Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-10-09
The Revolution i'm the West.

Unless the shrewdest and most care
full observers completely misconstrue
the signs of the times, the greatest
political revolution of the present year
will take place in the West. Ohio, In
diana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa,
Kansas and Illinois, besides some
smaller Western States, are in apparent
readiness to repudiate the Republican
party, to which they have adhered in
every Presidential year since 1860, with
the exception of Indiana in 1876, and
to enlist under the banner of Change
and Reform.
Republican intolerance, bad faith,
greed and corruption have gradually
prepared the way for a great revolu-
ton. The ''insolence of power shown
by the Republican party for nearly a
quarter of century; its ruthless taxa
ton of the people for the purpose of
amassing a huge surplus in the National
Treasury, which it controls; it's ag-
gressions on the personal rights and
liberties of the people; its undue favor
itism of monopolies and corporations;
it's open, defiant corruptions. have by
degrees kindled the Indignation which
is now prepared to break out into a
consuming fire.
The French Revolution was seeming
ly the work of night The uprising
OF July II, 1889, took Paris by sur
prise. Yet it need not have done so.
The infamies of the Regency, the
weakness of the King, the insolent
usurpations and outrages of the mobiles,
the wrongs of hard-toiling people,
pinched by hunger and driven to des-
pair, had for years given sufficient in
dications of the gathering of the ter
rible storm which suddenly burst over
the Nation.
The pending political revolution in
the West has had ample provocation.
The Republicans have ground down
agricultural labor, while driving rail
roads over its neck and pamperlng
favored interests. They have given
away hundreds of millions of the pub
lie lands to wealthy and grasping cor
porations, putting the 6ona-fde settler
under the power of monopolies. In
all their policy they have abused the
Western section of the country in a
greater degree. probably, than any
other The Germans, who have flocked
| to the West, have found themselves,
under professedly. free Government,
stripped of their personal privileges
and amusements and placed in strait
waistcoat of other peoples intolerant
notions and preiudices.
1t is desirable that the wave of po-
litical revolution should come from the
young and vigorous West. 1t will be
the more irresistible because it will bear
on its crest the rugged honesty of the
broad prairies. IL will be victory all
the greater and more significantif won
by States which are marching on like
an army of giants and which have re-
manned faithful to the Republican par
ty as long as it was faithful to itself. 1t
will be victory that will stay, that will
know no reverses, that will grow with
the growth of the West and be
strengthened by the wisdom and patri
otism with which it will be used.
New York is pledged to the Demo-
cratic cause. So are New Jersey, Con-
necticut and other Eastern States. But
we shall all gladly hail the West as a
leader in the great revolution and shall
feel that our common triumph will be
made doubly glorious if it is to be the
signal of the emancipation of the West
ern States from Republican thraldom.
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