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PROTECTION. “At no price will I sacrifice French industries.”—Napoleon. Protection means American independence— Wm. M. Evarts. Lord Brougham said : “England should destroy foreign manufactures in their cradle.” Protection has been to us a sheet anchor of prosperity, a mainspring of progress.—Henry Clay. I am in favor of the internal improvement system, and a high protective tariff. — Abraham Lincoln. The producing cause of all prosperity is labor, labor, labor. The A child helped to an education Government was made to protect becomes a power. this industry, to give it both enWhy not assist our nation ? couragement and security.— Daniel Webster. It is time we should become a little more Americanized, and, instead of feeding the paupers and laborers of England, feed our own.—Andrew Jackson. The capitalist is one blade of the shears, and the laborer the other, and it takes both blades to cut.—Prof. Perry. It seems the interest of all our farmers and owners of lands to encourage our young manufactures.—Benjamin Franklin. Men do not fly by millions from tl^eir native homes to seek for poorer wages.—Hon. John F. Finerty, Illinois. Free trade will simply reduce the wages of labor to the foreign standard.—Abram S. Hewitt. A nation never built up a system of domestic manufactures without a protective tariff.—President Thiers, France.
The people of this country are led to suspect that whenever a free trade crusade starts here, no matter how carefully hidden the wires may be, an Englishman stands at the other end of the line.—Giles B. Stebbins, Michigan. The cry of the free trader is for a cheaper coat, an English coat, and he doe^not seem to care that this involves a cheapening of the men and worsen who spin, and weave, and cut, and stitch.—Getter al Ben. Harrison, Indiana. As an abstract theory the doctrine of free trade seems to be universally true; but as a question of practicability, in a country like ours, the protective system seems to be indispensable. I am for a protection which leads to ultimate free trade. I am for that free trade which can only be attained through a reasonable protection.—President Garfield. Self-Preservation is the first law of nature, as it is and •should be of nations. We ought to protect as sacredly and assuredly the labor and the industry of the United States as we would protect her honor from taint or her territory from invasion.—Hon. Wm. McKinley. Wages are unjustly reduced when an industrious man is not able by his earnings to live in comfort, educate his children, and lay by a sufficient amount for the necessities of age. The reduction of wages inevitably consequent upon throwing our home market open to the world would deprive them of the power to do this. It would prove a great calamity to our country. It would produce a conflict between the poor and the rich, and in the sorrowful degradation of labor would plant the seeds of public danger.—James G. Blaine. The chief benefit of a protective duty is that it secures to the working men and women of this country good, fair wages for honest labor. It is not good policy in this country to have men and women work for the bare necessaries of life, without means to improve their condition, to educate their children, and share in the benefits of social life.—John Slurman. Though England is deafened with spinning-wheels, her people are not clothed; though she is black with the digging of coal, her people die of cold; though she has sold her soul for grain, they die cd hunger.—John Ruskin.
“Don’t Pitch Your Tent Among the Dead.” PRESIDENT GARFIELD'S Address io Young Men,-at Cleveland, October 11, 1879, Now, I tell you, young man, don’t vote the Republican ticket, just because your father votes it. Don’t vote the Democratic ticket even if he does * vote it. But let me give you just this one word of advice as you are about to pitch your tent in one of the great political canrps. Your life is full and buoyant with hope now, and I beg you when you pitch your tent, pitch it among the living and not among the dead. If you are at all inclined to pitch it . among the Democratic people and with that party, let me go with you for a moment, while we survey the ground where I hope you will not shortly lie. It is a sad place, young man, for you to put your young life into. It is to me far more like a graveyard than a camp for the living. Look at it I It is billowed all over with graves of dead issues, of buried opinions, of exploded theories, of disgraced doctrines. You cannot live in comfort in such a place. Why, look here I Here is a little double mound. I look down on it and I read, “ Sacred to the memory of Squatter Sovereignty and the Dred Scott decision,” A million and a half Democrats voted for these, but they have been dead fifteen years—died by the hand of Abraham Lincoln, and here they lie. Young man, that is not the place for you. But look a little further. Here is another mound—black tomb—and above it there towers to the sky a monument of four million pairs of human fetters, taken from the arms of slaves, and I read on its grim face this: “ Sacred to the memory of Human Slavery.” For forty years of its infamous life the Democratic party taught that it was divine, God’s institution. They defended it, they stood around it at its grave as mourners. But here it lies, dead by the hand of Abraham Lincoln. Dead by the power of the Republican party. Dead by the justice of Almighty God. Don’t camp there, young man. But here is another—a little brimstone tomb—and I read across its yellow face in lurid, bloody lines these words: “ Sacred to the memory of fctate Sovereignty and Secession. ” Twelve millions of Democrats mustered around it to keep it alive ; but here it lies shot to death by the million guns~U7 — the Republic. Here it lies, its shrine burnt to ashes under the blazing rafters of the burning Confederacy. It is dead! I would not have you stay in there a minute, even in this balmy night air, to look at such a place. But just before I leave it I discover a new made grave, a little mound—short. The grass has hardly sprouted over it, and all around I see torn pieces of paper with the word? •fiat ’ on them, and look down in curiosity, wondering what the little grave is, and I read on it: ‘ Sacred to the memory of the Rag Baby, nursed in the brain of all fanaticism of the world, rocked by Thomas Ewing, George H. Pendleton, Samuel Carey, and a few others thoroughout the land.’ But it died on the 1st of January, 1879, and the $140,000,000 of gold that God made, and not fiat-power, lie upon the little carcass to keep it down forever. “ Oh, young man, come out of that ! That is no place to put your young life. Come out, and come over to this camp of liberty, of order, of law, of justice, of freedom,' of all that is glorious under these night stars. “Is there any death here in our camp? Yes, yes ! Three hundred and fifty thousand soldiers, the noblest band that ever trod the earth, died to make this camp a camp pf glory and of liberty forever I"
Maestoso. AMERICA.-^-National hymn. Of thee I sing; Land where my Thy name I love; I love thy the trees Sweet freedom’s song; Let mortal 1. My coun-try’tis of thee, Sweet land of lib - er-ty, 2. My na -tire conn - try 1 thee, Land of the no - hie free, 3. Let mu-sic swell the breeze, And ring from all f fa - thers died; Land of the pil- grim’s pride; From ev - ’ry moun-tain side Let freedom ring. rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills; My heart with rap - ture thrills, Like that a-bove. ' tongues a-wake; Let all that breathe partake; Let rocks their si - lence break, The sound prolong, i Our fathers’ God, to Thee, Author of Liberty, To Thee we sing I Long may our land be bright With Freedom’s holy light, Protect us by Thy might Great God our King! The music, “ God Save the Queen,” and the hymn, “ My Country, ’Tis of Thee,” by Rev. Samuel F. Smith, seem perpetually married. .-------- •----
RED, WHITE AND BLUE, it Maestoso. 1. O Co-lum-bia! the gem of the o-cean, The home of the brave and the fre£, The , L 2. When war winged its wide desolation, And threatened the land to deform, The 3. The U-nion, the U-nion for - ev - er, Our glorious nation’s sweet hymn, May the I shrine of each patriot’s de-vo-tion, A world of - fers horn-age to thee. Thy ark then of freedom’s foun-da-tion, Co - lum-bia, rode safe thro’ the storm; With her wreaths it has won never with-er, Northestarof its gio - ry grow dim I May the mandates make heroes as - sem-hle. When Lib - er-ty’s form stands in view, Thy gar-lands of vie - t ry a - round her. When so proudly'she bore her brave crew, With he1 aer-vice u - ni - ted ne’er sev - er,' But they to their col - ors prove true I The Chorus.
MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA. Words and Music by Henrt C. Wo. 1. Bring the good old bugle, boys! we’ll sing an-oth - er song— Sing it with a spir - it that will start the world a • long— Sing it as we used to sing it, fif - ty thou - sand strong, While we were marching through Geor • gia. Chorus. 2. How the darkeys shouted when they heard the joyful sound! How the turkeys gobbled which ourCommissary found; How the sweet-potatoes, even started from the ground, While we were marching through Georgia. 8. Yes, and there were Union men who wept with joyful tears, When they saw the honor’d flag they had not seen for years; Hardly could they be restrained front breaking forth in cheers, While we were marching through Georgia. 4. “Sherman’s dashing yankee boys will never reach the coast I'-' So the saucy rebels said, and 'twas a handsome boast, Had they not forgot, alas! to reckon with the host, While we were marching through Georgia, 6. So we made a thorough-fare for Freedom and her train, Sixty miles in latitude--three hundred to the main; Treason fled before us, for resistance was in vain, While wo were marching through Georgia,
BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC. (JOHN BROWN.) 1, Mino eyes have seen the gio - ry’ of the com-ingof the Lord, He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps; I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps, His day is marching on.—Chorus, 8 I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel: “As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal!” , Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel. Since God is inarching on.—Chorus, 4 He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat; Oh! be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet. Our Go* is marching on.—Chorus. "B In the beauty of the Mlies, Christ was born across the sea; With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me! As he died to make men holy, lei us die to make men free. While God is marching on.—Chorus. J
THE GUARD ON THE RHINE (DIE WACHT AH RHEIN.) 1. There comes a call like thunder’speal,The break-ers roar, the clank of steel; The 2. By hundred thousands forth they stream,Their eyes like flashing lightning gleam,The 3. To heav’n they raised their gleaming e’yes.The heroes saw them from their akies,And 4. Loud rings the oath, the wa-ters flow, In the free breeze the banners blow; The Ebine! the Rhine! theglorious Rhine! Who will protect the riv - ets line? Ger - man hon - est, strong and brave : These will the sa-cred land-mark save, swore, with yearning for the strife, “Dear is the free Rhine as our life!” Rhine! the Rhine/ uu-fet-tered Rhine/ AU Ger-man-y will guard its Uda Chorus.
HOLD THE FORT! —q=: P. P. BLISS. 1. Ho, my com - rades, join the cho - rus, Raise the ban - ners high, 2. Sing to - day the men we hon - or,—Blaine so true and bold, 3. Now a - gain our gio - rious ban-ner, To the breeze we throw, H t t o ee£= t f—p- •p—tz Sing we now our gal - lant chieftains, "Vic - to - ry Lo - gan too, whose deeds in sto - ry, Riv - al those of With the stars a - bove us fioat - ing, To the polls we’ll go. t mgh old. Chorus.
TRAMP! TRAMP! When there la no band to aeeompany, Sins In Hey of C. GEO. F. BOOT. 1. From the East there comes a cry, Her-ald ing a vic - to - ry, And the 2.“Blaine and Logan!” be our cry; Let the shout resound on high, Hon-or mighty West sends back the joyful strain ; Far and near the welkin rings, For the to our country’s tried and trusty pair, Soldier boys for “Lo-gan’’shout,Blaine will glorious news it brings,That the boys in blue and gray ye out a - gain, put his foes to rout, And we’ll place him in the pres-i - den - tial chair. Chobub. Tramp I tramp! tramp! the boys are marching Each man ’listed forthe war, With a for the war, Marching, marching,
“THE PLUMED KNIGHT ” Tun», “Battle Cry of Freedom." We will rally to the standard, we’ll rally once again, Shouting the battle cry of vict’ry I Yes, we’ll rally for the right, boys, and cast a vote for Blaine, Shouting the battle cry of vict’ry! CaeRUS.—The Plumed Knight forever I hurrah, boys, hurrah 1 Stand by your leader, for honor and law I Yes, we’ll rally to the standard of Blaine and Logan, true, Shouting the battle cry of vict’ry 1 Yes, well gather round the Plumed Knight—the friend of Garfield, too! Shouting the battle cry of vict’ry I For Republicans are faithful—the country finds them true, Shouting the battle cry of vict’ry!—Chorus. Copyrighted and published in sheet form, with music, by S. Brainard’s Sons. A STRUGGLE FOR VICTORY. Tune, "Marching Through Georgia.” Come once more, ye gallant boys, And let us have a song; Raise again the chorus, loud, While we march along; Fling aloft the starry banner, Free from stain of wrong, While we are singing for Blaine, boys. Chorus.—Hurrah! hurrah! for victory again I Hurrah! hurrah! our Union to maintain! So we join the chorus, And we shout the glad refrain, Singing for Blaine and for Logan. Gallant are our leaders, boys, They’re honest, true and brave, Willingly we follow them, Our cause again to save; So we’ll hdld with honest ballots What our bullets gave, Shoutins for Blaine and for Logan.—Chorus.
GLORY, HALLELUJAH! Tim, "John Brown.” From far and near, and everywhere, is heard the glad refrain, From Michigan to Florida, from Oregon to Maine, “ We will have no other President than James Gillespie Blaine,” As we go marching on! Chorus.—Glory, glory, hallelujah! etc. Ye voters from the rocky shore, where waves the hardy pine, And where in verdure tropical is drooped the verdant vine, From North and South, from East and West, come, rally into line, As we go marching on!—Chorus. OUR CANDIDATES. Tune, “Johnny Comet Marching Home.” Through all the land there comes a cry, Hurrah! Hurrah! The enemy once more is nigh, Hurrah! Hurrah! From State to State the order flies, Loud let the cry reach to the skies,— Hurrah for Blaine, our coming President! Once more the Democrats must yield, Hurrah! Hurrah! We’ll drive our foes from off the field, Hurrah! Hurrah! The principles of purity Best grace the Land of Liberty,— Hurrah for Logan, next Vice President!
Hon. JAMES G. BLAINE', Like Lincoln and Garfield, is a man of the people. - He has* come to his present high position through industry, energy and devotion to duty. He was born in West Brownsville, Penn., January 31st, 1830, the second of seven children; of Scotch- Irish descent on his father’s side, and the great-grandson of Colonel Ephraim Blaine, famous in the Revolutionary war. His mother was a refined, highly educated woman, well-nigh idolized by her son, James, a brave and enthusiastic boy. Like wise parents, they determined that their children should be educated, though they had lost their fortune. At twelve, James was sent to the house of an uncle, Hon. Thomas Ewing, at Lancaster, O., the Secretary of the Treasurer, to be educated, and there he fitted for WASHINGTON COLLEGE AT THE AGE OF THIRTEEN. He soon became, say his college mates, “the best known, the best loved, and the most popular boy at college, from his ready sympathy and prompt asssistance, his frank, generous nature, and his manly bearing.” With a cheerful word for all, he entered heartily into the plans and purposes of others, and as he advanced in his college course, was made an arbiter in the disputes of the younger boys. While he liked fun, greatly enjoying boating and walking, he was ambitious to stand at the head of his class, and studied closely, taking an honor in Greek, and excelling in mathematics. He was fond of debate, a great admirer of Henry Clay, and a careful reader of his speeches. HE BECOMES A TEACHER Out of college, and not yet eighteen, like Garfield, his immediate question was, “How to gain a livelihood?” He found a place as teacher of boys at Blue Lick Springs, Kentucky, and soon became a favorite with the pupils. Twenty miles away there was a young ladies’ seminary, taught by the wife of the principal of the Blue Lick School. About a year later, the young teacher, James Blaine, married one of the pupils, Miss Stanwood, of Maine. Soon after he taught literature and science
15j irTthe State Institution for the Blind, at Philadelphia, studying law at the same time. £ Here he was very successful. One of his former pupils says, “Everybody loved Mr. Blaine and his wife. Both were always ready to do anything for our amusement, in leisure hours, and we had a great deal of fun, into which they entered heartily. I think that Mrs. Blaine read nearly all of Dicken’s works aloud to us. In the evening, her husband used to read aloud to both the boys and girls. Then we would wind up with a spelling bee.” HE EDITS A NEWSPAPER. ' Mrs. Blaine was anxious to return to her native State, so in 1854, they went to Maine, where Mr. Blaine became editor and part proprietor of the Kenebec Journal, Augusta, when he was under twenty-four years of age. He soon became a power in politics, from his outspoken convictions and strong common sense. When twenty-eight, he was chosen chairman of the Maine Republican State Committee, a position he has ably held for twenty years, always leading his party to victory. HE GOES TO CONGRESS. Elected to the Maine Legislature in 1858, he gave up newspaper .work, and devoted himself to the issues before the country. Ready and fluent in debate, fearless for the right, no wonder he was three times re-elected, and twice made Speaker of the House. The man who could succeed as a teacher and editor, was naturally successful as a statesman. In 1863 he took his seat in Congress. He was a staunch friend and advocate of Abraham Lincoln, declaring that he would be the unswerving-adherent of the policy and measures which the President in his wisdom might adopt. He said: “The great object with us all is to subdue the rebellion—speedily, effectually, and finally. If slavery, or any other ‘institution,’ stands in the way, it must be removed. Perish all things else, the national life must be saved.” He at once took an active part in debate, and from a mind well stored by reading, a wonderful memory, and quick, comprehensive thoughts, he soon became a leader. He was straightforward, earnest, daring, never afraid to speak his convictions. For thirteen years he made a brilliant record for himself, being one of the ablest advocates of the loyal States, and one of the most active in the Reconstruction Acts. He was
16 SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES For six years, in the Forty-first Congress, the Forty-second, and Forty-third. Only two of his predecessors ever held this position for a longer period, and only two others have equaled it. His rulings were so satisfactory that even the Democratic press spoke heartily of his mastery of parliamentary rules, his wonderful despatch in business, and his fairness. When he made his closing address, and walked down from the chair, said a newspaper report, “An outburst of hand-clapping and cheers broke from the upstanding members, and was joined in by the immense assemblage on the floor and in the galleries. Never before was witnessed such a scene at the close of Congress.” SENATOR AND SECRETARY OF STATE. In 1876 he was elected Senator for four years, and appointed Secretary of State by President Garfield, March 5th, 1880. For four months he showed himself able to handle the interests of a great country in such a manner as to quicken respect for America the world over. Twice before the present year he has been a leading candidate for the highest office in the gift of the American people. In 1876 he received 351 votes; necessary to a choice 379, thus lacking twenty-eight votes. In 1880, when James A. Garfield was elected, Mr. Blaine received 284 votes. Mr. Blaine was President Garfield’s trusted friend and admirer. He was arm in arm with him when the fatal shot was Jired by the assassin; he was at his bedside during much of those trying weeks, when the whole world hoped, and prayed, and waited. He pronounced that exquisite eulogy in the Capitol, closing with the words, “As the end drew near, his early craving for the sea returned. The stately mansion of power had been to him the wearisome hospital of pain, and he begged to be taken from its prison walls, fmm its oppressive, stifling air, from its homelessness and hopelessness. Gently, silently, the love of a great people bore the pale sufferer to the longed-for healing of the sea, to live or die as God should will, within sight of its heaving billows, within sound of its manifold voices. With wan, fevered face, tenderly lifted to the cooling breeze, he looked out wistfully upon the ocean’s changing wonder^; on its far sails, whitening in the morning light; on its restless waves, rolling shoreward to break and die beneath the noonday sun; on the red clouds of evening, arching low to the horizon, on the serene and shining pathway
17 of the stars.- Let us think that his dying eyes read a mystic’ meaning which only the rapt and parting soul may know. Let us believe that in the silence of the receding world he heard the great waves breaking on a further shore, and felt already upon his wasted brow the breath of the eternal morning.” | In 1881, after the death of President Garfield, he resigned the Secretaryship, and spent two years in preparing his “Twenty Years of Congress,” from Lincoln to Garfield, a fair, able, and most interesting book. In June, 1884, by the overwhelming voice of the people, James G. Blaine was NOMINATED FOR THE PRESIDENCY. Those who witnessed in Chicago, the joy of the thousands in that great Exposition Building, will never forget a scene which baffles description. Fpr nearly twenty minutes after the nomination was known, men shouted and swung their hats, tore the banners from the hall and waved them aloft, drowning alike the music of the band and the booming of cannon. The voice of the people was at last heeded, and the idolized leader placed at the helm. At his home, in Augusta, Maine, in the midst of his family, he calmly received the news. Unsought, the whole people, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, named hum as the standard bearer, and nobly will he lead to victory. “I think that I am able to judge whether a man is honest in public life or not, and I should be false to my duty and to the truth if I did not declare my solemn conviction that there is no man in public life whose public and private character is more free from stain than Mr. Blaine’s. I believe him to hav«- been actuated by the purest motives in all his public acts.”—Senator Dawes, Massachusetts. “We shall have another Republican President, and with him a government that will command respect at home and abroad; and none will rejoice more than those who have most at stake in the welfare and destinies of the country.”—Governor Long, Massachusetts. “Mr. Blaine’s was the first voice raised in the National Legislature in behalf of Irish-American citizens immured in English prisons on mere suspicion.”— General Burke, Nevo York. “The descendants of Baron Steuben, of Germany, will be honored guests of fifty million Americans, a vast number of whom have German blood in their veins, and constitute one of the most worthy and valuable elements that make up the strength of the Republic.”—-James G. Blaine. “The question of closer relationship between the United States and the Central and South American States has become one of the questions of the day. The election of Mr. Blaine to the Presidency will be a guarantee for its practical solution, since it was with him that the idea originated to unite more closely North and South America.”—Buenos Ayres Paper.
GEN. JOHN A. LOGAN, Soldier and statesman, has a record unsurpassed for bravery and heroism. He was born in Murphysboro, Ill., Feb. 9th, 1826, the eldest of eleven children. His father, Dr. John Logan, was from Ireland; his mother, from Tennessee. As the schools at that time were poor, in some sections of the country, he was taught by his father, and at sixteen entered Shiloh College. SERVED IN MEXICAN WAR. The Mexican war began when he was twenty, and his eager, earnest nature impelled him to duty. He was among the first to volunteer as a private, and later was made first lieutenant in an Illinois company, and then adjutant of the regiment. Returning home four years later, he began to study law with his uncle, Alexander M. Jenkins, formerly Lieutenant-Governor of Illinois. In three years he was admitted to the bar (already having been elected Clerk of Jackson County), and formed a partnership with his uncle. In less than a year he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of the Third Judicial District of the State. With unusual ability in public speaking, clear and practical, he was chosen to the State Legislature, to which he was re-elected in 1853 and 1854. GOES TO CONGRESS. In 1858 he was elected to Congress, and re-elected in i860. When Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas were the Presidential candidates, Mr. Logan was a Democrat, and worked for the election of Mr. Douglas, but declared if Mr. Lincoln was elected, and the South rebelled against the will of the majority, “he would shoulder his musket to have Lincoln inaugurated.” Thus fair and manly was the soldier-statesman. Although a member of Congress, he left his seat and took his place in the ranks in the very first battles of the war. His duty was plain before him. The Union must be maintained. He at once spoke thrilling wordsto large audiences in Southern Illinois, was elected a colonel, and led his men at the very front. He bad a horse shot under him at Belmont, and the pistol at his side I
19 shattered, so narrowly did he escape death. At Fort Donelson he was severely wounded, and urged to leave the field by his surgeon. He ordered his wound attended to secretly, and then went to his duty, saying that he had fired twenty-two rounds after his hurt, and that he could fire as many more, now that his wound was dressed. He was promoted to the grade of BRIGADIER GENERAL, March 5th, 1862, for gallantry in action. After the brave and skillful seige of Corinth in May, he was urged to become again a candidate for Congress, but he refused, saying, “I have entered the field io die, if need be, for this Government, and never expect to return to peaceful pursuits until the object of this war of preservation has become a fact established.” Under General Grant, in Mississippi, he fought so nobly that November 29th, 1862, he was made a MAJOR GENERAL. He led the center of General McPherson’s command, at the seige of Vicksburg, and his column first entered the city after the surrender, July 4th, 1863. He was appointed Military Governor of the city, where a gold medal was presented him by the Seventh Army Corps. Later, after some eloquent Union speeches at the North, he was made Commander of the Fifteenth Army Corps, succeeding General Sherman, and then Commander of the Army of the Tennessee. At Resaca, at Dallas, at Little Kenesaw Mountain, and at the desperate battle of Peach Tree Creek, he showed himself the bravest of the brave. In the) latter battle, when General McPherson fell, General Logan at once took command, and deeply stirred at the death of hist leader, led the fight with such fury that eight thousand rebel dead were left on the field. He was in every battle of that historical campaign, from Mission Ridge to the fall of Atlanta, September 2nd. The soldiers under General Logan admired him for a bravery that made him stand at the front of his army, and not in the rear. With him they felt sure of victory. Nobody hated cowardice or treachery more than he. After the war he was offered the position of minister to Mexico, by President Johnson, but declined it. In 1866 he was nominated by the Republicans of Illinois to represent the State at large, and was elected to Congress by over sixty thousand majority. He was twice re-elected, and then held
20 tne position of Senator for nearly ten years, always taking an active part in whatever concerned the soldiers of the late war. NOMINATED FOR VICE-PRESIDENT. At Chicago, last June, General Logan was nominated by acclamation. The Grand Army of the Republic, which society he helped to organize, and whose president he was for three years, were scarcely more overjoyed than civilians, at this deserved recognition of a great soldier. In presenting the nomination to him, Chairman Henderson said truly: “Without wealth, without help from others, without any resources, except those of heart, Conscience, intellect, energy, and courage, you have won a high place in the world’s history, and secured the confidence and affection of your countrymen. Being one of the people, your Sympathies are with the people. In civil life, your chief care has been to better their condition, to secure their rights and perpetuate their liberties. When the government was threatened by armed treason, you entered its service as a private, became a commander of armies, and are now the idol of the citizen-soldiers Of the Republic.” With scarcely less honor and admiration is the noble wife of General Logan regarded by the country. She has been his trusted helper, and by her rare intelligence, true heart, and executive ability, has shown herself worthy for the high place she has been called to occupy. “ I fight for the great soldier and Senator, John A. Logan. He has proved his passport at every step of his life. He sought by proving his right to the honor of being useful to his country, that he loved it when others did not He left the lawyer to make his record not with his pen, but with his sword”.— IVm. H. Evarts. “ He went through the baptism of fire and blood, and ever since has been true as steel on every question of patriotism and freedom. He is the type and- representative of the American volunteer soldier. He entered the war a private. He came out the highest in rank and the most famous of all the men who enlisted from civil life. Ever since, the people of this great State have kept him in public service in House and Senate.”—Senator Hoar, Mass. “General U. S. Grant says that justice has never been done to John A. Logan. I know him well. He is an incorruptible man. He is interested in no jobs', and shares no plunder. All the world couldn’t induce him.”—Senator Haiuly, Conn. . “ The Irish blood of John A. Logan, my fellow campaigner, has never proved false to the gallant source from which it came.”—Rev. George IV. Pepper. - - ------ - - _ — —
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. During the Revolutionary war there were but two parties,' Patriots, who favored the separation from Great Britian, and Tories who were opposed to separation. After Independence was declared, the two parties became Federal and Anti-Federal; the former favoring a strong National Government, and the latter the doctrine of State Rights, the States to be joined by Articles of Confederation. The Federal vote was in the majority, and elected George Washington in 1788. The Anti-Federalists soon took the name of Democrats. They came into power under Thomas Jefferson in 1800 and kept control for twenty-four years, till the time of John Quincy Adams in 1824. ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT. When the constitution was adopted with its three provisions touching slavery, there was decided opposition in the minds of many, but how to do away with it and save the Union, did not seem clear. Local societies were formed against slavery, South as well as North. By the invention of the cotton gin, cotton culture became profitable, and while slavery was abolished by Northern States, it was retained in the Southern. Then the “irrepressible conflict” increased year by year. The North looked upon the selling of wives from husbands and children from parents on the auction block, and making laws forbidding the negro to learn to read and write, as great crimes. The South knew that ignorance was essential to bondage, and that to increase their influence slavery must be carried into the Territories. Each time a free State or a slave State was admitted, there was dissension, lest the balance of power be lost between North and South. When Missouri asked for admission, the North insisted that she should insert in her constitution^ clause prohibiting slavery. After a two years struggle, THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE OF 1820 devised by Henry Clay, was passed. The State was admitted with slavery, but with the provision that all territory north of her southern boundary, shpuld be forever free. This boundary line
22 was called “Mason and Dixon’s Line” from the names of two surveyors, who years before had established the line between Maryland and Pennsylvania. THE WHIG PARTY. Andrew Jackson, Democrat, followed John Quincy Adams. He assailed the Bank of the United States, modeled somewhat after the plan of the Bank of England, withdrew the deposits and placed them in State banks. The opponents of this policy took the name of Whigs, from the Whig party in England, which had resisted the arbitrary measures of the King. Henry Clay was twice the Whig candidate for the Presidency, and defeated both times. The Whig party was too politic on the slavery question, and the Liberty party, and the Free Soil party, both opposed to the extension of slavery, were organized. Slavery had now become dominant. It’s foot was on the neck of Congress. Even Daniel Webster bowed to its dominion. The Democratic party, largely pro-slavery, began to assert that Congress had no power to prohibit slavery in the Territories, and that therefore the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. THE REPEAL OF THE COMPROMISE was finally effected in 1854, and the Territories were left to decide whether they would have slavery or not. At once Kansas became the battle ground. Armed men came over from Missouri to establish slavery. Men came from New England and the East determined to have free soil, if they spilled theirblood to gain it. The Fugitive Slave Law, whereby slaves were returned without trial by jury, and slave owners allowed to search the North for their slaves, made great bitterness. A new party was inevitable. In 1854, some States had taken steps toward this new party, and February 22, 1856, the FIRST REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION was rheld in Pittsburgh, Pa., which prepared the way for the second convention at Philadelphia, June 17th, when John C. Fremont was nominated for the Presidency. One of its foundation stones was the demanding of the prohibition of slavery in the Territories. In the following May, the brutal attack of Preston Brooks, of South Carolina, on Charles Sumner, for lais speech
23 on the Kansas matter, coming up behind him and beating him with his cane till he was unconscious, fired the whole North. The JOHN BROWN RAID in 1859, was the begining of the end. Having suffered in the border warfare in Kansas, he invaded Harper’s Ferry, October 17th, with seventeen white men and five negroes, calling upon the slaves to rise and demand their liberty. His two sons were killed and he was arrested and hanged by the State of Virginia, December 2nd. The election of Abraham Lincoln the following year showed to the South that the issue of the slavery question was probably near. Under Democratic rule, with James Buchanan at the head, the South had made themselves ready for war. They secured forts and arsenals with 100,000 stands of arms, and fired on Sumter April 12th, 1861. Four years of terrible .war followed. EXTRACTS FROM PLATFORM, 1884. We, therefore, demand that the imposition of duties on foreign imports shall be made not for “revenue only,” but that in raising the requisite revenues for the Government, such duties shall be so levied as to afford security to our diversified industries and protection to the rights and wages of the laborer, to the end that active and intelligent labor, as well as capital, may have its just reward and the laboring man his full share in the national prosperity. * * We have always recommended the best money known to the civilized world, and we urge tjiat an effort be made to unite all commercial nations in the establishment of the international standard, which shall fix for all the relative value of gold and silver coinage. * * We favor the establishment of a National Bureau of Labor, the enforcement of the eight-hour-law, and a wise and judicious system of General Education by adequate appropriation from the national revenues wherever the same is needed. * * * * * “The public lands are a heritage of the people of the United States, and should be reserved as far as possible for small holdings by actual settlers. We are opposed to the acquisition of large tracts of these lands by corporations, or individuals, especially where such holdings are in the hands of non-resident aliens, and we will endeavor to obtain such legislation as will tend to correct this evil." * * * * * “The grateful thanks of the American people are due to the Union soldiers and sailors of the late war, and the Republican party stands pledged to suitable pensions to all who were disabled and for the widowsand orphans of those who died in the war. The Republican party pledges itself to the repeal of the limitation contained in the Arrears act of 1879, so that all invalid soldiers shall share alike, and their pensions shall begin with the date of disability or discharge and not with the date of the application."
WHAT HAS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY DONE FOR THE COUNTRY? More than any other party in the world’s history. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY SAVED THE UNION? But for this party, we might to-day, divided into sections, be the easy prey of ambitious empires across the sea. But for this party, we might to-day have slavery blighting the industries and morals of the Nation. It has FREED FOUR MILLION HUMAN BEINGS FROM THE CURSE OF SLAVERY. The war was begun to save the Union. It soon became evr dent, however, that slavery must be abolished; that nothing would so soon end the struggle. The blacks had fled by tens of thousands to Northern camps; the rest were raising food on the plantations for Southern soldiers. By the grandest stroke of any pen, Abraham Lincoln, September 22d, 1862, through the Emancipation Proclamation made the colored people of the United States, free. GIVEN CITIZENSHIP TO THE NEGRO. The Thirteenth Amendment, prohibiting slavery, passed the Senate in April, 1864, by thirty-eight yeas to six nays; only two Democrats voting for it! In the House the measure received fifty-six nays—all Democrats. Can any colored man, seeing this, vote the Democratic ticket? The Fourteenth Amendment gave equal rights and privileges to all; declared that the United States should not assume the rebel debt, nor pay for emancipated slaves. This also the Democratic party vigorously opposed as unconstitutional! No party has ever talked more fluently about the Constitution, nor broken it more easily. The Fifteenth Amendment gave the vote to each citizen, so that it cannot be denied on account of “race, color, or previous condition _o( servitude.”
25 PASSED THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL. By this bill, in 1866, all persons bom in the United States, excluding Indians not taxed, “were declared hereby to be citizens of the United States, having the same rights as white citizens, to sue and be sued, make and enforce contracts, take and convey property, and enjoy all civil rights whatever.” Charles Sumner, after this, secured extended rights to the colored people. All these, Democracy constantly opposed. PAID HALF THE WAR DEBT. In 1865 the total debt was twenty-eight hundred million dollars ($2,844,649,626), a burden sufficient to affright any nation. The interest on this was over one hundred and fifty million dollars, about four dollars for each' person. In eighteen years over ten hundred million dollars have been paid, and the interest per capita is now only about ninety-eight cents. Says Hon. George S. Boutwell, in a book which everybody should read, “Why I am a Republican,” “The history of the world furnishes no example for the financial successes of the Government of the United States. For these successes the country is indebted to the skill, courage, and integrity of the Republican party.” GIVEN THE HOMESTEAD LAWJTO THE PEOPLE. No measure for the good of honest and economical working men and women has done more than this. By the act, approved May 20th, 1862, any citizen of the United States may own one hundred and sixty acres of land by living upon it for five years. Union soldiers can deduct from this length of time whatever time they served in the army, not to exceed four years. This has been a blessing to hundreds of thousands, who, by this gift of the Government, have been helped to independence and usefulness. Immigrants from foreign lands, who would otherwise, perhaps, have herded in cities, have joyfully accepted this opportunity to make a start in life. The country has become richer and greater by this far-sighted measure. The Republicans, in their platform in i860 said, “We demand the passage by Congress of the complete and satisfactory homestead measure which has recently passed the House.” President Buchanan vetoed the bill, and the '•eventeen negative votes, although the bill was carried over the veto, were given by Democrats I
26 FAVORS UNIVERSAL EDUCATION. In 1862 Congress passed a law “donating public lands to the several States and Territories, which .may provide colleges for the benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts.” About nine million acres were thus appropriated for educational purposes. Three years before this a similar bill was vetoed by the Democratic President, James Buchanan! The Republican party, in its reconstruction measures for the Southern States, made noble provision for free public schools, for black as well as white. One of the best works of the party was the establishing of the National Bureau of Education in 1866, for gathering and scattering information about the schools of our country. General Garfield was the ablest champion of the measure. He said, “Schools are less expensive than rebellions. A tenth of our national debt expended in public education fifty years ago, would have saved us the blood and treasure of the late war.” Horace Mann well said, “In our country, and in our times, no man is worthy the honored name of a statesman, who does not include the highest practicable education of the people, in all his plans of administration.” This Bureau, with General John Eaton at its head, has done incalculable good. It has shown the illiteracy of our country, especially at the South, and awakened us to the needs of the hour. It has shown us the rapid advance in Technical Schools abroad, especially in Germany, Norway, and England, thus inciting us to like schools, if we would have skilled artisans, or have our boys and girls taught how to earn a living. It has interested the whole world in American methods of education, and brought many to our country to study them. PROTESTS AGAINST POLYGAMY. The platform of 1884 says in no uncertain words : "■Resolved, That it is the duty of Congress to enact such laws as shall promptly and effectually suppress the system of polygamy within our territory, and divorce the political from the ecclesiastical power of the so-called Mormon Church; and that the law so enacted should be rigidly enforced by the civil authorities if possible, and by the military, if need be." GIVEN THE COUNTRY A SOUND CURRENCY. During the war, when millions of money were needed, National Banks were established, based on a uniform security—the bonds of the United States. Before this time, State banks were based
27 on every kind of security. A paper dollar in Ohio, though worth one hundred cents in gold at home, would pass for only ninety or ninety-five cents in Massachusetts or California. State banks were constantly failing. Eighty-nine banks failed in Illinois in 1861 and 1862, before the National banks were organized. Five State banks failed in 1877 and 1878 in Chicago, with a loss to creditors of nearly four million dollars. The average loss by the failure of twenty-two savings banks in the single State of New York, during the seven years ending with 1878, amounted to one million, two hundred thousand a year. On the other hand, out of the whole number of National banks, only sixty-nine have failed in fourteen years, and the notes of these have been- provided for, dollar for dollar. The people of this country can easily decide which of these banking systems is the safer. ■ The National banks were required to purchase bonds of the United States, and deposit with the Treasurer for security of their circulation. Thus a market was made for three hundred million dollars worth of bonds. The Democratic party strongly opposed these banks. In the House of Representatives sixty-four Democrats voted in the negative and only two Republicans. When greenbacks were first issued, Democrats opposed them. When resumption was proposed, so that the debts of the country should be paid in coin, as had been promised, then the Democrats favored the issue of more greenbacks. Finally special payment was resumed January 1 st, 1879, but for ten years the Republicans had been obliged to fight Democratic inflation. Hon. Wm. McKinley said recently of this party, “It has been against every thing of good in principle or policy for the past twenty-five years. If in that period it has ever been on the right side of any question, it has been there at the wrong time, and always on the wrong side at the right time.” A party opposed to keeping National faith in payment of debts; cannot be trusted with the finances of the great Republic. GIVEN US CIVIL SERVICE REFORM. A few true hearted lovers of country have worked for years for this reform. The book of Hon. Dorman B. Eaton, “ Civil Service Reform in Great Britian,” awakened interest. President Grant in his message December 5th, 1870, urged Congress to take up the f^hject A commission was appointed which reported the
28’ following year. Last year Congress passed an admirable measure of Civil Service Reform, and the results have been excellent. The platform of this year urges its extension “to all the grades of the service to which it is applicable.” GIVEN PROTECTION TO FOREIGNERS WHO HAVE COME HERE TO LIVE. Formerly Great Britian claimed the right to search American vessels and take British seamen therefrom, even though they had become citizens of our country. Prussia maintained that if a man were born there, yet lived in America, when he returned temporarily to Prussia, he could be forced to enter her army. Grave results followed such injustice. July 27th, 1868, the Republican party passed the bill of “ Expatriation.” By this measure “All naturalized citizens of the United States, while in foreign countries, are entitled to and shall receive from this government the same protection of person and property which is accorded to native born citizens.” Nearly all the great countries have made treaties with our nation to that effect. GIVEN PROTECTION TO AMERICAN INDUSTRY. The results have been, astonishing prosperity, wonderful increase in wealth and population, and a contented and happy people. “ We are sometimes told that the mission of the Republican party is ended, its objects all fulfilled, and that it no longer has any excuse for being. If this were true it would form the noblest eulogy any party ever deserved on this earth. But it is not quite true. Great as are the achievements of our party, glorious for beneficence and wisdom as its record is, it has not yet done everything for which it was called into being:”—Col. John Hay. “ The Democratic reformers propose a clean sweep according to the spoils system, and what will you have ? It will Ise the disorganization of the whole administive machinery of the government at one fell blow.”—Carl Schurz, in 1876. “ I am not prepared to abandon Republicanism and go over to a party whose principles and measures I have constantly opposed for the last quarter of a century. '‘—John G. Whittier. I “lam by inheritance and by education a Republican. Whatever good I have been able to accomplish in public life has been accomplished through the Republican party. I have acted with it in the past, and wish to act with it in the future.—Theodore Roosevelt, Independents
THE ISSUES OF THE PRESENT CAMPAIGN. THE TARIFF QUESTION. Shall we have Protection or Free Trade? Shall we permit foreign goods, made at starvation wages, to flood our markets, and close our workshops? Or shall we put a duty on such foreign goods, and thus “protect” our workingmen from low- wages, and squalid homes? What has Protection done for our country? INCREASED OUR WEALTH, So that our Nation is to-day the wonder of the world. Up to i860, the result of the labor and savings of the whole United States amounted to fourteen thousand million dollars ($14,000,- 000,000.) We had been for two hundred and fifty years earning and gathering this amount. Our present protective tariff was obtained under Abraham Lincoln, in 1861, as soon as the Republicans came into power. What has it done for us in the last twenty years? We have increased in wealth during that period nearly three times as much as in the whole two hundred and fifty years previous. Our wealth now is the enormous sum of forty- four thousand million dollars ($44,000,000,000.) Think of gaining property at the rate of one hundred and twenty-five million dollars a month! No wonder Mr. Gladstone said, “America is passing by us at a canter. There can hardly be a doubt, as between the America and the England of the future, that the daughter at some no very distant time, will, whether fairer or less fair, be unquestionably stronger than the mother.” Bismarck says that American prosperity “is mainly owing to its system of protective laws.” Mulhall says, “Every day that the sun rises upon the American people, it sees an addition of two and one-half millions to the accumulated wealth of the Republic, which is equal to one-third of the daily accumulations of mankind." PROTECTION HAS INCREASED OUR MANUFACTURES. From i860 to 1880 our manufacturing interests were trebled, increasing from one thousand eight hundred million dollars
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