Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-03-23

campaign OF 1850. The progress of the
prosecution viii. be a,ched with alb
sOrbing Chicago Times (Ind).
Guiteau, an Offshoot of Repubiicanism.
Guiteau, the moral monster, while he
lives is a source of ceaseless annoyance
to the Republican party. Guiteau is a
Republican production. He was edu-
thought, theory and practice. He hates
the Democratic party with an intensity
rs blind and biGoted as characterized
Blaine, Dorsey, Belknap, Robson,
Conkling, Arthur, John Sherman Hayes
or any other Republican who has won
notoriety by stealing money from the
Treasury, violating the Constitution,
utilizing perjury, rewarding thieves. de-
! bauching courts or fighting for spoils.
Guiteau murdered Garfield, and evil
| IDENTITY ought to be hung. The courts have
pronounced him sane. The declaration is
made by high authority that the assassin
! knew what he was about, and the monster
reiterates the statement that he was the
agent of Deity, and that his mission was
I to kill the President that harmony
might come to. the Republican party.
Thus it is seen that the crime of assassi-
nation is interviewer with Republican,
| ism. 1t is we'll known. indeed it is a
! part and animportant part of the history
/ of the Republican party. that it split into
| factions over the question of spoils.
! These factions nursed their hate until
/ they |lowed and burned like lava
| tides. Such exhibitions of venality and
| depravity never before disgraced Chris
| tendon. The fight proceeded, and de-
moralization increased. The Senate of
/ the United States, that once august
body, the boast and pride of the coun-
| try-was degraded to the level of a
/ bucket-shop exchange, where the agents
! of the Republican party unblushingly
appeared and bargained for such a po-
| litical Pest House patient as Malone.
| As the fight proceeded ConklinG's back
rounded UP until at last. unable longer
to stand the policy of Blaine and Gar
field. he walked out of the Senate and
referred his case to the Legislature of
New York. To that body the fight was
transferred. and the scenes that We're
enacted defy eXaggeratiOn. For time
all the worst passions of Republican
spOils hunters were in the aSccndency,
and bribery and perjury triumphei
This done. Griteau appears. A Repub-
lican student in College where every
professor was an advocate of fraud,
bribery and perjury as forces and fac
tors to achieve success whether in 4
fractional fight among themselves or in
the broader field of battle. when con-
tending against the Democratic party,
it is not surprising that he conceived the
idea that murder was the only remedy
for Republican infamies. and, since the
Republican party had always claimed to
be the ''God and morality party" it is
not surprising that Guiteau should mag
inc that Deity had inspired him to COM
NIT murder as the remedy for the less
fragrant crimes of his party. 1t is a
wel-established fact that crime leads to
crime in the career of parties as we'll
as in the course of individual life. For
many years the Republican party had
utilized crime as a means of obtaining
and maintaining power. 1t had assassin
ated Constitutions, debauched Courts,
trampled upon laws. murdered Legisla-
lures. Endorsed thieves. and had finally,
by offering Federal offices as reward
for perjury, reversed the will of the
American people and placed fraud in
the high office of President. All this
was GuiteauiSm in its first stages, in a
modified form-crimes against law and
liberty that in the very nature of things
must inevitably lead to the commission
of other crimes more horrible in their
natJre-and the crime came at last, a
fearful retributiOn, an awful climax, an
OvershadOwing horror. Garfield. the
President, fell bleeding and dying by an
assassins bullet, and for Il time all
hearts beat like muffled drums in
the presence of the Republican ca
tastrophe. People said: ''Ths will
hush factional wranglings; these
Republican spoils fighters will be
shamed into silence and deep humilia-
ton" But such was not the result.
Arthur, who drew the capital prize in
the lottery of assassination, mounted
into power; and while symbols of mourn
ing were everywhere displayed-while
sense of humiliation and degradation
bowed the people in the dust-while
bells were tolling-while Guiteau was
SAYING that Deity ''inspired him to
murder Garfield to harmonic the Re-
publican party, the indianapolis Journal,
a Stalwart organ, sent forth the shout
that Arthur was President ''by the act
of God" and from that day to this the
old factional fight has been going for
ward. Blaine has been kicked out of
office. Grant moves upon Arthur's
works when it is desirable to dispose of
Half-breed. Conkiing is more poten-
tial than when he was in the Senate,
Guiteau bowls, Blaine banks, and Re-
publicanism, covered all over with
record that grows in blackness the more
it is analvzed. comes to the front and
asks the American people to indorse its
record and whitewash its infamies. We
i yx,yo
Miss Minnie Fish, a school-teacher
in the town of Serbia, near Oswego, n.
Y, was accidentally hit by n SNOWFALL
thrown by one of her scholars. The
lev missile struck her on the back of