The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-07-01
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= 4 6cine doctr;nal points for expediency
Ike. and Il can afford 10 be Just as in
20 eusely partisan as it pleases, conscious OF
+ thick and-th constituency that knows
q fealty but 10 the regular candidates,
WINS no allegiance but to the platform OF
& he convention, and absOrbs an epidemic
byalty with the air it breathes In view
these facts the action of the Iowa Re
- ublican convention of this year has been
d BOXED forward TO with a good deal OF Gu
osity. The new element which the far
ners' movement had injected into the Po-
tical situation possessed weight and an
Snport which not even the arrogant and
~ itherto invincible Republicanism of Iowa
ould afford 10 ignore, aud there was
general anxiety 10 see how the managers
e { the party in convention would contrive
4 o meet or dodge the new issue it present
ID, as The case might be-
The set Of resolutions which we printed
4 esterday show that the Iowa Republicans
ave faced the issue squarey In fact il
nay be said that they have confronted the
situation with an iron cheek" and an eff
E. rontery of pure brass that cannot fail TO
Il hallenge admiration in one sense though it
nay excite disgust in all others. The pre-
.,nble of these s-solutions sets forth with
he fervor of self glorifcation proverbial of
E he party that it is and always has been
in favor of the elevation OF the whole
n American people socially, morally and in
1boint of education. The social part of
his elevation of the whole people at
he hands of the Republican party has quite
ecently been attested in the election of a
kenator from Oregon under an alias, and
n Who subsequently turns out 4 r0ae and a
Digamist Other instances might be cited
n out this one, being the freshest will serve
) a Representatives case. There may be
peope dislstyiI enough TO question the I'D
\ vantages Of this sort of social elevation,
: but so long as Simon Cameron, the conf
Nlential friend and adviser Of President
vi irant, warmly indOrses Senator Mitchell,
~ alias Nipple, there eau be no doubt that
his sort of thingsis what is meant by so
cial elevation in the Republican yernacu,
lar The same incident might be recited
o. % show the tendency Of the moral eleva-
= ton which, we are told, has been a part
! nj the Republican party's mission. As to
the educational fraction of this tripartite
exaltatiou. il may not be amiss TO call at
II tention 10 o. o. Towards exploits as a
Republican educator, both as the head OF
the freedmans bureau, and the president
of Howard University-the latter being u
scandal of quite recent developement
4 n Following this joyous preamble are
right resolutIQAs Of which the first three
Isl the mVnopolies, which has become a ques
7. ton Of public moment through the organ
Lation OF the producers into AN independent
j political power. In these resolutions tn,
4 Iowa Republicans boldly take GROUND
g against all mon0polies, and demand legisa
ton TO regulate the operations and restrict
y the powers Of the railway companies. Thi,
from the party whose policy has been fol
twelve years to foster monopoly by ever,
Is means known IN subsidized and subsidiary
q legislation, that has steadily voted the PEG
pies lands and bonds tO railway companies
the peoples money ~ steamship lines, and
taxed the whole people 10 favor tn,
manufacturing mOnOpolies OF small
section, Is what might be called
Y the sublimity Of cool impudence. But il
a may win. The farDhers may seize the bait
"A aud cant may overthrow reason and silenca
N logic Just as it slyEays has done 1t NIGH
MA have Mmed that modesty should hav,
ruled MI State whose senator was in IN,
M habit AW selling his powers to railway com
\ ra--..,ssfor $4,000; but, judged according
\ ~ the Republican maxim that etfrontery
wins IN proportion 10 its brazenness, lowi
was Of all States the proper one to lead of
~ the anti-mOnOpoly new departure OF
Republranism.
The fourth resolution heartily applaud,
ne terretng out and exposing of corrup
ton which was accomplished by the last
'E congress, and demands the punishment %
'uniaithful publis men. The President
has been furnishing one uniaithful publ,
man John A. Bingham, by exiting hin
% Japan in the capacity of American min
az 80 lat Il kn nj
punishment contemplated by the low,
Il adherents of President Grant? The sixth
III resolution denounces the back salary stea
az "hagrantly improper and infamous
and declares that IL should secure .he
.-.s,iomnatiOn OF all Who we're parties 4
81 ~" This is broad and iorcible, a. a gen
crafty. Ben Butler was party 70 tn,
salary grab No doubt, the Iowa Repub
hcans are free tocondemn him. Presiden
: Grant was also party 10 it, since by hi
approval only il became a law. Do III
adhereuts of President Grant irciude hin
Ia their condemnation Ii 50, where /
tn Republican paper in Iowa, or out of it
for that matter, that dares, as an organ o
the party to condemn the President specif
ically and by name for the share he took il
this transaction which is so glbly de
nounced in general terms as "hagrantly in
famous p
The seventh resolution declares il 10 b,
the duty of every Republican to oppos,
the election Of bad man and incompetent
official, whether he be a candidate on tn,
Republican or any other ticket This i
sentence that would be worth writing il
letters Of gold, had not the insincerity o
all such professions been demonstrated u,
~ longer ago than last fall by the election o
la Hartranit, in Pennsylvania, by shee
Z# force of fraud aud corruption, and despite
Al the opposition Of all honest Republican,
acting upon the very maxim which tn,
Iowa Republicans now boldly and ofiiciall,
promulgate, The need of votes and thu
danger Of national defeat is over now, anC
& the Republican party can afford ~ be out
N spoken and brave. But does any one re
member any such resolution as having beer
adopted by the Iowa Republicans last year
= Then was the time when it would hav,
# had Some significance. Now it is as empty
a. last years bird s-nest, and as useless
But all these resolutions were draw
adr0itly, with the Maehiavellian maxim,
OF diplomacy, 10 serve as a preface tO TIA,
following bait to cover the point of tn,
hook that Is 10 capture those gudgeons, The
b Changers:
"Rss0irsd That We sympatbizc wis every move
meut 20 secure Tor agricultural laborrrs their du
influence, Interest,". and righus. aud the Repdblcal
party VIII b. their alp Ia every iust effort to az
tain that end.
This makes the situation doubly inter
esting The organs OF the Iowa Granger
have steadily promised the nomination o
an independent ticket by that organization
The Republicans have pressingly invite,
the Changers 30 support the Republican
ticket. II Is a piscatorial effort worthy o
old Izaak Walton himself The interest
: ing question is, VIII the FISH bite psf
L0His Republican.
Tho Republicans and Grangers in Iowa.
The Republican State Convention o
Iowa, at its meeting last Wednesday, 20