Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-09-23
POLITICAL POINTS.


ing to the admiring Tribune, is ''wakin g
the echoes of the Green Mountains with
his stalwart .'Western oratory." 1t
seems as if it were only yesterday that
we read in the Tribune a description of
Mr.. Logan's stalwart Western oratory
beginning, ''Pranced into the arena
eral John A. Logan" and describing
he smote the English language in the
face. '-Erchaaage.
There are scores of Republican
newspapers that still keep standing, in
display type, at the head of their edi-
torial columns, the alleged extract from
Senator Hampton's Staunton speech,
although the editors of those journals
know that the Senator said nothing of
the kind. They know that Senator
Hampton has repeatedly said: 81
neither used the words attributed to
me, nor anything approaching them in
meaning" The editors who persist in
using this forgery belong to that class
of men whom it were base flattery to
call villains. Washington Post.
The negro exodus has begun
again and the Kentucky papers say that
the Republican managers in that State
are driving great herds of their voting
cattle over into Indiana. Fortunately
there is going to be such an exodus of
white voters from the Republican fold
in October that this scheme of trans
forming the colored brother into a sort
of peram bulating majority to be wheeled
around from State to State, as the emer-
gency may require. is pretty sure to
miscarry. There will be close work in
Indiana, but it is still fair to say that
the Democrats have much the best
chance.-St. Louis Republican.
Mr.. George w. Vinton, of Mo-
line, Ill, who in 1876 came within an
ace of being tie Republican candidate
for Lieutenant-Governor of the State,
has come out for Hancock because he
els disguised with the recent corrupt
tendencies of the Republican party
management and with the wholesale
abuse of the South, which section he
has lately visited" He says the ticket
nominated at Chicago was ga compro-
mise on one whom his own party
friends have convicted of perfidy and
corruption. with second whose only
fame in the Nation is of having been
discharged in disgust from the public
service by the head of his own party"
He is confident Illinois can be carried
for Hancock and Iowa made a good
deal closer than ever before. 1t will
now be in order for the Republican
papers to aIude to Mr.. Vinton as a
sorehead, a blasphemer and a horse
thief. -Ecchdnge.
The nomination of Mr.. James E.
English and strong State ticket makes
Connecticut safe for the Democrats
this fall so far as the Presidential
Electors and the State Administration
are concerned, and make the work of
securing the United States Senatorship
and gaining at least one Congressman
comparatively easy. Mr.. English is a
most successful and philosophical bust
ness man. liberal, popular and stanchly
Democratic, and his name is tower of
strength in Connecticut. 1t was under
his leadership that the Republican
power, omnipOtent since 1855, was
broken in the campaigns of 1866 and
1867, and it is proper that, now when
the nominee on the National ticket is
the author of order No. 40, the Demo-
cAtic candidate in the State should be
the Governor. who declared in his
first annual message against Federal
usurpations in time of peace and bay
onet rule in the South, and rightly
characterized martial law as ''the crea-
ture of necessity, existing only where
no municipal law is in force or where
the success of military operations rem
ders it for the time being necessary. y
N. Y. World.