Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-05-09

creased nVeiold, Its aggregate wages
i to labor have expanded skiold; is
average pay to individual labor has
nearly doubled; its domestic changes
4 have reached ten times all the foreign
commerce of the world; its nlanufac-
ture of iron has nearly reached a point
where it equals in output all the other
nations combined; its consumption 81
wool has amounted to one-half that d
all the rest of mankind; its railroads
have been extended from thirty-one
thousand to one hundred and seventy
/ thousand miles, and their tonnage for
sixty-five millions of people furnishes
nearly an even balance for Europe S
three hundred and fifty millions of
people.
Colleges have been endowed, debts
liquidated, mortgages wiped out, and
churches and schools planted along
the whole line of advancing emigra-
ton. This Republican generation of
time has been marvel in the history
OF the human race. Material interests
being politically secure, the brain Of
the American people has freely stimu-
lated by the discussion of the funda-
mental question of individual man
hood in society, and 'fertilized by di.
vine enriching, has brought forth or
every hand an unexampled harvest Of
thought, of skill, of invention, of in
dustrial wealth, of happiness and Of
piety."
Republicans have often repudiated
the action of their party managers
when the party machinery has fallen
into the hands of INSCRIPTIONS poll
ticians, and they have thus proved
that principle is the real cohesive
power that binds its party adherents
together.
True it is that it has not only had
its leaders, but also its bosses, and
this is true of all the political parties
and OF all organizations of men, great
and small in both church and State.
The controllers of its organizations
have sometimes been cowardly and
corrupt, and then the conscience of the
party has rebuked it.
Awful blunders its leaders have COM
mitted from time to time and the par.
tvs virility has been proved from the
fact that despite these blunders it ex-
lists.
1t is the same with the church in its
legislative capacity, because it, like
political parties, is controlled by hui
man counsels.
The Repu blican party, representing
well-known principles, avows and
will pursue its political purposes until
they are accomplished. 1t will, as al
ways, be ready for the new problems
and the new exigencies which the
future will bring with it.
If we have just laws in the nation,
if the country is worth living in, if
we have name, ii we have a nation
and union, and not confederacy, it
is due to the Republican party.
The body of Republican principles,
as a whole. represents the substantial
realization of the peoples rights and
privileges, and their hopes for their
perpetuation.
The war victories Of the Republican
party in its early history are no more
important than its recent peace victo-
ries in industrial, hnarcial, CONNER
cial, civic, governmental, information
al, and educational lines.
Among few of the Republican
names in this generations which are
cherished as the common and proud
inheritance of American history are
Lincoln, Seward, Sumner, Grant,
Sherman, Stanton, Simpson, Chase,
Fessenden, Andrew, Greedy, Garfield,
Blaine, and host of the living who
are worthy to be found in the success
sion.
The great educators have uniformly
been found in the Republican party
ranks. Fremont, the first standard
bearer of the Republican party, said:
The republic of letters is always Tor
freedom. .
There are just as great men in the
Republican party to-day as ever in its
history, and they would prove them
selves such if opportunities for con-
spicuous service were afforded. In
fact, the Republican party has for
more than generation produced the
only statesmen capable OF bringing
things to pass in the interests of
national prosperity.
Despite the severe structures. to
many of which am willing to sub
scribe, of political perfectionists, l am
bound in honesty to confess that be-
ing citizen of some historic knowl-
edge, and ardently desiring the veal
OF my fellow men and Of the republic.
am OF the conviction that the Repub.
lican party holds in the grasp of its
announced principles the future we'll
being, if not the existence, of the re-
public; and the recent results Of the
elections in the sovereign States,
North and South, indisputably indi-
cate that the thoughtful American
citizens, regardless Of former party
affiliations, are of the same convic-
tons.
Sousa, May 20.