The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-10-06
REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET.
ANNOUNCEMENT.

sr AN EN- /.
With this issue, the undersigned as
sumo editorial and business control of
the REGISTER. While not desiring to
enter the field with manifesto that
shall exceed the vigor of the battle, we
feel justified in making a few state
ments as to our expectations and pol
icy.
We enter upon the work without
misgivings. We succeed to an estab-
lished and reliable business, and pro-
pose that the energy and enterprise
that have placed it upon that basis
will continue to characterize its man.
agement. We hope to go thoroughly
identify the REGISTER with the well
fare of this community that its sup
port will be necessity. We have cast
i'm our lot with lola and Allen county,
and it is our purpose first and foremost
to labor for their growth and prosper
ity. The advancement of the nation
comes through the progress and devel-
opment of its parts, and in no way will
national prosperity be so effectually Sc
cured and maintained, as by keeping
each community abreast of advancing
civilization.
Next to our own community, We
shall work for Kansas. By every tie
of home, friends and associations, we
are Kansans. We love and glory in her
past; we thoroughly believe in her flu
ture; her interests and prospects are
ours, and we expect to live and die
within her borders. By her industrial
progress, her institutions, and the
character of her citizens, and by her at
titude on all questions Of government
tai principle and policy, she represents
to-day American civilization in its best
phases. 1t will be the pride of the
REGISTER to identify itself, so far as it
may, with the future career Of this
State.
Politically it is needless to say, this
will be a Republican paper. We are
not blind to the corruption and impuri-
ty that exist in our governmental ma
chinery, even under Republican as
tendency. We are not unmindful of
abuses that cry aloud for remedy. But
within our own borders we see the I'M
mistakable signs of publication. We
have confidence to believe that the
party that has been on the right side of
all questions of principle and policy
with wonderful uniformity for the last
twenty years, has within itself the
power and the will to rectify these
abuses and to cleanse its own machin-
cry. The Democratic party, in the
spasmodic glimpses of power that have
fallen to it within the last five years,
has not shown itself capable of real
izing its out-of-power professions.
Neither can these much needed re-
forms be entrusted for their consumma-
ton, to some pitiful ism that soon dies
of its own imbecility. They will be
ultimately accomplished, and only ac-
complished, by that party that has al
ways represented, and to-day repre-
sents, the most advanced thought and
the best morals of this country.
While thus declaring our endorse
ment of the Republican party, we fully
believe that there is such a thing as
independent choice and independent
action within its lines, and entirely
consistent with unwavering allegiance
to it. Otherwise it would be despot-
ism to which we should be slow to SUBJ
ject ourselves. And we shall certainly
not hesitate to express our individual
convictions upon all questions of party
principle and policy. But that pseudo
independence in political journalism
that sets itself UP as censor-in-gen-
eral, and affects to play the free lance
in politics, we take no stock in. So far
as our experience goes, it always de-
generates into pitiful travesty upon
true Independence; blows hot or cold,
as purse prospects dictate, and becomes
the synonym of instability and irreso-
luton. We believe thoroughly in jour
nalistic sincerity. We do not EXPECT
TO be reduced to the necessity of adyo- |