Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1892-12-23
DUTY OF REPUBLICANS.
A WARNING NOTE TO OUR PAR
TY IN CONGRESS.
Democrats In the senate VIII Attempt to
Induce Republicans to Prove False to
Their Trust-Prcparing to Raid the
Treasury.
Democrats in q Dilemma.

Democrats In q Dilemma.
The Republican party is confronted
by conditions which have not been
presented before, since the party was
called into existence by the uprising
Of Northern intelligence and love
of liberty against the arrogant DOM
ination OF a slaveholding aristocracy.
Until the 4th Of March next, says
the New York Press, there can be no
national legislation without the ac-
quiescence and cooperation Of the
Republican President and Senate.
After the 4th OF March the Demo-
Gratis will have control of the gov
ernment. The nation, as it stands,
is monument of the success, the
patriotism, and the wisdom OF Repub-
lican lle, virtually uninterrupted for
more than 30 years. The Republican
reeffA Is without blot. Loyalty to
th1l{nion, fidelity to free institu-
tom and the protection of American
industry-these are the principles OF
the .rty, and nobly have they been
sustained. The verdict has gone
forth that the Republican party shall
give up for the present its steward
ship. To that decree Republicans
bcw with the same loyalty with which
they have always obeyed the national
will. The party goes forth into
exile, oDedient, like Aristides, to the
peoples decree, but conscious, like
Aristides, that its only crime Is that
many have grown weary Of hearing 1t
called "The Just"
Under these circumstances, 1t
would be the height of folly for any
Republican to give even the slightest
aid to the enemy in impairing or un-
dermining the structure which Re-
puelicans have created. The De-
mocracy, conscious OF the falsehood
Of its pretensions in the recent cam
paign, is eagerly looking for some
tendency on the part of Republicans
to assist it ia escaping the dilemma
in which the Democratic party will
be placed by complete control OF the
government. The shrewder leaders
Of the party, who do not feel, like
Cleveland, that their political careers
will terminate at the close OF four
years, are most anxious to in
volye Republicans In responsibility
for Democratic attempts to redeem
Democratic promises. Those leaders
know that the Democracy must do
something to prove that the protec-
ton Of American industry Is all that
the Democratic platform, orators and
press have denounced it to be; or else
that the Democracy will stand self
convicted as a party which has ac-
quired power under knaylsh, false
and fraudulent pretenses. The Dem
ocrats, according to re port, have va
rious schemes for getting out OF their
dilemma, and all the schemes include
an effort to induce Republicans In
the Senate to prove false to the trust
t their constituents.
Whatever variety OF form Demo
cratic plans for using Republicans as
cat's-paws may assume, they should
be utterly ignored and repudiated.
There is not the slightest ground OF
excuse for any Republican to assist
the Democrats, either by consenting
to a so-called tariff commission or by
passing House bills repeating portions
Of the Mckinley law, or in any other
way. The country is all right In the
form that Republicans have placed
1t, and in the form in which the Re-
publican administration proposes to
leave it. The great State OF Penn
sylvania has repeated, by an emphat-
ic majority, its Endorsement of the
protective principle. New England
has again been heard with no uncer-
tain voice. Facts are coming out every
day which show that In several OF
the States which appeared to change
their allegiance the tariff was q sec
ondary consideration. Wisconsin,
and even Illinois, are shown to have
been carried by the Democrats on
what is called the school question
an appeal against American institu-
tions to the preiudices Of foreigners
not able to speak the American Lam
guage. The startling statement Ii
made, and with strong evidence to
sustain it, that the Democrats car.
ried Wyoming chiefly by the aid OF
cattle thieves and their sympathizers.
Perhaps, after all, there is nothing
surprising In this, for, apart from the
votes Of the worst elements, New
York would be surely Republican
State.
There is nothing, therefore, in the
returns of the recent election which
would in the slightest degree justify
any Republican in departing from
! the principles Of his party or in Riv.
ing rid and comfort to the party ol
free ts4de. On the contrary, the sit
uati erNakes 1t all the more incum-
bent ..son Republicans to be united
/ and firm in the advocacy and support
! OF Republican principles, and to re
move by education through the press
/, and other agencies the ignorance and
misapprehension which made Dem