Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-10-13
Republican "PrlncipIes.n

Hubbelrs documents which were to
sxhibit the distinctive principles OF the
Republican party do not seem to be In
treat demand. They do not excite a
tenth part of the curiosity excited by
Hubbeips method of getting the money
nc pretends to spend in circulating
Them. And yet there ought to be a
real thirst for information about the
principles of the. Republican party.
such as formerly spurred on the quest
for the Fountain of Youth or the Phi-
losopher's stone, and in our day follows
he wake of the sea-serpent Their ex-
istence is so generally disbelieved that
if Hubbell has any authentic proof that
they exist-if he has even seen man
who has seen a man who has seen them
Republicans ought to be glad to pro-
cure copies of the evidence at the mod
crate rate of "6fty-fve cents a hun
dred."
So far as anybody deprived of Hub
bell pamphlets can discover, the outfit
of the Republican party consists in the
party machine and the party name. If
Mr.. Blaine's latest deliverance is ac-
cepted as official-and Mr.. Blaine, at
least, is clear that when he is uttering
himself the oracle is on tap-the Repub-
lican party appeals for support 70 Che
things it did long while ago and the
men, now dead. who used to belong to
it. We have heard of "potato fami-
lies" of which the best part was under
ground. Mr.. Blaine presents us with a
potato party. We ask for programme
and we receive a tx ont 1y. OF what the
Republican party is doing and of what
it means to do we hear nothing from Re.
publican orators or Republican organs.
Meanwhile there is no mystery about
either of these things. The Republican
party is engaged in Stealing and squan-
dering the public money, and it means
to steal and squandeB more. These
things do not look as we'll in platform
as demands by the thieves and
squanderers for rigid economy in the
expenditure of public funds. When
Robson was renominated the conven-
ton which renominated him made this
demand and trusts to the efficiency of
the party machine and the attractive
force of the party name, besides what
there may be of direct bribery, to Sc
cure his reelection. We have by no
means got so low that direct bribery
can do anything considerable towards
affecting the popular verdict when an
issue is made upon which public senti-
ment is really aroused. And assuredly
the issue which is presented by the acts
of the Republican party is an issue
which ought to have that result. With
its leader in the House of Representa-
tives notorious and branded plumber
er, with record in that body which has
never been approached in our history
for impudent proiigacy, with the pres
ent Secretary of its National Committee
and its former First Assistant Postmast-
er-General on trial upon a charge of
conspiring to swindle the Government,
of which everybody believes them to be
guilty, and will believe them to be guilty
whether or not they escape punishment
the practical outcome of 'the princi-
pies of the Republican party is not
doubtful to any voter who knows enough
to read newspaper. What is the use
OF talking about the need of an issue
when validity of the eighth command
ment is practically denied by the domi-
nant party in the United States?-N. Y.
World