Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-03
HARMONIOUS REPUBLICANS.

Great Activity In che Ranks of the Party
OF Fraternal Amity.
With the republican party SO COM
placently claiming that it will score .
sweeping victory at the next national
election, there is an interest outside of
that felt by the ordinary student of
current history in exploring the family
affairs of our friends of the opposition.
Details would require volumes and
only cursory review can be taken.
In the state of New York, which
aspires to the honor of naming tho 2sxt
presidential candidate of the party,
the Platt and the anti-Platt factions
are all going about with sword canes
or other double-edged cutlery OF q
deadly nature. In the great state of
Pennsylvania Boss Quay is in command
of one wing of his party while the
other is in that harmonious" frame
of mind which impels a man to shoot
on sight.
In Ohio the situation has an added
element of humor. Here is the re-
doubtable Mckinley, who served in
congress as long as he could be elected
to that body, made signal error as a
governor, who tried to attend to every
thing else in the country except his
official business, and now wants to be
president. 1t is certainly beautiful to
see the affectionate manner in which
he and Foraker purr and caress as they
pose for the public eye, yet every man
who has the least conception of what
is going on knows that each of these
statesmen carries sandbag in his coat
tail pocket and the first one that leaves
an opening is the one that will be laid
out. They are as irreconciliabIe as oil
and water, and it is only question Of
which will get the drop.
OF Michigan it is scarcely necessary
to speak. 1t is pretty well understood
that there is machine here of consld-
cradle magnitude and power. It is
just as much a matter of common
knowledge that the opposition to the
machine is of the most determined
and vindictive character. We feel too
safe in asserting that there is di-
vision in the republican ranks of our
own city. There may be disposition
to deny it, but not day passes but
what some circumstance points to in
ternal trouble. Though the support
of the mayor for fourth term may be
spontaneous there is pretty good
reason for thinking that it is not unan-
imous. Indeed he has himself inti-
mated that there are some republicans
in Detroit of whom he does not ap-
prove; but by courtesy of the fact that
this is our own city we are willing to
admit all the harmony that is alleged
by those in the republican ranks.
But it remained for Chicago to show
to what lengths republican ''hormony"
can go when it really cuts loose. There
is split in the committee there; in
fact. it is cut completely in two. The
two sections met the other day to do
business and they did it in a way that
led the Inter Ocean, of their own
party. to say of the meeting that lin
bitterness and intensity it exceeded
the anti-Grant fight of fifteen years
ago. A dense cloud of tobacco
smoke was the most respectable fea-
ture of the whole affair. Beer, whisky,
drunkenness, profanity, fighting and
recrimination made up the programme.
The county clerk, acting as secretary,
was rendered unfit for reading by a
crack in the jaw. Alderman Buck Nc
Carthy, the Caliban of his ward.
knocked the teeth out of an officer,
who was taken to bed in the Great
Northern hotel, where the ''harmoni-
GUS" factions met. There was a four
hours session, during which black
eyes and misfit noses were passed
around promiscuously and the dis
patches now announce that murder
may result. Then an adjournment
was had until two Harmony" commit
tees could patch up a truce Rather
an active party after all-Detroit
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