The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-06-30
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He treats the party as an Esquimau
sledge-driver treats his team of dogs.
Once in harness, he gives them the
thong, and at the end of the journey
he losses the hungry pack n chunck of
frozen fish or decayed seal meat in the
shape of the nomination of n renegade
republican as a democratic secretary of
state. or ration of spoiled pemmican
made of the indefinite retention of re-
publican postmasters, and lets them
sleep in the snow.
For the first time since the pusillani-
nous and vacillating Buchanan escort
ed Lincoln to the executive mansion,
in 1861, the democracy is restored fully
to the possession of the congressional
and executive authority. The pendu-
lum has swung back from nationalism
to particularism again. There was an
uneasy apprehension that national and
centralized authority had expanded be-
yond safe limits; that the progressive
policy had proceeded too far, and that
the people should learn to rely more
upon individual enterprise and less
upon the government. 1t seemed to
many, and to some who were not dem
ocrats, that the train was going too
fast. So they applied the brake. For
four years we are to have strict con-
struction and conservatism. For prog
ress, inertia is to be substituted. We
are to take account of stock, cut down
expenses, pare off excrescences here
and there, prune the pension list, bal
ance the ledger and have the govern
ment conducted under solemn sense
of responsibility for the discharge of
patriotic duty, as Mr.. Cleveland SO
often and so solcmnly says in such a
solemn manner with so much solem-
nifty.
\ BEAUTIFUL REPUBLICAN RECORD.
The republican party is the legiti-
mate inheritOr of the ideas of Washing
ton and Hamilton, as the democracy is
of the theories of jefferson and Madi-
son. 1t has exerted a more powerful
influence upon our institutions during
the interval of its supremacy than any
other political organization in the
United States. The three constitu
tional amendments, with their insepa-
rable incidents, are the summary of its
achievements. The sovereignty OF the
nation, national legal tender paper
currency. the resumption of specie pay
ments. the development of the empire
of the west by its land and railroad
policy, the suppression of polygamy,
the construction of navy, Il vast sys-
TEN of international improvements, the
nurture and maintenance of American
commerce., agriculture, mining and
manufactures by a protective tariff, are
its contributions to our political and
economic history.
Republicanism eliminated with the
close of Gen. Grants first term, and has
since CROPPED, fioundered and declined.
Its central idea, whose force had unified
so many discordant elements, having
been irrevocably fixed in the organic
law of the nation. disintegration began.
The liberals, under the lead of Sumner
and Greeley, sloughed off. A series of
scandalous episodes, arising largely
from Grants want of civil experience
and his generous adhesion to unworthy
favorites, reused apprehension and dis
trust. The jealousies ofrival leaders, in
ternecine feuds and quarrels intestine,
divided the party into hostile camps,
and the discomfort of the people was
made manifest by the tidal wave" of
1915. a catastrophe whose proportions
seemed so disastrous and irretrievable
that immediate dissolution was conf
IDENTITY predicted. But Hayes limped
in, and after the Garfield tragedy came
another hiatus. Four years of Glove
land satisfied the country with par
ticularism. Harrison was chosen. Then
followed the debacle of 1892, which
surprised the victors fully as much as
the vanquished. And now. as in 1874,
the prophets predict that the republic
an party is to disappear; that the lines
are broken down and a new Organiza-
ton is to be built upon the ruins of the
old.
The republican party has never been
what is commonly called popular. Its
purposes have been too serious and its
aims too high. For this reason it could
never attract the detached and indif
ferent elements. The sentiment of de-
pendence upon the people and of con-
sideration for the feelings, prejudices
and weaknesses of the people have
been wanting. Its leaders have occu-
pied the position of pedagogues toward
pupils needing reproof and
instruction. Because it abolished
slavery they have felt it their duty to
abolish everything else that is perni-
drunkness. bad food.
speculation-and to regulate
transportation, commerce and bust
ness by national authority. Great
communities have been alienated be-
cause they would not hold it to be an
BILE sin to drink a glass of
beer. Errors in political economy have
been classed with offenses against pub
lie morality. The demands for
larger volume of money and freer
trade relations with the rest of man.
kind have been stigmatized as the in
articulate shrieks of naniacs or the de-
vices of counterfeiters and smugglers,
deserving the bastinado. Whether
or wrongfully, an impress
sion has been gaining ground that the
tariff was an ally of private capitalists,
and that the party of protection was
too intimately identified with pluto
Gratis and millionaires, and too indif-
ferent to the necessities of the wage
workers and the poor. OF course there
are as many wealthy democrats as re-
publicans, but they are not SO much in
evidence. They fly lower. In politics
it is necessary to be as wise as serpents
and as harmless as doves.
CAMPAIGN MISTAKES.
Had Mr.. Cleveland made the presi-
dent OF colossal railroad system his
political spokesman AID manager At
Chicago last summer he would not have
strengthened his cause before the peo-
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