Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-29
DEmoCnATIC TRICKEnY.

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The opposition to the Republican
party, the "What-is-its," dare not give
themselves name. They seem to
have exhausted the aliases Of Dcmoc-
racy, and stick their tails between
their legs and sneak out into the can
vass nameless. Such party, anxious
to cover up its reasonable, BASTARD
ly record, that causes an annual ex-
pcnditure of $l47,OOO,OOO to pay the
expenses of its rebellion, seeks, cut
tie fish fashion. TO make a terrible
smoke to hide in, by continual bel
lowing OH the whisky question. Nat
nrally enough, they have espoused
the cause of free whiskey, and they
seek tUhaye the Republican party in
sert temperance plank into their
platform, something which the party
has never done. There can be no
question from the past record of the
Republican party but that a large ma
jority of it are earnest advocates of
temperance, and that If the cause of
temperance shall ever suffer at its
hands, it will not be because Of dis
position that such shall be the case,
but will arise from an error in judg-
ment. There are Republicans who
would make change in our present
laws, because they think they could
be made more efficient in some places
without changing them for other local.
ties. If there be those who have any
idea that from the Republican party
of Iowa there shall be any but strin-
gent measures taken in regard to the
regulation of the sale of liquor, they
widely miscalculate. 1t is temper
ancc party, and there is really no diff
ference of opinion in it upon this
subject, save as to the details of the
law, which will be most practical and
efficient. As to this, it forms no
basis whatever, worthy of being
made grounds of division in the
party. AS we would not have thought
of dividing the Republican party on
such question during the rebellion,
we would not divide it now upon the
same course of reasoning. The most
intelligent and best temperance men
of the country may vary in the details
Of temperance laws, but time, alone,
can tell which is the better.
Give us temperance men from prin-
ciple and practice, and we will be
content. If men are notoriously in
temperate, often inebriated, it will
be duty to not place such men in
positions to make temperance laws.
Rotten in all the vital issues, with
most unseemly record, this nameless
party seeks to divide the party oflib-
erty, of temperance, of patriotism,
with its splendid record, record that
is the pride of oppressed humanity
the world over, by injecting discord,
if possible, into its ranks. 1t was inst
SO during the dark days of the rebel
lion. They sought TO divide Union
men in 1864, by placing at the head of
their National ticket Union Gener-
al, and set him upon a platform COM
manding our armies to take their
hands from off the necks of fighting
traitors they even here in our own
State pushed to the front for Govern
or, another Union General, and led
him out of the Union army short
time after his political defeat; they
foisted ambitious, misguided soldiers
upon their ticket throughout the
State, producing the well known pos
sum tickets, and from that day to this,
they have tried one cunning trick af-
ter another, ending with cuddling
with Changers, and now, with a spe-
cious plea for license, meaning free
whisky added, try to divide the Re-
publican party. The substratum of all
this, is Democracy, and though they
charge upon Republicans, cowardice.
because the party does not. in Iowa,
do what it never has done, make n
test issue of the details of temperance
laws, they do not give themselves II
name, because of their dastardly cow
ardice. All over the State they have
putLiberals in nomination, just as they
did union soldiers during the war, be-
cause in their weakness they want to
cajole Republicans into grabbing for
Democratic chestnuts, preparatory to
the campaign Of 1876, and this is
why, when the child came TO he
named, they were speechlcss. Last
year the Democratic party was dead
and buried this year it is so far res
urrected that it goes bobbing around
quite lively, with anti-monop and
Liberal figure heads here and there,
but its name still lies i'm the tomb.
Here and there are papers started on
the anti-monop dodge. and within the
present year they howled fearfully
about the Democratic resurrection.
but now they are steaming hot DEM
ocratic advocates, and they Join i'm
the chorus of charging cowardiee np-
on the Republican party, as glibly as
anybody. The people have seen and
met these tricks, and overthrown
their perpetrators again and again.
and this Falls election will be no ex-
| ception to the rule.
That the readers of the COURIER
may have knowledge of the man
ner in which the organ of Democracy
in this county is treating Republican
candidates, we publish the following
from its last issue, without comment
| "Father HedriclS was mound
builder, assisted Noah in getting out
the timhers for his ark, and all that,
yet he has never lost his ambition.
From time immemorial he has been
hankering after Office. He has songht
it at the hands Of Wings, Anti-Monor-
olists, Republicans, Anti Railroad
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