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THE SEMI-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN. ESTABLISHED IN 1854, 1 By CHAS. W. HANCOCK, f VOL. 18. The Sumter Republican. Semi-Weekly, One Year - - -$4 00 Wisely, One Year - - - - - 2.00 in Advance All advertisements eminating from public offices will be charged for in accordance with an act passed by the late General Assembly of Georgia—7s cents per hundred words for each of the first four insertions, and 33 cents for each subsequent insertion. Fractional parts of one hundred are considered one hundred words; each figure and initial, with date and signature, is counted as a word. The cash must accompany the copy of each advertisement, unless different arrange ments have been made. Advertising: Rates. One Square first insertion, - - - -SI.OO Each subsequent insertion, - - - - .30 J3T"Ten Lines of Minion, type solid con stitute a square. All advertisements not contracted for will be charged above rates. Advertisements not specifying the length of time for which they are to be inserted will be continued until ordered out and charged for accordingly. Advertisementstooccupy fixed places will h be charged 23 per cent, above tegular rates Notices in local column inserted f*r ten cent per line each insertion. DON'T BUY r Groceries BEFORE EXAMINING | (MM PERRYS LARGE STOCK! I t' -AS THEY— |W!IL Hot BE UNDERSOLD! On any article in their line, but propose to i UNDERSELL I | WILL PAY HIGHEST PRICE FOR y Georgia Seed Rye .’ COUNTRY MERCHANTS Will find that they can buy ot us Kerosene Oil, Gun Powder, Shot and Matches ! ! For less money than they can order. GLOVER & PERRY, sspiitf Amekicus. Ga. OLD BTTGG f COMES TO THE FRONT THIS SEASON WITH DRINKS, FIXED UP IN ANY STYLE FOR TEN CENTS. OYSTERS. FISH AND GAME ON HAND AT ALL TIMES. MEALS FIXED UP IN ANY' STYLE AND AT ALL TIMES-DAY AND NIGHT. BILLIARDS 5c per game two games for 25 cts— cash. POOL VA CENTS PER CUE—ALL CASH. Come one, come, all, and see if yon don’t get the best—nothing charged at these rates. Best Cigars and Tobacco Always on Hand ! BOTTLED LIQUORS ALWAYS ON HAND IN FRONT ROOM. J. P. CHAPMAN. AGENT FOR KING’S ROYAL POWDER COMPANY, ' Also, PARKER’S GUN AND BREECH LOADING FIXTURES. Americus, Ga., Sept. sth, 1882. G.2m fffliss KATE KING Invites tlie attention of the Ladies to her SELECT .STOCK O c Millinery and Fancy Goods NOTIONS, Etc., ALL OF THE LATENT STYLES. Which she keeps on hand at all times, and at the ! LOWEST CASH PRICES! |new goods f' ARRIVING DAILY. t3f Don’t fail to Cali and Examine her took before purchasing elsewhere. Miss SATE KING, . PUBLIC SQUARE AMERICUS, ’ raaraitf i. For ljyspepsia, SCos ti veness, Sick Headache, Chronic Diar rhoea, Jaundice, Impurity of the Blood, Fever and Ague, Malaria, and all Diseases rangemeut of Liver, Dowels and Kidneys. SYMPTOMS OF A DISEASED LIVER. Bad Breath: Pain in the Side, sometimes the pain is felt under the Shoulder-blade, mistaken for Rheumatism; general loss of appetite: Bowels generally costive, sometimes alternating with lax; the head is troubled with pain, is dull and heavy, with considerable loss of memory, accompanied with a painful sensation of leaving undone something which ought to have been done; a slight, dry cough and flushed face is sometimes an attendant, often mistaken for consumption; the patient complains, of weariness and debility; nervous, easily startled; feet cold or burning, sometimes a prickly sensation of the skin exists; spirits aredow and despondent, and, although satisfied that exercise would be bene ficial, yet one can hardly summon up fortitude to try it—in fact, distrusts every remedy. Several of the above symptoms attend the disease, but cases have occurred wnen but few of them existed, yet examination after death has shown the Liver to have been extensively deranged. It should he used by all persons, old and young, ■whenever any of the above symptoms appear. Persons Traveling or Living in Un healthy Localities, by taking a dose occasion ally to keep the Liver in healthy action, will avoid all Malaria, Bilious attacks, Dizziness, Nau sea, Drowsiness, Depression of Spirits, etc. It will invigorate like a glass of wine, but is no in toxicating beverage. If You have eaten anything hard of digestion, or feel heavy after meals, or sleep less at night, take a dose and you will be relieved. Time and Doctors’ Dills will bo saved by always keeping the Regulator ' in t-lie House! For, whatever the ailment may be, a thoroughly safe purgative, alterative and tonic can never be out of place. The remedy is harmless ami does not interfere* with business or pleasure. IT IS PURELY* VEGETABLE, And has all the power and efficacy of Calomel or Quinine, without any of the injurious after effects. A Governor’s Testimony. Simmons Liver ■Regulator has been in use in my family for some time, and I am satisfied it is a valuable addition to the medical science. J. Gill Shorter, Governor of Ala. Hon. Alexander 11. Stephens, of Ga., says: Have derived some benefit from the use of Simmons Liver Regulator, and wish to give it a further trial. “The only Thing that never fails to Relieve.”—l have used many remedies for Dys pepsia, Liver Affection and Debility, hut never have found anything to benefit me to the extent Simmons Liver Regulator has. I sent from Min nesota to Georgia for it, and would scad further for such a medicine, and would advise ail who are sim ilarly affected to give it a trial as it seems the only thing that never fails to relieve. P. M. J annex, Minneapolis, Minn. Dr. T. YV. Mason says: From actual ex perience in the use of Simmons Liver Regulator in my practice 1 have been and am satisfied to use and prescribe it as a purgative medicine. only the Genuine, which always has on the Wrapper the rod Z Trade-Mark and Signature of J. H. ZEILIN U CO. FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. TUTPS PILLS A DISORDERED LEVER ES THE BANE Of the present generation. It is for the Cure of this disease and its attendants, BICK-HEADACHE, BILIOUSNESS, DYS PEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, PILES, etc., that TUTT’S PILLS have gained a vr.orld-wido reputation. Ho ftemedy has ever been discovered that acta so gfently on tho digestive organa, giving them vigor to as similate food. Asa natural result, tha Nervous System is Braced, tho Muscles are Developed, and the Body Robust. Chills s&isa. c3L Povor, E. RIVAL, a Planter at Bayou Sara, La., saya: My plantation is in a malarial district. For several years I could not mako half a crop on account of bilious diseases and chills. 1 was nearly dlscoura when I began tho uso of TUTT'S PILLS. Tho result was marvelous: my laborers Boon bocamo lioarty and robust, and I have had no further trouble. They relieve tho Hires*, cleanse the Blood from poxsonoaH Immora, aisd canoe the bowels to act naturally, with out which no one can feel well. Try thin remedy fairly, and yon will grain a healthy JDigPNt ion, Ylfforonllody. s*si.ro Blood, Strong; Serves, and a Sound Liver, Price, 25 Cent*. Oliieo,3s!Hurrajt., N. Y. TUTT’S HJUR DYE. Guay Hair or Whiskers changed to a Glossy Black by a single application of this Dye. It Imparts a natural color, and acts instantaneously. Sold by Druggists, or sent by express ou receipt of One Dollar. Office, 33 Murray Street, New York. (Dr. TUTT’S MANUAL of Valuable\ Information and Useful J&ecelpts 8 sr ill be mailed FREE o application, HOSTEJTERj brfnßS Tho true antidote to the effects of miasma is Hostctter’s Stomach Bitters. This medi cine is one of the most popular remedies of an ago of successful prosperity specifics, and is in immense demand wherever on this Continent fever and ague exists. A wine glasssful three times a day is the best possi ble preparative for encountering a malari ous atmosphere, regulating the liver, and invigorating the stomach. For sale by all Druggists and Dealers generally. New Gotten Warehouse! I HAVE RENTED THE Sirrine Brick Building, ON EAST SIDE OF PUBLIC SQUARE ' - AMERICUS, GA., Which I will repair and have ready to store cotton in during the coming season. My friends and the public are asked to patron ize me. All produce left in my care by friends and others, will receive prompt at tention and sold at best prices offered. J. L. PRICE. Ameuicub, Ga., May 19, 1882. tf INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS, AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND GENERAL PROGRESS. AMERICUS, GEORGIA; SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1882. TABERNACLE SERMONS. BY REV. T. DeWITT TALJI AGE DEGRADATION OF MODERN POLITICS. This placeshall no more be called Topliet, nor the Valley of the Son of llinnom, hut the Valley of Slaughter,—Jeremiah xix., 0. . This was Gehenna, or the valley out side of Jerusalem. The carcasses of ani mals were thrown there; the offal of the city was deposited there. Fires were kept perpetually burning so that the place would not breed a • pestilence. The place has sometimes been used by religious writers and speakers as a symbol of perdition. I used it as a symbol of the condition of modern pol itics. But this Gehenna instead of be ing in the suburbs of the city is in the centre of every neighborhood and every town and every village and every city of the United States, Its carcasses rot on the steps of the city halls of this country, and its lires siss and simmer and crackle through the long night of official corruption, and those who have noticed how the bodies and the minds and the souls of men have gone down under the influence need not he told that like the valley ot llinnom in the text, it ought to be called “the valley of slaughter.” The condition of State and national politics to-day is appall ing. L speak without any allegiance to any political party. I have all the time purposely kept myself aloof from partisan organization that 1 might in dependently discuss every moral ques tion pertaining to each or both of them. By this 1 do not. mean that 1 sit on the fence in matters of politics, for 1 have always voted ever since 1 was of age, save when by change of residence or by necessitated absence at the time of reg istration I had no right to vote; but 1 have never voted what in this country the parties call a “straight ticket.” When a man tells me he always votes the “straight ticket,” that ho always goes for everything on the ticket of his particular party, he makes me think of a man who should buy a barrel of ap ples and then boast that he ate them all, not only the good apples, but the worm-eaten ami the gnarled and the rotten, so as to be consistent. I pro pose to make a selection of apples. Within our memory in nearly all the States both political parties have at some time been in supremacy, and it seems to me there has been a gradual descent to lower corruption. Ever and anon a party cries out, “Put me in pow er and I will effect a great reform.” The new party comes into power, and generally the only difference is anew roll of officers. Hark; to the crash! What is the matter now? Why, the machine of some Republican or Dem ocratic party has been crushed to pieces, and we say, “thank God for the demo lition.” But before another election comes another machine is in action— a machine with larger crank and stron ger wheel and wider hopper. We have been killing political bosses for the last fifteen years in this country, and there never were so many political bosses as to-day. There are young men here who are to enter soon upon the discharge of their civic or public duties, and they, before entering the arena,ought to know some of the lions they will have to meet, or, to come hack to the sugges tion of my text, those young men need to come forth with shovels and spades and plows to turn under the carcasses of the Gehenna of modern politics. I propose to give you some illustra tions of the present debasement of pub lic affairs, drawing my illustrations for the most part from the last year. There has never been anything to boast of in the purity of American politics. Do you know that Aaron Burr, the <se baucher, came near being President of the United States? He got as many votes'as Thomas Jefferson, the patriot. Then the election was thrown into Con gress, and Thomas Jefferson, the pat riot, beast Aaron Burr, the debaucher, by one vote. In the Congress of the United States, in 1798, a member by the name of Lyons spit in the face of u member hv the name of Griswold, and Griswold struck him with a hickory stick, and then Lyono seized the tongs and struck Griswold, and then the two rolled over on the floor of the national Legislature in a scuffle from which their friends extricated them. When Thomas Jefferson was [inaugurated President of the United States, the Sentinel, of Boston, wrote the obituary of the American nation, saying: “Mon umental inscription. Expired yesterday, regretted by all good men, the federal administration of the Government of the United States, aged twelve years. This monumental inscription to the virtues and the services of the deceased is raised by the Sentinel of Boston. All the way down it has been a scene of scurrility and defamation. President Van Buren was always pictorialized as a fox or a rat. Horace Greeley was mauled into the grave by political in justices. After serving this land with all the concentrated energies of mind, body and soul, he was practically by American politics put to death. The chief campaign document against Pres ident Jackson was a picture, a copy of which I recently saw—a picture ot ten or twenty coffins in allusion to the de serters whom he had ordered shot. Last autumn people were surprised at the spirit of assassination abroad in this country. Why be surprised? The same spirit attempted to shoot Andrew Jackson, President of the United States, returning from the funeral of a Con gressman,and the President would have been slain but for the fact that a gen tleman beside him struck down the assailant to the lloor. The same spirit attempted to poison at the National Hotel, Washington, President Buch anan the day before his inauguration, two of my personal friends dying from the poison that day distributed through the hotel. The Hon. Mr. Hous ton of Texas, in 1832, because of some derogatory words uttered, bludgeoned the Hon. Mr. Stansberry, of Ohio, and the President of the United States ap proved of it, saying in so many words: “After a few more such examples in Congress, the members will learn how to have decent tongues in their heads.” The two political parties of thirty years ago were slain by their corruption. The Whig party compounded with iniquity was hung by the neck until dead. The Democratic party, as it was then organ ized, was slain. It went out of power, the ablest member of the new Demo cratic party saying this last week in an editorial in regard to the old Democratic party: “The Democratic party, like every other organization long continued in power, begot abuses that could not be cured save by the turning of the party out of office and power.” Those two political parties of thirty years ago were slain by their corruptions. But why should I go away back, when the blackest year in American politics is the year between October, 1881, and October, 1882? I will give you some illustrations. 1 draw one illustration from the Yorktown carousal. Ou the 19th of October, 1781, tha British forces under Cornwallis'surrendered to Washington, and the long agony of our Revolutionary fathers was ended. Last autumn was the centennial celebration. Someof the distinguished foreigners who had helped us in achieving American independence came across the water and were our guests. The programme for .the service and celebration was issued. The Congress of the United Slates made appropriation for that celebration. (Mul titudes of people went to the quaint vil lage of Yorktown, and preserved their patriotism and their respectability; but to a great many of our public men it was a drunken carousal. I refer you back to the correspondence in the differ ent papers about that tima. Look at the whisky bill, look at the wine bill, look at the cigar bill of those times, and then consider the fact that there were innocent men and women insulted during those times and during that cele bration—making it sure that the Octo ber of 1781 was not more glorious than the October of 1881 was infamous. Ah! they saluted the English liag, and they saluted the French flag and they saluted the American flag; but all the flags to gether cannot cover up the shame of that debauch. The politicians got up the celebration, the politicians conducted the celebration, the politicians ended the celebration, the politicians forever besmirched that occasion. I bring it as an illustration of the degradation of modern politics. I draw another illustration from the Garfield funeral carousal, reaching from Washington to Cleveland, and from Cleveland back to Washington. On that day and at that time, when this nation was sick with a grief such as has seldom befallen any nation, there were public men who guzzled and swilled and drank and caroused, and at the expense of the nation. -You and I helped pays for it, if we have paid onr taxes. The city of Cleveland, as beautiful and as moral a city as we have in all the land, never had so much drunkenness and debauchery in it as tho night before Garfield’s burial, while the Mayors and tho Common Oouncilmen and the poli ticians from all the cities were there waiting for the obsequies. I arraign it as an appalling indecency, as an insult to God and the American people. I arraign it as an illustration of the degra dation of modern politics. I draw another illustration from the last Albany' Legislature, Lo >k over the record of the ayes and noes and the dodging on the Convict Labor bill, on the General Street Railway bill, on the Grain bill, on the Canal bill, and get your eyes so wide open you will never get them shut. Asa specimen, they voted to destroy forever the grandest street on earth—Broadway, New York—by run ning a railroad through it. There never has been a greater sense ot relief in this State than when it was announced that tho Legislature hail gone home! I draw another illustration from the Spuyteu Dnvel disaster, that Friday afternoon when the Hudson River rail car was crowded with politicians, and by their drnnenkness and their obscenity they turned tho car into a pandemo nium, and overpowered the conductor, until, he testified on solemn oath, ho could not manage the train, and then one of tho politicians, jerking the rope to the air break until the train halted, and another train swept around the curve and the lives of some of our most valuable citizens, and the bright anil happy bridal tour ended in horror and massacre, the flames completing what the collision left. Tho politicians got the management of the train, and I charge them—l care not what the cor oner’s jury may say—l charge them with the murder. They halted the train. I bring as another illustration of the degradation of modern politics the Riv er and Harbor bill misapprobation. Millions of dollars voted away by Con gress, and voted away in dead waste. Gentlemen wanting to bo re-elected to Congress may go around this country trying to fix that up, but it will never be fixed up this side the day of judg ment, and that will fix it down. I saw last summer two of the places for which large appropriations were made bv Con gress in the way of improvement and development. One of these places was in Virginia. Thousands of dollars voted by Congress to develope what is there, or what was there during the summer, a dry creek. There was not one drop of water in it, and in the win ter time it very seldom has more than two or three feet ot water. You see looking there where some time there had been water, The creek started nowhere especially, and ended nowhere especially. Thousands of dollars voted for the development of that creek, doing no more good to the public than an approbation for the development of rivers or harbors on the top of your City Hall! Of no more use than an appropiation to run a railroad from Trinity Church steeple to the moon. Swindle. All swindle. Nothing but swindle. Then I saw this summer so another place for which a large ap propriation had been made. It is on the coast of Massachusetts. A sea captain familiar with all the coast pointed out to me where the improve ments were to be, and he told me that .the only use of that large appropriation by the Congress of the United States for that development would be to pile up the iee in winter and impede navi gation. A laugh of derision has gone all around this country about that Con gressional outrage; bat the people who pay the taxes are so stupid they can not see the joke. Oh! how easy it is to vote away other people’s money. Some of the loading men of both polit ical parties were in that national insult, that God-defying outrage. Oh! how much more beautiful it would have been if the Congress of tho United States had practically said. “The peo ple of this country have since the war been taxed until thebiond came. Now let them up. Let us through the la go surplus in the Treasury lower the tax es. Let us give a surprise party to the people and lift their burdens, and let the toiling men and women of America have an easier chance to earn a livelihood for themselves and for their families.” Ah! no, Let the people sweat. 'Grind harder the faces of the poor. Draw the buckle of the harness one hole tighter. Let Dives come to finer linen and the dogs take care of Lazarus’ sores. 1 tell you the oppress ors of the common people had better look out. 1 say the oppressors had better look out. God will mash some of them yet. lie says in his word, “Ho will wound tho hairy scalp of him who goetli ou still in his trespasses,” and while I have noticed that a few more Republican votes than Democrat ic went for that River and Harbor bill, 1 notice to balanco it when there was a move made tor the moderation of the peoples’ taxes, tho Democratic votes were a little larger in number; so side by side the two parties go, shoulder to shoulder; in infamy People ask me whether 1 am a Republican or a Dem ocrat. I tell you once for all, neither, thank God neither! I bring another illustration of the degradation of American politics from the Star Route thievery. What a beau tiful revelation! All the miscreants in that enterprise confirmed politicians. Their guilt'proved beyond all doubt, and if they had been poor men they would have had a trial of four days and would have long been in the peni tentiary; hut as there was a large amount of money to draw on, they had four months of trial, and they are com paratively free. There is condemna tion, great condemnation in this country fora man who steali less than SIOO,- 000. If you are going to steal, if you must steal, if you are bound to steal, steal over SIOO,OOO, or there will be no chance for you! Tho reason peo ple are condemned in this country is because they do not steal enough. There will be other Star Route trials instituted, but as long as there is a large amount- of money to be drawn on, there will be no more convictions. Put that down in your memorandum book. O! it was beautifully consistent that this Star Route crime should em ploy as its counsel the champion infidel of America. Without the Bible there is no system of morals and there is no good government. The prominent in fidel of the country said he did not sec anything wrong in his clients. Of course he did not. There is no God. There is to be no Judgment day. There are no commandments of divine author ity. Let every man do as he pleases. Such a theory as that would soon turn this land into a pandemonium. 0! I am so glad that modern infidelity tells us at last what it believes in. I lift this fact upon before the people ot America, I want it understood. I am so glad now modern infidelity has gone out of tho region of the abstract into the realm of practical morals, and we know what it sanctions and what it favors. But I come down into this present autumn for an illustration of the de gradation ot modern polities. There were three factions in the Saratoga convention—three factions. The forged telegram to the State Committee has been excoriated from one and of the land to the other, and so it ought to be; bnt there is one fraud which has not been ventilated, and I propose to ventilate it; I propose to turn on all the lights this morning. If yon are going to take out a cancer take it all out, root and all. There came in that Saratoga convention an hour of supreme ex citement. It was found that Judge Folger would get the most votes. Then a member of the Oneida delegation in as bold a spirit of fraud as was ever practiced this side t>f Pandemonium, arose and declared that the entire Oneida delegation would now go over from Wadsworth to Cornell, trying to get a stampede in that direction, and without the consent of the men of that delegation. The bold fraud would have been successful bnt for the fact that a member of that "misrepresented Oneida delegation and said in stentorian voice, “I am from the Oneida delegation and I turn my vote over to Judge Fol ger.” Then there was a great cry among the men of the convention: “Call the roll of that delegation; let ns see where they stand.” The roll of the delegation was called, and, instead of finding as that man had represented, that defrauder had represented, that all the delegation had gone over from Wadsworth to Cornell, it was found that seven went for Cornell and four for Wadsworth and two for Folger. The forged telegram was to .help Fol ger. The Oneida fraud was to help Cornell. While you denounce the one you must anathematize the other. Well, my friends, it seems that in that case righteousness was crucified on the centre cross, while on the right and the left were the two thieves—the forged telegram and the Oneida fraud, th lat ter six times worse than the first, be cause the forged telegram misrepresent ed six men. Cornell men I see stand ing with holy horror, their hands out spread toward this forged telegram, while with their skirts they are trying to cover up the Oneida abomination. They cannot cover it up. I haul it out in the presence of the American peo ple as another illustration of the degra dation of modern politics. Cursed is the forged telegram. Cursed is the Oneida fraud. But there are more il lustrations than I have time to bring in. In our own beloved city we wanted anew Raymond Street Jail. A large sum of money was voted for anew Raymond Street Jail. We got anew Raymottnd Street Jail—one of the meanest specimens of jail on earth. Money! money! Who has the money? We have a bridge from New York to Brooklyn. It was to cost six or seven million dollars. Some people think it will cost fifteen or twenty millions be fore they get done. Money! money! Who has got the money? That is the game we are playing now! .Oh! my friends, it seems as if it is time to call a halt in the practices of American politics. To me there is a personal consolation in the fact that both politi cal parties seem to me split beyond reparation. No one will doubt there is an important split in the Republican party. The split in the Democratic party seems bridged over; but if any body thinks that Tammany is dead because Tammany is silent, they make a very great mistake! O! you will see lively times when there conies a distri bution of offices. But I believe by the time 1884 comes there will be a better state of things in this country. No doubt the political parties of the day have had a mission and they have done a great many bright and beautiful things; but their work is ended. In the estimation of all who look at it from a Chiistian standpoint, they are dead, and I wish that some grave-digger would stuff his nose with cologne and put them fifty feet under. O! we want in this land—and I shall live to see the day if God spares my life a few years longer—we want a party in this coun try that shall first of all recognize as its dominant principle the presence of the eternal God in the affairs of men and governments. The trouble is we have no God in American politics. We have a devil, a cohort of had spirits— the devil of office-seeking, the devil of fraud, the devil of injustice, the devil of waterfulness, but no God. We have plenty of gin and plenty of old rye, and plenty of schnapps, and plenty of Congressional infamy, and plenty of Congressional outrage, but no God. lam far from wanting to see a union of church and state in this country, but I would like to see a party that‘would recognize openly atul above board,and without disguise and without cant, the God in whose name Columbus took possession of this country, and in whose name Washington achieved our independence, and in whose name so many blessings have come to us—the God of the last three great wheat crops; the God of these genial skies and these industrious rivers is the God who pro tected our armies in 1770 and 1812 and 1804 ; the God over peaceful and be loved homes—blessed be His glorious name forever. “O!” says someone, “that woulden’t bo fair to put a recog nition of God in a platform of a politi cal party when there are so many peo ple that do not believe in a God. Well, my friends, there area great many peo ple who do not believe in chastity, a great many people who do not believe in the sanctity of the marriage relation, a great many who do not believe in the rights of property, a great many people who do not believe in any style of government—people who would rob and steal and murder. •Do you refuse to make laws against crimimals because there are criminals? Will you refuse to recognize God in governmental affairs because there hre men who do not be lieve in a God? All the good people believe in a God. Your political parties come on with a preamble and they say whereas this and whereas that, and it is simply a hash of old political hacks. There is overwhelming victory to that party which shall come up and have enough courage and enough worshhipfulncss to say in a preamble: “Whereas, This nation has been blessed of God as no FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM. NO. 12. other nation has—blessed in its har vests, blessed in its civilization, blessed in its protection against foreign enemies; therefore we in convention assembled acknowledge His goodness and pray for the continuance of His mercy, and in the name of God we now set up our banners.” A party that has *he strength to say that, establishing such a preamble, followed by commonsensi cal and righteous resolutions as to what you will do for the agricultural, the commercial, the manufacturing, the milling, the literary, the artistic, the moral interests of the country, will sweep this whole land from sea to sea with an overmastering triumph. There is another plank that must go into that platform, and that is the economical plank. The running of the government costs too much money. Away with this machinery of diplomatic correspondence with other nations. Why is it neces sary for us to have expensive establish ments in foreign nations only to settle disputes international?" No minister plenipotentiary ever settle a dispute. It always has to be referred home to the government, after all. Be sides that, while such machinery may have been necessary in the time when it took a letter three weeks to go to London and four or five weeks for the answer to come back, in our time, when the government of the United States can rise in the morning and in one hour talk with St. Peters burg, and talk with London, and talk with Italy, and talk with Madrid, and all the nations ol Europe, there is no use of such lumbrous and expensive machinery. Beside that, it seems to me that it ought not to cost $200,000 to hang one Presidential assassin. There are people who seem to think that the United States government is something merely to steal from. The shoveling out of the national treasury without discrimination and without right is enough to sicken the heart of every philanthropist. Now, let a man arise, North, South, East or West, with enough talent and with enough good character to lead forth in a move ment in which the moral and the eco nomic ideas shall ho dominant over all others, and then yon will see the Ge henna of modern politics fumigated and plowed under. 1 wait for the foun dation of such a party. I wait for the coming of such a man. Where is the Moses? Where is the Joshua? We are as a nation on the way to either re formation or destruction. A flight of doves discovered to Columbus the di rection of the land. We shall come to new and regenerated America by a flight of prayers. Wo need in our homes, in our common schools and in our churches the principles of pure patriotism incul cated. We want to live in a national atmosphere cleansed of all moral con tamination, and the dust of our graves untouched by the feet of the demagogue and the despoiler! God save the State! God save the nation! A Smart Man is one who does his work quickly and well. 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