Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-10-04
A Specimen of Republican Cheekiness.

The Republican leaders do not at any
time hesitate to indulge freely in dema-
gogy and to sole1nnly put forward as
sumptions for facts. The address of the
National Union League to the people is
a specimen of the average cheekiness of
Republican pretension: ..s.. 3.
'sThere is no section of the Republican par
ty whose advent to power in the States and
the Nation would be as disastrous to the best
Democratic party. There is no shade of opin-
ion held by any respectable number of Rcpub-
breathe the. spirit of liberty, of progress and
OF good government in u fuller and better
sense than the best utterahce, the best iiispi-
ration and the best sentiment of the Demo-
cratic party of to-day. Paramount TO all CON
sderation of personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT or the
advancement of factions Is the demand the
county makes upon the Republican party to
see to it that the reins ofgovernment be not
wrested from its hands. 5..l s....,-ss, g. ss4.e
Who constitute this Republican party,
the whole, body of which is more en-
Gghtened and more patriotic than even
the best elements of the Democratic
party? Examine this supercilious state
ment and put the tombstone OF truth to
it for a moment SO far as possible At
the last Presidential election the Re-
publican party polled 4, 449, 053 votes,
and the Democrats 4,442,035. At the
election in 1876 the Democrats polled
4,2S4,757, and the Republicans 4, 0S3,-
$50; In the one election the Republic
ans had 7,01S majority, and in the other
the Democrats had 250, S07 majority.
What elements constitute the vote of
the two parties? There were in 1880,
in round numbers, so, 900, 5000 people in
the United States. ~ OF these ZOO 900
were white and G, 100000 colored. There
were ga persons to each voter. It is a
truth which will not be disputed that
the negroes voted with substantial
unanimity with the Republicans. There
were less than 5000, 900 white voters,
of whom the Democrats surely got about
4,442, 900 and the Republicans $685. 900.
Is the negro race, as ittexlsts I'M this
country, more capable and progress
i've than the whitesp1 Such would
seem to be the argument of this con-
clave of Republicans. There were in
the United States in 1880 6.5oO.0O0 for
eigners, who furnished something like
], 200, 900 voters. 1T is a matter of com
mon information that since the civil
war vast majority of the foreign vote
has gone to the Republican party. Is
United States more devoted to liberty
and progress than native white. Amer.-,
cans? No intelligent, foreigner would
himself set up such a claim. 1t is en-
tirely within bounds to say that without
the negro vote neither Indiana nor
Ohio would have been Republican in
the last Presidential election It is
quite certain that of, the native white
voters of the United States, three-quar-
tiers are Democrats, and none but gan
grened partisans would deny that thus
composed this home eneous aggrega-
ton of citizens, to state their claims in
the most moderate terms. are as capa-
BILE and progressive and devoted to
liberty as their Heterogeneous Republic
an opponents. -St. Louis Republican. I'd
-,Nitro-glycerine is often used as a
medicine, under the name of glonome.