The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-10-31

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tice and base ingratitude will be
shown toward many of these heroes
by legislation of this character. 1t is
unfair, unpatriotic and certainly I'M
American
And again as follows Handicap,
manacle and obstruct the illiterate
as you may; defraud, deceive and be-
tray them to your utmost, pervert
the election machinery to the utmost
of the ability of those who manipu-
late it for the purpose of fraud, bri-
berry and intimidation, still vet, Mr..
President, the sovereign voice of the
independence, liberty-loying and fair
minded people of Maryland will
sweep from power the party which
made possible the opportunity to
| arbitrarily disfranchise and defraud
large body of our citizens against
their constitutional rights. The leg
lslature which meets here next Janu-
airy will hasten to undo the wrong,
and His Excellency the Governor will
! sign or veto, according to his con-
/ struction of what is then the voice of
| tine people. A bill which when sign
| ed will be another monument mark
ing the pathway of progress, liberty
and equalr lights in this old common
wealth.
The great crisis through which this
country has passed during the four
and one-half years of Republican adj
ministration, has already accomplish
ed the most beneficent good to our
people. 1t has united and national
lied the fraternal and patriotic SEN
! timent of all sections as never has
been before
The war with the kingdom of Spain
united in the fraternity of arms the
people of the North and South, min
gled the old Confederate commanders
with the commanders of the Union
armies, all in the blue uniforms of the
united Republic, mingling their blood
upon foreign battle fields for the
| glory of the Stars and Stripes, for the
| perpetuation of this great institution
of liberty and justice symbolized by
our flag. This crisis has demonstra-
ted beyond a shadow of doubt the
strong, sturdy and unfaltering devo-
ton of the American people to their
beloved country. The continued ex-
istence of that spirit of patriotic SEN
timent and love for the cause of hu-
man liberty that has ever elevated,
| dignified and ennobled mankind
throughout the world. 1t has rekin-
died the fires of enthusiasm that
burst forth into flames from every
valley, hamlet, hill top and mountain
summit in the days of revolutionary
memory-that bore upon its mighty
and resistless tide the torch of human
| liberty to fix forever in the Western
hemisphere the American Republic
as the grandest achievement in the
annals of war, and the greatest bless
| ing to mankind. This war involved
the disenthralment of millions of our
fellow beings from oppression, the
overthrow of a hauty dynasty and the
raising of this great Republic to a
| position of power among the nations
of the world. Having gained that
power, it must be maintained. The
American Nation is powerful enough
to maintain itself wherever it plants
its flag.
The Republican party believes, as
it always has believed, in the doctrine
of protection to American industries.
1t believes the greatest amount of
| prosperity should be drawn from our
own SOIL and the genius of our own
people. Where on the face of the
globe do we find a more industrious
or more intelligent men and women
Where do we find more fruitful or
varied soil ? Where a more genial
climate? Where better opportuni-
ties for advancement in all that
makes nation great, grand and free
| Under the Republican policy of pro-
lection we have made such advances
that We have won, commanded and
retain the respect and admiration of
the civilized nations of the earth, and
were commended by the greatest
statesmen of France, Germany and
England.
The Republican party has main
tanned our national credit, which was
mistaken and unquestioned after the
close of the civil war down to the time
when the free traders took possession
of our government. The Republican
party has always advocated the pay
ment of it's obligations with the very
best money known to the world. Our
first step after the war in that splen-
did march to the imperial place that
we now occupy among the nations of
the world was to make our paper cur
rency the equivalent of the worlds
anu SOOu wherever
our flag fioated. And by our stead
fast adhesion to the great principle
of national currency we have main
tanned the national honor and kept
our money good. Our party has never
sought to shirk responsibility or re-
pudiate debt. When the April days
of 1865 brought peace to this troubled
land the Republican party not only
sought the rehabilitation of all the
States to the Union as States, but the
payment of its enormous war debt,
and we gradually or continuously re-
duced that debt until March, 1898,
when for the first time in 90 years we
commenced retrograde movement
in the national credit and prosperity
under the administration of Grover
Cleveland
My fellow citizens, great change
has taken place in the financial, com
mercial and economic conditions of
the country since the Inauguration of
the Republican President and the
enactment of Republican tariff law
directs attention again to the benefits
which have invariably flowed from
the administration of this govern
ment by the great party born under
the leadership of Abraham Lincoln.
Not in many years, if ever before,
have the material prospects of the
United States been SO bright as they
are TODAY and for this wise and ma