Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-08-24
A Sufficient Issue.

was ever accurate. the enemies OF the
Democratic party have now rendered it
inapplicable The issue of the next
campaign, and of the next, and of the
next, has been supplied by the Repub-
lican leaders in Congress. Kelley and
kasson and Keller and Robson and
Reed and Hiscock by mere folly and
mere jobbery have done more to show
the country that's change in the political
control is absolutely necessary than
could have been done by the wisdom
aud the integrity of any equal number
of Democratic leaders.
Colonel Conkling put the case in
nutshell in the interesting interview re-
ported IN yesterdays W0rld. He said
that nothing was needed to secure the
success of the Democratic party except
that it should be Democratic in prin-
ciples and practice as well as in name"
Colonel Conkling, though Democrat
for ten years past, is representative of
large and increasing number of men
who would be very glad to abandon the
Republican party if the Democratic party
will let them. To the Republicans, be-
ing the party in possession. no tissue"
is necessary. 1t is the party that seeks
to turn them out which ustaffirmative-
ly show cause why they should be turned
out. The Republicans have the control
of the Federal offices, which they are
using with an unscrupulousness beyond
all precedent to add to the corruption
fund they are otherwise amassing. and
they have complete and efficient organ
ization, besides the mine points of the
law" inherent in possession. 1t is true
they have nothing to say for themselves.
Their Congress is openly managed with
the purpose of preventing a reduction of
taxation by making away with the sur
plus their monstrous taxes have pro-
duced. They are spending at the spigot
in order that they may not be compelled
to save at the bung. So long as they
can empty the Treasury as fast as they
can fill it, they have no fear that they
will be compelled really to abate tax
alton. And if the producers of the
country can be bribed with a small
share of their own money, in the form
of IS liberal appropriations not only
will Robson be rich and Reed be rich
and Keller be rich, but the Republican
party will remain in power until people
have had chance to forget how Reed
and keifer acquired the money they ex-
pect to derive from the transaction. AS
for Robson, he is probably aware that
social respect in his case is past praying
for. The exposure has been too thor
ough. All that he can reasonably ex-
pect is to get more money and keep out
of jail.
This seems to be the programme of
the corruptionists in Congress. 1t is
founded. it will be seen, upon what we
believe to be the erroneous idea that the
people of this country will stand any
thing from the Republican party. They
have stood great deal, and if the Re-
publican leaders would steal in modera-
ton and with some pretense of de-
ference to public decency, the pro-
gramme might be carried through. But
when the country is confronted with a
Pension bill of one hundred millions,
rushed through under suspension of the
rules, two-thirds of it admittedly to be
bestowed upon impostors and claim
agents; with River and Harbor bill,
appropriating eighteen millions and
half. two-thirds for Jobs; with appropria-
tons for public buildings, mostly need
less and all extravaganza, footing up ten
OR fifteen millions more; with Robeson's
Naval bill, of which Robeson's advocacy
is accepted everywhere as an unmistak-
able badge of fraud, and with the North
ern Pacific job, clear plumber of the
Treasury at the lowest estimate of six
teen millions over and above the whole
cost of the road, protected even from
discussion by the embarrassing report
of Reed and the outrageous ruling of
Robson, the country needs no further
evidence that the recognized leaders of
the Republican party belong distinctly
to the criminal classes. The ISSUE
whethera gang public plunderers shall
be deprived of an opportunity to steal
any more public money is one which
the public plunderers have themselves
presented to the country and to the
Democratic party. It is an issue upon
which it is an insult to the country to
suppose that it's decision can be doubtful.
The plunderers themselves think, as we
have said, that they can bride the own
ers not to prosecute with part of the
swag distributed in liberal appropria-
tions. They certainly cannot do this if
the Democratic party simply accepts
the issue they have raised and puts it
properly before the country, SO that
every voter in the land is made aware
before the Congressional elections come
on what the Republican party has done
TO enUltIe 1GSelI TO the COQCTOI OF Con-
gress for another term. Opposition to
public plumber on scale which makes
Tweed's thefts seem mere pilfering is
enough of party platform for such
time as this. And happily the Demo-
cratic party need only point to the rec
ord of the last House of Representa-
tives which it controlled to show that
in driving out a House of Representa-
tives which accepts the leadership of
notorious and all but avowed
public plunderers the people will be at
least sure of not putting band of brig /
ands in control of the Treasury.-M r
World.
A South Carolina gentleman recog-
nized in person who sat with him at |
the hotel table the alms-taking deaf and
dumb individual whom he had seen a |
few days before at a neighboring town.
After observing that the lately afflicted
man could both hear and speak, he con- |
graduated him with genuine sincerity on |
his miraculous recovery. The miracu-
lously-recovered regarded the exhibition