Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-08-17

| condemnation upon the most Shame-
less Congress that this country has ever
known. Boston Post.
A Republican Prodigy.
It has long been claimed by many
| close political observers that q Repub-
lican politician with conscience has
not yet been produced. There have
been many Republicans in office who
pretended to have consciences, and
| talked as if they were always guided by
+! the purest and highest motives; but
when it came to the pinch the apparat-.
us to which their conscience was at
tached was always out of working or
der, and they acted just as men without
conscience did. 1t can no longer be
said, however. that the Republican par
ty is without man who has a con-
science which is really and truly n part
of his organization, and which will dis
play itself when occasion requires 1t
is not one OF those infinitesimal con-
sciences which can only be discovered
| by a microscope of extra magnifying
power. and of which it has been said
that thousand would find room to dis
port themselves on the point of a fine
cambria needle. On the contrary. 1t Is
| 1alSC ttl0 WCi1 0CFOAOPOu,
can be readily distinguished with the
naked eye. and requires at least the.
broad surface of the end of a knitting
needle upon which to find room for the
sole OF its foot.
The remarkable possessor of this
unique appendage goes by the name OF
Calkins-W William II. Calkins. And il
you ask what State he halls from, our
answer it shall be, he comes from Inji-
amy and its famous yeomanry He
was, however, born in Ohio, so that
State shares with Indiana the honor
of having had Calkins. Calkins is
Chairman of the House Committee
on Elections, and il was his con.
] nection with this Committee which has
enabled his conscience to shine so con-
spicuously as to illuminate as with an
electric light not only the halls of Com
gress but the corridors of the Capitol,
while from the snow-capped peaks of
/ the Rockies to the sands OF Florida, and
from the pine stunps of Name to the
haunts of the cowboy in Arizona,
flashes have gone in u zig-zag course
like forked lightning.
The particular occasion which called
Calkins' conscience into action was the
contested election case of Small Aus.
Tillman from the Fifth District OF
South Carolina. Nominaly, the duty
of the Chairman. as of the other MEM
bers of the Committee on Elections, il
to deal with judicial fairness with the
cases submitted to them. Calkins was
perfectly familiar with the facts in the
| election case, and he was convinced, SO
/ he says, that neither Smalls nor Till
man was entitled to the seat, and that
it would be a fraud upon the people to
| seat the former. Now we come toSthe
workings of the marvellous conscience
of Calkins. Ii he had risen in his
place in the House and made strong
| speech in support of the position he
held, he might possibly have convinced
| a sufficient number of his colleagues TO
have prevented the contamination. of
1.-The outrage involved in the geeating
of Smalls. But, although his conscience
tried hard to assert itself, he .restrained
| it by a mighty effort, and had 80 far
succeeded in smothering it that
when the vote was taken on the ,reso!ur-
ton to seat Smalls, the enthusiastic de-
sire of the Republicans on all sides Of
him to steal a seat which they could not
carry ovcrcame him, and under the in =
fiuence of the overpowering forcesof
numbers he joined in the rush which
was W sweep OuidlS lIltO tuc MOUSE over
all obstacles. legal, moral and parlia-
mentary. As soon as he recovered his
breath from the unwonted excitement OF
the moment, the still, small voice of his
conscience asserted itself, and then it
was that the grand illumination Of which
we have spoken took place. Pale but
resolute, steadying himself by his chair.
and with a voice trembling with emo
ton, he said that the vote did not truly
represent his conscientious convictions,
and he therefore asked that it be
changed and recorded in the negative,
which was done. !0e3fE
After this magnificent exhibition let
it never again be said that no Republic
an has conscience. As when a man
who has been engaged in robbery, by
aterward saying that stealing is crime,
shows that he is a good, honest citizen.
SO Calkins, by his action in this matter.
shows that he has political conscience
not to be despised in the day OF Small
/. things. . Detroit Free Press. :
One of the Dundreary visitors to
the recent London dog show paid $50
600 for bulldog which was milk white
with red, blood-shot eyes, his chops
falling each side OF his jaw, with a set of
teeth that when he SMILES sends the spec
tators back yard or two as a matter of
precaution. Detroit Free Press.
"A st. Louis detective thinks that
blackmailers in that city get $50, 900 a !.
year.
RESOLUTIONS never arise spontaneous