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The Present, Not The Past

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Parent Issue
Day
14
Month
August
Year
1874
Copyright
Public Domain
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Krom the Boston Post. The posthuuious style of carrying on a political campaign must be conceded to be ft perfect novelty in this country. Not only is the Kepublican address attempting to arraign a party that has been out of power thirteen years, but it proposes for living issues questions that had their discussion and settlemont before the Republican party was born ! If this is not iintiquity in politics, it is difficult to say what is. The Republican party might as well have gono back and selected their issues in the colonial times. The Democrats are not advocating the Ostend manifestó or discussing the Louisville canal. They do not ask the people to take their stand on the expunging resolution nor to exfiume the question of the Cherokee war, although on hard money and low tariff they are just where they always were, and where the country inust itself come again. The llepublicans supposo they can jump these thirteen years of their rule and carry the canvass of the present year back into the times beforo the war. That is what they nieau by progress. That style of progress would soon refuse to touch living questions at all, on the ground that it was premature to do so until the past was eutirely closed up. A vicious currency, a prohibitory tariff', expénditures increased by fifty inillions for the last two years over the preceding ones, Credit Mobiliers, Sanborn contracts and district rings and public corruption without limit ; these are every ono of them living issues, vet the Republican address omits all reference to thein whatever in its solioitude for the immediate settlement of questions that occupied the country before its party ever saw light.

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Old News
Michigan Argus