Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-09-01

Repablicas Dreak.U p.~..ss..
During the two Administrations of
Grant the country was told BY one fac
ton of the Republicans, now known as
the haif-hrceds, that the ,stalwarts were
responsible for, the nAisconduct OF those
Admin STATIONS, and that all would be
changed when the reforming Republi
cans came into power. The stalwArts
were defeated in the Republican M
tional Convention Of 1876 by the nofni-
nation of Hayes. Hayes was beaten
at the polls by Tilden. but Hayes was
nevertheless inaugurated as President.
What happened after March A, 1872
The bayonets were withdrawn from the
Southern States. That price Mr.. Hayes
was compelled to pay for a ratification
of the action of the Electoral Commits
sion which frauduleutly counted in the
HAYES Electors and fraudulently counted
out the Tilden Electors by vote Of
eight Commissioners to seven, General
Garfield being one of the eight. A
majority of the heads of the depart
ments appointed by President Hayes
were as hostile to President Grant and
his Administration as the latter had
been to the Administration of Andrew
johnson. Under President Hayes all
the executive departments displayed
persistent ill-will toward Grant and the
stalwarts. Mr.. Conkling and his friends
were bitterly prescribed. The Hayes
Administration put the ship Of state
thoroughly on the half breed track. so
far as that could be done BY the Execu-
tive. The outcome in partly to be seen
in the Star-route frauds and in the
frauds which have been already un-
covered in the Treasury Department.
Already two Republican journals in
this city, now under the control of two
prominent members of the Administer
ton of HAYES, have loudly commended
the Garfield Administration for what it
has done in the way of exposing the
frauds perpetrated under Mr.. Hayes
and in the way of performing" the ex-
ecutive offices --Aa
In the Republican National Conyen-
ton of 1880 the stalwarts rallied TO
their flag 306 members, but by COM
bination of the friends of all the half
breed candidates on General Garfield
he was finally nominated and, in &C.
cordanee with the practice of Repub-
lican National Conventions ever since
1864, political enemy Of the candi-
date for the first office was nominated
for the second place on the ticket in
the person of General Arthur, in order
to make sure of "the spois" The
half-breeds having Intentionally put a
stalwart--an opponent Of General Gar
field and a supporter OF Mr. Conkling
ON the ticket in order to get the
goodwill of the stalwart workers"
now since the election, denounce Cen
eral Arthur because, in the subsequent
faction struggles inside of the Repub-
lican party, he has acted as a stalwart
and with the stalwarts and against
the half. breeds. The theory on which
Republican National Conventions, ever
since Lincoln's second nomination,
have constructed their tickets, has been
that the Vice. President was to be ex-
pected to antagOnize the President.
Andrew johnson was hostile to Lin
coin just as Arthur is hostile to Gar
field. A really honest half-breed Re-
publican Convention in 1880, really in
spired by principles and not by mere
greed for the spoils. would have
insisted that the candidate for Vice.
President should be a half-breed and a
friend of General Garfield, and not a
stalwart and friend of Conkling like
General Arthur. Party tradiDgand dis
/ honesty at Chicago in 1880 produced
their natural consequences of party
troubles in 1881. These party troubles
were intensified by the Indignation of
the stalwarts at the breaking of the
pledges of General Garfield made during
the campaign at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
conference, and by the fact that the
stalwarts had chiefly provided the funds
which were used to carry Indiana, as
General Arthur so emphatically adj
mitted at the Dorsey dinner. I'M
mediately after the Cabinet of the new
President had been announced the
public was startled by an exposure of
certain things done by MIR. Window in
connection with the wrecking of the
Northern Pacific Railway and tor the
benefit of holders of certain - old
proprietary shares Mr.. Window hav-
irg been appointed Secretary of the
Treasury and having ostentatiously
posed before the country as kind
of st. George bent on staying the
Dragon of railway monopoly what
ever in practical affairs railway mo-
nopoly," may mean. The Senate was
| convened in an extra session. Both
| President Garfield, leading the half
breeds. and MIR. Conkling, leading
the stalwarts,. made haste to
curry favor with the Repudiationist
Malone. and q coalition was finally
made with that Senator on a basis
| of "spoils." the terms being that MIR.
Malone should vote to give the COM
mittees of the Senate into the control
of the Republicans, and that the united
stalwart and halfrbreed Republican vote
should make .Mahone's friend Riddle
berger Sergeant-at Arms OF the Senate.
Malone executed his part Of this inn
moral and disgraceful bargain, but the
| Democratics Senator'S prevented the
execution of the other part of the
agreement into which Republican Sena-
tors had entered in order TO divide the
power and the spoils of the Senate, be-
tween themselves and the Virginia
Regulators. "A number of Offices and
q great deal of small patronage rest in
the hands of the Sergeant-at-Arms OF
the Senate. He is the chief fountain of
the salary spoils of that body, and the
Republican members of the Senate were
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