Abstract

The Republican Church

The full text of the address to the people of the Republican Congressional Committee has been published. The signers are mostly politicians of a not very high order, starting with John A. Logan, but the document is ingenious and perhaps effective, and is intended to influence the coming Congressional elections, and will doubtless do so. The most telling part of it is the opening, in which it compares the career of the Republican party with the preceding period of Democratic rule, and in which, as in all such comparisons, there is a great variety of curious evasions and omissions. When the address proposes to the Republican voter an indefinite continuance of the confidence hitherto reposed in the party in power, it brings up again a point of a good deal of importance, and that is, the length to which this confidence ought to be carried.