Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-06-16
THEN AND NOW.
The Republican Party of Early and Mod
ern Times Contrasted.

| of the repu blican party, although the
| convention that nominated Lincoln and
| johnson at Baltimore in 1861 was not
| called republican convention. and in
| the political campaign that followed
the ticket was supported as the Union
| National ticket" thus winning thou
| sands of votes from the war democrats
| that would not have been cast for a
| purely republican ticket.
1t is curious to trace the history of
republican conventions from the first
| that assembled in Philadelphia, June
| Il, 1856. when Fremont and Dayton
were nominated, down to the present
| time, and contrast the men that COM
| posed the party then and now. The
original republican party was not an
abolition party, and stuGiously ex-
| planned that it had no intention to
disturb slavery in the states. Its only
object was to prevent the introduction
of slavery into the new territories. 1t
was formed from the free-sOil demo-
Gratis who had supported Van Buren, in
1S4S and John p. Hale in 1852. with ac-
cessions from the anti-slavery wings
who had followed the lead of Seward
and Greeley.
Among the former We're Chase. Hale,
Julian. William c. Bryant, James R.
Doolittle, Lyman Trumbuil. Hannibal
Hamlin, Gideon Welles and the Blair
family. Among the latter, Sumner,
Dayton. Coilamer, Lincoln. Giddings
Corwin and Charles Francis Adams
When the convention assent led in Phil
adelphia in June, 1856. it seemed actu-
ated by the highest and noblest of hui
man impulses, and under the leaders
above mentioned, whose names are now
historic, it was destined to a great
fame. Badly organized and misunder-
stood as to its purposes, it was over
thrown in 1856. but in 1860 it again
came on the battlefield under the same
leaders and won the victory.
But success once won the party lost
its huge estate. and from that day to
this has gradually but surely deterio-
rated. From domination by statesmen
it passed to domination by the machine:
from the leadership of Lincoln, Seward.
Chase and Sumner it fell under the
command of Quay and Platt, and Dudly
and Reed. From party actuated by
the most patriotic of purposes it has
become a party bitter and selfish as
Moloch. On that June day thirty-six
years ago it entered the field as chiv-
alrous knight, trusting in the righteous
ness of its cause: to-day it comes as
plethoric, purse-proud. sordid creature,
unable to see any virtue save in the
power of money. What it fought for
CALAMITY in the arena it is now willing
to buy. As it once rejoiced in the
names OF Lincoln and Seward and
Chase it now boasts of its Quays and
Platts and FOrakers and J. Sloat Fas-
sets.
Can there be a greater contrast?
Where are the great republicans of two
decades ago? Those that still live are in
the democratic party.-Chicago Herald.
NOTES AND OPINIONS.
a republican soldier has given an
interesting account of Cuay's war ex-
periences, from which it appears that
he actually served six days.
If united the republicans could
not win this year. Div>led as they are
there is not a ghost of show for them,
no matter whom they make their
standard bearer-Detroit Free Press.
The first time Maine lost speak
err of the house she made a senator of
him. Tom Reed somehow has not been
mentioned in this connection. Had
Tom cast an anchor to the windward it
might have been different. - Kansas
City Times.
1.-THE republican party has bene-
flied the country by the Mckinley BILL
says republican orator. If that is
true, the monopolist manufacturers
who have been robbing the people
through the high tariff will put no
more money into the republican corrup-
ton fund. When the country is bene-
fitted the monopolies are hurt.-Louis-
vile Courier-Journal.
1t was once the habit of Senator
Sherman to attribute the prosperity OF
the country to sort of com bination
between Divine Providence and the re-
publican party. Even the Ohio fnan-
cier saw reason to drop the phrase
when it became indicative of an ALI
ance between the Creator and such
patriots as DUDLEY, Quay and Wanna
maker.-Chicago Times.
Wisconsin is not the only old re
publican state in the west that the re
publicans will have to work hard to
Iowa may go democratic, but there is
no such assurance of republican success
in either as there has been five months
before previous presidential elections.
AS for Michigan, the democrats are GER
tain to carry more than one congress
sional district under the district system
of electors, and there are several others
in which the chances are about even.-
n. Y. Post.
Tariffs are now levied, averaging
sixty per cent, upon the articles on
which duties are laid, unde:' the pre-
tense of maintaining higher wages.
than would otherwise be paid, while
at the sal-ie time reducing the cost to
the consumer of protected stuffs. AS
wages were higher in this country than
in other countries when there was no
protection, and as the price of labor is
always determined with reference to
supply and demand and the cost of liv-
ing in occupations where the laborer
is his own employer. it is manifest that
the cry of protection to labor is a
fraud. There can be no such thing.
Protection is what it was at the
start-a means of giving the home man.
out of the pockets of his fellow citizens
Philadelphia Record.
Countenancing a Steal.
Republicans who believe their party
to be the embodiment of all the Chris
tian virtues may be interested in the