Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-10-07
NUMBER IL.
The Republlcan Champion.

look after his .neighbors' property,
would be rightly regarded - either .
fool or a lunatic. Yet this 10 precisely
what Conkling and Blaine are doing,
in political way, to-day. New York
is conceded to the. Democracy by an
competent political Judges, and even
the most sanguine Republicans admit
that nothing but the vary hardsst and
best work, coupled VITA extraordinary
luck, can save the State. Yet thegreat
Republican leader and chief engineer,
'one blast upon whose bpgis horn" 10
supposed TO be several thousand vDtes.
is. tearing his oratorical linen in an ef-
fort to rescue Garfield's own district,
which used to give from ten to fifteen
thousand Republican majority. from
going Democratic. Maine, heretofore
Considered a Republican Gibralter, has
been captured by the enemy, with all
its guns and munitions Of war; and now
gives every reason to believe that te
will be utilized by the Democrats In Mo-
'vember. Yet the cemmander Of the Re
publican right wing. whose heedquar.
ters are.in. that State, is waking tho
echoes Of New Jersey and PennsyvaniA
with frantic appeals In behalf Of the Re-
publican ticket. While for many reas-
ons the Democracy trust: this pair OF
perambulating apostles will preach far
and wide, Republicans, we think, have
a right to complain that such laborers
and labor do not, like charity, begin
at home"
But there is a much more important
and significant aspect of the Conkling.
Blaine mission, in the character Of tho
missionaries. Both represent the most
violent and yirulent:phase OF Republi-
canism: that phase which such Repub-
lican papers as the New York Evening
Post, the Philadelphia Telegraph and
the Sprinfield Mass. Repubti de-
nouuce as a combination Of unscrupu-
lous partisanship and suicidal folly
Both have achieved national notoriety,
the one as the inventor and the other
as the persistent vaver Of that pestifer-
Gus rag known as the "blody Shirt
Both are sectional agitators Of the
blackest and bitterest sort, and the ar
guments Of both are based upon the ai.
legged necessity Of continuing the nght
| fifteen years after the war closed. The
fact that these two men, with wor-
thy colleague In the person Of John
Logan, constitute the ablest stumping
force their party has in the field, and
that without this trio there would DO
literally no Republican talkers on the
circuit worth reporting, shows the
helpless and hopeless Bourhpnisul Into.
which Republicanism has sunk. 10
shows, too, how completely the Repub--
lican candidate for the Presidency 10 In
the hands of those whose principles
and practices he not long ago re-
pudiated in the following vigorous
| words:
ESQ far as have studied the current of pub
lie thought and of political feeling In this coun-
try, no feeling has shown itself more etrongY
than the tendency OF the public mind IN the
past few months. The man who attenpte 70
get up a political excitement In this country on
the old sectional issue will find himseif without
a party and without support. The man VINO
wants 10 serve his country must put himself IN
the line of its leading thought, ana that 70 the
restoration OF business, trade, commerce., IN
dustry, sound political economy. hard money
and honest payment of all obligstions; and the
man who can add anything In the direction OF
The accomplishment OF any Of these purposesis
n public benefactor."
How much have we heard from Conk-
ling, Blaine and Logan about "the Ees-
toration of business, trade, commerce,
industry" &C.? And'what have they
not done in the way of attempting to
get up q political excitement In this
country on the old sectional lssue?"-
Read tl.eir speeches and pity-or de.
spise-the man who has been obliged
to sacrifice his manhood and stuhify
himself i'm order to obtain such assist
ance. The words we have quoted
have been rammed down GarfieId's
throat by the leaders he has enlisted
i'm the vain hope Of saving him from
inevitable defeat. He would not dare
repeat them now, for such repetition
would be an open insult to his most
distinguished champions. He Is actu-
ally Obliged to indorse and encourage
agencies which few months ago he
garded-Or professed to regAPd-as un-
patriotic and pernicious. BY that in-
dorsement and encouragement he him.
self becomes 1.-The man who will Ind
himself without party and without
support" In short, having written
his own political death-warrant he now
signs it.
It has been evident nom the outset
of the campaign that the radical would
override the conservative element In
the Republican party, and insist upon
making the Presidential fight upon
purely sectional issues. But IL was
not as evident at the Outset as 1t is now
that the conservative Republicans
would resist this programme. Conk-
ling, Blaine, Logan, and their big
and little followers in aud out Of jour
nalism, expected to carry everything
as usual "with whoop and howl"
They have discovered their fatal mis-
take when too late TO amend it. They
find very considerable portion Of the
rank and file obstinately refusing to
train under the bloody shirt flag.
They find a very respectable Republi-
can minority, to say the least, Of the
opinion that the war Is over and that
"the National Peril" and "Solid
South" are simply disreputable scare
crows which will frighten no sensible
person. The severest condemnation
Of the gospel Of eternal hate as pro-
claimed in Copkling's New York
speech has come from the best Repub-
lican papers. But, 40 we hsve said. 10
is now too late to change front, and
the Republican party will be buried In
the grave which Conklink, Blaine, Lo-
gan and their allies have digged for it.
-Repu5iicon, 20th utt.