The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-01-13
aePuaLIcAN POLICY.
Good woek Done at the Recent Conf

Good wo<k Done at the Recent Confer.
enco Of Indiana Patriots.
Tho first sentence of the platform
adopted at the conference of Indiana
Republicans reads thus: 1.-THE Repub-
lican party is the party of protection. ~
That is the conclusion of, rs well as
the prelude 10. Republican policy in
time past. present and to come. 1t
was protective against secession.
against slavery. against reputation
of the National debt; it is and will
be protective against reduction Of tho
American wage-earner to the Eu-
rOpean level. against destruction OF
the system of American manufactures
by enforced competition with the
products of cheap foreign labor; it was
protective. SO long rs it had a major
ity in Congress to support Repub-
lican President. of the rights of ell the
voters in all the States, and It will be
protective Of them when it again elects
u President and u Congressional ma
jority.
The Republican conference was of
opinion that correction Of such inequal-
tiles or irregularities rs exist in the
tariff would be much better intrusted
to its friends than its enemies. The
protective system is part of Republic
an policy. and. just as surely. hostility
to protection is part of Democratic pol
icy, and part of the American Golden
lite policy. The present tariff law may
be subject to amendment. but while tine
object of Republican revision would be
toward amendment, the object of DEM
ocratic legislation would be toward
elimination of the protective idea.
The conference did not conline itself
to opinions on National policies; it pro-
claimed many and good causes why the
management of State affairs should be
taken from the Democratic party.
Plumber of the Southern prison reve-
nues and embezzlement of the private
funds of prisoners by thrice appoint
ed Democratic warden; frequent pur-
chase of tainted meats and maggot-
haunted. decayed vegetables, and vile
-four for the use Of patients in the
asylum. witha guilty knowledge OH the
part of the trustees that full prices were
paid for inferior articles, that Demo.
cratic contractors might be enriched,
and the summary election of Demo-
cratic physician, who is a skillful special
list and a man of singular humanity,
from the office of superintendent OF
the asylum. simply because he was a
continual professor against the in
EQUITY of the Democratic trustees and
contractors. and the appointment in
his place of an obscure county doctor.
are sins against charity and honesty of
which the Democratic Administration
of the State was openly guilty. and is
still openly unrepentant
Nor did the conference rest in de-
nunciation; it pledged its members to
- non-partisan control of tho State
benevolent. penal and reformatory in
situations, and to the extension of the
principle of civil-service reform to the
public service of the State wherever
practicable. These pledges alone
should be sufficient to lead that large
body of humanitarian and progressive
citizens which has become weary of
seeing the cure of diseased minds and
the reformation of depraved persons
made tasks intrusted to the campbell
lowers of politics. The Democratic
party will make no such pledges, or. if
it does, its history up to the very mo-
ment of making them will belle its
sincerity.
After speaking thus boldly on what
may well be called '.grand politics."
seeing that they lie at the foundation
of all kindly. just and manly senti-
ment. the conference arraigned the
Democratic party for its fragrant vices
in the lesser policies of the State. An
embarrassed treasury, very unsatis-
factory license law, defiance of the
law and constitution of the State, even
rs interpreted by Democratic bench
of the Supreme Court, are charged.
and without possibility of successful
denial, against the Democracy. The
Republicans of Indiana have law and
reason, sentiment and conscience,
facts and figures. patriotism and pluck
at their command. History has proven
that these are forces that are not easily
overcome. The fifteen electoral votes
of the State are not likely to be counted
for Democratic President in 1885,
CHICAGO Inter Ocean.