Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-10-11
More About the Dorsey Disclosures.


The Dorsey disclosures continue to be
the reigning sensation of the day. The
blow was dealt with such vigor, and the
statements supported with so much cir
cumstantial detail, that sweeping deni-
ais were useless, and the Republican
party leaders have been forced to con-
tent themselves with counter attacks
upon Dorsey. Never in the history of
the dominant party has there been such
a disclosure made of its political meth
DDS, and, coming from a man who was
intimately connected with the party
since its rise to power, it has a force
which no amount of defense or expla-
nation can weaken.
That this damaging attack of Mr..
Dorsey has been widely read and COM
mented upon by the whole country, the
course of the Republican party press
fully proves. And that it has produced
great havoc in the Republican ranks,
the various comments of the press also
clearly show. Coming at time when
the country is weighing the recent his
tory of that party with a view of de-
termining whether it is not the exercise
of the highest patriotism to drive that
party from power, it has peculiar sig
nificance, and the party managers are
not slow to perceive it. Such revela-
tons as Mr.. Dorsey has made of the in
ner workings of the Republican organ
ization ought to cause every citizen to
stop and reflect whether party capa-
BILE of such intrigues, and governed by
such bad policy, is not menace to
free institutions and a positive him
drance to the welfare and prosperity of
ho Tlo II
ligent voter can come to no
other conclusion if he compares the
statements made by Mr.. Dorsey with
the public acts and known history of
that party since the days of Lincoln.
trines of centralization-the old Federal
ist principle-and intensified by the
greedy grasp for continued power which
has been SO marked peculiarly of its
principal leaders, it seems they have
added a system of debasing part. man.
agement which has had no parallel in
the political history of the country.
Acting in the maxim that the 8 end
justifies the means" they have stopped
at nothing and attempted everything
which could insure success. That
party managed after that method should
OICCu puDAlS SoIi sthAi mai n lAS
course in our National history by a series
of fragrant usurpations of public and pri-
vate rights, does not seem at all strange
to men who have knowledge of human
history and can analyze the motives of
men and of parties. That any good
can come out of such an association of
evil policies and wicked purposes, no
sensible man can believe. and that when
Dorsey lifted the veil and revealed the
whole rottenness of the party mana gers,
he told the truth, no one doubts who
has kept himself informed upon the
record of the times.
The whole history of the Republican
party, eliminating in the events which
made General Garfield President, will
pass in review before the people in the
coming great campaign, and there will
be plenty of reasons shown why the
best interests of the country and the
well-being of the people demand that
the Republican party be deprived of
further power and driven in disgrace
from the position it has held already
much too long for National prosperity.
1t is not simply a change that the peo-
pie want, but a restoration of true
Democratic methods and principles, a
wholesome system Of public policy and
a revival Of honest, economic forms of
administration. The return of the
Democracy will be the harbinger of
better and brighter days for the Repub-
lie, the end of humiliating and degrad-
ing public scandals and the earnest of
an era of political conscience and indi-
vidual responsibility to public opinion.
This is the pledge the Democratic party
makes, and if entrusted with power it
will make good its promises.-Am american
Register.