The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-08-08
THE REPuBLIcAN PARTY RErIRrs.


THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ReTIRRs.
Illinois, on the first Monday of
June, elected % Judges to her Circuit
Court, besides two Supreme Court
judges and several Court Judges to
iii vacancies. These judicial officers
are now filled with Judges selected by
nominating conventions, and elected
because OF their politics. aud parti-
san Legislature labored for months to
arrange the circuits so as 10 secure
the largest possible number of Re.
publican judges.
Nevertheless, in all Illinois but four
Republican Conventions have been
held TO nominate candidates for Cir
cult Judge, and of these one adjourn.
ed, falling TO agree, without nomina.
tion.
In other words, tho Republican
party OF Illinois, which east $4,000
majority Tor Grant, has laid down It's
organization, and sufrenderd the Bench
of the State 10 any nominations rather
than have a contest with the tSarmsrs'
Oranges,
Says the Chicago Tribune:
The farmers movement has para
lyzed the Republican party in Illinois,
and the paralysis promises TO endure
for some time. The movement is on.
iy in its iufancy. It's interference in
the election OF judges is not by any
means thorough. In many counties
the organization is incomplete, and il
was no part ct the programme ia the
hTst Instance 10 Interfere with the
Courts. Farmers nominations of can
didates for judges are but an incident;
the organization has further and more
distinctive work before it. In No
Yember Hext there is to be elected. in
every county in this State a corps of
county officers, including treasurers,
county clerks, surveyors, etc, which
have heretofore been regarded as the
exclusive spoils of party managers.
The farmers organizations will prob
ably nominate their own men, and
elect them 10 all these places, except
in the larger cities. A year later, in
1874, they viii have their organization
so complete IN every township that
they will take the election of the
twenty-six State Senators and the I53
Representatives in the Legislature
into their own hands. We do not
say that it is altogether desirable. but |
we look upon il as highly probable. |
They viii also take Into their own
hands the election of Members OF
Congress, and will select men not be-
cause of their advocacy of the fifteenth |
amendment nor of their loyalty dur
ing the war, but because of their snp- /
posed fidelity TO farmers interests"
II has been one of the standing /
maryels OF our politics that a party 1
whose policy was so peculiarly hurt
ful 10 tlie interests of farmers as =
elass-and that class the largest
among all our Industries could never. /
tbcieSs, retain It's power and maintain
Its policy. But-the end is drawing
nears The farmers have merely be-
gun to combine, they scarcely know
for what, though well enough do they
know against what. and the Republi-
can party of Illinois reIires from the
field OF battle where for years it has
victorious. The statesmeat
who show'to the farmers of the AVest
and the planters of the South just
what 1t is-tO-wit. our protective leg
islation and our fuctuating currency
that cheats their labor of its due
rewards and plumbers them alike of
the bounty Of Providence and the
fruit of their own toll. will confer
upon them the first political blessings.
The party which inscribes Free Tradl
and Farmers. Rights upon its bannes
opn possess the future and make il
memorable for services done 20 pan
kind