Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-07-26
REPUBLI AN MATTERS.
AN OVERWHELMED PARTY.

The Illinois Branch Has Added GOV
ernor Aitgeid to Its Crushing Load.
The Chicago Herald sagaciously
remarks Among other things that
ought to have been omitted from the
platform adopted by the Democrats
at Springfield is the eulogy on Uov-
ernor Atgeld's administration
Proceeding to detail, tho Chicago
Inter Oceans contemporary charac.
terizes that part OF the platform
which AYERS that Governor Altgeld
has accomplished important reforms
as '.mendacious and absurd We
concur. Every body concurs.
Our contemporary further says of
the governor: He has made no re-
forms. On the contrary, he has made
matters worse whenever he has in
terfered He has been mcda lesome
and exacting, His Judgment and his
impulses have been so BADLY at fault
that he has been compelled to re-
move his own appointees The
Herald then instances his lawless IN
reference with the park boards, his
meddlesome nagging Of the trustees
of the charitable and reformatory in
situations, and his pre- ,umptuous
tinkering with the military affairs of
the state. We rejoice TO find the
chief Democratic newspaper OF the
state so vigorously approving that
resolution of the Republican party
OF Cook county which begins thus
1--WE denounce the meddlesomo and
irritating conduct of Governor Alt
geld toward the park commissioners
and the trustees of the penal, char
liable and reformatory institutions
OF the state
We feel sure that during the pro-
gress of the campaign tho sagacity
OF the Herald will be demon stratcd.
The Republican party has chosen
the feeble, meddlesome. mischief
making administration OF Governor
Altgeld as one point of attack. The
Democratic acceptance OF il as a
chief point of resistance is pleasing
to the Republicans.
at is too bad continues tho Her
aid, 'that the ticket has this Alt.
geld's weight to bear. The Demo.
cratic party was overburdened with
out it," These words convey con-
fession that we had not expected the
Herald to make. Our contemporary,
though wisely liberal on issues local
to the state. has been somewhat
extreme defender OF the national &C.
centricities Of Democratic policy.
Yet it is true that the Democratic
party is ''ovcrburdened.
1t has the load of Cieveland's
Hawaiian plumbers to carry. 1t has
to bear the burdens of the worst
tariff bill that ever by the unwit Of
men was devised. 1t has to carry
the sins and scandals of Demo-
cratic senates dalliance with the
sugar trust. 1t has to bear the
, heavy vacuity OF II congressional
record wherein it is written that q
party with an overwhelmingly large
majority has done nothing that it
promised to do and has undone
nothing that it pledged itself to undo.
1t has to bear the just ill-will of the
pensioners and their m!riads OF
frienos. It has to bear the load of
what the Cook county Republican
platform calls ''that vast and heart
rending misery through which many
of our fellow citizens passed during
the winter of 1898, and through
: which more Of them seem destined
! to pass during the winter Of 1894. +"
The Herald's phrase, cover
burdened," is well applied to the
party that it so ably represents in
newspaperdom.