Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1891 — PARTY CHARACTERISTICS. [ARTICLE]

PARTY CHARACTERISTICS.

General Cyrus H. Bussey, Assistant Secretary of tbelnterior, says: “The Republican party is the only really national party in this country. It is the only American party. The whole effort of the Republican party is directed toward doing what is best for the United States, regardless of Nations on other continents. The man who looks carefully after his own household is considered the best citizen. The nation which looks carefully after his own people is the. best nation by the same light. The Democratic party is sectional and foreign. Its potfer is in the solid South, where votes are suppressed, and its ideas are drawn from abroad and tinctured with what outsiders would like this country to adopt in the way of policies of government. Among men who reason and think there is no comparison between the principles and tendencies of the Republican party and those of the Democratic party. The one party is set on legislation for the whole country, the other on legislation for other countries at our expense. President Harrison has been a splendid exponent of the progressive American— conservatively progressive—element in the United Mates. He has been firm as a rock for every Republican measure proposed in Congress or enunciated in the national platform, and his administration has been strong in every particular, because it has been thoroughly Republican and therefore thoroughly American.”