Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1884 — The Republican Party’s Rule. [ARTICLE]

The Republican Party’s Rule.

For the past quarter of a century the country, in the opinion of Democrats who sleep with the Constitution .of the United States for a night-shirt, has been going to the devil. It is doing that now; it has been doing it from the day Abraham Lincolq was elected President. And yet in that twenty-five years the population of the United States has increased more than tvrenty-five million; manufacturing products have grown from $1,835,000,000 to $5,369,000,000 in 1880. Farm acreage has expanded from 407,000,000 to 536,OOO ; Q0O acres. The value of farms has increased from over six billion to over ten billion of dollars, and from 30,635 miles of railroads we have built 120,000. The Consfcitution-loviug Democracy of the South undertook to arrest ns on the way to darkness, destruction, and the devil, in 1861, but after four years of struggle thou jht better of it, and concluded they might be happy yet with the old flag and ail appropriation; and they are enjoying the benefits of their failure to-day. But it is not only in material wealth that we have advanced. Education and skill in industrial and fine arts have kept progress with wealth until we are revealed to the world as foremost among the nations of the earth. Speech was never freer, except in the old Constitu-tion-worshiping States of the, Sputh, and men were never left more unrestricted to think and act according to the dictates of their own consciences. Is not all this true? And yet these marvels have been accomplished under the destructively centralizing policy of the Republican party, with its piratical tariff, its banking and other monopolies aDd Buoh like monstrosities, whose existence, except in the way of benefits conferred, wonld be scarcely thought about were it not for Constitutionworshiping Democrats hulking out of their cross-roads groceries, with hands deep in their breeches pockets, to squirt tobacco juice at the hitching-posts, and swear that our liberties are in danger, and the country goiDg to the devil.— Cincinnati Commercial-Gazetle.

Tiepen himself is in such a condition of physical and mental decrepitude that he lives only in the past, and his feeble mind naturally reverts to tlib old order of things in the days of Pierce and Buchanan. He ignores the work of the war, which created a nation oat of disjointed parts. He revels in the original Bourbon theory of our Government in utter disregard of the effect which a revival of that theory would have on the prospects of his party.- He would arouse a new political antagonism to the epirit of nationalism. It is eksy to understand how his infirmity of body and mind should betray him into the advocacy of an obsolete policy, but it is strange that live and active men, whose chief interest in the election of this year is for the snecess of their party, should be willingto adopt h:s senile and unpatriotic utterances as a guide for their .political campaign. —Ch icago Tribune.