Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-04-08
The wav to Win.

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The Way to Win.
The following production is copy of
an editorial which appeared in the New
York Tribune of January 18th, 1892. The
advice contained therein seems excellent,
and should be observed by Virginia Re-
publicans;
What is the new Year to bring to the
Republican party 1t is of no use to IN
terrogate ancient shrines and soothsayers'
or modern spiritualists and prophets. The
ouestion can be answered only by the Re
pnblicans themselves. They are the arch
itects of their own fortunes and the
arbiters of their own destiny. They can
Irvine for themselves garlands OF victory
win them and wear them, and fill the year
1898 with Joy for work we'll done, wrong
vanouished. triumph tasted and nation
saved. Or they can prepare for them
selves humiliation and defeat, and SIT
roxt winter in sackcloth and ashes, NOUN
inc opportunities lost and Nations her
;toca endangered. If they want the
garland they have first to deserve IT,
so many requIems have been chanted
over the grave of the Republican party,
when the supposed grave soon proved
empty, and the supposed corpse soon re-
anpeared a conquering host, that some
have fallen into the habit of regarding II
as immortal. unconquerable, and predes-
tined to prevail. If the stars in their
courses fight for Republicanism, why
sbonld a man for its sake forego any
crotchet abate any clamor for place OF
.trife for personal aggrandizement. protest
sUainst any friend who has loaded 1t down
nv his errors, or make any sacrifice OF
money or of ease9 why, indeed, should
any Republican take the trouble to vote
if this leader or that Las magical power
and success is predestined Not IN tha'
sn,rit can 1892 be made for the Repuoll'
cans year of glory and of JOY.
II is not hard TO remember election'
which teach how victories are not won
This wear the lessons ought to bear gooo
truit. 1t Will not do to rely wholly upon
shouting. 1t will not do to let mere leg
erdemain take the place of reasoning II
will not do to suffer National campaign
70 he turned into a hospital for crippled
combatants or sickly regulations. Strong
men. clean men, and men who know how
to command popular approval, must he
found. not merely for the Presidential
ticket, but for other places also, whether
of honor or of trust, from the highest to
the lowest. so that nowhere may earnest
and manly effort be chilled or hesltatinQ
voters repealed,
Happily, it Is still easier Tor tne hePuo'
can marty to remember elections when
teach how victories have been won. Bn'
times change and voters also. How many
are living of the millions who voted fol
Lincoln9 How many of the voters VINO
will decide next November were infants
or foreign subjects when Grant preyalled'
The question for every Republican to ask
himself is whether enough care has been
taken, by him first and then by Others
in his own town or ward first, and then
else where. 10 make voters know what the
Republican party means and what II
wants and why it ought to succeed. HAS
enough been done to meet the deluge oil
falsebood with which the land has been
covered Are there not men in almost
every village whose ignorance OF the great
questions upon which they are TO vote no
man has seriously tried to clear away
This year, thanks be to the late Con
gress and the present administration, tne
Republican party has definite issues maze
for it. which it cannot dodge II 1t woulu'
and on which it can win with certainty
if it makes the people understand them;
Happily, also. the tariff does vast dea'
of educating for itself. Every breakfast
table reminds the poor man how much his
sugar costs, and every suit OF clothes ne
buys or wants to buy tells him that du-
ties on imports do not make protected
products more costly. Bat does any Re
publican imagine that he personally has
done all that be can, that his fellow Re-
publicans in his own town or ward or
their managers have done all that they
can, to place before the voters the facts
about the tariff, the coinage of silver, and
Democratic election frauds and crimes
Has that anywhere been done, so that no
voter can fail to know what he Is doing 7
If not. the duty of 1892 is plain. 1t is
not to talk about office, to wrangle or
cayil about candidates. 1t is not to leave
the sharpest trickster to carry an election
if he can. The duty is to make voters
know what Republicanism means, ana
why its victory is the triumph OF every
honest American.