Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-08-18

Grant, Which the Republican Party
Has Made Good. Until We Have One
Country Again-A Rousing soldier
Meeting in support OF the Soldier
Ticket-Peace at Last Between Phil
adelphia Factions.
Especial Correspondence.)
Philadelphia, Aug. 15.-The beginning
of American victories over Spain was
not at Manila, but at Appomattox.
When General Grant said to the beaten
and broken Confederates after the sur
render, Keep your horses; you will
need them to plow your fields" he
sounded the high keynote of that con-
sstent Republican policy which has
resulted in making this nation a union
indeed, not "a mere collection of COM
munities pinned together with bay
onets. This has been brought strongly
to mind by two events which have
taken place here within the last few
days-the visit of the survivors of
Pickett's division as the guests of Phil
adelphia Grand Army men, and the
meeting of the Pennsylvania Associa-
tion of War Veterans clubs. for the
purpose of reminding the old soldiers
and their sons, to whom the war of the
sixties is only heroic hearsay, that
there is a soldier ticket on the Repub-
lican corner of the ballot this year
which deserves their votes as repre-
sentative of both the past and the
future of the country.
However they might appear at the
first glance, no two meetings were ever
more consistent with each other. Both
represented the comradeship of all true
soldiers who, in reaching out the hand
of gallant recognition toward all brave
men who stood in the opposing line, do
not forget the fraternity of men who
have slept under the same blanket and
faced the same fire. A veteran of Pick
ett's who left large fraction of him
self in Pennsylvania after that last
mad dash at Gettysburg and now walks
on crutcheS made this point very we'll.
He was a typical back country Virgin
ian-neighbor, no doubt, to that one
who shocked one of the hallboys at
the swellest hotel in Philadelphia by
appearing upon the ground floor after
midnight, in sock feet, with his sus-
penders hanging from his shoulders
and the ice water pitcher in his hand,
inquiring where the pump was-but he
is notable man in his neighborhood.
has been continuously justice of the
peace for 20 years, and served term
in the legislature. And while he might
not be up to date in some peculiarities
of modern civilization, he is full of
homely common sens, and useful
knowledge.
that there is many a man who is liable
to blow out the gas who is nevertheless
fit to make laws for the directors of the
gas company. The squire said:
When General Grant started your
party on that high plane of treatment
of our people he put us on our honor
We Were down on our backs. and the
Republican party was throned in abso-
lutte power. In our anticipation 1t was
only a question how many of our lead
ers you would consider it necessary to
hang. You might have treated us as the
PROSTATE inhabitants of conquered ISL
ands, and you received US instead as
fellow citizens, and lived up to your
proclamations that you had been fight
ing with us for four years only to
keep us in that relation. Much has
been said of the magnanimity, the gen
erosity, the charity and so on of the
treatment of the south by the north
after the war, but it took the present
war to call proper attention to the fore
sight and broad craftsmanship of the
Republican party in following the pol
icy it has pursued. Mckinley has
shown himself worthy of the example
of Lincoln and Grant. When he contin-
ued Fitz Lee at Havana and then gave
T.n = oh, hn 1,S
to go out and get shot at under the old
flag he warmed our hearts and turned
clinch on the good work of 30 years.
What do we folks think of Nc
Kinley? What did you think in '64
when it was tried to put somebody else
in Lincoln's place to settle the job? No
president since Lincoln has grown upon
the country after his election so fast
as Mckinley, and there are d lot of us
down south who never voted anything
but Il Democratic ticket who are not
Only going to be for Mckinley next
| time, but who are for the ticket that
| represents Mckinley this fall. The
party that has fought the war must be
| the party to settle the issues growing
out of the war. now as in So. We may
| be just at the beginning of our troubles,
| and all the nations of this earth must
| be taught that this country stands
right behind rs president, as the mort h
| stood by Lincoln. His defeat would
| have been worth an army to the Con-
| federacy then, and any doubtful sound
| that would go out to the world from our
| voting places this fall might cost US an
| other war. Tou-we-have one party
| in this country which has proved it
| self capable not only of conducting a
| great war. but of gathering it's fruits
| and dealing with the questions which
follow, an6 the enthusiasm for it's sue
| cess in the elections this year is Just
| plain horse sense. And So" he
added with a sweeping gesture to-
| ward the room where the war vete-
rams were declaring their loyalty to the
| Republican soldier ticket. 80 is that
| wouldn't give shucks for an old SOL
der who wouldn't stand by another old
| soldier whenever he got a chance"
The War Veterans had a remarka-
| bly, representative and earnest meeting.
| by the way. On the roll call 81 coun-