The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-07-08
The Party of Hate.

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party Of dead issues. IL is the party Of
retrogression. and deals with questions
long since settled. It is without a living
issue. Ii matters not what Republican
Journal you read. there is but one line oil
argument (2l-the dead past. From
Maine to Californis, from the metropoli
tan dailies to the patent inside weeklies
the worn out s'bloody shirt is Haunted,
and the peoples prejudiees appealed to
in behalf Of the Republican party. To
read the stalwart press one would imagine
that terrible revolution had Just closed
and another was impending-that the Re
publican party was not the exponent of
any set of principles. but that the country
was divided on the question of union or
disunion. There must and will come q
resctionary sentiment - it can not
always be thus. The campaign of blood-of
embittered prejudice, partisan malice and
sectional hate. csnnot-will not win. The
war closed in 1865 and peace reigns in all
sections of the country-and yet these
Republican organs continue to ferment ill
feeling-stir up bad plood. excite the .evil
passions of the people-in fact appeal
directly to the people to keep alive Bit
terness between sections which all good
citizens deplore. The Republican papers
do this-and for what-for the purpose of
keeping in power the Republican party.
There is not to-day Republican of any
prominence or intelligence, who honestly
believes the country is in danger-the
Republican organs do not believe it. What,
then.is the object? It is to detrsct attention
from the infamous record of the Republic
can party 1t is the only thing possible
for them to do. The Republicans dare not
go before the people on their real record
they dare not discuss the living questions
draw comparisons the OUT
come would be the effectual overthrow of
their party. Viewed from an impartial
standpoint the Republican party is abso-
lutely without single living issue.
The disgraceful corruption under Re
publioah rule, the whisky rings. Credit
MobiIier. Union Paeific steal, land jobbery,
in fact the general record of the Republi-
can party for the last fifteen years has
been most fdiseraceful- will not with
stand comparison. In desperation the
Republican press keep I'D the old bloody
shirt, sectional hatred howl, and by appeal
ing to the passions and not the judgment
of the people. hope to SO alarm the peo-
pie as to ride into power. Time was when
the timid and minimizing ones were led
astrsy when even men Of good Judgment
we're misIed, but that time has passed.
The people are tired of this continued
ding dong of '.blood" blood" blood y
They are tired of opening the vials of
wrath and keeping alive the policy of hate.
1t has lost It's potency. and
our Republican opponents will dis
cover that the campaign of blood
which they have inaugurated will end in
the most disastrous defeat ever sustained
Desperate men, resort to desperate moa-
sures, aud so with the Republican maua>
gers, they are grown desperate with the
the prospect of the cuu,ing defeat, and
with one accord have become alarmists
and are endeavoring 10 excite tho people
of one section against the other. There
IS no danger "a fact which every sensible
man knows, How utterly disgusting and
tiresome this everlasting howl about the +!
the war issues shas become to sensible |
business men, the Republican disunionists |
will learn on November 2, when the peo- |
pie elect Hancock and English, the Demo
cratic nominees for president and vice.
president, of the United States. When
the Democracy gains control of the coun>
try, there will be no north, no south. no
east, q o west, but only common country |
"a great union of states under one ban
ner. Then and not until then will we
have g government by and for the whole
people.