Year: 1868

bearing ON your local candidates ana questions
which no metropolitan journal can so 1ully
or wisely discuss. If you know oil local lac's
which it oucht to publish and does not forward
Them to your local paper, and give others the
horeet IF vour information The selection OF
nroner and able Members of Congress, ana OF
the State Legislatures which are 10 eject our
Senators. is of unspeakable Importance IL Is
Congress. after all, which must rule. lhe rresl-
dent can only advise and influence, execute
and obey.


Next TO your best local journals, circulate lar
and wide your ablest, most instructive NatlOhal
Republican paper. If you judge 1t to be lIiE
TRIBUNE, which has now an aggregate crcala-
ton twice that of any other newspaper III
America. and exceeding that OF any other Ill
the world, then circulate THE TRIBUNE. H.
instead of $4,000 TmBUNEs, we could within
8 month announce that we were printing
100000. none would hesitate to predict by that
sign alone that Grant md Colfax would carry
every doubtful State for Union and Peace, and
make every Democratic State doubtful III you
prefer some other Republican paper, then CIR
culate the one you prefer But the first divine
command, "Let there be Light" precedes the
later gospel, Let there be Peace. Every voter
who cannot or does not read is dangerous to a
Republic. Every such man excluded from
voting is still more dangerous. The remedy
lies not in the dsfranchsement of men, but In
the enfranchsement of mind, in which Work
the newspaper is the chief agency.


The organization OF Clubs is the most GILL
cent means of spreading light and information,
and of putting forth the energy and power
which result In mind. as in matter, light, heat
attraction motion, and power, are all one force,
in different stages OF its manifestation. Men,
moved by common impulse, will be drawn
together in masses prOportionate to the END 10
be attained


We say TO you, then, Republicans, through
out the North and South, not one of you can
do your whole duty by staying mt home until
election day. and then going TO the polls and
voting. BY this apathy you may defeat your
ticket in some of thd States. We need your
power and personal cooperation from this time
forth until the day of election If you are
"A returned soldier, organize with your com
rades, and make your presence felt where
ever loyal men and true gather If you
are an able bodied man, and prefer peace
to war, honest labor and industry
to riot and revolution, law and or
der to rebellion. turn out in procession
with those who believe as yOu do, and
keep step to the music of the Union. Your
presence is power Your absence is weakness.
Raise the pole. Unfurl the flag. Carry the
torch. March. Be one of tho great hosts of
freedom and TRUTH and you have done your
duty. Hold back, and, despite your vote, the
blame of our defeat may rest in part upon yOu.


During the approaching two months the
watchward of Republicans must he Action.
ACTION, ACTION. The time even for discus.
sion is rapidly passing. The need for it is less
imperative than the demand for energy on the
part of those who are fully with MS. Let us
have from these, public demonstrations OF our
numerical strength on n grand scale Let
Republicans attend our n,ootinps. and take part
in every public demonstration, not merely from
curiosity TO hear the speeches, but as an act OF
patriotic duty. Then these monster gatherings
will have power like the recent glorious news
from Vermont, and the coming news from
Maine, to guide rs well as to indicate the pop
ular current.


see, fnRlly. that your town and school district
clubs have fun al "ccnrate lists of all voters
and how they stand. Visit the o~'..'s-' -.-'....
Yourself. Find out on what grounds they pro-
pose to stay at home on election day. An
swer their objections kindly, squarely, and
fully, if you can, or see that others do. Re
member we are fighting the last great battle
| of the War for the Union and Freedom. Our
success depends upon bringing up Our entire
| rcSerVp