Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1884 — Beecher on Republicanism. [ARTICLE]

Beecher on Republicanism.

My personal views and political conduct are of little value to the public, except so far as they are supposed to represent the views and purposes of a large ahd daily increasing number of silent voters. I have been a Republican from the origin of that patty, because it represented better than any other the doctrines of liberty and the conduct becoming a great nation in a moral straggle with internal disease "that was poisoning its blood. That in the long march from Egypt to the promised land it never committed a fault. I do not say. It was a weary way, and unexplored, and Republicans were but men. It was the party of liberty as against slavery; the party of free speech as against intolerance. It boldly faced the threat of secession and elected Lincoln. It had the courage to accept the risks of war, rather than back down in the face of Southern threats. It was baptized in blood and proved worthy of its high calling. It had wisdom and courage to recompose the shattered columns of this Union, and give to it a grandeur which has won the respect of the world. **.- It met the bloated currency which the war had induced, aud brought back the current within the appropriate bounds. It never was charmed with the Greenback system, bnt restored the dissolute theories to virtue. % In short, the Republican party has had the courage to meet every issue which has risen for twenty-five years without suffering or evasion. It has had a clean policy, and it has had that supreme virtue of parties—courage—courage courage. - Henry Ward Beecher, in Chicago Tribune.

Col. Ixgebsoll is looking around for a “dark horse,” and is reported as saying: “The Plumed Knight of Maine again has the strength in the lists, and this time his chances look good for securing the nomination. Whom I am for 4s another question. If I could have tbe privilege of naming the man, I would choose Justice John M. Harlan, of the Supreme Bench. The French have a saying that ‘lt is the unexpected that always happens.’ Garfield was not mnch talked about in 1880. The dark horse may once more be the winner, despite the great show of hands for Blaine. He has the whiphand now, it is certain. If the issue is drawn on the tariff, we may gain Louisiana on account of her sngar manufacture. The Republicans can sncceed without carrying New York, and the chances are better than four years ago. Democratic protectionists have lost faith in the free-traders,'"find Democratic free-traders are alsoi disgusted with the protectionists—fully enough votes to give ns the election.”