The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-10-02
TIE TRUY WAY TO SAVE.
A scHsibia View Il lbs Political sItuntioil
by Well Kn0wn Congressman.

by n wei NhuNh congressman
Hon. J. r. Douirer In The PO'tieidn.
The Republican party in an open APP
peal to tho patriotic good sense OF the
nation always wins. The only way II
eau bc defeated 10 10 divert its attention
from tho great questions that have al.
ways been first in the popular thought
10 tho cheap disputes about rates, rev
enues, receipts and bonded indebted
ness. These questions, 1t Is true, are
important. Az 10 them the record Of
the party Is complete. But n party
which III the days Of Ito youth received
a commission 10 establish liberty, to &C.
cure tho rights OF man, to perpetuatc
among men the creed OF equal rights,
such d party cannot lafcly turn It's back
on these question: and spend its time
on tariff debates 10 which Il new idea
has not been added for three genera.
tons. would not have the Republican
party fail to defend and 10 protect the
system OF Protection. But Il We have
reached a position where 1t takes both
hands TO defend 4 system that never had
an enemy among the great statesmen Of
! our history, outside the Slave PoHer,wt
are OF all men most miserable. II It
take nil the power Of the Republican
party 10 keep the skeleton hand OF John
9. Calhoun from the throat OF American
prosperity, We may rs well make ready
10 abdicate.
The true way 10 save the system Of
Protection is to give the whole weight OF
the Republican party 10 redeem the
pledge Of free citizenship in the United
States. II the party fail IN that high
duty, II 1t can no longer be stirred by
tho scrGa Of that historic obligation, 1t is
only q question OF time ill the economi-
cal creed OF the slave power, taken liter
ally from the Confederate Constitution,
will DO written in the statute book. The
Democratic leaders Of the North are
powcrless to prevent this result, even il
they were honestly disposed to do it.
Unless the election day be free, unless
the integrity OF tho ballot box be pre-.
served, the bloodIegs and metallic Issues
thu. belong 10 the fiscal side OF our M.
tional life will speedily Btarye the enthu.
siasm OF the Republican millions. No
great party can live by stalking every.
thing on the probable effect OF free raw
materials on the retail price OF lamp
chimncys. have nc doubt that sensi.
bic people generally will understand
that 1t is better for the American people
to make their own tin plate, rather than
send millions abroad 10 buy what we
need. But | Can imagine nothing more
patriotic than 10 gee the party that once
stood SIS one man about Abraham Lin.
coin, as ne called for the blood OF thous.
ands to seal the new manuscript OF
equal rights, nOS Cheertu!ly ignoring
the cry that comes up from deserted
polling places end bloody election DAYS,
while it deyotes ils time to figuring on
the relation between the proposed tariff
and the wholesale price OF oyster cans.
II this is 10 be oIr employment, | can
easily fotcseo tt:&t we must settle Nth
the aroused sentiment CT the party left
over from its heroic age.
Nay more; wO must settle with higher
powers-tor neither men nor parties can
escape the hand OF God. 1t was noticed
OF old that He who sitteth 10 the heavens
sometimes seems 10 laugh and to hold
nations III derision. | think that the
election OF 1854 was a burst Of laughter
from the hesvenR. do not wish to hear
it again. Yet the present attitude OF
these who have it in their power TO 9avc
the Republican party from disaster, 10
shield it from the contempt OF mankind,
is not reassIrinc to those WHO believed
the great principles which created the
party and have assigned to it thus far the
leadership OF American progress. Let
the Republican party with its left hand
keep the books OF our fiscal affairs and
with its right hand strike the enemies
Of law, order, citizenship, aud public
liberty.