The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-06-15


guidance we feel we shall be most sure of es-
tablishing those beliefs in the form of laws.
We are here not warning factions, strug-
Cling to win supremacy under favorite leaders,
but as comembers OF one great party, seeking
to select from the shining roll OF our honored
great men that type or statesman which shall
be regarded as the soundest and most complete
embodiment of the cardinal doctrines OF our
party.
The air is always the sweeter and purer
after storm. IL is right now DO oppose
each other; it will be our duty to unite to-
morrow.
Our differences should end at the convention
doors, and will end there. When this conven-
tion shall have concluded its labors we shall
have but one choice, and that the nominees Of
this convention; but one purpoSe-their cleo
tion. The nomination does not end the cam
paign 1t begins it. The campaign which is to
be made will not be the campaign of the can
didates, by the candidates, and for the candi-
detes, but of all the party, by all the party,
ana for al the party IN the interests or the
The eyes of all the Republicans at home and
the eyes OF all our adversaries everywhere are
intently fixed upon this convention. A nation
Is watching us-our enemies to criticize, our
friends to ratify The responsibility is enor-
nous, but you will meet it wisely. The Re-
publican party has never yet made a mistake
In it's choice of candidates; it will not make
any mistake here. All over this broad land the
bonfres set 10 be lighted, the flags ready
to be unfurled and the Republicans at home
are waiting TO show approval OF your choice
history of our country. There is not a single
page but shines brighter for some act or some
word of some great Republican. Count over
our. chosen heroes whom we are teaching our
children to love, emulate, and revere, and you
shall name Republicans. Lincoln, Seward
Grant, sherman, Garfield, Logan, Harrison, and
Blaine-these are q few Of our Jewels and we
may proudly turn to our Democratic friends
with the defiant challenge: Match them"
These men became great and remained great
| through their belief in and advocacy of the
ennObling and inspiring doctrines OF the Re-
publican faith: Name me over the great
masterpieces of constructive and progressive
| legislation. enacted since the civil war, and,
one by one, their authors and finishers will be
found Republicans.
have not the time even to calculate the long
| list of good works undertaken and performed
You are all familiar with the story-the ire
presslble conflict undertaken and concluded
slavery abolished, public credit re-established
the Constitution and the Union restored and
reconstructed, the old flag washed clean of
every stain and new stars added TO its glory,
the wide West thrown open to easy access and
settlement, the policy of protection to Ameri-
can labor and American industries established,
developed and indicated; the markets of the
world opened by the persuasive logic of reci-
procity 10 the products of the American work.
shop and the American farm, until to-day the
| nations OF the world are paying tribute TO our
sagacity In millions and millions of increased
| purchases, and Lord Salisbury has been driven
TO the significant confession that even in En-
! gland free trade has proved disappointing.
Rivers and harbors have been opened TO COM
merce; the white hulls of our new navy are
| ploughing the waters OF every sea; peace has
| been maintained and respect secured abroad.
and so the list might be extended and expand
ed while your patience might endure to listen.
| Our political adversarieS though perpetualIy
! opposing every measure of our new Republican
| policy, are compelled TO admit the wisdom of
| our course and TO confess that we have been
right and they have been wrong.
| They have just about exhausted in the Fifty
| first Congress one year OF Congressional life
| in vain assaults upon three items in tariff
| bill made up of 800 items. At this rate of
| progress they would have TO be trusted for
| about 800 years in power before we could see
tariff reform upon lines agreed upon by our
| conflicting Democratic friends. But we cannot
| hope to win merely upon the recital of the
achievements OF our past, brilliant as they
have been, any more than our adversaries
can hope to succeed upon platforms of
! glittering promises. The past Is chiefly
useful TO us in so far it demonstrates the
! vitality of the party to redeem its pledges and
way free ami progressive people Our pledges
| have been kept all save one, and greatly mis-
| take the temper of the Republican party If IL
made good. Our manhood and honor Is pledged
| TO continue the contest for free and honest
ballot until this vital question is settled In the
| right. That a free people should cast a free
vote and ,have 1t honestly recorded and re-
| turned ia The dream and determination of the
| Republican party and the despair and night
mare of Democracy. 1t is the pride of the
| Republican party that 1t never yet has
committed an assault upon the freedom
| of the ballot. The entire vocabulary OF po-
| litical crimes has grown out OF attempts
| to describe assaults of Democracy upon the
| freedom of the ballot and fair play in the ex-
ercise of the elective franchise. And the indi-
vidual words have been made intellig1ble by
| Democratic practices. No question has ever
| been permanently settled and never VIII be
| finally determined until it is settled In the
right; and until every citizen, white or black,
| East OF West, North or South, can approach
| the ballot-box with absolute security and have
| his vote counted with absolute honesty, none
of us can rest assured that our liberties are
| safe
Unless the votes of all men are safe the vote
| of no man is safe. 1t Is not the negro alone
| who Is DISTINGUISHED IL is every American.
| The contest before us assumes all It's difncul-
| ties from the fact that we enter the Presiden-
| tial race handicapped by the certainty that In
| an electoral college of 40 members 156 votes
| are now already absolutely secured In advance
| to the Democratic nominees and these 1o6
votes come from the South, which Is kept per-
| nanently solid through perpetual breach or
| the guarantees of the Constitution of the
/ Inff1l states.