Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1873 — In This Sign We Conquer. [ARTICLE]

In This Sign We Conquer.

It is interesting to mark the difference between the fearless action of the Republican party, as exhibited in its Stale Conventions, and that of the various organisations opposing it. Dhftc'Mhinesotac, lowa and Wisconsin—all great Republican States—place themselves squarely oh the side of the farmers’ movement, and bring the Republican party up in solid columns to oppose monopolies and fight the battles of the new revolution. They condemn corruption and iniquity whereever found, and apologize for no guilty man, be he friend or foe. How is it with the parties in opposition? In Ohio and Pennsylvania the Democracy pass long strings of resolutions upon dead issues, but dismiss the agriculturist with a feeble mention, and without proclaiming any method to redress the wrongs under which this class is laboring. In the former State tne Pharisees, the ‘’new party,” passed the farmers by without recognition, not deigning to give them even a paragraph in the woray “resolve#" seat out as a platform. la SfiPtucky, the home of the aimop pure Democracy, the ever-faithful Democratic BUt«, the farmers w«re not only ignored,

but the party refused to condemn the increase of salaries, while some of the chief Democratic organs openly defend it. These facts speak for themselves. They show that the skulking guerrillas who compose the various squads opposed to Republicanism are ready to do anything for power, and that they are everything by turns and nothing long, to suit the various breezes that blow in their individual localities. Such conduct has received, and will continue to receive, the disfavor and fcontempt of the people. Parties, like men, must be honest if they would be successful. Trickery, demagogism, hypocrisy, cannot permanently triumph. If there is any Republican working for the new reform for policy’s sake, lie may as well lay down his burdens and retire. The Republican party wants men who will labor inthis cause becaitsc it is right, and not because it is politic; and the determined and positive munner in which it has entered upon the contest in the States above-named, and in the various, sections where conventions have been held in other States, proves that the old spirit with which the party fought rebellion and slavery inspires it in the new cause; that the old organization which rewarded the soldier, liberated the captive, and gave free homes to free men on the National domain, is the one to which the people must now turn for justice and relief. The motto is: Purity at any cost; honesty -at whatever sacrifice; the will of the people is the law of the land: Under this sign the party goes forward to conquer in the future as it lias in the past. —Chicago Jnter-Oceun.