The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-08-06

Union than the kepuotlcan party
thisa government Of men, q Of isws
made and administered BY partiess Il
it General Garfield. the volunteer Union
colder, or General Hancock, the protes-
sional Union soldier as whom We are to
look, or ct the bodies Of men behind
them, with their principles and antece-
dents and convictions.
Behind General Hancock is "solid
South" made solid by force and fraud,
behind him is the old enduring hate and
Injustice toward the colord citizen; the
false theory of the government which
alienates sections and produced the war
the rag-money vote with which his sup
porters are allied in Maine the most ig-
norant and degraded vote of great cities
all these are included in the body be.
hind General Hancock, and it is upon
these, not upon him, that the eye and
mind of the intelligent and patriotic
voter is bent. Behind General Gar
field is the majority of intelligent and
industrious voters in the old Free States,
and associated with them, as with every
party, are discreditable men and rings
and plans. But can any honest man
doubt as to which of these two bodies OF
men he would more readily intrust the
government Nay, if the choice lay be-
tween the two candidates alone, would
any American who comprehends what
government is in so vast and complica-
ted a country as ours, prefer profession
al soldier merely, however upright man
to an equally upright man, and an
equally brave, although not professional,
soldier, whose remarkable natural apti.
tude for public affairs had been amply
and carefully trained by long experience
If the chief public question at this time
be held to be that of financial admins
tration, would the finance be more wisely
managed by the Democratic party and
General Hancock? Fit he the protec
ton of free ballot, would the security
of the voter be greater with the Demo
cratic party and General Hancock? Il
it be administrative reform, would it bt
more probable under the Democratic
party and General Hancock? If it b
respect for just State rights and p1omp
and adequate maintenance of nationa
authority, would either be more certain
under Democratic administration will
General Hancock? Has the present Re
publican administration failed in an!
constitutional duty to sections or t.
persons, or in the maintenance of the
national faith and sound financial pol
icy? Has it been less able, less honest
less reformatory, less loyal to law. les
conservative and respectable, in the tru
est sense, than the Democratic admins
tration with General Hancock would be
If the nomination of General Hancock j
to be accepted as the surrender of tn
Democratic party to Republican princi
pies, the country will naturally prefe
to trust the party which has always hell
those principles. If it be not such
surrender, then it is only another fem
of party which, in protesting loyalt..
to liberty and fidelity to equal right
and an honest vote, always does seem t
be feigning. Of the two candidates
there can be no doubt which is the fitte
for the office; and of the two partie
which they represent, the Judgment Q
the country for twenty years will not b
reversed.
The annual meeting of the school dis
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