Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-09-16
WOrn.Out SectiOnaIism.

The conference of Republican chiefs
in New York, and the counsel that they
Individually and collectively offered, in
fact thrust upon the party, were fruit
full in warning. Once more that great
party takes its stand upon the old worn
out sectional issue which has so long
been disgrace to our country, re-
proach to the governing elements and
bar to perfect reconciliation and gen.
eral prosperity. We have enough
faith in the better instincts of some Of
these Republican leaders TO believe that
at that consultation they took this step,
they fled to this dernier resort with re-
luctance, and only after thorough con-
viction that everything else had failed.
But the dead Cid has done service once
or twice in its martial winding sheet,
and it has now reached point where it
betrays itself, not alone by its CHASTITY
features, but by it's unmistakable odor
of decay. What fall for a party that
can point with pride?) to many tri-
umphs, to be reduced to the extremity
of ransacking the charnel house for an
issue that has no more vitality to-day
than the old question of embargo. Yet
when these men had looked upon the
situation in all its bearings, from their
standpoint, and had considered one
with another the dangers and the
chances, they saw nothing left for them
and CORY emblem under which they had
marshaled in the past, ISLANDERS and
falsehoods, and fears and ku-Klux
alarms.
We are aware that q very large pro-
portion of Republicans who do not
make politics a trade have supposed
that sectionalism was to be left out of
account. General Grant, in his South
ern tour, found every reason to treat it
as thing of the past and so expressed
himself. Even Garfield, when bidding
for the Presidential nomination, through
the sober sense of the people, deplored
a revival of sectionalism. But the men
who direct his political fortunes have
agreed with him to adopt new key
note. They appeal from their Philips
sober, and viewing the situation with
minds in which reason is given fair
competition with prejudice, to their
Philips drunk with political excitement
and in the frenzy Of desperation. Do
any think that we exaggerated Let us
see what their foremost men said at the
New York conference. Mr.. Blaine
stated the issue to be whether "the
men who fought the civil war shall sur
render to the men who fought against
the Union" As Mr.. Logan viewed
it, the question was whether "the
loyal men of this land. who stood
by her Constitution and flag when
sword and flame were applied to her
temple" or 1.-the rebel army and the
Copperheads of the North shall have a
right to govern this country" Mr..
Sherman said it is whether "the Re-
publican party shall resign to the Solid
South, headed by Wade Hampton and
the Ku-Klu Khan. and little segment
in the Northern States calling itself the
Democratic party General Harrison
said it is show we will defend Wash
ington against the enemy that once
opposed it in arms" And thus each
took q turn at the same old monotonous
fiction. They have nothing else, and
this has long ceased to be an issue
everywhere except in the imaginations
of organs. stump speakers and cam
paign correspondents. We do not be.
lieve such wretched and putrid lies can
be again made to supply the place uf
truth.-Boston Post.