Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-10-14
; WAich Party and Which Ticket I

En- There are many voters in the country
On whom party ties rest lightlys@T The
elections are at hand. We ask those
voters to candidly. dispassiona tely,
lswithout prejudice, take fulEss lonp
look at the two parties and the two
/ tickets in order to determine i'm partially
which party and which ticket is more
deserving Of their support in this cleo.
ton. 1t is reported that the illustrious
soldier who was almost nominated for
the Presidency at Chicago said of, the
nomination of General Hancock at Gin
cinnati that the nomination was excel
lent. but he did not ike the party that
had nominated Hancock. Whatever be
the truth concerning this report, that
sentiment is the burden Of Republican
arguments in this canvass, Unable to
attack the Democratic candidate, the
] Republican managers attack the Demo
cratic party. 900 7s'''Ha" '''"''~' 7"f q"
In any city on the globe that has
stood many years, the people that pass
along its streets will notice here and
there, the sign of a mercantile, or bank
ipg-house, containing the statement:
:" Established in the year -.'' It is
regarded as claim topublic confidence
If a banking or commercial house can
} point to the fact that it has existed and
enjoyed public confidence for long
term of years. Firm names become
valuable with age, like Some wines and
some books. May not the antiquity of
apolitical party be as important and
/ emphatic an argument as the antiquity
of a bank or a commercial firm? Is not
the fact that either has been engaged
in business a long time, in some sense,
title to the confidence of the public?
o9 The Democratic party is the ancient
party of the Republic. 1t began with
the century when the Republic consist
ed of few Atlantic States. 1t was dur
ing the reign of the Democratic party
that the Republic passed from the posi-
( tion of Coast Republic to that of a
vast Continental Republic. Who shall
say that the National domain does not
add to the National glory? But all of
it, save Alaska, that eighty years have
added-and these additions form the
greater part of it-has been added I'M
der Democratic auspices. 1t is the
Democratic party that has made the
power and glory of the Republic among
the Nations of men. '+
The one is the ancient party of the
Republic, old as the century, tested by
time; the other is brief and accident
al party. The one is the party of the
majority; the other is the minority
party. The one is the party that began
its career as an advocate of free speech,
a free press, and by opening its arms to
the alien; the ancestors of the other
made free speech sedition and de-
nounced the immigrant as foe. The
ia qGVnnQta n rIrhfS nj
laboring men; the other is the advocate
of monopolies. The one is the historic
friend of the people; the other the
friend of privileged classes, of corpora
tons. The one is the party whose
fundamental principle is to exalt the
individuals; the cardinal doctrine of the
other is to suppress the Individual and
exalt the Government. The one is
the party of Government simple
and small and gentle as the atmosphere
about us, strong in the affections of
the people; the other is the party
ola "strong government made strong
by force against the will and the laws.
of the people. The one is the party of
the Constitution; the other is the party
whose greatest leader boosted that its
legislation had been for years wholly
outside of the Constitution, and which
in twenty years has been guilty of more
infractions of the Constitution than the
previous three-score years had known.
The one is the party of local self-gov-
eminent, close and dear to the homes
of the people; the other is the party of
a Government central, powerful, dis
tant, unrepublican. The. one is the
party of the farmer Republic; the other
4 no a,txyt hot br,
of acres of the, public lands to
and monopolies. The one
to-day is the party of peace and one
country; the other the party of section
al hate. The one Is the party whose
legislation for six years has been fol-
lowed by prosperity; the other the par
by the panic of 1873. The one is the
party that had a large majority of the
popular and the Electoral vote of 1876;
the other the party that stole the Presi-
dency. trampling the sacred right of
Nichols, of Louisiana, by the same vote,
party, at the very opening of the CEN
fury, tried to steal Presidency. The
one is the party of economy; the,
OouOA GuC POI Va OACA %S 4AO
one is the party, of home law,
q free, unintimidated ballot and
q fair count in peaceful elections;
the other the party of Deputy
Marshals, bayonets, Federal force and
Returning Boards. One party to-day
says: LET us have peace, with its ac-
blessings of closer COM
merce and more abundant prosperity
The managers of the other party say:
9 Let us have war and hate if we can
also have the spoils." These are
some of the contrasts between the par
lies. rH9Y ~ "a ..-e Tt1a.te"8g = ] Il
What of the tickets? The candidate
Of one party for the Presidency has a,
record and name white as the driven
snow; the candidate of the other has
been culpably involved in every Ma
,ional scandal for fifteen years. The.
of one party is the Union
His life has been wra pped
Up in the Union. He volunteered in
lie service of the Union in his boyhood,
md has remained in the service of the1t
Union, till this hour. Among living