Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-04-18
IOWA REPUBLICANS.

Their Attitude a Most Interesting. Study
Like the Rest of the Party, They arc
Blowing Both Hot and Cold, as Occasion
Requires.
The attitude of the Iowa Republicans is a
most interesting study, says the st. Paul
Gtote, because it is a miniature portrayal Of
the "fix +" the National Republican is in.
The Iowa Republicans are blowing hot and
cold with the same breath. They are en-
dcavorlng to run with the hare and hunt
with the hounds at the same time Iowa is
prohibition State, and the Republicans
made 1t so. Bat in presenting q candidate
for the Presidency they have selected about
tho only prominent Republican in the State
who Is not in accord with his party on the
liquor question. Senator Allison has not
taken an active part in the discussion Of
this question, but it has been well enough
understood that he was an anti-prohibition-
ist, and has never indorsed the extreme pol
icy adopted by the Iowa Republicans in re-
lation TO this subject.
Then, again, tho Iowa Republicans are
any thing but harmonious in their views on
tho tariff. Allison dosen't represent any
thing so far as this question is concerned.
He IL looked upon with suspicion by both
protcctionists and tariff reformers, and vet
makes n show Of serving both. 1t is pro-
badly because he is a native man, without
any defined idea of what he is or what he
wants to be, that Allison is pushed to the
front by the Western Republicans as a
Presidential candidate. In this respect, at
least, he is thoroughly representative of his
party in its present unsettled and irreso-
Lutte frame Of mind. II is Just as young
Deliver, the chairman OF the Iowa conycn.
ton, said: Tho Republican party has como
to the crisis of it's history" and probably
needs u solicitor in bankruptcy worse than
it does candidate for the Presidency.
For awhile he Is without any special abili-
ty, Allison is regarded as q fairly honest
sort OF n man, and would doubtless mako a
good receiver. He would make an honest
distribution of the Republican assets, and
that Is more than can be said Of some of the
other Presidential candidates on that side
of the house.
1t is evident that tho Larrabce faction are
not cnthused over the partiallty manifested
by the Iowa Republicans for Allison They
see 1t in another Senatorial term for Allison,
and that is not in the line of Larrabee's
political scheming I.arrabeo aspires TO be
tho leader of the now Rcpublcanism which
Is springing up in Iowa and other Western
States, as the outgrowth of an anti-mon-
opoly sentiment. But the old leaders arc
determined TO keep the party in line on the
old policy. Their aim is 10 force a protec-
ton plank into tho Republican platform. net,
withstanding the protesto OF Western Rcpab-
licans against IL, and Allison's candidacy ia
ono OF the many movements that are being
made in this direction.
Notwithstanding its Republcanism, Iowa
is IN anti-protective State. Its interests re-
quire it to DO so. The bulk Of Iowa Republic
ans arc in sympathy with the Democratic
doctrine of tariff reform, and if they only
had tho courage to stand by their convict
ions would vote for Grover Cleveland in tho
next Presidential election. But tho Re-
Puhlicaa leaders are endcavoring TO hoodoo
them into tho belief that tho National Re-
publican party will yet DO a tariff reform
party. OF course the candidacy Of such q
milk end cider man as Allison is intended as
blind to keep up this dclrsion and to keep
down discomfort In tho ranks.
Tho awakening viii como after awhile, and
the farmers Of Iowa viii see wherein they
have been betrayed by false promises.