New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-04-20
STRAIGHT REPUBLICANIsM.
The EloquentBob Evans Addresses a Throng
ofVoters at Sleepy Eye.
he Reviews the Record Of the Party and
Eulogizes It's Wisdom and Patriotism.
Democracy Rebuked for its shams, Hypoc
risy and Obstruction.
The Inconsistency of Democratic ALI
ance Fusion Clearly Pointed Out.

Monday was a great day for Republic
anism at Sleepy Eye. The eloquent and
enthusiastic Bob Evans was there, and
the throng that had gathered in the city
to hear him was amply sufficient to pack
the largest hall. Mr.. Evans speech was
mastery one. From beginning to end,
it was chain of polished sentences, de-
ivered in that happy manner which is
that orators chief strength, and not once
did the audience tire of hearing him.
Among other things he said:
[ congratulate the Republicans of
Brown County on their thus early enter
ing into the campaign of 1892. The deep
interest shown at this time in political
questions is the evidence of an earnest
determination on the part of the people
to take their proper share of responsible
ity in the matters of government. You
gentlemen of Brown County have, ever
Since I have known you, shown this pur-
pose by full, fair and free debate upon
the questions at issue in every campaign.
I would encourage this feeling. 1t is a
good thing for the country; it is a good
thing for the Republican Party. This
party to which we belong has moth
inc to fear from the fullest and fairest
discussion of the principles which it
would seek to apply, and which It does
apply to governmental affairs. 1t we are
wrong, it is right that the people should
know it: and if we are right it is the duty
of the people to know it, and our duty
to make it known. The Republican Par
tv has ALWAYS been in favor Of the most
open and widest expansion of public
opinion. 1t has always been the medi-
atOr between the weak and the strong,
knowing no class, but treating our gov
ernment as a government of the whole
people, and our interests, however diver
sifed they may be, as links In single
chain. With such a party as this we
come before the people Of this country in
this year 1892.
For more than thirty years, with the
single exception of one presidential term
the Republican Party has had control of
the affairs Of our common country. In
that stewardship it has had great oppor
tunities. The Almighty in his benet-
cence and wisdom created the land in
which we live for great destiny. He
covered its hills and mountains with for
ests; deposited on its prairies soil
which answers to the touch of the plow-
share with abundant harvests; deposited
in the bosom of the earth mines of silver
and gold, of coal and iron, and put the
whole in the possession OF people
hearty, brave, industrious. intelligent and
patriotic. These conditions existing, and
given wise and economic administra-
ton of affairs, prosperity is assured.
| claim. Mr.. Chairman, that this wise
and economic administration has been
given to this country and to this people
for more than thirty years by the Repub-
lican Party: until to-day we have used
the talents entrusted to our care so that
they have multiplied to such a degree as
to evoke the unqualified wonder and adj
miration of the entire civilized world.
I do not come here in defense of the
Republican Party, or any of the great
measures of government which it has adj
vocated during its history. It and they
need no defense. All that [ contend for
and all that | ask is that the people of
this country who certainly are interested
in the successful administration Of this
government of ours, give a part OF that
careful attention and consideration, which
they give to every individual enterprise
of theirs to study of the history of
the Republican Party, its principles and
their effect: and if this is done, sir, [
have no more doubt of the continued sue
cess of the Republican Party in each re-
@1n Of
the rising and the setting sun. [ know
in the heat of political campaigns men
are liable to be warped by their passions
and their prejudices so that they shut
their eyes inyoluntarily to the truths OF
his story and the absolute demonstration
of facts which surround them on every
hand. We are all too prone to do this.
In doing so we make a mistake IA serl-
Gus mistake; because I firmly believe
that there is no business of our lives
which calls for, demands and deserves
any more careful consideration than the
business of legislating for ourselves and
for our feIlowmen. No sane man would
think of directing any business enterprise
without carefully studying its causes and
effects and weighing for himself those
principles, which if applied, viii effect it
for good or for bad; and it seems to me M
that in this great business of conducting
the affairs OF a great nation and of great
people, there ought to be applied by the
individual, the same rule which he would
apply to the conducting of a private
business in this regard.
/ can best illustrate what has been done
by the Republican Party by taking from
your prairies in Brown County farm,
which, thirty years ago, had the same
productive soil that it has to-day; had
the same streams of running water had
the same natural advantages which it pre-
sents now to the eye. Say that 1t was
then in the hands of a man, who, while