Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-07-26
The Policy Of the Republican Party.

The policy and evident purpose of the
so-called Republican party has been to
strengthen the extreme opposition party
Of the South 1t builds up the organl-
cation there which it can fight most
effectively here. 1t consolidates and
/ gives potency 10 those in. the South
against whom it may most successfully
consolidate the North. Key was g an
original. tire-eating before-breakfast
secessionist.'' Woodcock, the Union
soldier recently elected from the In
ternal Revenue service at Nashville, has
been suppIanted by Hughes, a. furious
/ secessionist of 1S6Oz6l. john Hancock,
a native Southern Unionist, who left
Texas and went into the Union service,
was pursued, as candidate for Con-
! gress, by the tools of the Administration
with I'm unparalleled ferocity. With them
| the original sccessionists co-operated.
and by this unnatural coalition Russell,
!, a conservative native, Republican, was
prosecuted, and by it Hancock, now
/ elected, has been twice beaten for Con-
| gress. Ex-United States Senator Al
! corn, a South Carolinian by birth. but
/ always a Wing and Unionist and Re-
publican since 1865, is only too con-
sentative and too decent a gentleman
| to- be approached by the masters of, the
now dominant party. + Houk is its
proper impersonation. He is its beau
ideal of Southern party leaders. To
! him has been conceded the sole
privilege of distributing offices and pub
lie. plumber in Tennessee. He has, Ger
rupted a once respectable, honest old
Wing district, and is its perfect master.
He urges the payment of claims and
pensions from single county amount
/ ing to a greater sum than was the taxa
BILE wealth of this county when slavery
silbsisted. He is thus a claim-agent,
directly or indirectly, for two-thirtls of
the people he represents, and each of
his clients support him that he may have
protracted opportunities for the collec-
ton of their claims. Public morals are
/ yitiated, all decency is violated and per-
jury made commonplace through the
shameless depravity of q party which
has polluted popular and official and
legislative morals, until the people
themselves in many localities are as
thoroughly depraved as their worst rep
resentatives. "What am to swear to
in order to get pension?" ''What
proof. must l make in order to establish
a clamp These are the highest, holt
est, mosJ patriotic aspirations Of a Gov
ernment-corrupted mob. Perjury is q
popularized fine art, and the great end
Of human ambition is consummated
when a pension, is secured, or an office
occupied, or "claim' established. In
fact, the Federal Government, as
administered by the party in
power, is only device through
which owners of mills, or rails, or bonds,
or banks may plumber the people on the
one hand, while the people are only
learning how, through the same ma
only are brides prof1ered by Govern
impelling multitudes to practices of
peri ury, but women are hired by the
iGovernment' 5 pensioning system and
codes to prefer adultery to welded life.
The whole scheme, however just and
tbenefcent in purpose, is full OF rotten
cess, and vice. And it comes torthis at,
last that the concession of pension de-,
ponds not upon the facts of case, but,
what is proven, and any facts required
always can be established by adequ:tte
proof. Streams of gold flowing out
from the Federal Treasury through
bonds, offices, banks, pensions and
claims, have corrupted and maddened
perhaps half the populations of towns
and cities. Toiling farmers Of the interior
districts alone are unpolluted and un-
bought, and to these cooperating more
thoroughly than ever before must we
look for the overthrow of a party which
has injected foulest poison, into every =,
vein and artery of the body polite. ,.t,
Not content with the pollution Of its
leaders, this Republicanism confesses
that its strength liesin the maintenance
Of sectionalism., 1t demands popular !.
support because it - saved the Union,''''
which it perpetually Tndermipes and T,
Systematically destroys - It 1cbrrupts.
the hearts of the people and buys votes p
with offices and money. Its,eyen de- .
grades the Union in the eyes of South, +,
ern people by entrusting patronage and ).
offices to those deemed most odious and
most condemned by the people Absurd
follies of twenty and twenty-five years 4
ago are practically re-enacted. Then, Ia
when fanatical Joshua r. Giddings, Of
Ohio. made a most intlanlmatory sec
tional harangue he was most heartily :
Congratulated by Lawrence M. Keitt,
the sword and flame swallower of South
Carolina, and when Keitt replied, Gid ~
dings and his conductors circulated over =
the North half a million copies of the -
pyrotechnical blazonry of sectional fury.
The blessed Republican party so-called.
is never weary of this sort of well doing,
and while polluting the morals Of the
whole country and organizing distinct
classes of society, widely removed from
each other, it still claims immortal re-
nown for restoring the Union, although
its sectional and partisan conduct pro-
duced the war with all it's dire calami-
ties, and the rupture in the Union whose
parts it keeps asunder now by every
moral and legal force which Federal q.
power may eXert.-An1crica11 Reqister.
"A locomotive belonging to the Phil 81
adelphia IL Reading Railway, which car,
RED off the highest honors at theChicago.
exhibition. has been doing some extraor-
iinary running between Baltimore and
Washington. Experiments were made
On Thursday, and a train of four coaches