Harper's Weekly

“ The Republican serves his party best who aims to remove all political disabilities of every kind just as fast as the welfare of the loyal people permits and no faster. That does not seem to us a reason for excluding a man otherwise qualified from the Senate, but for sending him to it. ”

“ There is no citizen of the Essex District more interested in the course of its representative upon national questions than any citizen of California or New York. Moreover, as the Republican party is a national party, every member of it has an equal interest in its general policy, and an equal right to express his opinions of the expediency of its nominations; while citizens of the United States and honest men will not hesitate in the highest public interest to criticise public men and their conduct every where and always. ”

“ It is important only as it may affect those who do not reflect closely upon the situation and upon the words in which the Chicago resolutions were expressed. If, indeed, there are those who would perpetually disfranchise any considerable number of citizens, without regard to the condition of the country and with no reference to the public safety, they are merely blind or vindictive partisans who are not to be counted in the Republican party, and whom its Convention has excluded by the terms of its platform. ”