Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-05-10
The Whole Programme.

The Whole Programme.
The Harrisburg (Pa.) Telegraph is the
special home organ of Don Cameron,
and, in fact, of all the Cameron clan;
and its utterances must, therefore, be
accepted as the official declarations of
the Stalwart wing of the Republican
party. Yesterday that paper contained
a leading article headed Presidential
Prospects, in which it undertakes the
hopeless task of working out victory
next year for the Radical party.
Now, the forecast of the Telegraph
amounts to little in reality as affecting
in any particular save one the impor-
tant contest of next summer, and that
one is its view respecting the part the
South will then take. Speaking of the
Democratic hopes and the ''overween-
ing confidence" of our leaders it says:
They predicate their hopes upon the capt
conneetieu5 and Indiana. Admitting for the
sake of argument that these great expecta-
s s.nts. wiz be realized still BY carrying the
probable supposition. the Republicans would
have majority Of the Electoral vote"
Now, here we have etheir whole pro-
gramme in full, as foreplanned by the
Stalwart Boss of Pennsylvania, the
sos distant Boss of Virginia, who thinks
also to tag on to the tail of his little
kite North Carolina and probably Flor
ida; and in this also we have the full
secret of his declaration to the Com
mitteemen of the National Republican
party of the South who called upon
him, and to whom, according to the
National Republican, his Washington
organ, he gave ''some pleasing assur-
ances of sympathy by speaking of de-
feating the enemy"
We have asked repeatedly what
enemy he meant, and yet have failed to
receive direct and straightforward an
swer. but of course. as there is but one
enemy to the Republican National
party, and that enemy the democratic
National party" and the men to whom
were given these pleasing assurances
were the high representatives of the
National Republican party, it follows ir-
resistibly that he meant the ''Demo-
cratic National party and that his dec
laration was tantamount to one of full
sympathy with the Republican party.
No other inference can be drawn or
IS admissible, and SO, evidently, have
the Republicans themselves determined.
There was no ambiguity of speech here.
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be read in two ways, but direct and
emphatic declaration of sympathy, active
and cooperative, with the Republican
party, and we do not blame them. for
accepting it, as they have done, in that
light. r
On this declaration, which, read be-
tween the lines, simply says: "You may
rely upon my assistance in defeating the
Democracy in 1884" the Harrisburg or
gan of the Stalwarts, Don Cameron's
own paper, predicates its belief in the
ability of the party now in power, the
party of plumber and corruption. to
carry Virginia and North Carolina,
whereby it will offset sufficiency of the
votes of Northern Democratic States to
elect its President. But, says the paper,
RI" No one thinks that the people of these
Northern manufacturing States named
would run the risk of a Democratic Adj
ministration of National AFFAIRS" and in
this we have a further proof of Mahone's
"solidity,' with that party. for in every
thing he does and says he shows himself
+ the bond-slave of the protection monopo-
lists of those States, and has promised
them the vote of Virginia and North
Carolina for a tariff that must crush out
all enterprise and enslave the people to
them and their personal interests for
years to come, should they succeed in
the line marked out by these Stalwarts.
And now who doubts longer that Ma
hone and his set have sold themselves
fully to the Republican party of the
North, and promised, nay, bound them
selves, by strong and unalterable
pledge, to deliver Virginia and other
States of the South over to it in the COM
ing Presidential electionp And this
being the case, how can any good Demo-
crat in Virginia, or any one who has
heretofore acted with the g Boss and his
BROOD continue longer in an utilization
SO accursed and traitorous to Virginia
and the whole South? The proof Of the
bargain and sale - is positive, and the
treason can only be crushed by the inn
mediate withdrawal from the unholy
alliance they were only induced to
make because they desired through that
means to rid themselves of a burden
some debt by placing it in the way of a
final settlement, on what they believed
to be an equitable basis. This object
having been now fully accomplished,
these have no longer single valid ex-
cuse for the association they formed
with his gang. and which must be as
distasteful to them now as it is degrad-
ing.-Rsch1nona State. t-
Generous Republicans.
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