Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-01-20

BurneS as shown by a contract between Cal
vim q. BuTnes and the Bank of Commetce, sOl
st. Louis, dated January g. 1881, and low IN
the hands OF the committee appointed by
governor Phelps to settle with the state
Treasurer. Calvin +. Burnes having Arranged
the deficit, appeals to the LIE rislature to allow
1.-THE use eli tines nameef theState i'm enforcing
se se 3 she lights the
mas or OF saa 6aeG IL
law can, in mo event, injure the State This
being true, simple Justice demands its pas.
Is eo.t without o saS
whatever. The arrangement for the payment
OF this large sum of money settles vexed
question which has disturbed the people of
Missouri for more than two years. The actors
i'll such an arrangement deserve the apprOba-
t sini. OF the people OF the STATE know OF no
party. 1t stands as another evidence of the
honesty of the dominant party of Missouri,
against Col. Gates and the partyby a partisan
press AID partisan orators during the late
Tue am Ms d o d RaRe
out a stain upon his solid and rugged charac :
ter; like true man, conscious Of his own rec !
borne without a mur1nar ri the pnless abuse
and malgnity heaped upon him, calmly await
ng the day tor TO cone to his reiei
Come mt last, and as he departs from the office
he has hpnored for four years, pointing the
unerrlng finger at the man, it Says he has been
q faithful servant.
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
having placed the State and its 1ipances upon
2 healthy basis, bysan economical adninisE
tratiOn of affairs, is entitled to the cont nued
confidence of the poop. e, and win he Retained
in power till a later day, if it pursues the
with pride its past history, and the good it
has accomplished, it should remedy its evils,
purge its faults dethrone its bosses, enlarge
its horoscope, and advance with determina-
ton to the possession OF those great living
principles upon which tree and an indie
ing, The partyisa sfuIl Of life and vigor to-
day as If fresh from Successful political fields.
The great secret of this "unconquerable vi
tallty is its supreme love of liberty, and ITS
supreme regard for and confidence in the
people,"
] Democracy stands for the foundation prin-
ciples of the Constitution; for local self
government, as opposed to centraliZasion for
the restriction and diminution of the powers
the elevation and untrammeled independence
OF the individual citizen; for equal rights, as
opposed to privilege and monopoly for the
republic as opposed to the empire. And as
long as those great fundamental ideas remain
the shibboleths Of the party it will remain in
vlnclDle and undlsmayed, and as 1t haSin tile
past seen powerfulrivals perish SO it within the
future. =" Beaten it has been, beaten 1t may
be, but hopele ssly broken it never can be as
long as it is true to the vital idea of a govern
people" It is national in III vote ,snd national
in its views. In love of country il is linn ted to-
no section, loyal to no geographical lines but
1t is tor the happiness and prosperity OF the
whole country. a &
THE PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST.
We have passed through another Presiden-
tial election, successfully as people and as
country and James A. Garfield will soon DE
United states. 1t is alike gratifying and com
mendable that it will be accomplished with
out the excitement and unnatural embarrass-
oh
to that chair. 1t can be safely said that our
people never again desire to see candidate
ton by such methods and sucn suspicious
means. MI. Garfield becomes President not
so much OF party as of the whole country,
and at a time when prosperity gladdens the
hearts of all, when no aniinosities remain to
disturb andfret the people, when themoment
of defeat. and victory is equally enioye \ By
that he will be $50 clear in his great office"
that when he comes to lay down the robes of
wen. His victory was no ordinary one, nor
over an ordinary opponent. and upon a mar
gin SO slight that the movement of even one
leading man in the City of New York
could have-ehanged~ the result. The
defeat of Gen. Hancock as the. representative
of the Democratic party in nomanner lessons
the admiration in which that illustrious citi-
zen and soldier is held by the whole country.
Wherever Is bravery modesty and ability are
loved the unobtrusive and unfinching
friend of civil and religious freedom. The
L
sociated in the minds of our people, and in q
few more years the historian will bring both
before the bar OF severe public opinion, one
as successful politician, the other as sue
cessful soldier, and which will stand the fire of
that crucible is not for me to say to day. 1t is
my belief that Hancock viii pass down to
other generations unscathed by the criticisms
of inc xorable history" the idol of a free peO-
pie, whose regard for the supremacy of civil
born, made him its champion in its hour of
EXTREMIST need, when others, smaller men,
the creatures OF power, discarded it as an acL
cursed bauble. As a lover of my race desire
each to do his duty in his line and make his
country greater by having lived and acted. .Ii
f0 PERORATION. s4ss ar. go. .
We are living in one country, under one flag
and one National Constitution, and we should
be in spirit and in deed but one people. That
of a great rock in a weary land has protected
US in the midst of violent exc1tements and the
most bitter party conflicts, and mad this pow
was not the outgrOwth OF faction, not the re-
suit of temper, but of compromise, modera-
ton and patriotism. Our fathers laid deep
and well not only the foundations of the Cen
eraI Government, but also of the State Gov
ernments whether for few or many, framing
a Constitution with almost superhuman wis
dom, small enough for the parliament of man
and broad enough for the federation of the
tion Of the eng two classes of governments
upon certain local and special interests,
and oths9 great 1as sso
Each form is indispensable to the other in
the formation of one matchless system OF
government, and each should be guarded
with a patriotic zeal. In our ardent admira-
ton of State Government, growing somewhat
out of our proximity to it, ever ready to de-
fend its ''rights'' with an exemplary vigor, we
should not look with distrust upon the Cen
eral Government; even if at times. in our
opinion, errors and abuses creep into Its man.
agement, so there may into the administra-
ton of all Governments but stand firmly by
it as the ark of our political salvation, relying
upon public opinion for the correction of
those abuses In the language of great states
man long since dead: We as people have
derived innumerable blessings from the Gen
eraI Government, and whatever of evil
has q occurred in its administration
bears, no proportion to its bless 4
ings." Let us teach our children
that it is in the operation of the American
system of government that the States feel
and know that they are important parts of II
great " hole, and it is in and by thai Union Of
all the States, in that great WHOLE" that we
are known among the nations of the earth.
From it, as from rich fountain, public pros
pelity has streamed over our whole land, and
from the bosom of our great nation lrepubnc
a spirit has gone forth throughout the world
to Quicken and raise the oppressed, teaching
them new lesson of freedom, and pointing
out to them the way to self government. The
heart of man must swell with conscious pride