Iron County register., 1882-10-26
Looking for a Peg to Hang Upon.

The Republican party will go into the polit-
zeal contest this fall with one great advantage, &c
distinctly reviving. A degree of stagnation
which few were disposed to recognize olo; IN.
deed, follow the partial failure or crops lat lass
son even after it had become certain that the
/ yield this " would be large.-N r. 1Tao@"s-
In looking around for a peg upon
which to hang a reason why the kepno.
lican party should remain in power, ana
control the destiny of the Republic, the
organs and bosses of the party. driven
from every hole and den in which they
have taken shelter, having had every
refuge of lies battered down by storms
of facts and figures. seek to hide them
selves from the wrath to come by point
ing the people to the abundant crops
! which beneficent Providence has sent
as the rewards of toll; they declare that
owing to such favorable surroundings
..the Republican party will go into the
political contest this fall with one great
advantage Such highfaluten hypoc-
risy is really very suggestive. 1t is q
combination of ignorance and ignominy
in about equal proportions. 1t is Idiocy
and Infamy. each with pickax and
spade, digging hole for the remains OF
the Republican party when the Demo-
cratic party shall have bruised its head
and silenced it's rattles. The Republic
an organs and bosses do not ask the
people to support the candidates and
policy of the Republican party because
candidates and policy are patriotic
and pure. They dare not do that
because the record of the party is
black with perfidy. The New York
Tribune sees the point distinctly, and
invites the country to contemplate in
| - <ho 4 ctc thn
wonderful things the Republican party
lican party goes into the fall campaign
of 1882 with sone great advantage"
saws the I1vbune. What is this ''one
great advantage?' Simply this: The
country feels certain that the crops will
be large, and the Republican party pro-
poses to enter the '.political contest"
claiming all the credit for the crops II
in the future the Democratic party. es.
tablishes beyond all controversy that
the Republican party has foisted upon
the country curses without number, it
will reply: Look at the corn the Re-
publican party has produced. If it is
charged that the Republican party has
been guilty of infamous waste OF the
public funds, it will claim to have re-
stored it all by the abundant crop of
aUh1 at If word is said about blackn,Gl
the bosses and organs will refer to ele-
vators full of barley, 10 breweries and
beer, and claim all as the result of Re-
publican policy. AS against any Repub-
lcan rascnlitY in the catalogue of ruin,
the bosses will claim they are all wiped
out by the abundant crop of rye which
the Republican party has bestowed
upon the country. When the Demo-
cratic party charges that Republican
{ officials are guilty of violating their
oaths. they will demand a verdict of ac-
. quittal, because the Republican party
has raised all the oats. when the Re-
= publican party is charged with foment.
| ing sectional hates, fierce as hell, it
will ask to be excupated because but
for the Republican party there
would have been no hay. If we
point to it's perjuries it will come back
and demand credit for all the potatoes
from Maine to Oregon. If Republican
, crimes are piled up mountain high
? from Returning Boards to Robson 8
t wrecked navy--the bosses will say:
. .sLook at the cotton crop Eepublicanism
1 has garnered for the good of the world. -
: Against it's Satanic centralizing policy
! it VIII claim credit for all the sorghum,
and as an offset to its cut-tIsro0jisnt at
? the polls twill claim credit for the crop
, of cabbage, and against all its frauds,
it will point to the crop of fruit.
Against its manifold corruptions it will
, claim credit for all the cattle. If Hub
f bell is named, hogs will be counted to
: obscure it, and the crop of asses will be
o made to balance Hubbelrs s assessments.
{ In this way, according to the Tribune
| the Republican party is to 60 into the
| political contest with great advantages.
, 1t proposes to claim all the credit fol
y the big crops of the year, and will
claim credit for sunshine and shower
!. and all else that has contributed tc
r make 1882 "a year for great harvests
b Here in Indiana the Republican bosses
e will talk of parsnips rather than o.
:. platform or prohibitions; of corn stalk.
o and cantaloupes rather than Constitu
: tons. The Republican party has a
I, last Eecome SO sublimated by slime, s,
{ etherealized by iniquity, so angelic by au
). dacity, that it is ready to claim credit TO
t the crops, to ask the people to contnu
. it in power on account of its control O
n the seasons. .--Indiaaa State Sentinel.
: Prof. Riley. our national entomol
It ogist, tried an experiment upon crick
v ct the other day, which came out queer
Y ly. He cut the animal in two amid
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