North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-06-01
The Party OF the Mountain.

The Party OF the Mountain.
Some days ago, when the resolution
providing for the adjournment of Con-
gress was pending before the Senate, Mr..
Drake, of Missouri; irritated by the re-
peated rejection of motions made by him,
called attention to the fact that a number
of Senator'S, elected as Republicans, were
voting on that question with the Demo-
Gratis. lie thought it necessary to place
the notification on record, that Republic
can constituencies might know how their
Senators had betrayed them. The inso-
lence of this remark called forth from
Senator Upton, of Nebraska, very point
ed rebuque, in which he repudiated any
responsibility to the Senator from Missou-
ri for his votes or his speeches, and re-
minded that Senator that there was moth
ing which gave to him authority to lee
ture other Senators as to their party fealty
or allegiance. Mr.. Drake was of the
opinion that no time should be fixed for
the adjournment Of Congress- until he was
satisfied that all the business he deemed it
necessary to transact was safely disposed
of, and, the majority of the Senate not
agreeing with him, he threatened the Re-
publicans with party vengeance. The
Republicans have 81 Of the ~ Senators,
and Mr.. Drake is one of the half dozen
members of the body who assume to be
the managers and dire ctors of the sixty
two. All who agree and vote with Mr..
Drake, that gentleman admits to te with
in the pale, but against those who do not
recognize his infallibility, and who vote as
they think justice and sound policy re-
quire, he pronounces the ''annthema sat-"
The result of this system of dictation,
and arbitrary rule by self-appointed re-
gency, has been to divide the Republican
party into two distinct bodies in each
house. There is nothing in the intellectu-
al abilities, party service, or public expe-
rience of Mr.. Morton, Mr.. Drake, Mr..
Howard, or Mr.. Thayer, to warrant them
in assuming command over anybody, eth
er in or out of the Senate, or to enable
them to say who is or who is not q mem.
Der of the Republican party. Mr.. Drake
and Mr.. Morton insist that the war is still
going on, and there ought to be armies in
the South, subsisting on the enemy, and
holding life, liberty and property at the
summary disposal of courts-martial and
military commissions. They want the
Sheriffs to be clothed in Federal blue, and
armed with the bayonet, and they want a
certificate that the holder is Republican
voter of the Morton stripe to take the
place of law as protection to life, liber-
ty, and property. These men want Con-
gress to rule the United States as the Ma
tional Assembly, under Robespierre, ruled
France,-by DEGREES, and the summary ar
rest of all persons, denounced by the Bull
locks and other unprincipled gamblers in
public rights. They ring the changes on
''disloyalty" as did the party of the Msun-
tain on the Girondists, and they assume
that a white skin in Georgia is as cenclu-
sive evidence of disloyalty as clean shirt
was of aristocracy in France. This kind
of blatherins has been tolerated long
enough. The Republican party, and the
people generally, have become tired of it.
From long practice in denouncing every
body outside of Congress, these gentlemen
turn upon such of their associates as do not
agree with them, and hurl imprecation
and anathemas with seeming disregard
Of consequences, not knowing, apparent
", that they are minority in every State
in the Union, and that the attempt 70
narrow the policy Of the Republican party
OF the United States to the suppression Of
an imaginary band of Ku-Klux in the
State of Georgia, is an insult to the pop
ular intelligence, which, If longer per
sisted in, will elicit the popular indigna-
ton at the polls. The Republican party
has been ten years in power. It has car
ried the country safely through pro-
tracted civil war and the perils of re-
The whole country is at
peace, and the only remaining distractions
TO national prosperity are, first, excessive
taxation, and second, excessive dema-
gogueism Of the Drake and Morton order.
1t will not satisfy the people who are de-
handing a revision of the revenue laws,
and reduction of taxes, to cry out, "The
are coming" The people ask
The government to relieve the national in
lustry from taxation, which is no longer
necessary, and it will not do for the Re-
publican party to answer that something
must be done for Governor Bullock.
1t is full time that the preposterous and
measures of the Drake and
Sumner faction should be abandoned and
he country be permitted to have peace.
The nation wants no more war, in Con-
yress or out of it, and the sooner Repub-
lean Senators address themselves to peace
measures, and especially to reduction of
axation to the peace standard, the more
certainly will the Republican party retain
he confidence Of the people. without
which it must cease to exist.-C Chicago
May 3lst.