Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-09-04
ENEMIES OF THE REPUBLIC.
AN PARTY.
Who They Are, what They Are. and
why They Are.

why They Arc.
From FIX Gov Stones Speech at Knoxville, last
week.
But this great party of freedom
and progress has it's enemies. No
good cause ever escaped them. The
better and holier the cause, tho more
implacable and devilish the opposi-
ton. The republican party has
grown up against all the evil forces
of the age, and 80 far has triumphed
over all. Every friend of human
slavery, every traitor in arms against
the flag, every sympathizer with trea-
son, every man who jeered at the
skeleton forms at Andersonvllle and
Libby, every man who opposed the
war measures of the government, ev-
cry man who rejoiced at rebel victo-
ries, every draft sneak, and draft
skedaddler, was an enemy of the re-
publican party from the moment the
flag was shot down from the walls of
Sumter. As the years pass away and
new issues are developed, new ene-
mics appear. They are the accident
Of the times, and are spawned by
events. They are but parasites, prey
ing upon the body polite. They do
not produce they only consume. They
destroy, but do not build. Every age,
and every nation of the old world
has produced them. They are the
pariahs of society. Naturally enough
they attack everything that is decent
or good. But they will disappear
with the transient events that
brought them into life. Their spc.
cial luminosity is against the repub-
lican party. Every repudiator who
would have the government violate
its obligations, and destroy forever
the credit Of this nation, is an enemy
of the republican party. Every com
munist who would violate the law
of property, every Mollie Mcguire il
the mountains of Pennsylvania, every
man who applied the incendiary
torch to station houses, railroad car
and locomotives, every Kearneyit,
who would wage determination wa
against a helpless and unoffendins
race sheltered by our flag, over!
bowling hoodlum, every politica
mounte-bank and dead beat, ever,
villainous tramp who outrages hu
mainly by insulting the pure-heartet
woman who gives him bread, al
these and their kindred spirits, arr
born enemies of the republican
party. From such q pestilentia
and ungodly spawn may HEAVIER
shield our land and people. Ifimme
date danger menaces the foundation
of our political system. 1t is from thi
source it emanates. Don't misunder
= stand ME. have not connected thes
evil agents with the Greenback party
. l don't say, or intimate, that thes
men compose that organization.
would not say that. For in that par
+ ty, rs in all others, there are highl
, honorable and patriotic men. l d
not doubt the deep earnestness of il
masses. l believe they desire moth
ing but good to the country, and i
| this country, as elsew here, they woul
' spurn utilization with these polite,
) parasites. But what do say is this
By the leaders of this Greenback pal
ty, these creatures are mildly descrit
:. ed as the unemployed and oppresse
classes. They are not condemned b
the leaders or editors of that party, q
, far as have observed. They hav
not yet united with the editors of tn
old party warning tho public again
this turbulent and dangerous elemen
Every act of violence perpetrated
these lawless men is attributed to tt
resumption act and the contraction ,
the currency. They don't ca
them tramps. In some myst
s rious manner, and by some strane
. law Of gravitation, under vario,
y names and guises, these soci
: and political monstrosities are bein
e mustered into the fiat party. The
0 men are formidable only by reaso
, of their numerical strength. The
:, possess no other force. Like Il
6 6 mountain avalanche they may crut
u and destroy. They go where the
e can do the most harm By what kin
= of moral or intellectual infuen1
- they gravitate to ward that party,
am unable to say. But the fact r
mains, and cannot be refuted, tn
n this filthy rabble is being CAREFUL
n groomed and chApcroned by Brio
a Pomeroy and coadjutators. Ever
:, man of them, who votes, will vo
l. the fiat ticket. And every decel
:. man who votes with that party, mu
u recognize this leprous horde as b
e political allies. This is tho feast
e which honest green hackers will be il
vited. When ordered by Napoles
to lead the old guard and save Il
If Empire at Waterloo, Ney, "the bra
# est of the brave" placed himself
If front and, preferring death to defe,
y said: "Follow me and see how
marshal of France can die ON Il
y field of battle" We need the spill
Of this heroic Frenchman. But Y
shall have it in this campaign. I'll
: old guards, the tried veterans Of OF
,. err conflicts, are coming to the fror
u They are determined to preserve Il
jewels of freedom upon the affairs
the Constitution. Forward, the
: and let the world the world see no
: we can fight another battle for Il