Year: 1874

SOrs in the instruction of 4. 900 students.
All this Is the work of the Republican
party


In the days of Democratic rule We had
no Agricultural Department of the
Government. There was mere bureau
in the Patent Office with limited powers
in the interest of agriculture, but now
il Is elevated into an independent and
useful department. The interests of the
people demand reform in the present
laws. and this Will demand the attention
Of Congress.


No interest of the people has been over
looked The Union soldiers receive the
gratitude and honor of all loyal men
The Republican party las done some
thing TO recognize their claims, and Is
ready 10 meet any demand required By
the full measure of justice. 1t was my
good fortune to secure the passage of
the first bill which gave the soldiers
homesteads in the alternate reserved sec
tiOnS within the limits of railroad land
grants


| have glanced at Some-not all the
measures of the last session of Congress.
In the future, as in the past, Congress
will be ready for every emergency
Fortunately for the Republican party, it
does not rest its claim to confidence ON
its powers of well doing for the future.
1t has glorious past. 1t lives in history
IN the hearts of the people.
The Democratic party abandoned the
government to destruction in March,
1861. Successive Republican Admins
tratiOns have accomplished vast results.
Under their guidance the rebellion was
suppressed, slavery abolished, the 18th
and 14th and 18th amendments to the
Constitution adopted, the colored citi-
izens of the republic enfranchised, and
laws enacted to secure civil and political
rights which are yet to be perfected until
citizenship shall carry with it equal and
exact Justice to all.


The people have prOspered under Re-
publican rule beyond all precedent. In
1861 we had 81 900 miles of railroad, in
1874 we had ~, 900 miles. Half the cost
of the war has been paid. In five years
the Republican party has paid more of
our national debt than England has paid
of hers in tifty-tive years. The public
credit has been maintained so that no
stain of reputation reproaehes our his
tory. and as a result the Government
bOrrows money at five per cent, and
renewed prosperity in the future prom
ises even to reduce it still lower. The
national revenues are gathered from
sources which do not Oppress the indus
try of the people. Nearly 500, 200, 600
from liquors and tobacco, and $50, ,0OO,-
900 more from duties ON luXuries import
ed from abroad. The result is that
labor is more respected and better paid
here than in any nation of the world


Ii is shown in the supplement to the
fourth annual report of the Special
Commissioner of the Revenue, that,
from 1860 to 1870, the wages of labor
had increased fOrty-five per cent, and
no country in the world affords so many
opportunities for the poor of all nations
to secure living, home, and a cOmpe-
tencv as in this our own republic, under
the guidance of the Republican party.


TEMPERANCE.


The Republican party is the party of
progress, not only in all that advances
the material, but the moral interests of
the people.


The men who compose it could not
fail to require all this. 1t was ready to
to meet the issues required by the peace,
good order, and well-being of society,
The interests of temperance are safe in



force of moral suasiOn and the power of
law in every mode and to every extent
which may promise effective and fruit
full results.


The mission of the Republican party
is not ended. All over the South Ku-
Klux KIans are organized to inaugurate
a war of races. Even in Kentucky the
COHTieT-JoHTlal, n Democratic paper,
recently said:


'Tn the darkest and bIoodiest days Of
the dark and bloody ground there was
not 1.-THE of the murder done which
has disgraced the soil of Kentucky du-
ring the present year"


The Nashville Bulletin of August 20th
says:


This condition of things prevails
throughout the entire South, and by this
means the Democratic leaders propose
to overthrow the legally constituted au-
thorities of the country, inaugurate a
reig:2 of terror which they have already
done Throughout most of the South"


IL YOIId be eowardiee and treachery
to turn our backs upon the loyal people
of the South, and hand them over with
out protection to the persecution that
would await them under Democratic
rule


The supremacy of the Democratic par
ty would insure the repeal of all laws for
the protection of person and property
for The enfranchised freedmen.


.iIe safety of the republic, the finan-
c;'t. prosperity of the people, the preser-
walton of human rights, and progress in
n all That elevates and ennobles man
under the providence of GOd, depends
upon the continued success of that great
historic Republican party, which has
already done 80 much Of good among
men