Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-10-02

it at mush better profit than can now
be obtained for grain. ut Is true If
wefhave am over production Of corn.
the price is likely to be reduced also,
but II the farmers remember that beef
cattle and hogs and ho-ses have al
ways brought fair price of late, with
no sign of overstocking the market,
they can feed the corn to stock prepar-
ing it for market, and the result will
be much better pay. than to raise
wheat as long as the prices will he
governed by the consumption of for
eign markets as was the case of late
+. Mr. Hoag, one of the editors of the
Poplar Bluff Citizen, is sojourning III
Western New York, having gone there
in search of health. He writes some
interesting letters to his paper-tem-
perate in tone. and convincing I'M de-
tail. We copy II paragraph relative to
the political situation there, as lie sees it.:
1t is an undisputable fact that Butler will
poll 4 large vote i'm Wertern New York next
November. And it il well known that Wes-
tern New York counties have hitherto been
strongly Republican. Consequently the But
Ter votes must come from Republicans. But
Ter is making himself felt i'm the east. He is
gaining recruits daily among the laboring
classes and do not overdraw it when say
that three fourths of all the ballots east for
him will be dropped by persons who have
hitherto voted the straight out-and-Out Re-
publican ticket. see this i'm this community,
| and read it in papers published through
| out western New York. And this is not all
that is encouraging to. Democrats at this
particularly interesting period. 1t is the
fact that there are many Prohibitionists in
New York, and they are not confined to the
western part of the state either. And these
Prohibition votes are merging largely from
the Republican ranks, like the laboring men
who have joined the Butler boom. Now it
Is well known that i'm New York City and
| the eastern part of the state, is where the
tremendous Democratic majorities are pol
| led, and these western and central counties
| are the ones which the Republicans always
| count on for majOrities. Consequently Re-
publicans are uneasy about now. The sit
uation is anything but pleasing to them.
Now, perhaps, word concerning the cause
of this undoubted bolt may be of interest
| to the Citizen readers. 1t will take few
words to "tell it ALL" 1t is simply because
| they are displeased with Republican misrule.
They are offended ut the rule and ruin policy.
They have heard enough of Star Route
| tieres. They have long enough had wrung
| from them 4 tax upon which government
| thieves and human vultures have fed and
| fattened. To demonstrate their independ-
ence, and love for liberty and right, and dis
| gust OF jobbery and corruption, they will
| abandon the Republican party and drop a
| vote for Benjamin whom they assert is the
| only real reformer of the day who dares to
do what is right, and the only great public
man who is friendly with the laboring elias
| ses. All Democrats are rejoicing ut this
| threatened break and ultimate dissolution OF
the Republican party, and think it will be
| the means of giving New York to the Demo-
Gratis this fall, and New York to the Demo-
| Gratis means the election of Grover Cleveland
| to the presidency. In my letter published
September 11th you make me say: "The
| Empire State will roll mp something over
| one hundred majority for Cleveland" This
should have read one hundred thousand ma
jority. Indeed, and now think an hundred
and fifty thousand majority will not be too
| high to place the probable majority since
the second edition of the Mulligan letters
have been issued.