Arizona republican., 1904-07-07

piled, There are some of us who do care. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong'- and Abraham Lincoln came upon the field not to leave it until he was triumphant in death.
 If there is one thing more than an- other in which we republicans are en- titled to a legitimate pride it is that Lincoln was our first president; that we believed in him, Loyalty supported him while he lived. and that we have never lost the right to call our selves his followers. There Is net a principal aVowed by the republ can party today which is cut of harmony with his teachings or inconsistent with his character. We do not object to cur opponents quoting him, praising h m even claiming him as their own. If it is not sincere, it is still laudable trib- ute to acknowledge excellence. If it is genuine, it is still better, for even a Ne braska Populist who reads his Lincoln is in the way of salvation. But only those who believe in human rights and are ready to make sacrifices to defend them; who believe in the nation and it's benefcent power; who believe in the American system of protection cham pioned by a long line of our greatest and best running back from McKinle y to Washington, and, as Senator Doll = yer so truthfully said, ito the orig sources of American common sense;" only those whe believe in equal jus,i>e @ to labor and to capital; in honest money and the right to earn it, have any tile to name themselves by the name of Lin- coin. or to claim a moral kinship wi: h that august and venerated spirit. l ad~ init it would be little less thdE sacri- iege to try to trade upon that be~ nignant renown, whose light folds il this orb O the earth" But we who have always tried to walk in the road he pointed out cannot be deprived Cf the tender pride of calling OurselV:s his dis ciples, and of doing in his naTae the work allotted to us by providence. And I hope I am violating neither the cons fldence of a friend nor the rrOprieties of an able young statesman who IS now and is to be our president to let you know that in times of doubt and diff culty the though oftenest in his hea.t is, What, in such case, would Lin coin have done?"
 As we are removed further and fur ther from the founders of our party and their mighty work. their names and their fame rise every year higher in the great perspective of history. The clamor of hatred and calumny dies away. The efforts made to weaken the hands of Lincoln and his associates are forgotten. The survivors of those who so bitterly attacked him and his cause. which was the cause of the coun- try, are now themselves astonished
 
 then uttered. But it was against a political opposition not less formidabla and efficient than the armed force be- yond the Potomac that the union men of that day, and their president, had to | struggle. It was not merely the loss es in battle, and the waste of ouI wealth, the precious blood of ouI young men, that filled Lincoln's heart with anguish and made him old befors | his time, but it was the storm of par, tisan hostility that ragged against him | filling the air with islanders and thwart- i ing his most earnest and unselfish ef- | forts for the country's good. But 1T | spit of it all h" Dersevered, meyer fo a moment tempted by the vast power | he wielded to any action not justifie, | by the moral and organic law. I hay, | always liked the inscription on the me | dal which the wOrkmen of France, b. one cent subscriptions, caused to b. | struck after his death: Abraham Lin coin. the honest man. Waged war Abolished slavery. Twice elected pres ident without yelling the face of li- liberty" This was an achievement new to the world; that a man and a party armed with an authority so un- questioned and so stupendous, in the very current of a vast war. should
 have submitted himself so rigidly | | the law-and never have dreamed ther
 was anything meritorious about il | Then, if never before, we proved w were as fit to be free as the men whl achieved our freedom.
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 Let me hurriedly enumerate a feI of the events in the long and fruitful career of the republican party whici seem to us to entitle it to the conf
 dence of the country and the final ap
 proval of history. After the war wa
 ended and the peace reestablished wit no change to the structure of the gov ernment, but, on the contrary, with ad ded strength and with increased guar
 antics of it's perpetuity, it remained t
 be shown whether the power and sue
 cess of the republican party were to b permanent, or whether born of a crisis
 it was fitted to cope with the problem of daily national life. It had destroy ed slavery. or, perhaps we might beL
 ter say, it had created the conditions b which slavery had committed suicide
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