Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-03
REPUBLICAN PARTY PROSPECTS.

1
! In the Forum for July Senator Morrill,,
OF Vermont, has an interesting article on
Republican Party Prospects" In open
ing the Vermont senator truly says that
the past fidelity and craftsmanship OF
the Republican party need no vindica-
| ton. 1t is the future, therefore,
| together with some of the many
vexed questions which must be consid-
cred, with which it deals.
First comes what he calls the "negro
problem" which is well illustrated in
these brief sentences: "New Hampshire
has two representatives in congress and
South Carolina seven. The presidential
| vote of New Hampshire in 1888 was 80,
| S19 and that of South Carolina was 49,
$50. Why should South Carolina, with
II ,069 less votes at the polls, have seven
electoral votes and New Hampshire only
twog'
This is the most important question
which the Republican party has to face
IN the south today, and unless the pres
| emit administration gives the country de-
| cided measures to prevent the continu-
ance OF this inequality there is likely to
be considerable irritation in those great
"eosoAh SIdteS Inc AoAooos Aowd, NC
braska, etc., where the right to
vote is regarded as the funda-
mental principle of government,
We have been crying for some remedy
for this inequality long enough. Let US
have a remedy: let US have "policy'
even, if that will best enforce the civil
compact of majority rule.
AS the Press has repeatedly pointed
out, the Republican party represents the
great moral and progressive forces of
this country. Its strength lies in the
towns of New England and on the broad
wholesome prairies of the western states.
On the other hand the Democratic party
has no strength excepting that which
comes TO il from the combination of the
solid south and suppressed vote with
the rum power of two or three great
eastern cities. 1t matters little, there
fore, what the so-called principles of
the Democratic party are; they may be
one thing today and something else to-
morrow:
Whereas, as Senator Morrill, pointed
out, the propositions on which the Re-
publican party goes before the country
are as follows:
1. Its early work will be to equalize
the revenue and expenditure.
2. 1t insists upon the reform of the
civil service, begun under Republican
administration.
3. 1t will insist upon the bi-metallic
standard, and upon maintaining the use
and circulation of both gold and silver
coinage.
4. 1t will heartily support protection of
home industries and home labor.
5. 1t will favor the extension of the
charters of national banks in any safe
and proper way.
6. 1t proposes to stamp out the wick
edness of polygamy wherever the United
States government has the power.
T. 1t favors the reduction of letter
postage to cent per ounce.
s. 1t asserts that lawful citizenship is
and must be the panoply and safeguard
of him who wears it, and should protect
him, whether high or low, rich or poor,
in all of his civil rights at home and
abroad.
9. 1t intends to take care that no
men who have honorably worn the fed
eral uniform shall ever be inmates of an
almshouse.
10. 1t will maintain the doctrine that
the United States are nation, and that
sin maintaining our national rights
and honor all governments are alike to
us, however greatly they may differ in
power.
II. 1t will cordially sustain all wise
and well directed efforts for the promo
ton of temperance and morality.
12. 1t will favor ocean mail service
by American ships.
10. 1t will literally support the build
ing up of the navy to a standard of eff
ficiency worthy of our country.
IA. 1t will favor education, state and
national
10. 1t will also favor the exclusion of
pauper and criminal immigrants.
The Republican party must continue
to be party of ideas and of action.
AS soon as congress meets the question
of our national revenues should be taken
up and adjusted with a due regard to the
important interests of protection to ma
tive industry and labor. This out of the
way, our statesmen should at once di-
rect their attention to the fulfillment of
the other promises enumerated above.
A stationary party is a retrograde
party.