Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-09-25
superstition"

A Prohibition speaker says It IS time
to break down the s.Republican super
stitions' that if the Republican party
goes out of power 1.-The country Will go
to pot.''
This superstition is all the more
remarkable because the Republicans
who are governed by it are in the habit
of associating in all other affairs with
the very Democrats who, in case or
Democratic success, would admlnister
the Government They deal with them
in business; they are often partners IN
the same commercial enterprises Inc
Democrat often intrusts the Re
publican and the Republican the Demo-
crat with his most important interests.
They frequently go to the same church
and take or administer the rites OF 1t,
mutually in each others behalf. They
are socially the best OF friends ana
neignbors do one another acts OF KIND
ness, help each other in dIthcu!tles,
sympathize with each others joys and
griefs, marry and are given in marriage
with one a.other.
Yet. after all these signal proofs OF
trust in one another's honesty. ability
and integrity, many a Republican be-
ieves, or affects to believe, that the
same men would, in public affairs,
wreck his own and his fellow-citizens'
interests. Republicans will give the
Democrat unlimited credit in business;
allow him to act as his trustee and man.
ager in large and important matters.
honesty as he would not trust his own
brother. Yet in public affairs he
shrinks from giving him any lot or
Fl, @Io ;sfr IS
eminent, in which the Democrat has
Republican has.
consistent. The true Mohammedan re-
CARDS the Christian as vile infdel-
the ofscouring of the earth-whom he
ought always to despise, and, if he dare,
to kill. Everything the Christian
the true prophet associates with him
iron-clads and armies force him to do so.
But the Republican superstition
after admitting that the Democrat may
be good neighbor, good friend. a
good banker, good merchant, good
manufactures or railroads, honest, up
clares not merely that the Democrat is
mistaken as to his views of the Govern
ment and public policy, but that he is
eagerly and anxiously awaiting the
chance to destroy the country and ruin
the earthly prosperity of every man,
woman and child in it.
If the Democrats were a mere hand
full OF Iawless, ambitious, desperate
men, bent on getting possession of
power by force or revolution, the Re-
hgible. Instead of that they constitute
one-half of the people OF the United
States. In 1876, counting the whole OF
the opposition, the Republican party
was 800, 200 votes in the minority. If
party which the Republican superstition
a total failure. If one-half the people
in this country, who are citizens, voters,
farmers, manufacturers, 1aborers, pro-
fessional men, are bent on getting pos
session of the government only to de-
stroy it. then the Nation is doomed. 1t
can never exist with one-half of its citi-
zens so ignorant, so unpatriotic, or so
as the Republican supersti-
tom represents it TO be.
The superstition is all the more alb
surd, because these same terrible an
archists, as the Republican supersti-
ton regards them, have had posses
sion of score of State Governments.
They to-day are, as they have been be-
fore, in possession of Connecticut, New
York, New Jersey, Ohio, Michigan,
Delaware, Colorado, Pennsylvania.
Tennessee, Nevada and California.
Nothing has occurred in these States to
show that the Democrats are not just
as capable and honest in their admins
tration SIS their opponents have been.
In many instances there has been ac-
improvement in the
economy and efficiency of the Admins |
tration. According to 1.-THE Republican
superstition these States should have
been given over to anarchy and deviltry |
such as ragged in the Southern States |
during the reign of the carpet bag
detroit Free Press.