Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1892-11-18
J. v. BErrENSUaY,
MATCHMAKER AND JEWELER,
DUSHORE. Pa.
Y'he Battle VIII Go On.

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The Republican party has met
with reverse that may be compared
with the first battle Of Bull Run.
The exulJant free traders will do
well to remember that four years
after Bull Run came Appomattox.
Yhe contest which Repulicanisln has
waged in the past campaign has
been one of the most important
struggles in the history Of the Re-
public. 1t has been struggle for
the nearest and dearest interests of
the people for the home, for the
factory, for the farm and the school.
Ib has been struggle for the digni-
ty, the self respect and independ-
ence of the American workingman,
for the preservation Of the high
standard of living and wages which
protective tariff has made possible,
and which free trade would destroy.
1t has been a struggle for honest
money, and for the maintenance of
national credit unimpaired In this
struggle the Republican party has
been arrayed against it all the re-
sources that free traders and foreign
industries could bring to bear to
break down American protection and
place the American workingman at
the mercy of pauper competition
abroad.
The Republican party has had to
contend against vast corruption
fund, levied by Tammany Hall in
the city of New York, with the ad
dition of contributions from the
wealthy friends of the free trade
candidate, and their fellow free
traders in other countries. 1t has
had to contend against the solid
South, made solid by the open, un.
denied and fragrant violation of the
National Constitution, and inherit
ing from slavery traditional de.
votion to free trade. The Republi-
can party has met these foes and.
the moment, has been driven back,
though not in disorder.
Its flag is still there. 1t still
floats to the breeze above the vanish.
ing smoke of the conflict, and it will
yet float over victories as great and
as memorable rs any of the triumphs
which the Republican party has
achieved in the past. The free trade
proslavery Democracy thought they
had crushed the Republicans in
1886, but the reverse of that date
only stimulated Republican prepara-
ton for the great success of 1860
and the total triumph of 1864. The
Democracy declared, when Cleve-
land was first elected, that the Re
publican party had been. swept out
OF existence. But the Republican
party showed in 1888 that the re.
pulse had been only temporary, and
that the courage and resolution, the
vigorous and aggressive energy
which had characterized the party
in former struggles, were as vital as
ever, and as capable as ever of
achieving success.
The Press renews the combat TO.
day. 1t proposes to continue its
aggressive campaign against the
combination Of free trade, fraud and
violence, which has obtained pass-
ing advantage over the forces of
protection, and which is already pro-
claiming that the barriers which
guard American labor against pauper
competition abroad will be torn
down. The Cleveland Eyeniag
Post is already demanding the re-
peal Of the Mckinley tariff, and its
London ally, the Pal Nal Gazette,
declared, in its issue of Monday,
that both the merchants and un-
employed workingmen of England
have reason to rejoice at the Demo
cratic victory, as with the possibility
of the reopening Of the American
markets to the goods Of Birmingham,
Bradford and Manchester, capitalists
will get a chance to procure some
return on their money invested and
the workingmen will have an op-