Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-07-13
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uc ulSIOIy VI Tie Dkdutcdl party SiuCt
1861 is a series of monstrous and shame
less political iniquities. No twenty
years of the history of any party that
evercursed any country under the sun
can exhibit such an unvarying record
of shamelessness, corruption and mis-
rule. During all this period there is alb
solutely not a bright or respectable page
in its history. The eight years of stolid
and vengeful stupidity-of drunken and
lawless indecency, that 60 to make up
Grants contribution to this Infamous
history-years of savage political pros
titution and proscription-years of I'M
constitutional and unrelenting savagery,
that have never found respectable de-
fense-these years are the bitterest of
them all. The four years of. the Great
Fraud constitute the period of hypocrisy
and bribery, and all manner of sneaking
ighteousness. 1t was essentially
Pecksniffian. 1t was brazen and oily.
1t crawled. 1t came in at the window
and went out through the cellar, cow
ering under the consciousness Of its ut
ter and irredeemable nieanness. It put
a premium on treachery by seeking to
buy Democrats with Federal offices, and
would have freely bartered its charac-
ter, if it had possessed anything decent
in that line, to have captured solitary
Judas. OF course the methods by which
the Federal offices were fa1med out
gained nothing in the oily meanness Of
HAYES as compared with the rugged
meanness of Grant.
Some Democrats thought that other
and better methods-an era of at least
comparative cleanness, would come in
under Garfield and Arthur. The new
Administration began the exhibition of
its devotion to the methods of its inn
mediate predecessors by striking out on
line of policy which recognized the
perpetuation of Radical supremacy, by
any and all means as a synonym for
patriotism. 1t put a premium On rene
gadism. 1t took Malone to its bosom.
1t placed the Federal patronage at his
disposal, in the hope that a sufficient
number of Democrats, to control Vir-
ginia affairs, could be bought for few
messes of pottage. But Garfield leaned
to the methods of Hayes, and c.. j.
Guiteau-poet. statesman, orator and
Grant missionary, removed Garfield to
the happy hunting -grounds. And then
Chef went up to the head. He had no
spelling to do. Guiteau attended to all
that, for he was Chefs forerunner. The
fullness of the times had come, when
the worst features of all the preceding
Administrations, as nearly as possible,
were to be blended into one inharmoni-
Gus, diabolical whole. His deliberate
purpose to galvanize into new life the
carcass of Grantism was soon apparent.
He affected Grant methods, and aped
even his stupidity. He viewed things
from the standpoint of the ward poll
tician and the pot-house bully. A very
discernble purpose to bring to the front
again, all through the South, the car
pet-bag and scalawag elements speaks
out in all of his political schemes, as
they have been, and are being. unfolded
to the disguised gaze of this Grant-rid-
den people. Devotion to Grantism,
with all which that implies, has become
the one great test of qualification for
office-holding. The sentiment uttered
by John Sherman in the Senate-that
anything is right that tends to the de-
feat of the Democrats, is expected to
find Judgment in the creed, and be
in the lives, of all those who
hold Federal offices throughout the
South. An ability to appreciate Dor
sey's humorous tribute TO ''soap'' as a
means of Saving the country from the
of Democratic rule, is thought
to be very strong indication Of fitness
for the responsibilities of exalted sta
ton. A willingness to Africanize the,
South, desire to bring every Southern
State once more within the control of
beastly and ignorant mobs, and a pur |
pose to exclude the virtue and intelli-
gence of the South from active partici-
patton in the affairs of the State and the |
Federal Government, seem to constitute
the highest tests of patriotic usefulness |
under the dispensation Of c.. A.. Ar
thur. There is something frightful |
in the character of the Office seek
ing mobs that congregate in Wash
ington. Considering the test for office
holding in the South, nothing better
could be expected. Where the good of
the country in not sought in making APP
to office, it need not be ex-
pected that office-holders,. as rule,
will be above the faint of baseness. |
Where the appointing poweris actuated
BY the single person to perpetuate itself,
it would be singular if mere tools were
not preferred to men who would be
actuated by high and noble purpose.
Where shameless men hold high carnival
n the most exalted stations in the land,
t is not strange that the ear of power
s open only to men of question
able methods. Under such ciresam-
stances, it is not strange that offices of
and trust, involving the
tights and honor and interests of the
people, are put into the keeping of
'emicivilized negroes. Under sach
tate of affairs, it is not STANCE that the
,etter. class of people, all through the
south. look with aversion upon a Radical
administration OF the. affairs of govern
nent, and lose no opportunity to re-
list it to the bitter end. No Democrat
an be expected to have any influence
It Washington. The highest indorse-
nent that can be given to the character (
If Senator OF a Representative is in I
Tolved in the statement of his having no
influence whatever at the other end OF
he avenue--Macoz tGa. Telegraph.
Robson and Keller.
1t would be ON absurd compliments to
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