The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-08-12

ssI,iy in Scott and Pap in Cedar"

to see this pig in Scott and PUP in
Cedar" policy adopted with such out
spoken cantlur by enc of the leading pa
pcrs in that party, as is done; by the Cun'
stffpt:on--JGdgc Cla.,eit's Constitution.
1t appears, from the remarkable article
Gates The "rig in Scott and pup in Cedar
as being most excellent course for the
Democratic party to pursue, that the
Kangaroo convention was bent on loftcr
themes than the mere choice of Il name.
1t was goirg to fix on the Republican
party the responsibility for the war, the
corruption in this and all other countries,
the rains in Iowa and the drouth in Wis
consin; the loss of Donaldson's balloon;
the grasshorpcrs III Kansas, AMI the little
red bug that destroy d the grasshoppcrs.
1t was going to sXpcl all the ms and put
in all the outs, and restore the govern
cnt to the primitive simplicity and spot,
less purity which were characteristics of
politics in the garden of Eden until the
cntcTcHCc vi tllc iiiS1 AHti'4hoit'i o'ist
who insisted on complete and equitable
division of the apple crop. II was going
to place in every office IN the State of
Iona remarkable mon who had somehow
or other slipped into the world without
the faint of original sin, and who had
grown better and purer every day Of their
lives, and wore snowy wings folded
ACROSS ,hcir backs under their shirts. 1t
was going TO abolish theft, arson, murder,
lying, profanity, cheating, gambling,
Gru-, no, it would not abolish that, il
would "juliciouslY regulate" it-sho.t
crops, III horn AL, the crizootic, boil>,
railroads, the national banks, AMI the
fifteenth amendment. And it was gGin%
to clcct-a Democratic governor of Iowa.
No wonder it had no time to think of a
name. 1t could not, and will not, the
C0nstituti0n says, abe diverted by the
question of names Or other immatcrial
issues"
Immortal Gods; what Il spectacle! An
organization that claims to have Il mission
to cvangclizc this great State: that is go
ing TO tear down and build up; that goes
forth with the intention of conquoring
and to conquer, if it can; that is to turn
and ovcrturn; that is determined to desc
late .nd lay waste all things and all
place bearing the mark of Republican,
ism, that it may build on the ruins 4
broad and enduring empire of Dcmoc-
this, and expects to accomplish it all
without IL name. Loftily announces that
a name is 'immatcrial." Expects to
turn the world upside down, and then
when it has accomplished that work, will
not he able to tell the wondering inhab-
itants who or what did it. Starts out to
rcorganize the universe, and starts with
out a name No more ridiculous would
it be for man to enquire ut the post Of.
flee for a letter, and blandly tell the
amazed clerk that Il name was quite i'm.
material and useless, and therefore he
did not have any.
But the shallow sophistry of the Con-
stitution's argument Is apparent in the
succeeding paragraphs. We pass over
the lame attempt of that paper to quote
scripture, in which it attributes to the
Master Il remark that can no where be
found in &c Bible, merely pauSing to
say that it is about as near right, or rather
it is no more glarin@ly wrong and incor-
rect than everything else in the article
We pass on to the paragraph which OK
poses the cowarlicc, and the weak, shut
filing, time serving policy of the Demo
cratic party. The Constitution says:
"If our friends in Henry county can do
this most efficiently under the name of
Anti Monopolists, |, them 80 ahead with
the good work. If in Jefferson, they pre-
fer Liberal Democrat, let them turn
heather to the right nor the left. If in
Lee, Dubuque or Wapcllo, the name of
Democrat is most potent, let every hand
be put to that pillow, with no looking
back"
There it is, in nut shell. If that is not
pig in Scott and pup in Cedar" We
would like to he informed just what is
meant by that phrase BE Anti-Monop
in Henry county, Liberal Democrat in
Jefferson, Democrat in Lee and Du-
buquc." Be anything and everything to
catch votes; it will all be Democratic if
We win. ANY color" said the darby,
buying neck tie, ANY color, so its
blue Wherever you can catch Il vote
by adopting new namc, says Dcmoc-
racy, take that name. This is making
the question of names an ''immateral
ISSUE with Il vengeance, 1t is tho most
contemplate political cowar,!icc: it is the
bascst trckcry; it is the most shameless
dcmagogism that ever disgraCcd Iowa
politics. 1t is the only open defense and
advocacy of the pig in Scott and pup in
Cedar" policy that has been made in the
State, and us a matter of course it cmi-
mates from u Democratic paper. 1t is de-
void of intelligence rs it is rcplctc with
mean, shallow knavery. 1t is throwing
the bare, Undated hook among the Lib
erals and Anti Monopo.ists, and saying,
"Thcre, you fools, bite at that" and
gudgeons they are, indeed, who will he
so easily caught. Pig in Scott and pup
in Cedar" Anti-Monop in Henry, Liberal
Democrat in jefferson, and Democrat in
Lee" Could any two sentences sound
more like parable and its Interpretation?
Uacheyf.