The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1893-09-29


DEMOCRACY AND THE COP. INIOwA.
1t takes an immense amount of pala-
yer and dickering to keep the grand
old party together, Notwithstanding the
grand old man told told them at Des
Moines that the Republicans must have
harmony and unity of action, or the
Democrats would get away with them
again and the jig would be up, and they
would see the offices disolving in the
distance never to return. The harmony
is not there. Neither is the unity of
action Undertaking.. Consequently,
says the Burlington Gazette, upon the
theory of the grand old man, and the
biggest man they have ever had in the
party in Iowa, the Democratic party is
bound to win, and there is no help for
the rotten and disintegrating Republi-
can party, with it's once $4,000 majority.
What fall! The better men of the
shackIy old institution are leaving it,
as rats would leave a sinking ship and
the balance are crying in the tones of
scripture language, "What must we do
to be saved?" This may not be verba-
tim, but it is the sentiment Could any
thing be more commiserating? We
feel for the proud spirit of the old
party. But its life is gone in Iowa, and
the destruction that it's laws have
brought upon the whole country is an
evidence that everyw here, the country
over, it is in the last throes of disolu-
ton.
The Democratic party has been al
lowed to commence at the foundation
and build up from the ruins of a once
prosperous country. In Iowa, if it can
once take possession of the executive,
legislative and judicial departments of
the state government, it will be enabI-
ed to put the old ship of state once
more upon the pleasant sea of prosper
ity and advancement, which was so
seriously checked when prohibition
took possession in Iowa, and McKin-
leyism gained a foothold in the nation.
In the first instance immigration stop
ped in Iowa, iberal-minded men left
the state, and the wheels of progress
stopped. In the latter case, the prod
ucts of the farmers, as noble set of
laborers as the world has ever seen,
have not only reached their lowest ebb
in Iowa, but the country over. The
walls of laboring men everywhere are
enough to arouse an indignant peo-
pie over the results of Republican leg
islation, and we hear the cry of ''vote!"
''vote!" coming up from every direction
in order to free the country from the
mildew and stagnation arising from
pernicious Republican laws.
These are times that ought to arouse
the whole people of the state. The Re
publicans themselves have attempted
to take the back track, and try and I'M
do what they have wrongfully done.
And what do we see? The grand old
party split from stem to stern. It is
what might have been expected. The
people have no longer confidence in the
party. They look to the Democratic
party for succor and support in the
change in legislation which they de-
mand. 1t is right that they should.
What can the Republican party of the
state do in repeating prohibition with
two-thirds or three-fourths of the party
pleged to prohibition? The Democ-
racy must be the savior of the state,
and the people will look at the situa-
ton and vote accordingly.
but thisis from Democratic stan d.
point with the money question and the
Populist party left out of the count in
the case.-ED. REPUBLIC.1