Year: 1876

JULY 81, 1916
That can only come Through a long
course Of patient waiting. and no one
can now set the certain bounds. There
will be a good deal of unavoidable
friction which will call for f0rbear.
ance, and which will have to be re-
lieved by the temperate, fostering
care of government.


One of the most potent if not indis-
pensable agencies in this direction
will be the devising Of system in aid Of
the education of the masses. The fact
that there are whole counties in
Louisiana in which there is not a
solitary school house is full sugges-
tion. We compelled these people to
remain in the Union and now duty and
interest demand that we leave no Just
means untried to make them good,
loyal citizens. How to diminish, how
to stop the evils.in this port tioneof our
country, are problems addressing
themselves to the best and wisest
ststesmanship. The foundation for
these effects must be laid IN satisfying
the Southern people that they are to
have equal and exact justice accorded
to them-given to the fullest extent
which the government c~rfers upon
the most favored. Give them no Just
cause for complaint and hold them by
every necessary means to the exact,
rigid observance of all their duties
and obligation under the constitution
and it's amendments, to secure to all
within our borders manhood and citi.
zenship, with every right thereto be-
longing.


The just obligation to pub,,u credi-
tors, created when the government
was in the throes of greatest dissolu-
tion, and as indispensable conditions
of the salvation guaranteed by the
lives and blood of thousands of it's
brave defenders, are to be kept with
religious faith, us are all the pledges
subsidiary thereto and confirmatory
thereof. In my judgment the pied e
OF Congress, of January IA, 1875, for
redemption of the notes of the United
States in coin, is the plighted faith of
the nation and national honor. Sim
pie honesty, justice, the welfare and
prosperity dependent upon true money
as the basis of their pecuniary trans
actions, demand the scrupulous OBJ
servance of this pledge, and it is the
duty of Congress to supplement such
legislation as shall be necessary for
its strict ful6lment.


In our system of government intclli.
gence must give safety and value to
the ballot. Hence the common schools
of the land should be preserved in all
vigOr and in accordance with the spir-
it of the constitution. They and all
their endOwments should be secured
| by every possible and proper guaranty
against every form of sectarian influ-
en- &c or control.


There should be strict economy in
the expenditures of government, con-
sistent with effective administration
and all unnecessary offices should be
abolished.


Offices shonld be conferred only up
on the basis of true character and
particular fitness and should be admin.
istered only as public trust and not for
private advantage.


The foregoing are the chief cardinal
principles of the Republican party and
to carry them into effect is the work it
has on hand. TO the completion of it's
great mission we address ourselves in
hope. confident and stimulated by re-.
collections of past achievements re-
membering, under God, to that party
we are indebted, this centennial year
of existence, for our preserved and un-
broken nation and for the fact tnat
there is no master or slave throughout
our broad domains, and emancipated
millions look upon the Republican par
ty as the symbol of the declaration
that all men are created free and equal
and a guarantee of their own equality
under the law with the most highly
favored citizens Of the land.


To the intelligences of all who de-
sire good government, good will, good
money and universal prospe ity, the
Republican party-nOt unmindful of
the shortcomings of human organiza-
tions--with honesty the policy of it's
masses, promising to promptly remove
all errors and punish all offenders
against the laws, confidently submits
its claims for the continued support of
the American people.


| Respectfully, W. A. WHEELER.


What England thinks Of the Hundred Year.
Old.


London Times Of the 18th.


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