Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-10
Address of Mr.. J. p. Doliver
on Taking the Chair In the
,.. Iowa Convention.
Annual ssElegy OF Grief'' for the Hawk.
eye Democrats Eminent Man
.s5' Who Is Dead and Doesn't
Know It.
Uonsciences with Alum in 'Em-Tight
Pants and Hay-Pever DESERVING
Learned Profession to Be-
come Hangman.
From the Chicago Tribune.]

week, which is attracting much attention.
The speaker, Mr., J. P. Dolliver, is young
man Of 26, who was notified Of his selec-
ton as Temporary Chairman only few
minutes before he was called to the chair.
It was delivered with such telling effect that
it carried the convention by storm. 1t
is filled with effective shots. Mr.. Dolliver
has rapidly developed great popularity as a
speaker, and is now recognized in Iowa as
the leade of the young Republicans. He
has been invited to 60 into the national
campaign, and in o few days will take the
stamp in West Virginia and later in the
canvass will speak in Ohio and Indiana:
Gentlemen of the Iowa Republican Convention:
Out of the abundance OF my heart I thank you
for the honor which your favor has conferred
upon me- 1t builds up mans political consti-
tuition to take a front view of the fighting
strength Of the Republican party of Iowa. II
any of you have friends that are bothered with
political dyspepsia, who find trouble in sele ting
from the printed bill OF fare Of Republican
them look in the face Of this magnificent assem-
bly,. Your conventions have always been de-
Lucrative. your nominations representative.
your campaigns popular, and your ballot boxes
too full for utterance OF straight Republican
tickets. Consequently, a Democrat has not been
seen on the streets OF an Iowa city after o'clock
on election night for quarter OF a century.
The music of the telegraph office has been their
annual elegy of grief. They look upon bule-
tin-board as an enemy OF free government, and
accept the first half of Franklin MAXIM "early
to bed, when the returns are coming in
DEMOCRATIC BANKRUPTCY.
The first act of the Democratic party is to file
schedulesin bankruptcy. Already their prop,
erty is out of their own name. Their national
standard is in the hands of a man whose name
is not disclosed by the Democratic national
record. -Four years ago his name could have
prudently Eeen used as an alias under which to
travel incosnito all over the known world out
side of Buffalo. 10 eject him President would
be like lending money to stranger on the train.
1t axes the cheek OF the Democratic managers
l thank God that we belong to a party that
saves the crown OF its public honor for the
brow OF its actual leadership. With the Demo-
cratic rarty nominations are made not SO much
to represent the pa; ty as to disguise it. In it's
long struggle for existence the men who have
made the history of the party 20 to the wall. It
is the only party that ever existed whose candi-
dates and platform never throw any light what
ever either on its management or its faith. In
fact modern Democrats OF the practical school
have no creed except the oath OF office. All the
USE They have been left out in the field just
where they were used last, with not even a
bunch OF swamp grass thrown over them-in
sun and rain, until rot and rust have done their
fatal work.
1t is true they talk piously OF the need of re-
form, and with an ineXcusable libel accuse the
Integrity OIL Gllc RCpuDuCan CIVIL service. Iney
work their favorte classical allusion to the Au-
gean stables for all there is in it, These, they
assert, must be cleaned out. Yet from the gen.
eral appearance OF the crowd that is on hand to
do the business, the average citizen is likely to
conclude that their Intention is to steal the fork
rather than clean out the bran.
1t is true they pre-empt all sides OF the tariff
question. They profess to settle that issue by q
.argon OF words without precedent in the an
nails OF nonsense and confusion You might as
we'll try to fit the hundred-headed dog of the
Got Io J, c<,rr
did and Ineligible tariff platform under the
feet of the Democratic party. They approach
that question and nearly every other like a man
cmptying hard-coal ashes in a high wind, with
their eyes shut and their backs to the subject.
AN EMINENT DEMOCRAT"
What must be the thoughts Of man like MIR.
Thomas A. Hendricks as he sits in his law office
and looks at the top shelf Of his library, and
counts the long row of dusty Congressional
Globes from 1850 to 1880, flOm the fugitive
slave law to the resumption of specie payments?
man pays to the public for being eminent: 1t
is not the fault of Mr.. Hendricks that the Con-
gressional record connects him with all the
plumbers and treasons of recent politics. It is
the tax a man pays to his generation for the
luxury OF having been an eminent Democrat.
Victor Hugo, somewhere in the masterpiece Of
Vatican, in which the unfortunate man is car
ried back In his vision to the streets Of his
native village, and there, in the midst of the
gloom and ashes and dust of things, inter
Where are you going? Do you not know you
have been dead a long timer" have sometimes
thought that if Mr.. Hendricks could once get
himself enlightened by an approximate vision
and wander back in his dreams to the familiar
scenes of his public career, he would need no
assistance to enable him to hear more than one
%here are yoy Do not
have been dead long timer
THE FRAUD ISSUE.
MIR. Hendricks is placed upon the Democratic
RI n.
cratic party. No thoughtful Democrat wants
that remembered. He is on the ticket for the
avowed purpose Of reviving the superstition that
surrounds the electoral count of 1877. With
CHARACTERISTIC stupidity the Democratic man
ayers still think that the American people have
never slept we'll since that celebrated question
of mathematics was up for settlement. They
seem to be afflicted with sort of intellectual
shiftlessness that keeps them from the under
standing that the fraud issue died at Cincinnati
in 1890. by the hand of Thomas A. Hendricks.
The Indictment of an alleged momentous out
rage cannot be dismissed for want of prosecu-
ton and the papers in the case left under the
travelling public With all due respect to Col.
Vii s. OF Wisconsin, I say the statute of limita-
tions does run: The descendants Of Cleopatra
might as well bring suit against the estate Of
managers TO parade the venerable
gentlemen who were caught between the wheels
Of the Electoral Commission In truth, the
political rapine that have given the South to the
Democratic party, and finding Mr.. Tilden and
Mr.. Hendricks the immediate and responsible
the ballot-box in the South, have never, to any
visible degree, bewailed their memorable failure
to catch the rail Of the hind car in 1877. For
one thank the Democratic party for the fraud
the country proper occasion to recall that
strange decade from 1869 to 1876, during which
the @ th1 ruins of the
against the civil rights of the people that in ten
States has left the ballot box a fraud and the
election day a farce. Laboulaye, the great
war in the United States, took occasion to say
that the Republican party of America holds in
it's hands the future of civilization" That was
true then; It is true now. It is more certain
than that it has had a history.
THE KICKERs.
Now and then You find Republican who en-
the kicker and the scratcher. The shortest road
to celebrity nowadays is to advertise your con-
science in the newspapers There are Repub1-
stock in trade of baking powder factory,
They solemnly protest that everybody's con-
science has alum in it except theirs. They
adopt the doctrine Of Matthew Arnold and in:
sist that in order to be safe the nation must
furnish the remnant with complimentary tick
cts and a front seat. They would have the
whose names, If may borrow a phrase from
your good friend Gov. CARPENTER, are written in
the herd-bcok of high political grades.
Only last month a convention was held in q
New York parlor, in which the only credentials
called for by the committee were written pre-
tense of holiness, and the only creed required OF
the membership was II believe in the COM
munion Of the saints Of Beacon Hill and Frank
lin Square Let them commune. trust they
will stick together till they get thoroughly &C.
quatnted with each other. have q curiosity to
see the effect of q genuine Democratic candidate
on an unusually sanctiled nOstril This cam
paign will last long enough to show to every
sensible man eye that no possible combination
Of tight pants and hay fever can defeat the
anxious will of the real conscience of this coun-
try-the Republican millions Of America.
UNDER THE ROOTS OF TIE HAIR.
The people Of this country like brains merry
Gus matter under the roots of the hair. In
whose faculties is perfect horizon
man who knows the size of this ma
tion-a man who knows the history OF
this nation-a man who knows the strength Of
this nation-a man who knows the rights OF
this nation-a man who comprehends with q
serene faith the mission Of the Republic
and its sublime destiny in the midst of the ma
lions and the ages. Not in vain has this great
State-correct in its opinion, upright in its con-
science-laid at the feet of Blaine the royal trib
ute of its affection, He stands to-day, at the
very opening of che campaign, at once standard.
bearer and victor. Mr.. Cleveland, as his letter
this morning informs us. believes in Providence
and has the grace to say in his opinion, the
Supreme Being will always bless honest human
endeayors in the conscientious discharge of pub.
lie DUTY" Iowa believed that before Mr, CleVe.