Year: 1879

Inc Republcan party StandS at tle opeH-
ing of new era While il is willing to adj
nit that it's record of the past has not been
by apy means free from errors, it does not
propose to weary the public ear with apollo
gies. 1t presents the account of its steward
ship for thorough examination before the
people, and at the same time does not seek
to disguise its position upon the great ques-
tions of the day. 1t firmly adheres to, and
enuncates most emphatically, the broad
principles to which it proudly points as indel-
IDLY stamped upon its annals. To it, during
an extended period Of civil strife, was con-
fided by the nation its dearest interests. Ac-
ceding to control at a most critical period,
it was almost Immediately called upon to
confront armed treason, and to vindicate the
Lands insulted honor. Owing to the un-
flinching patriotism of our people, it was
able to worthily discharge that momentous
trust, and, as their instrument, to re-estab-
lish the supremacy of the country's flag
throughout it's borders Since that time the
party has passed through various phases of
political life, and has at times suffered great
detriment to its prestige through the abuse
and wrongful possession of its insignia by
unscrupulous and designing partisans, who,
wearing its libery, and proclaiming its for
mulated beliefs, have endesvored to prosti-
tute its great principles to their mercenary
and selfish ends. The corrupt hold of these
men upon it, however, has been of brief du-
ration and they are being rapidly separated
from its fellowship.


The Republican party is as essential to
the future as it has been to the past. 1t is
very certain that its influence, timely as it
was of yore, was never more necessary than
it is to-day. The land teens with subtle here
sizes upon the subjects of finance and social
order. Upon all sides, the ignorant, the
dishonest and the corrupt elements OF the
community, have banded themselves togeth-
er to make open war upon the recognized
principles of good government and public
honor Now is the brief day of the dema-
gogue, and it is to the purposes Of such ar
rant knayes that the Democracy and Green
hackers have unblushingly delivered them
selves The future of the nation would be
discouragng indeed, were its fortunes to be
RENTED to the hands of these political char
latans. 1t is against such men, and such
dangerous principles, that the honest and
highminded citizens of the community must
set their faces as a flint. The Republican
party alone is the one organization under
whose auspices they can march to victory,
the Republican party, to whose hands the
most vital interests of the land have been so
long worthily entrusted. Despite the smooth
platitudes of designing political empirics,
who seek to persuade the people that the
Republican mission is accomplished, the ne
cessty for it's leadership was never more
plainly evident to the sober and conservative
citizens of the land.


As we look toward the South, we discover
many signs of ominous portent. We see the
annihilation of free speech, the strangling of
free ballot, the rule of thes shotgun, the
reign of anarchy and terror. We see the
irreconcilable, revolutionary, reasonable
spirit Of Southern Democracy, its leaders
tnUSe w1r0 &c tho rAha1Eer,
controlling our Congressional legislation,
.and fastening to strengthen themselves for
the great campaign of 1880. To all thinking
men the fact is apparent that the sound sem
timent of the North must arouse itself to
the necessity of efficient reorganization, that
we may be prepared to adequately oppose
this coming onslaught of the Democratic
party with its hateful and dangerous princi-
pies. That righteous crusade can nowhere
be successfully waged save in the ranks of
the Republican party, to which the North
looks for leadership as worthily representing
its ideas. The best interests of the commu-
nifty lead il in this direction, and thereby be-
token that it appreciates the situation.