The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-27

Imitation movement, they will avert the
danger. In doing this, we feel that
we render the best service possible to
the country and we appeal to the in
telligence, conscience and patriotism of
the people, irrespective of party, or
section, for their earnest support
1T WILL MAINTAIN LAW AND Or
DER
We avoid no issues. We meet the sud-
den, dangerous and revolutionary as
saulE upon law and order and upon
those to whom is confided by the con-
stitution and laws the authority to up
hold and maintain them. which our
opponents have made with the same
courage that we have faced every
emergency since our organization as
party more than forty years ago. Gov
eminent by law must first be assured;
everything else can wait The spirit
of lawlessnes,s must be extinguished by
the fires of unself1sh and lofty patriot
ism. Every attack upon the public
faith and even suggestion of the repu-
diaTson of debts, public or private, must
be rebuked by all men who believe that
honesty is the best policy or who love
their country and would preserve I'M
su4lied its national honor.
SECTIONALISM ALMOST OBLITER-
ATED.
The country is, to be congratulated
upon the almost total obliteration of
the sectional lines which for so many
years marked the division of the Unit
ed States into slave and free territories
and finally threatened it's partition
into two separate governments by the
dread ordeal of civil war. The era Of
reconciliation, so long and earnestly de-
sired by General Grant and many other
great leaders, north and south, has
happily come, and the feeling of dis
trust and hostility between the sec
tons is everywhere vanishing; let US
hope, never to return. Nothing is bet
ter calculated to give strength to the
nation at home, increase our power and
influence abroad, and add to the per-
manency and security of our free in
situations, than the restoration of cor
dial relations between the people of
all sections and parts of our beloved
country. If called by the suffrage Of
the people to assume the duties of the
high Office of president of the United
States, L shall count is a privilege to
aid, even in the slightest degree in
the promotion of the spirit of frater-
nal regard which should animate and
govern the citizens of every section,
STATE or part of the republic. After
tine lapse of a century since its utter
ance, let US at length and forever after
heed the admonition of Washington:
There should be no north, no south,
no east, no west-but a common coun-
sry''
1t shall be my constant aim to i'm
prove every opportunity to advance the
cause of government by promoting that
spirit of forbearance and justice which
is so essential to our prosperity and
happiness by joining most heartily in
all proper efforts to restore the rela-
tons of brotherly respect and affection
which in our early history character
lied all the people of the states. I
would be glad to contribute towards
binding in indivisible union the differ
emit divisions of the country, which, in
deed, now "1ave every inducement of
sympathy and interest to weld them to-
gether more strongly than ever. I
would rejoice to see demonstrated to
the world that the north and the south
and the east and the west are not sepa-
rated or in danger of becoming sepa-
rated because Of sectional or party
differences.
The war is long since over; eve are
not enemies, but friends" and. as
friends, we will faithfully and cordially
cooperate, under the approving smile
of him who has thus far so signaIly
sustained and guided us to preserve
1nv1olate our country's name and honor.
its peace and good order, and its con-
unued ascendRncy among the greatest
governments of The world.
WILLIAM M'KINT,EY