The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-12-06
A Hope Which Ought to be False.

whenever n solid and NnhrOkcn
South comes up FOR u presidential
Office practically solid North will
meet II and bury It out OF sight
postville Review.
The cry Of u solid South IL ns false
and hypoeritical rs tho Republican
party In Iowa has made It's demand
for constitutional prohibition. Both
nre born Of fsnaticlsm. sired by false.
hood. Prohibition In Iowa has
made "frco whisky" for twenty. Ave
years at every drug store In the state
and has established at Dcs Moincs,
the homo OF fanaticism and dema.
gogaery, "ths biggest ,listillcry In
the world" with the privilege OF un.
licensed and nnrestrnincd sale OF Its
products. Protesting u profound
aud abiding love for the Union sol
dicr, tho republican press Of the
country from the highest to the low.
est has only ridicule aud scurrility
for such brave mon and true soldiers
rs Butler, Harper. Hancock. Stone.
man, Rosecrans and Weaver, while
Mostly, the guerilla chieftnn OF the
Confederate states Is appointed to a
foreign mission, and LoIgstrcct the
ex.Confcdcrate general Is appointed
to \ United States marshalship, both
holding these Offices ut the hands OF
the g. o. p.,while there are thous.
Ands Of Union soldiers possessed OF
better ability and who are a thous.
and times more deserving than Mos.
by or Longstrcct. And these are
only sample cases 0. which rcpubli-
can Presidents have given hundreds
to the country. Ciccro's invsctive
against Catiline. that "hc long since
ought to have been ordered to exc.
cution and should have brought up.
on his own head the ruin he had
been meditating against others"
might now Justly apply. politically,
to the &. o. p, which plumbers the
people and robs the government,
under the, gaisc OF patriotism. How
applicable, likewise the denuncia-
ton, he bestowed upon tho tyran,
prwtor Caius verres, to the rich
knavcs and scoundrcls whcih M odcrn
rcpnblicanism has devcl a
throughout the length and breadth
Of the republic. Cicero said Of him:
"A man Is on trial before you who Is
"rich, and who hopes his riches will
compass his acquittal. but whose
"lifc and actions are sufficient con.
"demnation in the eyes OF oil candid
"mcn." How applicable to your
Dorscys, your Belknaps. your Hallet
kilbourns. your De Golycr pave
ment knaves, your Credit Mobilicr
thieves and back.pay scoundrcls
from the highest to the lowest. It
Is idle to talk Of conducting u cam.
paign upon an issue Of passion, hate
and sectionalism, when the party In
power il h,neycombed and tester
ing In every grade and shade OF mo-
norolistic robbery. rottcnness, cor
rurtion and wrong. And how these
burning words OF Cicero against
Gains verrcs flts the &, o. p. and the
farce OF its administering justice to
the nest of villains 1t has foistcd up.
on the country, under It's passionate
appeals TO a solid north.
III he now receive not the sentence
This crimes deserve, It shall not be
Through the lack Of a crimiaal, or
"of a prosecutor. hut through the
''failare OF the ministers Of justice to
do their duty"
The attempt to conceal through
sectional strife the almost unhsarl
Of crimes Of III, republican party
against public liberty and the good
and welfare Of the republic, ought
TO ind rchuke at every honest
mans hand aud in every indcpcn.
.l~ne hnN~>t hanae