The record-union., 1892-10-19
HARRISON -REID.
Issues Of the Campaign 6
EIlaDBtiVely Discussed
BY GENERAL CHIPMAN.
A Most Valuable Contribution to
Campaign Literature.
TRANSFERABLE ARGUMENT.
TRANSFERABLE ARGUMENT.
Facts and Figures That Voters Should
Read and Consider.

General N. P. Chapman opened the Re-
publican campaign at Red Bluff on the
Goth of September with a powerful adj
dress to the voters of the State in
behalf of the Republican candidates
for President and Vice President.
The speech was a comprehensive argu-
ment from the Republican standpoint,
and should be read by all voters Gen
eral Chapman said:
Hr. Chairman and FeLIop-C Citizens:
After more than thirty years of practi-
cally unbroken political control of our
Government the Republican party again
presents its claims for the suffrages of the
people. The Democrats had control of
the House of Representatives from March
&, 1870, to March 4, 1881, a period of six
years. Again, March 4, 1888, it obtained
control OF the House and held it until
March 4, 1889. Again it got control
March 4, 1891 and still holds il. The Re-
publicans have not since 1861 lost control
OF the Senate, although in the Forty-sev-
enth Congress they stood thirty-seven to
thirty-seVen, with two not ofeither party.
For four years only the Democrats have
had control of the Executive Department
March I, 1885, TO March 4, 1889. At no
time have the people so lost confidence in
the Republican party as to turn over all
branches of Government to any opposing
party. The people of this country have
never by their votes placed the reins of
Government completely in the hands of
Democrats more than eight years in sue
cession.
think you will search in vain for an
other instance among representative Gov
ernments where any party was able to
maintain its supremacy and hold the
lDlJhlIp pOn Il 1Hnnpa for lnnOr id
thirty years.
When we consider that since the close
of the war all the original SO-called South
ern States have voted in solid phalanX,
in season and out of season, with reason
and without reason, with the Democratic
party and against the Republicans, this
iact has immense significance.
The real battle-ground in the contest
and the only debatable territory has been
at the North. There never has been day
when any argument could reach the
South. We have haG to struggle against
odds in all these years and yet the people
cling to Republican principles and Re-
publican policies.
There must be some strong, we'll
grounded and abiding reasons for such
unparalleled loyalty. What are they?
think they stand upon and grow out of:
The history of the Republican party; the
achievements of the Republican party,
--NN EASS
party.
HISTORY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY,
1t will never be forgotten and never
should be forgotten, that it represents the
loyal sentiment OF the nation at time
when the question was: Shall this Union
OF States be preserved or shall it perish
from the earth? 1t will never be forgot
ten and never should be forgotten, that
the Democratic party at Chicago, on
CT NAF
solemnly declared, in its platform, that
the four years Of war to restore the Union
had been a failure, and demanded a cessa-
ton of hostilities.
Throughout that memorable struggle
it embarrassed the friends of the Union
at many most critical periods
1t antagonized the Executive in his
final blow at rebellion by giving freedom
to the slave.
1t opposed the Constitutional amend
ments proposed to make effective the
proclamation of freedom, and to make it
possible for the freedmen to enjoy their
liberty.
1t resisted in Congress the carrying ont
of the fiscal policies of the Administra-
ton by which alone the war could be
maintained.
In hundred ways it manifested its
sympathy for the struggling and dying
Southern Confederacy, and half-hearted
NAAb ACAuNbeiAAb II .OlliSI III LAl6 general re-
Jolclng at the final overthrow of the re-
bellion.
1t is part of the history of that great
struggle, also, that the Republican party
alone opposed the heresy of Secession-or
the right of any State OF the Union to
withdraw from the compact as means to
redress her grievances. This was the
fundamental principle upon which the
South planted her revolt, and in defense
of which she raised the flag of rebellion.
And 1t is history, also, that Mr.. Bu-
chanan, and his Attorney General, Black,
found no warrant in the Constitution to
coerce a State or prevent its withdrawal
from the Union.
1t was a step of tremendous import
ance, that settled for all time the power
of the Nation TO preserve itself and per-
petuate is own existence.
1t was the Republican party that did
this. The young men of the North have
studied this history, and they have ma
turally allied themselves with the party
of patriotism. The popular vote OF the
North has always been overwhelmingly
Republican.
REPUBLICAN ACHIEVEMENTS.
There is another reason why our party
has enjoyed this long, unbroken SUI
premacy. Its achievements have been
such as to challenge the admiration of all
civilized peoples, and to exalt our Gov
nations of the earth.
When the Republican party came into
power we had neither army nor navy,
and not dollar in the treasury. Eleven
States of the Union were in open revolt
and had seeded from the Union. Dur
ing the four years of war that ensued we
confronted most determined foe in the
South and at many critical periods we
had to meet an equally unrelenting foe in
the North.
Against both these foes we restored the
Union upon permanent and enduring
foundations. Vast armies and a large
navy had to be created and fed and
clothed, and enormous treasure had to be
provided.
the men and q Republican Congress pro-
vided the treasure. The highest intelli-
gence, the loftiest patriotism, the pro-
foundest craftsmanship alone could have
achieved the splendid consummatlon OF
1865. We created in this struggle for per-