Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-07-11

Their Standing I'm Republican Convention
They Must Always Submit TO the Wi


Their Standing in Republican Conventions
They Must Always submit 70 the VIII
OF the North.
1t was long said of the Democratic party
that it was bourbonistic-that it learned
nothing and forget nothing. The conditions
of parties have changed. The Republicans,
refusing to correct palpable errors Of policy
fall back on the citadel of the past, and ask
the electors to restore war period when
every body admitted that America was in its
worst hour.
The Republican party earned its charter
by pledging arestored Union Of Free States.
Because that Union now exists there is
anger among both the heroes of other days
and the cowardly swashbucklers who swarm
in peaceful times. Southern States, cast
ing 140 electoral votes in the Presidential
college, are largely Democratic. They
honor the traditions Of the forefathers.
AT present, led by citizen OF New York,
they advocate lower taxation and high
degree of home rule The fortunate fact
that all these States adhere to this patriot
ic policy, just at present saves the Nation
from appropriations of not less than bill
ion dollars for Northern pensions, South
ern schools, brokers' refunds, and APP
preaching centralism in the shope Of militia
ry estimates.
While the Republican convention in
ventories this stock in trade--this wicked
inflammation of sections-there is room for
just indignation because the Republican
party does not consider that solid South
also sits in this council at Chicago. To
every National convention of the "party
which put down the rebellion" there come
two hundred and eighty ballots from tho
solid South. The newspaper reports al
ways read that "the Southern delegates
are regarded with suspicion" There are
hints that they are purchasable. In every
lobby, in every colmttee- room, the
Southern delegates are brushed aside with
contempt that is not concealed from the
world. Not only is there "a political stigma
attaching to Southern delegates in Re-
publican convention, but a moral gloom
settles upon them, and their attitude is one
OF q degraded submission to the expressed
will of the North. They are no free agents.
The candidate who may have their votes is
reviled and his strength belittled. Petty
boomers, with ten or twelve delegates from
the North, dismissed John Sherman's fol-
lowing in the convention with contemptu-
Gus wave of the hand and the sneering re-
mark: "lt is mostly from the South.n
If, says the Chicago Herald, the Democrats
do wrong in outnumbering this class in the
South, why do not the Republicans offer an
example of potter attention. If the Union
have been restored, why should not its
States be represented-if not by Democrats,
then by Republicans! On what line of pat
riotic reasoning can Republicans condemn
the Southern Democrats for not being Re-
publicans, and, at the same time, taboo all
Southern Republicans for not being North
ernersi
The affection of the grand old party for
Southern Republicans is a campaign alb
straction. A Southern Democrat has more
charity for Southern opponent than has a
Northern Republican. Convention week in
Chicago always shows it. The Southern
delegate In the Republican National conven-
tions is as much cipher as the Southern
Republican voter ever was in Yazoo. He is
not counted. His preference is not re-
spected. If he be humble he is charged with
ignorance. If he be self-assertive he is said
to have been bought. He must, in any event,
stand back and let the superior beings from
the North do his yelling AND his voting.