Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-10-28
The New Grant Campaign.

flag of empire that the Republicans are
going into this election. The defeat Of
Blaine has discredited the bloody shirt,
and Senator Conkling has raised the
new standard of his party. In the dark
days of the civil war Lord John Russell
provoked much angry comment on this
side of the water by declaring that, in
his opinion. the North was fighting not
for Union but for empire. Honest men
1T the North resented this saying, for
they knew that, without distinction of
party, they were giving themselves and
their treasure to war, not to found n
new government here on force and
wealth, but TO maintain the Govern
ment of our fathers upon its ancient
basis of justice and of equal rights. an
indissoluble Union of indestructiblo
States. What the North resented rs a
SANDER from the lips of British states
man, Senator Conkling now proclaims
as the true policy Of the great party
which has been coerced into accepting
him as its leaoer. He speaks OF the
South as Englishmen of the school OF
Mr.. Froude speak of Ireland He al
most reproduces, indeed. the Il very
language in which Mr.. Froude lameuts
1.-THE fatal contiguity" of Ireland to
England, and intimates. il he does not
plainly say, that the United States
would be more prosperous and happier
if the Gulf of Mexico washed the shores
of Pennsylvania and Ohio and Indiana
and Illineis. He does not trouble him.
self about the negroes. The Republican
aifectation of particular anxiety rs to
the "wards of the Nation" belongs to
the policy of the bloody shirt, and, aswe
have said, Senator Conkling plainly secs
that the bloody shirt has served out its
time and gone to rags. He probably
would not object to seeing the negroes
of the South drowned out with all the
rest of the South. He is q practical,
not a sentimental Statesman" His
aim is to make the masses of the North
ern Republicans drunk with the lust Of
unbridled political domination; TO beget
in them toward the South feeling as
nearly rs possible analogous with the
feeling of the English ruling classes
toward Ireland. Were it possible for
the Republican party, animated by such
a spirit as this, TO secure the Presidency
in 1880, what would be the outcome, Of
its success? Would it be the perpdt-
uation and development Of the pacific
Democratic policy to which President
Hayes gave in his adhesion nearly four.
years ago, and thanks to which the ,
country is now enjoying all the bless ..
ings of public harmony and of gen-
eral prosperity? Has not Senator Conk-
ling necessarily denounced President
Hayes and his Administration rs sunk
in infamy?' Did he not turn aside in
his speech last week to sneer ut Presi-
dent Hayes, and to warn General Gar
field that any attempt on his part 10
initiate that mean pretendcr to superior.
political sanctitv and to evade the will ,
ofthe friends of Grant would be promptly ,
and mercilessly chastised? 80.
Were the Republican party, dominate
ed as it now is by Senator Conkling
and the friends of Grant, to elect Gen.
eral Garfield, the power of the Execu-
tive would be welded not by him at all
but by them. He has already humbled
himself before them and bound himself
to submit the Executive patronage to
their control. Their policy would be
the policy of the Administration, and it
would be steadily directed to the single
end of the reelection in 1884 of Grant,
in whom the idea of centralized En-
pire. as opposed to the idea of Federal
Union, is incarnatcd. While it, was
Gratis could be lured into making weak =
and unpopular nomination, and that the
could be made to nominate
Grant, the friends of Grant took quite
another tone towards the South from
that in which Senator Conkling now
proclaims his new Civil War. General
Grant then went about the land telling
the truth and declaring that the South i,
1a I'D In ota I'D gf,.
"a as guaranteeing to them all the rights
md privileges of free people, without 10
regard to race, color or previous condi-
ion of servitude. General Grant then
warned the people of the North against =
,ectionalism, and told them TINT u
hey shave no reason to doubt
will fulfil all they have promised
n loyalty to the flag and the Nation.'' =
Then the hope of Grant and of his
friends was TO secure the votes of the
south in the Electoral College as against
ome weak and unpopular Democratic ~
candidate. Now the circumstances i
rave changed, and the programme
.hanges with them. The Democrats
rave strong and popular candidate.
The Republicans have n weak and I'M
andidate has surrendered absolutely
o Grant and his friends. Should he by
my chance be elected they will have
he field open before them. In the vir-
ually certain alternative of his defeat
hey alone at leas. will survive to be ,
he true Republican party. Around
hem will gather all the sectional oppo- y.
ition to the National Administration -
# President Hancock, and all the cen! q
ralizing influences in the land all ;.
eething and working together for the y
of Grant in 1884. 1t will
'e safest and best to deal with them
low. The election of General Garfield
will mean an immediate restoration of
he Grant rule at Washington. with an p,
Inevitable denomination of Grant in :
1874. The election of General Hancock .'
will mean the final re-establshment Of
he Union, and that once more assured. O..
he machinists of empire will toll and 10
lot in vain.-N. y. World.
- What \ pitiful hypocritical =.
raud is this man Weaver. He travels
round the country pretendinO to ND .