Year: 1875

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The opposition to the Republican
party, the "What-is-its," dare not give
themselves name. They seem to
have exhausted the aliases Of Dcmoc-
racy, and stick their tails between
their legs and sneak out into the can


vass nameless. Such party, anxious
to cover up its reasonable, BASTARD


ly record, that causes an annual ex-
pcnditure of $l47,OOO,OOO to pay the
expenses of its rebellion, seeks, cut
tie fish fashion. TO make a terrible
smoke to hide in, by continual bel


lowing OH the whisky question. Nat


nrally enough, they have espoused
the cause of free whiskey, and they
seek tUhaye the Republican party in
sert temperance plank into their
platform, something which the party


has never done. There can be no
question from the past record of the
Republican party but that a large ma
jority of it are earnest advocates of
temperance, and that If the cause of
temperance shall ever suffer at its
hands, it will not be because Of dis
position that such shall be the case,
but will arise from an error in judg-
ment. There are Republicans who
would make change in our present


laws, because they think they could


be made more efficient in some places
without changing them for other local.
ties. If there be those who have any
idea that from the Republican party
of Iowa there shall be any but strin-
gent measures taken in regard to the


regulation of the sale of liquor, they
widely miscalculate. 1t is temper


ancc party, and there is really no diff


ference of opinion in it upon this


subject, save as to the details of the


law, which will be most practical and


efficient. As to this, it forms no


basis whatever, worthy of being


made grounds of division in the


party. AS we would not have thought


of dividing the Republican party on


such question during the rebellion,


we would not divide it now upon the


same course of reasoning. The most


intelligent and best temperance men


of the country may vary in the details


Of temperance laws, but time, alone,


can tell which is the better.


Give us temperance men from prin-


ciple and practice, and we will be


content. If men are notoriously in


temperate, often inebriated, it will


be duty to not place such men in


positions to make temperance laws.


Rotten in all the vital issues, with


most unseemly record, this nameless


party seeks to divide the party oflib-


erty, of temperance, of patriotism,
with its splendid record, record that


is the pride of oppressed humanity


the world over, by injecting discord,


if possible, into its ranks. 1t was inst


SO during the dark days of the rebel


lion. They sought TO divide Union


men in 1864, by placing at the head of


their National ticket Union Gener-


al, and set him upon a platform COM


manding our armies to take their


hands from off the necks of fighting
traitors they even here in our own
State pushed to the front for Govern
or, another Union General, and led
him out of the Union army short
time after his political defeat; they
foisted ambitious, misguided soldiers


upon their ticket throughout the
State, producing the well known pos
sum tickets, and from that day to this,
they have tried one cunning trick af-


ter another, ending with cuddling
with Changers, and now, with a spe-
cious plea for license, meaning free
whisky added, try to divide the Re-
publican party. The substratum of all
this, is Democracy, and though they


charge upon Republicans, cowardice.


because the party does not. in Iowa,
do what it never has done, make n


test issue of the details of temperance
laws, they do not give themselves II
name, because of their dastardly cow
ardice. All over the State they have


putLiberals in nomination, just as they
did union soldiers during the war, be-


cause in their weakness they want to
cajole Republicans into grabbing for
Democratic chestnuts, preparatory to
the campaign Of 1876, and this is
why, when the child came TO he
named, they were speechlcss. Last
year the Democratic party was dead
and buried this year it is so far res


urrected that it goes bobbing around
quite lively, with anti-monop and
Liberal figure heads here and there,
but its name still lies i'm the tomb.


Here and there are papers started on
the anti-monop dodge. and within the
present year they howled fearfully
about the Democratic resurrection.


but now they are steaming hot DEM
ocratic advocates, and they Join i'm
the chorus of charging cowardiee np-
on the Republican party, as glibly as


anybody. The people have seen and
met these tricks, and overthrown
their perpetrators again and again.


and this Falls election will be no ex-
| ception to the rule.


That the readers of the COURIER


may have knowledge of the man


ner in which the organ of Democracy


in this county is treating Republican


candidates, we publish the following


from its last issue, without comment
| "Father HedriclS was mound


builder, assisted Noah in getting out


the timhers for his ark, and all that,
yet he has never lost his ambition.


From time immemorial he has been


hankering after Office. He has songht


it at the hands Of Wings, Anti-Monor-


olists, Republicans, Anti Railroad
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