Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1893 — Keep Up the Fight. [ARTICLE]

Keep Up the Fight.

New York Press:—Governor McKinley was emphatically right when in his manly and inspiring address at Canton he declared: ‘‘There is no cause for discouragement on our part. We have but to move on with our old-time vigor yieldiug nothing of principle. As Mr. Lincoln said Nov. 19,1858: ‘This, fight must go on. The cause must not surrender at the end of one or even a hundred defeats.” This is good common sense, good patriotism, and good republicanism. The Republican party is far more likely to ivin the next Presidential election than it would have been if the result of the last contest at the polls had been a division of responsibility in the Federal Government between the two parties. In the completeness of the Democratic victory lies the assurance of future Democratic defeat. Governor McKinley pointed out the dilemma in which the Democratic leaders now find themselves when he said ; “They have -no divided responsibility. There is no longer any room for hypocrisy. If they believe in themselves and their professions of thirty years they can now make them effective.”

The combination of greed and un-American ideas of intolerant Bourbous and corrupt rings that constitute the Democratic party is powerless to govern a great Nation. Its ouly power is the power to obstruct and destroy. When the Nation was far smaller and less important than it is today democracy was driven from the helm because of its treachery and incapacity. The statemanship needed to conduct successfully the affairs of the United States, with its 65,000,000 people and its vast array of magnificent industries created by protection, does not exist among the rapacious politicians of the democracy. Bonrbonism / and bossism can check the progress of the nation, degrade its currency, disgrace the flag, and condemn its hundreds of thousands of wellpaid workingmen to pauper wages and pauper homes. But these dominant Democratic forces can not continue to rule.

The Republican party has only to be true to its principles and steadfast in its opposition to Democratic policy to achieve victory in 1896. The Nation that has marched so far in the field of progress will not consent to retrograde in obedience to Democratic demands. Four years of Democratic blundering, dishonesty, and hostility to American principles will

disgust the nation with democracy as effectually as it was disgusted thirty years ago. The motto for Republicans was put in a characteristically concise form by President Harrison the tother day: “Keep on fighting.”