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
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