The Republican journal., 1896-06-18

time to "innocuous desuetude" and our
national credit has been placed upon
very nigh plane. It has successfully
grappled with those vital questions that
solved them all in the interest Of hui
manlty and progress. And when IN the
not Tar distant future the history OF our
century shall the d;sna last writ
Wnlcn Is tne best century this word ever
KneW-Ior IN 1t peace hath had her VIC
torres not less renowned than war;, the
Dr1ghtest pages of that history Will be
that party's splendid acts and records
and the names and sacrifices Of the true
and noble men, who have shaped, guided
denty TITS Its policies nnn Is not Te
accomplished. For when the day shall
come,-as it surely will,-when the con-
stltutlonal rights of every man, IN every
respected and enjoyed, it will then find
other fields in which to labor for the
myriad millions of the common lot"
70 me Of ana me
ana hailoWed its birth. 1t has ever cham
ploned the rights of the common people,
Whom abraham Lincoln said ne be-
ated most of them.
l have no unkind words for the indi-
vldual members of the Democracy. 1t IS
WIN that party as an entity with the
policy of its leaders and it's damaging re-
cord for the last half century that take
issue,-I do not claim that we have a
monopoly of all the cardinal virtues. l
know there are good men in the ranks
OF that party, or at least that there We're
until lnlS last advent of Grover Cleveland
to power. l confess, however, that 1t has
peen one OF the mysterious problems that
L could never solve that they should re-
main there. And judging from the cleo
tions OF the past two years l think they
have nearly all left but the office holders.
In Maine the party seems to have very
largely conferred in and crVStAllZ6d around
close corporation known as the plum
trust. BY some fatality it has managed
TO be IN opposition to almost every meas
ure calculated to promote the best inter-
ests and welfare of our people. The mon
uments erected all along its line of march
sacred TO the memory of abandoned is
lncompetency to govern or to leglslate
Tor this great country of ours has been so
fully demonstrated that 1 am confident
that the people will have no more of it
faith with them. 1t has signally failed to
redeem its promises. Its foreign policy
has been such that no patriotic American
of bas or BE n ths
balance and found sadly wanting. The
American people whom it deluded and de-
ceiNed by false pretense ana promises
| four years ago are anxiously awaiting the
| llme Nher by their ballots they can hurl
it from power. The present dangers to
our currency come almost wholly from
thai, party. and it looks very much now
as if the silver craze for dishonest dol
| lar will control its next national conven-
| ton in Chicago. Judging it's future by its
| past we may reasonably, and perhaps
confidently, expect it to do so.-lt pam
| dered to the fiat money greenback heresy
why should it not to this?
AS Republicans we enter upon this
political campaign with everything to en-
courage US. The fires of protection to
American labor and industries of Repub-
lican victory and sound currency are be-
| ing kindled in every part of our land
The people have learned to their sorrow
and cost that it is safer, wiser and bet
ter to trust this government to that
party that saved it in it's hour of peril
| rather than to one dominated by men who
sought to destroy it and who have nc
proper conception of it's great industries
and wants. We are already approaching
the beginning of the end,-We can even
now perceive the dawning of the day
be made glorious summer by the bright
sun of Republican victory" when the
blaze of furnaces, the clatter of looms
the hum of myriads of Spindles, the woods
men, labor constantly and profitably en-
ployed, shall proclaim that confidence
and enterprise everywhere have returned
| to rule and bless our land; and when by
proper encouragement and discrimination
work shall be resumed in our ship yards
and the American flag shall once more
| float at the mast head of a splendid mer-
chant marine manned by American sail
orS and seamen; and VIXEN We shall en-
| joy the full fruition of this picture, with
then one and all of US will heartily joir
the PSalmiSt in singing,
| Sound the loud timbrel Ger Egypt's dark
Jehovah hath conquered. my people are
free