Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-17
ssGrant Slaughtered i'm the
House Of His Friends.''

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joice. If they had said that Grant had
been "robbed at Chicago" or "another
great fraud by the Republican party"
the expression would have been accu-
rate, and the actual results at Chicago
more honestly portrayed.
Gen. Grant went into the Chicago
Convention, beyond any kind of ques-
ton, the best and truest representative
of the Republican masses, and of Re-
publican principles. The Republican
party aggregated, was, and is to-day,
overwhelmingly in favor of Grant.
He represents force, fraud, and the
''strong government" idea, which
means Capitalization and imperialism.
| And Indicating Grant out of the NOM
ination, they are attempting to cheat
the people of this nation by entering
the campaign under the utterly false
pretense that the Republican party is
opposed to these well-settled princi-
pies and tendencies of their party.
We had hoped that for once during
these very many years, that party
would be true and honest, and nomi-
nate the man who is the best living
expression of the life, policy, aims
and purposes of their party. Grant
was fairly entitled to the nomination
by that convention according to every
principle of honest action. But they
perpetrated fraud upon Grant for the
natural love they have for chicanery;
for the sake of the opportunity it gives
them of perpetrating another fraud on
the voters of this country; of seeming,
for the time-being at least, to array the
party in opposition to "Grantism," and
all that term implies, and thus enter
the campaign under the guise of vir-
tue which is foreign to it as the Antip-
odes, and which righteously belongs
to the Democracy.
All along, for years and years, the De-
mocracy has been anathematising these
crimes and these base purposes of the
Republican party, and now by piece
of base strategy and political legerde-
main as insincere in principle as it is
fraudulent in purpose the Republican
Convention attempts to appropriate
this Democratic principal of anti
Grantism-and so rally the country
once more to their standard.
Grant was entitled to the nomination
by every consideration of fairness. By
getting temporary control of the organ
ization, his opponents were able to
break the unit rule, and thus wrest
from him nearly fifty votes in New
York and Pennsylvania, over twenty
in Illinois, and number in other
States. This was done, too, in the face
of peremptory instructions by their re-
spective State Conventions to vote for
Grant. If this rule is to prevail, then
the mere whim of the individual dele
gate is to govern, and not the will of
the party which he is sent to represent.
If these individual delegates who ig-
nored their instructions and voted
against Grant had been honest enough,
when elected, to have SO vowed their
purpose, does every one not know that
they would have been instantly dis
placed and others elected who would
have voted and worked for Grant?
But we are not interested in show
ing just how the fraud was perpetrat-
ed, SO much as in pointing out that
Grant, who is the best representative
to-day of the real life and spirit, the
and aspirations of the Re-
publican party, was 'slaughtered in
the house of his friends" not because
because the party as whole is OPP
posed to Observation-Disclosures
Force - Fraud = but be-
cause success demanded-the exigen-
cies of the campaign required-that
they go before the American people as
opposed to the very principles upon
which their party had been built,
grown. and dominated. They dare
not again appeal to the suffrages of the
intelligent people of this country to
sustain Republication as it is in fact,
but they perpetrate fraud on Grant
by defeating him, and then turn to the
people and exhibit this fraud as vir-
tue in order to be enabled to perpe-
trate another-and still greater-fraud
on the American people by gaining .
their support and suffrages under false
pr etences!