Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-02-07
An Essential Doctrine of Republlcanism.

| That the spirit of ..bossism,'' which
has done so much to disgust the people
| with the Republican party, is an essen
tial doctrine of that political organiza
ton, is freshly shown in the career OF
Hon. Warner Miller, Senator from New
York. He was picked up by the Hall
| Breeds, as an ardent friend of reform
and his election to the Senate was pro.
| test against the boss spirit shown by his
| predecessor, whose lordly nod was q
| thing before which party leaders were
wont to bow and tremble. The Repub.
lican party, when opportunity offered,
| overthrow this great boss, and with
grateful shouts of deliverance welcomed
Hon. Warner Miller to his vacant place
in the Senate. The .'Half-Breed' press
in New York rang with his praises, and
| the triumph of this reform movement
over the party machine was duly her
aided all over the Nation by the papers
which espoused the Garfield wing of the
party. They had gotten rid of a machine
man and had in his stead man whose
name was Synonymous with reform.
1t seems, however, that they shouted
their praises too early. The spirit of
''bossism," which they thought was
buried when the lordly Conkling fell, is
revived again in this patron saint of re-
form, and his performances in that line
now afford new texts for the Republican
editors to discourse upon. They are
shocked to find that the new leader is
as much, if not more of boss than the
old one, and that his cloak of reform
was but a thin disguise to deceive the
too easily duped members of his party.
He has now blossomed out as a boss of
the first water, and proposes not only
to dictate the politics of New York, but
through his manipulation of the New
York State delegation to the Republican
National Convention, intends to shape
the destinies of the whole party. To
this end his fine italian hand was seen
in the organization of the New York
Legislatare-all of its officers being his
friends anu retainerS. And it is stated
that the New York delegation will be
two-thirds composed of men friendly to
his ambition, and that this delegation
will support the man whom Mr.. Miller
shall name, and it is said his initials do
not correspond with those of President
Arthur! The full extent of Mr.. Miller's
ambition is not yet made known, but if
he starts out to manage the whole Re-
publican party, there does not seem to
be much more left for him to assume.
''Bossism" is as certain to grow and
develop as the party exists, and it can
no more be kept down or destroyed
than can the tides be prevented from
the regular ebb and flow ordained by
the Creator. The desire to rule the
masses is inherent in the Republican
party policy, and the best illustration
of this is the strifes and feuds which
have rent the party from the conflicts of
the chieftains for pre-eminence in this
business. To delude, deceive and hood
wink the people has been the party
policy from the beginning, and they
who were most apt at this stood highest
in party councils. TO be all things to
all men, to put forth platforms to tickle
the ear of reform while they plotted how
power might best be maintained, this
has been the chief work of the Repub-
lican leaders. and that this system has
been productive of bosses is not at all
to be wondered at.
If the leaders have now been them
selves deceived by the development of |
of the Senator from New York to the |
rank of great boss, they need not COM
plain, for it is what they all have prac-
ticed, and if they are to be led around |
with a ring in their noses they can then
perhaps understand how the people |
must have liked the previous perform
ances in which they were the chief ac-
tors and the people the dupes. If the
party was anything else
than an aggregation of ambitious spoils
seekers. and intent upon anything else
than the perpetuation of party power,
the '.boss' system might not so vey
and worry them, but unfortunately they
ire so wholly bound up in their ambi-
tons that anything but that which min
sters to their desires finds no place in
heir creed. So long as that party re-
mains in power SO long will the vices of
our peculiar system of politics remain
With us to vex and annoy those who
would desire to see different order CT
'hings prevail.
There is, however, hope that the days
If the bosses are numbered. The signs
If the times point to a release from so
,dious dynasty and the restoration of
more in accord with the rights
md dignities of the voter. If this cam
oaign is to be the last in Which Repub-
lean leaders will scramble for control,
md fret the air with their feuds and
TRIES it will be glad season for the
people and one which they could APP
celebrate with all manner
# rejoicing, for never was there great
r need of deliverance from party DOM
naturalization Register.
In lecture at the Lowell Institute,
Boston, Prof. Wood gave some very in
eresting details regarding the phe-
lomena of spider life. The female is
much larger and fiercer than the male,
Who, whilst paying his addresses, is ,
onstantly in state of danger. Three
ifferent kinds of thread are spun by I
piders for their webs. A scientific ex-
erimenter once drew 3.480 yards of !
bread or spider silk from the body of
single spider. Silk may be woven of
spiders thread which is more glossy
nd brilliant than that of the silk-worm. I
Boston Journal. I
On the outskirts of Syracuse, N. Y, {
YES man named John Murphy who l
laims never to have ridden in any kind :
vehicle save a wagon. Two years t
90 his wife succeeded in getting him :