Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-10-26
OUR SPLENDID PARTY
NEVER HELD HIGHER PLACE
THAN 1T DOES TO-DAY.
This Tide of Repub,icanism Has Been
Rising for a Year AID win Continue to
Rise Until the Party OF Lincoln Is Once
Moro ia Asccndency.
Ha. a e;lorlcn. Record.

Tho tide of Republicanism Is ri ing
throughout the Norsh. t.very election
for months has borne evidence that
once more the intelligent people OF the
country have allied themselves to the
party whose history in this country is
interviewer with the grand achieve
ments of q third of q century. 1t is
again in the confidence and the enthu-
siasm of the intelligent masses, in fact,
tho Grand Old Party. 1t has had
its dismal periods. 1t has been slam
dcred by its enemies, and betrayed by
those who should have heen loyal to
it. For years, in the North, it was
lost defam ID and harmed by men who
had received its honors. but who de-
serted it because it would not accept
their dictation. These men, by their
influence and position, led away thou
sands OF young men who should have
been Republican and temporarily Sc
mocracy. They were the "i%nfallibles"
OF 1872 and the mugwumps of 1854.
To-day thousands of the then dcluded
young men have found their way
hack into the Republican party. 1t is
not claimed that Republican counsels
have always been wise. or that the
party's policy in all things has been
the bet: but these defects are unim-
portant compared with its series of
achicveTents-the checking of the en-
tension OF slavery, the saving of the
Union by the Lincoln policy. the de-
struction of slavery, the reconstruction
OF the Union, the policy by which the
national debt ceased to be a burden and
specie payments were resumed, and the
policy of protection, which has brought
10 the Republic the most marvellous
growth and prosperity that Il nation
ever enjoyed. The leaders to day are
those who followed Lincoln as Union
work. They are animated by the same
spirit: ard the nationalism for which
they contend to-day is the nationalism
for which Lincoln c%ontcnded. The
names OF its leaders L those which
all mel most admire and reverence:
Lincoln. Grant, Morton. Sherman. To-
day its statesmen are the men to whom
the intelligent masses look for succor:
Harrison, John Sherman. Mckinley,
Allison. Reed. anda long line of others
who are in full accord. The intelligent
people of the country who are now
suffering from tho same Democratic
incapacity which went out of power in
March, 1861, look with removed conf
dence to Republican leadership and
policy to restore the country to the pros
perity of 1892. Hundreds If thousands
of men know that they are victims OF
Democratic i~ncomretency, and they
know that Rep iblican a.cendencv is
the only remedy. There can be no
doubt of this. Every election during
a year has shown that the people are
turning to the Republican party and
away from the Democratic as they
nave not since the early days of the
var. Even the LEGAL elections last
April and May showed this ieiec-
ton of Democracy and approval of Re-
publicanism. The turning out OF pop
ulations en- masse to greet Governor
Mckinley attcsts the turning of the
intelligent masses to the Republican
party. The tide has been rising for a
gear, and it will rise for months to
come. In all its splendid course, the
party of Abraham Line lin never held
\ higher place in The faith and regard
Of the American people than it docs
to-day.