Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-08-03
Dlsgruntled.
The Hillboro Democrat is certainly
out of temper. Hear it:

Inc f1llIDOIO DSUtCCTOt As Certainly
out of temper. Hear it:
The contest for the Democratic nomination
in this Congressional district is settled, aIr
Clardy having now enough delegates instruct
ed for him to nominate. Washington county
which proved to be the pivotal county-in-
structed for him last Saturday, and the COM
| mittee of st. Louis having been forced to
rescind their order to elect delegates at the
election held last Saturday. We do not pre-
| tend to say-for we do not know-that Mr..
| Clardy is not the choice of 4 large majority
of the Democrats of the district; but do as
sert, without fear of successful contradiction,
that no other man has had any chance. Be-
| fore any attempt at organization of the COM
mittee, the counties began to elect delegates
| and instruct them for Clardy; St. Genevieve
| commencing on the first of July, and others
| following ut short intervals. As soon as a
| committee meeting was held, and proper
| steps taken to elect delegates in the other
counties and the st. Louis wards, Mr.. Char
dy's friends began to cry out against such
haste, and succeeded in having everything
fixed according to their own notions. All
who have not openly pronounced in favor Of
Clardy as against everybody else have been
denounced as traitors to the party, and they
even went so far as to assert that the only
other known candidate would not be elected
if nominated. He has controlled the entire
press of the district, with but one exception,
and the st. Louis Republican, the only DEM
ocratic paper circulating throughout the en-
tire district, has studiously suppressed every
bit Of information not dictated by him; with
this state of facts staring us in the face, we
cannot enter the canvass with much enthusl-
asm. but We intend doing our duty as a DEM
crat.
Now we would like the Democrat
to particularize a little. Give US some
of the bits of Information so studiOusly
suppressed by the subsidized press of
the district. The charge that some of
the counties were premature in choos-
ing delegates is certainly a singular
one, since the day set for holding the
Congressional Convention (the 25th of
JULY by the bobtail committee made
some of the Clardy counties get around
lively to be in on time. We assert, and
the facts prove, that the attempt of a
few men and the number made less by
postal-cards-to run things
for the whole district in a manner clear
ly against its will, was as high-handed
q proceeding as ever was chronicled in
with politics in this section.
The reason that Mr.. Clardy's friends
cried out against the action of that
was not that it was pre-
mature alone, but because the district
was not, and could not be-, under the
properly represented,
and its wishes made known or re-
spected. All we at this end desired
was full and free expression of the
will of the district. This
could not be by and through a COM
mittee wherein one part of the district
had twice its proper and fair represen-
tation, and another part had none.
People of the country districts may be
green, and behind the times, and all
that, but they cannot be ridden over
All they ask is fair
show, and we think it is n pretty we'll /:
settled fact now that they will have it.
That Mr.. Clardy's nomination follows
8 fact, and yet it has nothing to do
with the principle involved. l.