The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-06-10
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A BAD FIX.

born, it was claimed, a new and re.
formed Liberal" political party. Oh
course it was in opposition to the Re-
publican party, which was pronounc-
ed venal and corrupt. From time 10
time we heard of the progress OF the
political bantling-its nurses claiming
that it was thriving well, even when
compelled to admit that it had the
collie terribly in its first months OF
life, and like to have died teething a
wear later. But Notwithstanding
these symptoms of a poor constitution,
last fall it was put into AMT Menop-
oily" short-clothes and pronounced
fully able to walk alone while its
sponsors. from John z. Irish down, or
up, to Joseph Weaver, called upon all
the people to fall down and worship
stopping in the same breath to re-
mark funereslly over the newly made
grave Of that ''putrid "reminiscences,
Democracy, or to shed few croco
die tears over corrupt and etfete He
publicanism. And so under the anx
ious care of legion of grand-moth-
ers, nurses and interested Orpheus {.
Kers, the Wanted infant prodigy es-
saved its walking lesson. Alas, for
all their hopes. 1t proved hydro
cephalic, rickety and weak in the
spine; the people saw its deformity
and wouldn't bow down worth cent,
and the poor thing, which was in re-
Atty only puppet, was mournfully
put into its little bed and covered up
with an adverse majority of some
twenty thousand votes.
But now it is 1875, and the neces-
sites Of new political campaign are
at hand. What to do in the premises,
has been the all important question
among the managers OF last years
puppet show. And after much eau
cu.s ng and little harmony what did
they do? Why they proceeded to
the grave of poor old Democracy,
scared away the self constituted Sex
ton, ruthless y snatched up he corpse
and called lover the signature of rep
resentatives Of Eve shades of political
faith, among them the frightened
Sexton himselD "Democratic Con-
veniion" for the oath day Of this
month. Then there ,cas trouble. Ev-
cry here and there some ex-Repubf-
can who had so far committed himself
that he could not with any degree of
dignity step back into the ranks of
his old party, fell to shouting that he
was no Democrat; ne was pure Re-
former,a Liberal, an Anti Monopolist,
an anything you please except Dem
ocrat. But all to no avail. The good
old Democratic war horses, who sub
mitted to the puppet business only
under protest, have the tloor,and very
sensibly are saying: "The opposition
"to the Republican is the Democratic
.'party the nation over, and it's all
'.nonsense trying any longer to hum
"bug Iowa voters. Honesty is the
ebest policy" To the thin-skined
advocates for keeping up the farce of
the last few years, Sam Evans in the
Ottumwa Democrat, says:
81 the State Convention is not to be
a Democratic one, why was it called as
suchs
Who is TO be deluded by attaching the
word Liberal" to the State Convention:
What particular plank in a straight
Democratic platform is to be modified
by using the word Liberal?
How many voters are we to conciliate
by prefxing "Lioeral''to our Democracy,
and what are their names9
Who wants Liberal" attached to his
Democracy Has he always been Dem,
ocrat, or is he one of those fellows who
once declared that the Democratic party
was dead"
And to those who prophesy that the
votes of ex-Republicans will be lost
to the opposition should it persist in
calling things by their real names, the |
old Roman of the Jackson county
Sentinel argues thus:
ITO 60 back to party which they &C |
knowledge 10 be venal, prof1igate and !
corrupt to such degree as to render 1t
wholly unworthy OF confidence or sup
port rather than act with an organiza- |
ton against which the name by which it |
may be designated constitutes the prin.
cipal objection, would appear to US very
much like surrender of common sense
to weak and silly prejudice Such
proceeding would be fit parallel to tina.
of another astute chap who bit his own
nose of to spite his face"
1t is true that the Sentinel seems
to forget, when talking about "going
"back to the venal and corrupt Re
publican party" that the only alter
native is to stay in party which has
been publicly proclaimed by his own
allies, himself tacitly asserting, "dead
'and rotten, a putrid reminescence,"
etc., which fact must very seriously
affect the force of his argument to
those for whom it is intended. But
the situation is, we confess, per-
picking one to Anti Republicanism in
Iowa, by whatever name it may be
called. 1t is an unmitigatedly "bad
fx;"bnt it is the old story of the man
who digged pit into which to fall,
and the good book certainly does not
intimate that he deserved, or should
receive, any help in getting out.
At West Liberty last week one
Willard shot his wife's brother, James