Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1887 — THE CHARGES ANSWERED [ARTICLE]

THE CHARGES ANSWERED

The President’s message appears iu full, on an inside page. It deals with only one subject, the question of reducing the surplus, and is simply, a specious argument iu fatorpi. freetrade- " __ - - -y— - At the drawing of seats ril the House last Tuesday Congressman name was one of the first called', and he accordingly secured an'excellent seTtwnytT[ymfronl, R-here he cau catch the Speaker’s eye, at any time. He was among the very lucky ones iu this respect two years ago, if we mistake sot.-'

David Turpie was sworn in a CiiiieJ Scatis Senator, without protest, although it is understood rime the Senate Committee on elections will make a ftrii investigation into the manner of Ids sicalled election, lie now holds ike oiiiee of Sena: or b'J firs? ; i fan infamous Gcrrvmar. l.'r tuvT firm by the fraud ihv.i auss£Kug sf aT R*p;b <U w: la tluFStkts Sea-t Ate cud! /erasing him fey a Uaia >- *iat. avho hal.iio ‘of” right . totheieat. As-'w.n; d • the IVk.kn; has nouniuared Mr. Lam .r for the• vacant position in the U, S. Supreme Court. Mr. Lamnr is not n • great lawyer, nor hardly aay Ihv.--yer at all, in fact, and has nothing j to recommend him except that he is a rebel of the uneonstrncted tort, who thinks #el? Davis thej greatest of patriots and that the South had a right to secede and > who regrets that it did not sue-1 fceed. The Senate ought to send Sim packing. I

The National Republican Cora-i mittee will meet in Washington to-day to decide when and where! the convention for 18SS shall be! held A number of cities are can- - didates for the honor, but none of them, it seems to ns, have so much to recommend them as lias Chien-j go, the city id which more Nat-: local Repubiic'an’Con van tiops have beau held that? in tsvry other in the Union. As ah added attraction for nert year tiiO'Cifcy tenders the *se of the grand auditorium, seat-! i>g 7,500 people, in the new $2,#00,090 building now in Ufcerectioe. ' T I

The following article from the editorial pages of that noblest, 'truest-and bravest of Republican papers, the Chicago Inter-Ocean, so folly and conclusively answers the principal, charges now made against lbs Republican party, and also so clearly outlines the f uture duties of that party that we publish it entire and ask for it a careful reading: A correspondent, who describes himself as a ‘.Republican living in the country,” sehds an extract from his local paper which, he says, “makes one have some inward fear for 1888,” and he adds “The Inter-Ocean ought to answer these charges boldly.” “These charges” are adopted by his local paper from the New York World, and are really assignments of cause for the late Republican disaster in New Y’ork. They read thus: 1. A profound distrust by the people of the Republican party which ha 3 .for four years been nothing but a Blaine machine. 2. The disaffection of the German Republicans over the assaults of that party upon what they regarded as “personal liberty” in the attempt to save the prohibition vote. 3. And, most important of all, the difficulty in gettingout the Republican vote, because the appeal that had rallied them for twenty years was a lie. That ap peal was that the Republican rule was needed to “preserve the results of the war,” and to guard the “business interests” of the country. Three years of Democratic supremacy have shown this to be a lie, and the false appeal is now retreading with retributive justice upon the party that uttered it. The voters see that all the predictions of evil have come to naught, and they refuse to be frightened further. And for these reasons the State remains Democratic. - Nothing is ever by dodging au issue, and so The InterOcean will speak as plainly as it can to the matter presented! Charges 1 and 2 are perhaps too well grounded. The Republican party conquered as apSrtyof ideas and moral principles. It must go to the people intent upon the triumph of those ideas and principles whenever it hopes to draw the people to it. In New York the question of spoils was uppermost, and many Republican voters rebuked the usurpation by voting for the nonce with “side show factions.” .Mr. Lincoln was not nominated or elected by men who had promise * or hope of office in the event of his Success, or who had promised inspired hopes of minor office uudr them to others. The successful era of .Republicanism always has been and always will be one in which it had rather be light than victorious.

There is a great unfinished National work to be done, which only theTiepabliean party can do, and which can not be done unless the desire for place and profit be again made secondary to the desire tor the triumph of ldghteousnees and freedom. Local -Readers hav%tpo often made the poivuisi- ;■ s inferi r to the pnrjjtose of of lie a A -.id wiifSiiyoE th ‘re is a sjmit; and Son j uray if- endure, in .ire party that will ‘not hr ox ariogaii.e in its leaders. It is mnpiestioTinbfy true that the mejbrity of the German vote by natural and' accideu’iil preference, a:id that- it Was temp- -rtird v diverted by a | suspicion that the-party' organization in New York had been ma le subservient to extreme temperance ideas. It has always appeared The ! Inter-Ocean that the question of j prohifcitrod was properly outside ; the party lines. It is a question on which a majority of iio one party can agree, though a question upon which thy majority of a State or Nation may be easily determined. - Charge number .three *is false and misleading. Moral apathy may submit ta-grievous wrong, but it is the duty of the Republican party to dispel that apathy, and to appeal, as aforetime it did ; successfully, to the quickened Conscience of the American people. l*y what insolence is it said that the might of the Republican party is mot needed "to preserve the results of the war,” while iu Louisiana the Democratic party is waging a campaign for the express purpose, as its eacfiuate for Governor < feel ares, of rebuking a pre-1 vious Democratic Governor who] was so far imbued with the spirit of the age &s to say that “any policy which does not include the good of all the people of the State moot end iu Or, aS a representative of that state in the j National Senate declares ’‘to settle the question as to whether the white man shall rule LouitUoa.” j

Evil is fast brewing under Democratic rule. The utterances in Louisiana are in defiance of those amendments to fehe National Constitution which were heedful results of the war. In Texas and Mississippi there is open and forcible suppression of the negro vote, and in most of the other States in the Southern tier there i 3 ill-con-cealed 'and fraudulent suppression of it. How long is it since humanity was shocked by the all but unanimous adaption of the Glenn bill by the House of Representatives in Georgia? Nor is it true that commercial interests of. the country are safe under Democratic rule. So far they have suffered but little, because Democracy has not yet dared to depart from the Republican policy. But it certainly threatens departure, and if it should conceive itself indorsed at the n6xt election it would make a quick departure. The president and his Cabinet are free traders, and so is the Speaker of the House, And so is a majority of the Democrats in Congress. A Republican Senate and the timidity of the first term of power in a quarter of a century have been safeguards to business.