aud country BY giving
active support ~ the Republican parry ia
the pending campaign.
The Republican party is not . sectional
IL 10 = national party IN its c0uBsels are
wounded vsterans Of the mon army. aud
soldiers of the late COniederacy, aud en-
francbised slaves, the party knows no East,
no West NO North, no South. Eastern
culture and wessera enterprise have nur-
tUred q seryative-Fsdlcalism as con-
tiguous and continuous e. is fhe continent
al railway system which the republican
policy OF internal improvements made
possible.
The achievements OF this great party
have made luminous this century's history.
Under Gods blessing II rescued the i'm
perilled nation, saved the government our
fathers left Us, and maintained the insu-
tuuons which assure 10 American women
the exalted pos ition they now enjoy. The
Republican party has always been the party
Of protection. protection TO the citizen, pro-
lection 10 the negro. protection 10 the ballot
box. protection 10 the wage-earner, pr0tec-
ton 10 the wage payer. and now IN line
with past profession and performances 1t
declares for protection for the home.
Can American women fail 10 respond!
This party is not squad OF unskilleo. un-
trained recruits, reckless 10 attempt, and
helpless 10 secure political defence II Is not
troop of detached soldiery out on picker
duty; il is the regular army OF American
progress, il was raised from the fire sides of
the people; its ranks are kept full by the
ia N the shop, the school, the mill; IL Is
sworn 70 champion n the command of the
sovereign peOpie-"Whstsoeve things are
pure, whatsoever things are lovely. whatso-
ever things are of good report. in govern
ment.
American women, this is the party to
will you take and hold during the month
of the coming campaign? Do you realize
the moral side, the heart side OF the econ
omic questions which are being discussed
in the campaign Do you remember that
when lseor is degraded, woman is degraded?
The shop girl, the factory operative, the
sewing woman. indeed every working
woman whether she tolls in home, or shop,
or school. is interested in the maintsinance
of the American standard of values in
labor.
Would not the choice Of Benjamin Har-
rison and Levi z. Morton as Chief Execu-
tives Of this great nation. tend 10 establish
q popular standard OF private morals and
public service which any mother might
present to the aspirations of her sons2 Do
not their lives illustrate that personal
purity In personal character 10 consonant
with the highest worldly success? Young
women of the land, have you no debt
to paw to that established order of
things which we call Christian civilization
Do you realize that Republican institutions
are the material organism through which
this spirit of civilization breatbes? Will
you not in thankful appreciation
of the inheritance into which
you have entered pledge humble
fealty TO the Republican party,
whose standard-besrer wears the white
flower of a blameless life Beyond The i'm
mediate demands of the present campaign
lies the broad held of political ethics;
women are equally concerned with men in
the seed sown and the harvest gathered
there