Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-07-19
HALT! ABOUT FACE!

The editor of the FIT. Dodge Times
has conducted that paper for seventeen
years in the interests of the democratic
party. Blind, implicit faith actuated
him and dictated his policy, but the
scales haya fallen from his eyes, and
in bidding farewell to that party and
casting his lot with the party out of
power, he gives trenchant reasons for
SO doing. a portion of his declarations
We submit to our readers:
Among the presidents Garibst official
acts was the appointment from "a hope-
lesSly republican state as minister to
England Of man who Missed and sneer-
ed at loyal democrats who barred their
breasts to the storm of lead and iron
hail ut the call of their country for the
preservation OF the Union; and he has
given the lie to every line written by
democratic editors denying the charge
that the party was Southern and Sec
tional, by calling to his councils and
placing i'll foreign courts and principal
places % tfEst AZ home. rebels or their
Northern sympathi1etS.
lie hes reversed every sentiment writ
ten pledging the partyto the people, for
the people and by the people, by assrlm,
ing Impartial power, uSurping the func-
tons OF congress and the Suptfmu court
through an abuse Of the veto power.
Devoid of ordinary party sagacitv. he
has not only closed the doors to new re.
cruitS but has also served notice on the
Old ones and l0val democrats that Their
services are 10 lpng6r Eeel0d uHcept
upon the exploded Confederate theory
under slave labor, of exchanging raw
material for foreign goods or gold.
Devoid of craftsmanship. he has at
tempted to reverse the methods of the
various departmsHta, 20 the djscomft,
ure of himself and party ass0Ctatea, he.
ing in every instance compelled to re-
turn to former methods Or DESTROY the
business. thereby establishing that the
government 6usiDess in every depart,
ment has been well and wisely nG,aini,,
tered and he risks the welfare of the
country and his party on the cast of a
single die, a theory practiccd by but a
single hatinl 81 earth, 2 nation diamet,
rically opposite to ours III p0siti0n. he.
ing compelled to draw upon the fou,
quarters of the earth for raw material
while we have an abundance at hand
-Four years more of Cleveland rule
and the peeple, who attempted the for.
| nation OF q rebel government viii have
firm grasp upon every department of
! the government C8sarvetOism can i'm.
tlmidate OF executive power control.
1t Will be q reversal OF every senti.
ment we hold dear, every principle wf
have advocated through these c0iumns
for the past eighteen years.
The only party organization of sniff
Gent prestige to cope with the demo
cratic pretender of profound egotism
who palms Off audac1ty for statesman
ship and assumes greater acumen thar
the aggregate wisdom of his pradeces
sers, is the republican party.
y fepnpllean supreme court decided
the legal tender act unconstitutional
while Mr.. Cleveland's chief effort eean,,
directed toward changing the suprem,
court SO as TO reverse this decision anf
place the government at the mercy o.
Wall street spectators.
l. The republican party three years apc
surrendered the affairs Of tho govern
ment upon 100 majority, and in If,
atiltuoe, everywhere, shows its desire Il
submit to the wishes of majority NJ
the people whenever and wherever ex
! pressed VA
This paper will work for the election
OF Harrison and Morton. We leave i
VICTORIOUS party, entrenched i'm mower
ana controlling the patronage of the M.
tion and OF Webster county. and join a
party liat mas not u dollar of public
The democratic party bears the pres.
tige OF success, so enticing to towards
and eamp-followerg: but we choose tn
surfer the pangS of temporary defeat
with the loyal legions of unoliestioned
patriotism, rather than share the tainted
success OF the lost cause indifTereptiv
concealed in the folds of a red bandana