Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1894-08-14

Trusts-Facts of History Relating to the
Democratic Party - The Situation as
Viewed by the New York Tribune-The
Chicago Herald as Prophet The
Singular Prevarication of the Demo-
cratic President - Republican Plat
forms and the Silver Question.
A Powerful Argument Against Demo-
cratic Attempts to Break Down
Protection.
If a feet of foreign ironclads should at |
eempt to lombard Il great American city |
and destroy the lives and property of |
American citizens the whole nation would |
demand that the enemy should be re-
sisted by all the resources of modern |
warfare. IT great pestilence like the |
Chinese cities should sweep over the sen
and threaten this country with desola-
tion, public sentiment would unanimously
insist that the gates of our harbors should
be barred against ships from infected
ports, and that all the appliances Of medi-
grim intruder at bay. Yet the destruc
tion of property caused by the Democrat.
ic attempt to strike down protection has
exceeded not merely the loss that would
be inflicted by the bonlbardment of sin
gle, city, but the loss brought about by
the greatest civil war in history. The
mongrel tariff bill is the black death of
American industry. 1t has smitten and
Frustrated great interests from Boston to
San Francisco. 1t has impoverished mill
ions OF American citizens, destroyed the
happiness of multitudes of American
homes driven hundreds of men to despair
and suicide, and imposed a burden of
destltutlon and disaster from which this
republic cannot recover in years. Such
an infamy must be fought as mercilessly
as menacing plague or an invading
enemy.
If obstruction in the Senate becomes
necessary in order to defeat the wreckers'
bill, Republican senator's should use it
feariessly and to the utmost. The rules
of the Senate We're expressly framed in
order to give the minority power to pre-
vent arbitrary action on the part of the
majority. The Republicans are justified
by law and precedent in obstructing the
infamous tariff bill. They are required
by every dictate of patriotism, every con-
pie of Republicanism to fight the odious
and ruinous measure with all the weapons
at their disposal. 1t is q fundamental
principle of Republicanism that Amer-
can labor shall be protected that the
United States shall be industrially indie
be maintained at a level which makes
intelligent and self-respecting citizenship
possible. 1t is fundamental Republican
principle that the majority shall rule.
The American people have pronounced
overwhelmingly against the Democratic
scheme OF ruin; They have condemned
it by unprecedented pluralites at the
polls; they have commanded their repre-
sentatives through the ballot boxes of
every Northern state to oppose it and kill
it; they have demanded in tones that can
not be mistaken, with an emphasis un>
Paralleled p! in this generation, that the Nc
kinley law, which gave the nation peace
and prosperity, shall be maintained upon
the statute books.
All the considerations which govern the
course OF patriotic legislators impose upon
the Republicans the duty of obstructing
the Bourbon bill. Senatorial courtesy''
counts GO tso5 for nothing when the homes of
istence Of vast national industries is en-
dangered, when the integrity of American
citizenship is threatened, when in every
commonwealth from the pines of Maine
to the redwoods of Oregon, the people are
demanding the death of the Bourbon bill
ans to finch would be cowardice and to
retreat would be dishonor. For a third
OF a century cOWardice and retreat have
been unknown in the lexicon of Repub-
licanism.. Do not mar that glorious rec
ord now! The enactment of the Bour-
ity, filling the land with poverty and
misery, with ruin and despair. The duty
OF Republicans to resist it by obstruction
it obstruction is needed is as clear and
as imperative as was the duty of the sol
dlers OF Meade to face and roll back the
leglons OF Lee and the Confederacy at
Gettysburg.-New York Press.
Maj. Upham's Shoes.
Inc Inter Ocean warmly indorses the
Republican nominee for governor of Wis
consin and in editorial form it prints the
following "reminiscences:
MAJ. w. H. Upham, the Republican
candidate for governor of Wisconsin, has
recaptured his political shoes, as the
Inter Ocean predicted he would two
months mon! ago. A staff correspondent trav-
a letter from Marshfeld giving a story
Of Maj. upham' S army life, and suggest
ing that it might find parallel in this
campaign A young man 1S years old
enlisted in the Belle City Rifles, organ
lied at Racine in 1861, and this was the
ofy on RN M'sfSnsin cons ,sg regiment in the battle
shot through and through in that battle,
and left on the field for dead by his com,
rades. His death was reported in the
records of his regiment and at home, and
there was a big funeral for William II.
Upham at Racine.
AAC as lloC OSdu. lie SURPRISED
his friends and his officers by reporting
for duty when relieved from Libby prison
some months later. but the night of the
battle he gave a greater surprise to
rebel soldier who had appropriated his
shoes. When the shoes were pulled off
his feet the soldier left for dead regained
consciousness, and with some profanity
and much emphasis demanded his shoes
The rebel, startled by dead mans com
ing to life to rebuke his theft, dropped the
shoes and ran for life
when President Lincoln heard the
story of the shoes and that of the funeral
he sent the hero of both to West Point
with the remark that the country could
ask no further service - a man who had
fought, bled and died for it. If this
young man wanted to continue the life
of a soldier it should be as an educated
military officer. -~
Maj. Upham was one of the first Re-
publicans mentioned for governor last
spring, but the discussion in favor of a
Milwaukee German for the place
changed the drift of public sentiment,
and when Mayor Koch withdrew from
the contest others stepped in to secure
the nomination. The correspondent of
the Inter Ocean suggested that Maj. Up
ham might yet reclaim his political shoes,
as he had the brogans given him by
Uncle Sam ~, the field Of Bull Run. The