Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-04-28
The Democratic Party and State
Credit.

Just as Missouri is shaking the dust o.:
the esteem of the rest of the world, her vir-
ginia Senator attempts to freshly blacken her
reputation by proclaining her the peer Of any
other Southern State as a repndiating Com
monwealth. Reading Senator Vests speech,
. stranger would readily 'gain the impression
that Missouri had in true Southern style repu-
dated $50, 00) OF her debt, when every
Missourian knows that she has never repudia-
ted dollar of it. That it would have been
largely settled by repudtaticn there can be no
doubt, except for the fact that the State fell
into Republican hands at the proper time, and
ceased to be Southern until one-third of the
debt was paid of. and State bonds brought
up from 40 to 95 cents on the dollar. Vest
cannot make it appear that Missouri which
elected him is no better than Virginia which
he claims to represent, by making the Demo
cratic reputation perpetrated in few coun-
ties do duty as State shams."-[Globe-Dem-
ocrat.
Here are all the known phases Of false
hood. The lie direct, the lie infereren-
tial, the lie positive, the circumstantial
lie, the suppressio Ueri and the lie gen.
eral are all grouped, not ingeniously or
artistically, but boldly and shameless
ly. 1t Is difficult to determine where
to begin to refuts such an accumulation
of medacity. "Just as Missouri is
shaking the dust Of Democracy from
her feet" when she has but one Re-
publican member of Congress-elect-
ed as such-out of thirteen, and his
seat obtained by q division among
Democrats in district where there is
not pretence that more than one-third
the voters are Republicans; and when
the highest vote the Radical party has
ever polled in the State is 153 900 in q
total of nearly 100000; and when the
popular branch Of the Legislature
stands more than two-thIrd Demo-
cratic.
Senator Vest made no allusion to the
debt of the State, nor to debts of coun-
ties except such as had been contracted
by the foul methods which prevailed
during the reign of the party which il
by this organ of falsehOod.
He distinctly 80 stated and was not
misunderstood by anybody and could
not be.
The assersion that the Radical party
rescued the States reputation by pay
lug one-third of the State debt rises al
most to the regions of sublime false
hood. The truth, AZ it is known to ev-
cry intelligent person in the State, is
that the whole debt of Missouri was in |
Cured in aiding the construction of
railroads on which the State held n
first lien, and that security was good |
Tor something near the face of the
iebt: that this security was sold out by |
the Radical party for less than a mole
" fits value and debt Of more than |
Els, ,O0O, 900, neediessly and corruptly |
Fixed on the people. Finding the State
,reditmuch below par the Democratic
party has raised it to n standard scarce
" below that of the National Govern
nent ITSELF A State Constitutional
Overwhelmingly Demo-
,ratic, in 1875 devoted one quarter of
The States revenues to the payment
II interest on this debt and in provid-
ng q sinking-fund for it's final extin-
yuishnent. To-day, under Democrat
= government, Missouri bonds are
quoted at IFS. From 95 to lis the
credit Of Missouri has been brought by
his paRty Of repadiation-
It IL such inane, stupid, transparent
alsehood az In contained in the central
Radical organ of this State which Of
ends respectable and candid men, and
has repelled from the Republican par
" the large accretions which immigra-