Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-10-07
POLITICAL POINTS.

-Ine new 1Ork ITtouuc says OF
the Republican managers, "victory,
they believe, is possible. But the work
necessary to win it has vet to be DONE"
When it comes to being possible" in
stead of probable, the work to win will
make proportionate demand on mon.
ey and energy. r-r
ten. Grants affected zeal for
fair count of votes will not pass for an
honest expression of feeling. Presi-
dent Grant aided and Allotted the false
count of 1876, and prepared to enforce
it with the army. He should get j.
Madison Wells to indorse his present
utterance aud have il countersigned by
Casanave and Agnes jerks. = Wdshisg-
ton Post. tE
Reducing a section OF Mr.. Sher-
mans Cincinnati speech to compre-
hensible English It reads: "When /
denounced Collector Arthur for official
rascality, including bribery. corruption
and fraudulent payments in his office,
1 did not mean to intimate that he was
not man of honor and q gentleman"
What Mr.. Sherman was trying to ex-
press was that, although the collector
was dishonest fellow. the General was
all right!-Cincinnati Enquirer.
1t is a dogma Of the Republican
party that wealth must rule, whether
intelligent or not. That Is the posi-
ton Of the leaders and organs Of the
party. That such doctrines are anti
Republican and inimical to popular
freedom is evident even to people who
are unacquainted with the history Of
the Greek and Italian Republics. Tho
mere expression of q desire to establish
fully the plutocratic system of govern
ment here is reasonable, and it should
defeat the Republican party overwhelm-
ingly in MISUNDERSTANDING. Iltli
Some Republican papers find it
to distinguish between what
the North did and what the Republican
party did. The North, in opposition
to the Republican party, insisted that
the pledges given to Lee at Appomat-
tox be respected. The North was gen.
erous the Republican party was vim
dictive. The North abhorred the ac-
tions of the carpet-baggers; the Re-
the whisky-ring and the
obilier statesmen the Repub-
lican party indorsed them. The Re-
1876, and the North will condemn the
theft in 1SSO.-LouisUiilc Courier-Jour-
nal. .Itt
Since the political slaue liter Of
Grant at Chicago, Democrats generally
have been disposed to let him pass UNI
noticed, so far rs criticism is concerned.
They were willing to consider the crush
ing punishment received from his own
party as sufficient atonement for his
sins and shortcomings. They had
neither the intention nor the desire to
rake up the record which brought upon
him that punishment, or to aggravate
still bleeding wounds by recalling the
misdeeds which provoked the lash of
Justice. But now that he
has deliberately and voluntarily re-
entered the arena, and signalized his
by an accusation emphat-
ically contradicted by his own words.
the party thus vilified may be under the
necessity of adopting q
different treatment. Democrats have
nothing to fear from Grants efforts for
"the success of the ticket headed by,
Garfield and Arthur" but before he
gets through with these efforts he may
have occasion to regret that he had not
in the dignifed obscurity Of
Galena, to which his collapse in Chica-
60 consigned him.-Erchange.
in his recent letter to "My, Dear
General Logan" ex-President Grant
says: 1--WE should never be beaten I'M
Til every man who counts, or represents
those who count, in the enumeration to
give representation in the Electoral
College can cast his vote Just rs he
pleases, and have it counted just as he
cast it." The ex-President Is little
confused in his ideas. A great many
persons count in the enumeration of the
basis, wlro have no right
to vote. What he means, we presume,
is, that every qualified voter must be al
lowed to "cast his vote just rs he
pleases. and have it counted just as he
casts it." This is very sound doctrine,
and ought to be vigorously enforced in
practice. But what does the ex-Presi-
dent think of the Republican villainy
which threw out 5000 votes in Louis
lana in 1876, and refused to count them
Just as they were castp He himself was
an accessory i'm that wretched business,
for he sent his friends, Mr.. Sherman
and Mr.. Garfield, to New Orleans to
elaborate the fraud and incite the Re.
turning Board to perpetrate 1t. His
Dretentious demand to have every
voters vote cast "just as he pleases,
md counted just as he casts it," would
De entitled to more respect IL 1t were
not impaired by this shameful transac-
,ion.-St Louis Republican,.