The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1882-10-19
Modern Kepnbiican,St,,.


but slight semblance to the Republican
party of the days of Seward, Lincoln
and Chase. Then it was party Of
principle; upon the righteousness and
justice Of its principles il went before
the people asking their suil'rages. To-
day it has no principles that commend
it to the people. 1t harangues the
public on the glories of the past, ap-
pealing to the prejnlices cngendered
by party strife, holding all the votes
possible by this means: they secure the
balance necessary through vast cor
ruption fund obtained through species
OF blackmail levied upon the public
servants of the people. The North
.iMeficdn Rerter. which certainly can
not be claimed rs a partisan publica-
ton. III II recent issue tells how this
Republican corruption fund is raised.
We quote from that publication:
Gould the curtain Of secrecy DC
lifted, we should see vast drag-net of
extortion thrown out by the committee
from Washington, over the whole land.
from Maine To California, with every
humble official and laborer-from those
under the sea ut He'll Gate to the
weather observers on Pixies peak-en-
tangled in its meshes: and. busy among
them for their prey. series of tax
extortioners, ranging down from Hub
bell. the great Qu;estor. to little Hub
bells 10y the hundred. each paid com
L..
fashion ito which the large amounts
extorted beyond regular p.nHder rates
are added. These minions. book in
hand are haunting the official corridors
tracking the public laborers. They
range around the bureaus for names
and salaries, which all heightened
officials contemptuously withhold
Neither age. system nor condition is
spared by these spols-system harpies.
They wavlay the clerks going to their
meals. They hunt the Springfield
arsenal and the Mississippi breakwater
laborers to their humble homes They
obtrude their impairment faces upon the
teachers of Indians and the negroes ut
Hampden School an | the Carlisle Bar
racks. They dog the navy-yard work
men to their narrow lodgings. The
1 weary scrnh-womcn are prosecuted to
their garrets: the poor office-bovs arr
bullied at their evening schools: the
money needed for rent is taken from
the aged father and only son; men en-
feebled ON the battle field are harried
IN the Very shadow of the Capitol: life
boat crews, listening on stormy shores
for the cry Of the shipwrecked, AMI
even chaplains AMI nurses ut the bed
side Of the DIVING. are not exempted
from the mercl ess. mereenary, indecent
CONSUMPTION which reproduces the in
fanny Of Oriental tax farming. We
know OF the head of family who heSi-
tates between defving Huhbell and
taking meaner tenement: Of hoy ut
an evening school blackmailel Of -
while wearing q snit given IN charity !:
and If a son pillaged Of Sl7 when
furniture Of the mother he supports is
in pawn; and many have consulted us
rs to the safety Of keeping their earn
ings, which they need. In every case
there is fear OF removal or other retail
iation. Pages could he filed with such
cases from the reports Of items 4
newspaper before us gives that of labor
er, with his family, earning $3.50 year,
pursued by a happy for SO, and also
that of a boy Of Is, earning 81 day,
with another happy after him for $50.
To women and girls no more mercy is
shown"
Let no one undertake to say that the
Republican party. rs represented by its
members Of Congress and leaders, is not
responsible for this infamous system OF
blackmail and extortion. Jay Hubbell
, is simply CARRYING out the work planned
{ and systematizel by the Republican
Congressional Committee, and tina,
committee comprises the leaders of til,
Republican party. The scheme has the
sanction and approval Of the Republic
an administration. 1t is the work o.
the men who manage and control til,
, Republican party.
We submit il to our candid Republic
: an readers that the name is all that
: left of the once grand and pure Repuh
lean party. Is it wise or patriotic /,
cling to a political organization that In
nothing to commend it but name
, has disgracel = The Signal.