The Somerset reporter., 1896-06-25

time to 'innocuous desuetude" and our
national credit has been placed upon a
very high plane. 1t has successfully
grappled with those vital questions that
have confronted US as a people and has
solved them all in the interest Of hu-
manity and progress. And when In the
not far distant future the history of our
country curing the last half OF this 18th
century shall be dispassionately written
which is the best century this world ever
knew-for In 1t peace hath had her VIC
tories not less renowned than war" the
brightest pages of that history will be
that partys splendid acts and records
and the names and sacrifices OF the true
and noble men, who have shaped, guided
and controlled it's policies. And l conf
IDENTIFY assert that Its mission Is not yet
accomplished. For when the day shall
come.-as 1t surely will,-when the con-
stitutional rights of every man, in every
State and part of our land shall be fully
respected and enjoyed, it will then find
other fields in which to labor for the
myriad millions Of the common lot.
Devotion to the cause of freedom and the
down trodden and oppressed-consecrate
and hallowed It's birth. 1t has ever cham
pioned the rights Of the common people,
ieved the Lord loved best as he had ere
ated most of them.
have no unkind words for the indi-
vidual members of the Democracy. 1t Is
with 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,-l do not claim that We nave
monopoly of all the cardinal virtues
know there are good men in the ranks
of that party, or at least that there were
until this last advent of Grover Cleveland
TO power. confess, however, that II has
been one OF the mysterious problems that
| could never solve that they should re-
main there And judging from the cleo
tons 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 centered in and cryStalized around
Il close corporation known as the plum
trust. BY some fatality 1t has managed
TO be in opposition to almost every meas
IRE 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
sues prove this Its utter inability and
lncompetency to govern or to legislate
Tor this great country of ours has been so
iully demonstrated that am confident
that the people Will have no more OF IL
during this generation. 1t has not kept
faith with them. 1t has signally failed to
redeem its PROMISES Its foreign policy
has been such that no patriotic American an
can approve, endorse, or be specially
prouc of. 1t has been weighed in the
balance and found sadly wanting. The
American people whom it deluded and oe-
ceiNcd by / 1lSe pretenSe anu promises
four years ago are anxiously awaiting the
time when by their ballots they can nurl
1t from power. The present dangers 10
our currency come almost wholly from
that party, and 1t looks very much now
as If the silver craze for a dishonest dol
lar will control its next national conVen-
ton In Chicago. Judging Its future by Its
past we may reasonably, and perhaps
confidently, expect 1t to do so.-1t pan
dered to the fiat money greenback heresy
why should 1t 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 1t Is safer, wiser and bet
ter to trust this government to that
party that saved 1t In Its hour of peril
rather than TO one dominated by men who
sought to destroy 1t and who have no
proper conception Of its great Industries
and wants. We are already approaching
the beginning of the end.-we can even
now perceive the dawning of the day
when the winter of our discomfort shall
be made glorious summer by the bright
sun of Republican victory when the
blaze of furnaces, the CHATTER of looms,
the hum of myriads of spindles, the woods
resounding with the axe of the lumber
men, labor constantly and profitably en-
ployed, shall proclaim that confidence
and enterprise everywhere have returned
to rule and bless our Land; and when Dy
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
joy the full fruition of this picture, with
peace and liberty everywhere triumphant
then one and all of us Will heartily join
the Psalmist in singing,
Sound the loud timbrel o er Egypt's dark
sea,
Jehovah hath conquered. my people. are
free"