Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1879 — Intelligent Reasons. [ARTICLE]

Intelligent Reasons.

From Ilarpert Watty. Tho republican party, as we understand it, asks the support of the country, not because this is a Confederate oongrees of rebel brigadiers, nor for any other spook and bogy reason, but because the republican h the party of the just assertion of the national authority always and every where within the Union, ot honest finance, of honestly guarded elections, and also because it eontains the active friends of n thorough reform of the system of the civil serviee. Against a positive position like this the democratic cry of taking the bayonet from the polls, when iherearenotbayonetseooiigb to “go round, 11 and when they have never wronged a voter, and when the real purpose of the demand is evident; or the ery of “fraud’’ as against a perfectly lawful settlement of the presidential question of 1876 j or the ory of “Down with the national banks” as against the best banking system we have ever known—is flitile and foolish. If republicans themselves choose to compromise their own strong position by trying to raise an issue upon “a new rebellion,” and to depend for success upon renewing the passions of the war, they take a very perilous and wholly unneceaeary responsibility. The logical and positive republican position is impregnable. The new voters of Ibelast four years are not to be excited with war appeals and denunciations whieh -Arouse the vetrans. But tbe issues of which we speak are perfectly intelligible to them, and can not be set aside as parts of a policy of bate. The legitimate.notional authority at home as weil’a* abroad, free elections, honest money, and administrative so* form—these are cries to which every trnn American heart will respond.