Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-10-16

NOT bs1s areward Or uer4k hut n selecsed
to do the work because he has the power.
me- $3.50 sxsse s1@ dos mt sss e
any sin .nnmi r;. n ,a a, the Rsst This great
ference between Mr.. Blaine and Ceve-
land rs candidates is not merely that the
81 the, other. TO public affairs. though
that distinction is important. hut chiefly
Iisguised nor excused nor defended; bur that
OF Mr.. Blaine Is denied or excuzod or defend
ed Ise gres1 fr 1aa nhe = wrong ssssen IS rom
it shains 6Afendedv paIliated and called right
This great injury TO the public morals Is nov
are pntfing evii FOR good and good for evil.
darlsness for light and light for darknesA Bit
man who has seen what an awful burden
Governor Cleveland has had 10 carry N conse-
Quence of this one oHense can PosMny pe
tenn pted by his example to any Ike inquiry.
But when 4 man who has devoted himsen 70
making money out of Office fs oeIenoeo TOE
paid For DONG az jnsfice in high judicial posi-
ton is treated as a mere accioenI Wpen ASA
lng man 70 Per9 mr., 3,,n " fslsehoods IS
considered as something not worth speaking
/ OF. then the morals of society are pelng
to see how men whom have honored, ana
honor still, can allow themselves 70 %
is the sadd est fact in the story Of our time.s
and say: ,,;sts
80 FOR AN HOER OF CHARLES SUMNER IL
Or for one burning speech from John An
:. One blast upon his bngle horn
We're werrh q thousand men"
But the knights are dust and their Eooai
swords rust" Instead of the upright soul OF
Summer, we have u bronze gta1ue OF nlm IN
the public garden. probably erected by the
help of the Repn blicans who assisted IN re-
wing him from his p ace as Chairman OF the
Committee ON Foreign Affairs to sAease Gen.
eral Grant or who passed q vote OF censgre
on him in the MassacnYseIts LEGISLATURE pc
cause they Thoughts It Would be popular. In.
stead of John Andrew. am glad 10 say that
we have son who innelts ms Iatner splrIt
TO go to Congress And 1 see around me
young men, fuu of the energy and hope OF
part, and set ii in better way. i saw its
rise and may live to see its fall. but, II IT
falls. something better will take ITS place.
For this Independent movement has come
to stay. Some of the Republican orators.
who have come from q distance 70 INSTRUCT
us, have been disposed to Jeer ut TINS INDIE
pendent movement ms very trihing aHair-
So remember. they jeered at the humble be-
ginnings of the Liberty party and the Free
Soil party, and at the whole anti-slavery
movement FThey laughed and made merry
as that great storm Was coming up the sky. as
the people did in the days of Noah, and knew
nothing till the food came and swept them all
away. III
Gentlemen. If YOU will permit me to close
tins serious speech with a light anedote: 1
remember my friend. the late James t. Fields.
one nightswhen a partially inebriated man
stop ped him. and pointing to the Sky, said:
Why does not that rocket come down.
Rocket" said Fields, .sthat's not a rocket,
that's a starir .oni J. beg your pardon,
said the other,s II am stranger in these
parts" Those who think the Independent
about to tail, are think, strangers in these
parts They do not know the motives nor tne
men nor the spirit nor the power OF TINS
movement. 1t has come to work, and IL has
come to stay. ~ EHM t7s sea