Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-10-27
Looking for a Peg to Hang Upon.

Looking Tor reg 10 Hang Upon.
The Republican party will go into the polit-
ical contest this fall with one great advantage
The bushes and industry OF the country are
which few were disposed to recognize did. in
deed, follow the partial failure of crops last
year. The worst of it has been felt this sea-
son, even after 1T had become certain that the
yield this year would be large.-N. Y. Tribune.
In looking around for peg upon
which to hang a reason why the Repub-
lican party should remain in power, and
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. seeA % 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
1.-THE Republican party will 90 into the
political contest this fall with one great
advantage" Such highfaluten hypoc-
risy is really very suggestive. 1t is a
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 its 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
the magnifcence of the lharvests the
wonderful things the Republican party
has done for the country. The Repub-
lican party goes into the fall campaign
of 1882 with Zone great advantage"
says the Tribune.. What is this lone
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. If
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
tchcdt. If word is said about blacki1lal
the bosses and organs will refer to ele-
vGtorS full of bdriey, to breweries and
beer. and claim all as the result of Re-
publican policy. As against any Repub-
llcan rdScatua 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
odthS. they will demand 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 exculpated because but
Tor the Republican party there
would have been no kay. If we
point to its 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
wrecked navy-the bosses will saw:
Look at the cotton crop Republicanism
has garnered for the good of the world. -
Against its Satanic centralizin0 policy
J 1t will claim credit for all the sorghum
and as an offset to its cut-throatisrp at
the polls twill claim credit for the crop
OF cabbage, and against all its frauds,
1t will point to the crop of fruit.
Against its manifold cOYrupfions it will
claim credit for all the cattle. If Hub
oeH IS named, hogs will be counted to
obscure it. and the crop of asses will be
made TO balance HubbelPs assessments.
. In this way. according to the Tribune.
| the Republican party is to 90 into the
political contest with great advantages.
1t proposes to claim all the credit for
the big crops of the year, and will
claim credit for sunshine and shower.
and all else that has contributed 10
: make 1882 year for great haryests.
Here IN Indiana the Republican bosses
, will talk of parsnips rather than OF
platform or prohibition; of corn stalks
, and cantaioupes rather than Constitu.
tons. The Republican party has Al
last become so snblimated bv slime. sr
t etherealized by iniquity, so angelic by au.
dacity, that tits ready to claim credit 70,
{ the crops, to ask the people to continue
1t In power on account of its control oi
4 the seasons State Sentinel.