Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-12-21

pefpeGld1' men upon Their Su1r13eS.
The Democracy must remember that it
is expected to use its power for the ben
eft of the whole people. Boston Post.
The Republican Overthrow Final. #
3 Thereseems a singular concurrence
OF opinion among party leaders that this
overthrow of the present Republican
party is final. Ior some wears. at least
since the :. bloody Shirt was furled.
RE publicanism has existed and governed
without an idea. a theory, or purpose.
Its cohesion and life consisted Solely in
the spoiis" 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 pecu.-
lar theory. or any well-defned purpose
or scheme of public policy young, men
will sure y abandon it. Nothing can e
gained and everything lost by obstinate
reneratlon of an empty name, and the
selfish and ambitious will desert the
ship so ruthlessly dismantled. p undered.
scuttled and sunk by jaw Hubbell.
Mr.. Blaine evidently thinks the catas-
trophe tina! and iri emediab,e. He has
just said, and for the first time, that he
is not, and never again will be. q candi-
date for any position. Hon. S. !. Barr,
Republican member of Congress, has
stated that e there is no future for. the
Republican pasys' ssi3 -iiS 10 81
Its strength and cohesiveness of re-
cent years has cons sted solely in its
supposed invincibility, ascribed to its
power to dispense public patronage. 1t
hasused offices to buy votes, and Jay
Hubbell's philosophy of Repuhlicanism
consisted simply in this theory. The
people havesslowly comprehended the
facts, and have utterly discarded this
Republican party. 81.
1t is still asserted by Republican or
gans subsistin9upon public plumber, one
of these receiving, it is stated, $1,000
per month during the late campaign
! from Jay Hubbell, that 1.-THE grand old
party will be rehabilitated. y Its I'M
worthy members will be cast out. it's
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 il hoped for.
Wrecked Republicanism then proposes
to attach itself to one or more frag-
ments of the JefferSonian organization.
There can hardly be a combination UNI
der any circumstances of'laly fragment
! of Democracy with any 'sslost tribe of
| this false kepublicanism, AS. a distinct
! original party it will hardly enter
another Presidential campaign t,was
surely in ertren1is when MIR. Blaine de-
| clared that he was undone, and would
| never more be candidate, and when
almost every intelligent Republican con-
I fesses bis party s niissionG 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 ont of the
| Interstate conflict, the great purpose of
! this Republican party was achieved.
| Thence forth it has existed only to hold
Offices and enrich its favorstes. Its ex-
| istence was based, as Mr.. Hubbell con-
| fessed by his acts. upon official patron
age, and IFS life was drawn from official
authority. AS stated by that ablest of
! Congressman, Mr.. Carlisle, of Ken
lucky, "there has been no time since
| 1875 when a full and fair vote of the
people would not have shown q Demo-
cratic majority of half a million These
latest elections show that improper in
tluences will be hereafter resisted by
! the masses even when exerted by the
President himself. and if this be true
the Republican party is doomed: 1t
will be defeated, even if it exist. in 1884,
and disappear forever asa National po-
litical Organization. Other questions.
economy in government. reform in the
Civil. Service, local freedom, Federal
non-inter1erence 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 Democrat,
and the whole country with degree of
satisfaction never before illustrated con-
fesses the fact and the supreme neces-
! sity.-Ameriea,s Register ~-A- N-==s