Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-04-12

clear brain with 32-calibre revolyer.
is match for a half dozen burly
giants.
THE following editorial from the 81.
Paul Pioneer Press is sound one, and
the republican party, le tders and foil
overs must act along the lines here
laid down if they would achieve per-
manent success. There must be no
nonsense in caucus or convention, no
matter how unimportsnt either may
seem. The people are 10 state of I'M
rest and demand that public officials
shall be wise and safe in the conduct of
government in municipalities of the
states and the nstion. They will put
up with no fooling and woe to the
party who.e leaders betray any trust
placed 10 them by the people. The
democratic party flushed by victory is
learning this fast TO their dismay. The
people are dri,iug the nails IN their
coffin just as fast as they can strike.
REPUBLICAN, YEAR.
II the responsibilities of political sue
cess were remembered in time of vic
tory, there would be fewer occasions to
lament defeat. 1t is time now for every
Republican 10 be laboring, as he would
not labor even in the hour of reverse,
for the holding aloft of right principles
and the selection of true men for office.
For il is within the next year, in all
probability. mayhap within the next six
months. that the fate of parties two or
three years from now will be decided.
I - ~ q fc of oil
Ii is the future To which mems eyes
must be set, and it is the selection of
right candidates and the holding aloft
of correct party principles now which
will bring victory then.
We do not recall a time since 1872
when it seemed so useless to go 10 the
trou ole of holding elections. Perhaps
there was never time when determine
tion to extirpate political parry, root
and branch, had reached down as far
and penetrated as thoroughly the entire
mass of the people. The popular TRACE
against Democratic government is some
thing phenomenal. Every state cleo
ton has shown it Every Ii tie village
contest bears its testimony. A candi
date has but to be a Republican this
year in order to win. The tremendous
waves by which Ohio and Pennsylvania
were carried, are no more striking in
their way than the thousand rills of
local sentiments, as shown by the
spring elections in New York. in Ohio
II Michigan. wherever there is call
or men to go to the polls. As rule
hese elections are without particular
significance, being determined largely
By local issues and hence showing q
divided result. This year there is an
ominous sameness in the declarations OF
the people which tells that their mind
is made up.
1t is aud is to be a Republican year.
The people have determined upon GUST
ing from power everywhere, except in
some of the Southern strongholds, the
party that has proved itself so unit for
the responsibilities of government, snd
that has brought upon them misiortunes
so dire. Now let Republicans look to
it that they meet the issue worthily,
For il tLey do, ii will be final. That
they will regain control of the lower
house Of congress and OF the sta'e gov.
eminent in every Northern state where
an election is to be held with little re.
gard to the personality Of candidates or
the language of platforms, we bold to
be assured. Therein lies the only dam
ger of the siluation. The platforms
must be bold and true, The men must
De bonest and tit For this is only the
intermediate tine between two national
veriicts. And if, betrayed by the
unanimiiy of public opinion now, Re-
publicanS should make mistakes, there
would be time for backward swing OF
the pendulum before two years more
had passed. This constitut the grave
duty of Republicans everywhere As
fat rs the mere result OF this years
lighting is concerned, they need take
no heed, Ii is as wen ertained as
II the vot's were already cast and
counted Bet that makes il only the
more imperative that they should show
themselves fully worthy of the conf
dence about to be reposed in them so
Internationally as Iebuke to the ne-
mocracy by which the country has been
betrayed almost to its ruin.
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