Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-07-04
A DIVIDED PARTY.

Republicans In Every Section All Split
Up on the Tariff Question and Prohibi-
ton.
The Republican party in Maine, Iowa and
Kansas is a prohibition party. The Repub
lcan party in Pennsylvania is willing to 90
so far in this direction as to take the sense
Of the electors of the State on a proposition
TO incorporate prohibition of the liquor
traffic in the fundamental law of the State
The same party in Illinois turns prohibi-
zionist with like proposition out of its con-
vention and refuses to make any announce
ment whatever concerning the liquor traffic.
The Republican party in Pennsylvania and
Massachusetts as the Republican party in
Congress is thlck-and-thin high-tariff
party, willing TO reduce taxation on rum
and tobacco, but bound to maintain the bur
den upon woolens, iron, salt, glass, lumber
and other necessities Of existence. The
Republican party in Iowa repudiates the ex-
treme position of Pennsylvania, and mind
ful OF the large farmer vote Of the State
talks moderately upon this moot question.
The Republican party in Illinois plays fast
and loose, getting up one tariff plank for
its protectionist organs, another for its or
gans committed in the public interest to ad-
vocacy of reduced tariff taxation. The Re
publican party in Minnesota differs as
widely concerning the tariff from the Re-
publican party of Massachusetts and Penn
sylvania as upon the same question Cleye-
land differs from Blaine.
The Republican party of the North asserts
that it is not permitted effective organiza-
ton In the South and processes yearninQ
desire to gain for the negro of that section
the political recognition which it does not
grant him here The Republican party of
the South upbraids the northern section for
failure TO natIonalize the party by full recog-
milton OF Southern State organizations and
efficient effort to aid in Presidential wear
by carrying the war into Africa
The Republican party is house divided
agDnst itself The Republican who is a
politician for office only will labor to min
imize the adverse influence of these various
differences in the party. Like Gould, who
was Democrat in Democratic district. a
Republican in a Republican district, but al
ways an Erie man, this trimmer will be a
Prolnbltionist in Iowa, Kansas and Maine, a
mute in Illinois, fence-straddler IN Penn
sylvania. In Iowa and Minnesota he will
favor the continued taxing of tobacco and
whisky and reduction of tariff taxes In
Massachusetts and Pennsylvania he will de-
nounce such doctrine as the damnable her.
esy of free-traders determined upon the de-
struction of American industries. Never
passing south of Mason and Dixon's line. he
viii weep crocodile tears over the supposi-
titious sufferings of the ensiaved negro and
shut him out of every possibility of place
holding in the North.
-Four years ago, says the Chicago Times,
the party, pledging itself to correct the in
equalities of the tariff and judiciously to re-
duce the surplus, nominated as its Presi-
dental candidate an extreme protectionist.
and never attempted redemption of the
pledge. The party viii again devote itself
to the construction of a rope of sand where
with to hold its Incongruous elements in
union. The protectionist will let the rev.
enue-reformer make a vote-catching plat
form; it lied before, and with his consent it
may lie again; but he will insist upon hav-
ing the candidate.
No man not heartily approved by the
banded manufacturers, whose hold upon
the Republican party is death-grip will be
permitted the nomination at Chicago.
Though thousands of it's traditional follow
ers NAV not realize the fact, the one remain
ing mission of the Republican party is to
fasten upon the country the baneful policy
of the robber tariff