Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-12-22
The Republican Overthrow Final.


The Republican Overthrow Final
There seems q singular concurrence
of opinion among party leaders that this
overthrow of the present Republican
party is final For some years, at least
since the ''bloody shirt was furled,
Republicanism has existed and governed
without an idea, a theory, or purpose.
"the spoils." These were virtually
wrested from it by recent elections, and
disintegration necessarily supervenes.
Old men long identified with the party
and having immutable prejudices may
adhere to its venerated forms and re-
we're its memories, but without pecul-
lar theory, or any well-defined purpose
or scheme of public policy young men
will sure y abandon it. Nothing can be
gained and everything lost by obstinate
veneration of an empty name, and the
selfish and ambitious will desert the
ship so ruthfessly dismantled. p!undered,
scuttled and sunk by JAY Hubbell. 80.
Mr.. Blaine evidently thinks the catas-
trophe final and irremediab!e. He has
just said, and for the first time, that he
is not, andn again will be; a candi-
date for any position. Hon. S. +. Barr,
Republican member of Congress, has
stated that '.there is no future for the
Republican party" -.- - &. ~
It's strength and cohesiveness of re-
cent years has consisted solely in its
supposed invincibility. ascribed to its
power to dispense public patronage. II
has used offices to buy votes, and Jay
Hubbelrs philosophy of Republicanism
consisted simply in this theory. The
people have slowly comprehended the
facts, and have utterly discarded this
Republican party. ...
IL is still asserted by Republican or
ganssubssting upon public plunder, one
of these receiving, it is stated, 81, 900
per month during the late campaign
from Jay Hubbell. that "the grand old
party will be rehabilitated. Its un-
worthy members win be cast out, its
bosses decapitated, its thieves punished,
and traitors put to death. Nothing can
be more impossible, since, nothing of
this Republicanism after these processes
were practiced, would survive. - .
1t is most probable. if we may deduce
conclusions from statements made by
Republican newspapers and party lead
ers. that instead of the reproduction Of
the Republican party The disintegra-
ton of Democracy is hoped for.
Wrecked Republicanism then proposes
to attach itself to one or more frag.
ments of the .Jeffersonian organization.
There can hardly be combination I'M
der any circumstances of any fragment
of Democracy with any ''lost tribe of
this false Kepublicanism. AS a distinct
original party it will hardly enter
another Presidential campaign 1t was
surely t's- eJtremis when Mr.. Blaine de.
clared that he was undone, and would
never more be candidate, and when
almost every intelligent Republican con-
fesses his party's mission accomplished
and that its end, like that of the old
Wing party that gave it birth, has come.
With the return of peace and settle
ment OF questions growing out of the
Interstate conflict, the great purpose of
this Republican party was achieved.
Thence Orth it has existed only to hold
Offices and enrich its favor.tes. Its ex.
lstence was based, as Mr. Hubbeii con.
fessed by his acts. upon official patron
age, and lis life was drawn from official
authority. AS stated by that ablest OF
congressman, Mr.. Carlisle, of Ken.
lucky, "there has been no time since
1876 when a full and fair vote of the
people would not have shown Demo-
cratic majority of half a million.'' Thess
latest elections show that improper in.
fluences will be hereafter resisted by
the masses even when exerted by the
President himself. and if this be true
the Republican party is doomed. II
will be defeated, even if 1t exist, in 1884.
ana disappear forever as a National po-
litical organization. Other questions,
economy in government, reform in the
Civil Service, local freedom. Federal
non-interference in affairs of the States.
and many others may be discussed by
the press and party leaders, but the end
IS seemingly inevitable just now that
the next President will be a Democrat.
and the whole country with degree of
satisfaction never before illustrated con-
fesses the fact and the supreme neces-
sity.-ADley1cdn Register.