The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-04-20

it's glory, not only because the party found it's
birthplace here but because for forty years,
save two the Republican party has held UNI
broken sway in this State saving three years of
Democratic Executive control and one legisla-
tive interregnum.
During ali that time this State has grown in
power, in wealth, in cul ure. in everything that
goes to make grand commonwealth, and
every law uponits statute books, and every
policy enacted into law for the guidance of the
State during all these long years, with the ex-
captions 1 have named, have been laws and
policies formulated by the Republican party
rious past many would be satisfied, but the Re-
pubicans OF to-day ale as full OF energy, as full
OF patriotism, as full Of love for the country
and az determined to preserve our institutions
intact and hand them down to our children ms
we received them, as were our fathers who met
under the oaks at Jackson" or later stih
were our fathers and our brothers who. upon a
hundred battlehelds of the rebellion. demon
strated to the country and the wor d their love
for the Union of States never TO be broken
This party does not, then, rely upon its past
That par is to be pitied who fears to
look upon its past but he Republican party is
not one OF these. Our hope Is In the future
We have never deceived the people. We have
never held cut false hopes TO the voters Of this
country. Republican platforms have been un-
equivocal. they have been plain, they have been
pertinent.
The great campaign of is 's, n struggle that
has no parallel in our political history, was
fought upc II well-defined linee. The Republican
party, in convention assembled, promised to
the American people that IL IL were again in
trusted with power 1t would do certain things
and undo certain other things As plainly
written was our code OF action were the Ten
CO amendments; as easily understood as a
simple proposition in arithmetic. We told the
people of this country that we believed in pro-
lection. We believed that other things being
equal, the American citizen had the first rights
TO all the benefits that arise from being an
American citizen, and that he, whether he be a
daily laborer, mechanic, an artisan, n farmer,
or what not, should In the struggle for life I'm
this country have the first right over every man
b.,1 mot no1l aefa IN our Hau
To illustrate by an examp that covers the
whole proposition: The Republican party said
and says TO the farmers of Wayne County, for
instance, that you who raise from your lands
that which is necessary and essential for he
comfort, convenience and welfare OF the people,
that you who support this Government that
you who are liable to obey its laws, even to the
extent of standing before the cannon of hos
tile foe, that you who are items shall have the
first right TO this Detroit market, for ins ance
over and above men who live Just across the
river, but who owe allegiance TO another Gov
eminent. Our platform said that the men
of Wayne County whose farms are worth
>more money, who pay more money for
labor, should be protected in This local
market against foreigners across the river, to
the extent that the difference between the value
of land in Wayne County and anada should
be, and the iii ffereuce IN the value of labor In
Wayne County and anada should be equalizcd
by laying upon the foreigner who seeks this
market tax or duty that should represent that
differt nee, and that money we propose to take
and put into the Treasury Of the United States
y
Ing the foreigner pay for the privilege OF enter
ing into the best market in the world, some
thing that every honest foreigner is willing to
do. We kept our faith. We enacted into law
this idea and this stands to-day and will for a
generation TO come
Ne promised to tho American people that IL
we were intrusted with power the mighty COM
binatiy ms of capital In this country known as
trusts, which are inimical TO the pros
private IN
well as public rights and liberties,
should be throttled by law, and to-day upon the
by Republican Congress, signed by R Rp1
lican Executive. which is strong enough to
wipe from the face OF the earth every unlawful
combination which has hereto fore thwarted
! and threaten; d the prosperity Of the American
people.
We have been honest with the people as TO their
money. We never have held out to the Ameri-
can people the idea that that which is worth
nothing can be made worth something by the
mere stamp or fat OF this great govern emit ;
but we have insisted that whatever be circu-
lated among the people, whether 1t were gold.
silver or paper, that called fora dollar should
no matter what was it's shape or form COM
position, be worth as much as any other dollar
the government ever coined. We claimed the
dollar which went Into the pocket OF the poor
man for his days work should rot be worth 40
his coupon upon bond was worth 100 cents
upon the dollar We have kept the faith I'm this.
We have done another thing. The Repub-
llcan party has upheld the honor, the dignity,
the glory OF the heg in every sea and upon
every shore. 1t has done this not by any dis
play OF arbitrary power. 1t has done 1t not by
sking the threats that tho strong sometimes
indulge In against the weak. But, whether we
have been dealing with weak sister republic
upon the south. or whether our contention has
been With that mighty nation, whose iron-clads
cut every sea, and whose sunset-gun follows
the sun around the world, we have been equally
have been equally night. The conduct
OF our affairs with our sister nations shines
brighter and is so much mote to the credit Of
The American people who's compared with the
preceding administration that, Tor the sake OF
the feelings OF my friends the Democrats. 1