Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-10-26
PERSON1L POLITICS.

cratic coyotes in their indecent attacks
upon the personal character of Hon
Frank d. Jackson, republican nominee
for governor, almost makes one despair
of the hope that the day is coming,
when men wall treat each other fairly
and honorably in politics. and contine
themselves to a legitimate discussion
of the issues of the day. The fellows
who are throwing mud at Mr.. jackson
seem to have forgotten the lessons
taught by experience in this particular
line of campaigning. All the great
and good men of the state and nation
have been targets for the smut guns of
creatures who disgrace American pol
itics and bring reproach upon popular
form of government by their insane
and malignant attacks upon those who
have won public favor. George Wash
! ington was traduced and yillified out
rageously. Henry Clay was accused OF
using his official position for his own
| personal ggrandizement. Abraham
| Lincoln. the brightest star in all the
| galaxy, was pursued by the malicious
! tongue of SANDER even unto the sacred
|
! epithets of hatred and malevolence
were hurled at him necessarily, but the
/ people had faith i'm the man and trusted
him implicitly. James A. Garfield was
| called a public plunderer. ana accused of
profiting from tine Credit Mobilier con
| spiracy which engulfed SO many prom
inent men along in the seventies. U.
$. Grant was stigmatized as a drunken
rutfian and came in for his full share of
abuse from men who We're jealous of
his power. Grover Cleveland was de-
nounced as Il coarse tibered man. Il pol
/ troon and a seducer. A man who fire.
quented places of questionable repute
and sought the associations of the low
and vile. James G. Blaine was slam
dcred and maligned as no public man
of his day. For one error of his life he
was bounded by secret enemies and
pursued by secret foes A conspir-
acy. most cunningly devised and sur
reptitiously carried out, was concocted
to crush him and rob him of public con-
tidence. Even the sanctity of his home
was assaulted and the ghouls of malice
went so far as to deface the family
monument that color might be given
groundless charges: Yet wher Mr..
Blaine died men of all parties united i'll
paying him tribute and in bearing tes-
timony to the great services he had rem
dered his country. As the nation gath
cred round his bier. his frailties were
were forgotten and the virtues and the
great achievements of the man were
fully recognized The people loved
him for his loyalty. his intense Ameri-
canism and his great ability.
1t is a sad commentary upon Ameri-
can politics that the greatest and best
men of the nation must pass through
the frey ordeal of personal calumnv in
order to quench the Unsuitable greed of
political iackals and charac,e 'assassins.
Shame ON the men who still persist in
the sewer methods in politics Such
tactics obscure the real issues and
pander to the passions and prejudices
of the vicious. Honest and conscient-
ious voters ought to set down most
cmphatically upon such methods, and
give the cons piring vampires 10 under
stand that they will not follow them
into the cesspool of personal detama-
ton. nor assist them in the damnablc
plot to rob 9 God men of houors fairly
won.--Webstcr City Freeman.
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rho UGHTS FOR THE THO UGHTFUL
History repeats itself" The people
have no confidence in the capacity,
good faith rpurposc of the democratic
party in the management of the
finances of the country. What we are
experiencing now under Cleveland, we
have experienced in every democrati:
president before him, from jackson
! down. Examine the record: There
! al,
jackson. During the administration
/ of Martin Van Buren, the greatest de-
preston prevailed "Shin-plastcrs'
I were issued for currency. and mobs
! broke into flour and provision stores.
/ There was trouble in the time of James
! X. Polk. During the time of Franklin
/ Pierce, banks failed all over the coun-
! try, and every bank in New York eX-
! cept one suspended. Factories stopped
work all over the country, crowds of
! unemployed men, women and children
! gathered in the cities clamoring for
! bread, and SO history is again repeating
/ itself. When Cleveland was elected
/ the country was prosperous Labor
was employed everywhere and people
/ happy. In four months all this IL
! changed to the conditions prevailing
under his democratic predecessors.
! Why will workingmen not see that
every Democratic victory gained only
through their help, brings misery upon
! them? Instead Of living in clover.
under Grover" they live on thistles.
And what is true of the nation is true
/ of the states and cities. Whenever and
! wherever the democracy succeed in
! getting into power. disaster and cor
ruption follows. Look at all the
southern states-at New York city,
! Brooklyn and the state of Illinois, since
/ the election of the last democratic gov
! ernor. Iowa is nearly at the top in her
! finances, her low per cent of llliteracy,
in the condition of her people, in thrift
and progress, and Iowa has always been
republican. Newton Journal.
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