Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-10-16
1t Stands Confessed.

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!, 1t IS not necessary for the. Democrats
against James G. Blaine to demonstrate
not only his, shameless, constant aud
systematic corruption, but also the uni
versatility of popular beliefi that corrup-
ton. The newspapers that now vie
with each other to be, considered the
leading Blaine organs have in their mo-
ments of sobrietY and candor in the
past furnished those who now oppose
their candidate with all the. ammuni-
ton that they could possibly desire.
This is true with a very few EXCEPTIONS
Even the New York Tribune and Boston
journal have at one time or another in
their existence Indicated doubts OF Mr..
.Blaine's probity. But the leading par
pers of New York State and the West
the Troy Times, Albany Jo,;1Hhal,
Buffalo Express, Buffalo Commercial,
Utica Herald. Cincinnati d Commercial
Gazette, Chicago Tribune and many 9th
,ers have recorded judgments against
Mr.. Blaine, upon which the Democratic
party ought to be willing to rest its case
at any time. The present painful at
tempt OF these papers 20 mike Mr.
Blaine'sspast reputable in view of what
their unbiased verdicts have been is not
calculated. to convince. their readers
or make their special pleading respec1-
ed. How Ikea prophecy the following.
from the Buffalo Commercial of May 6,
now reads: '''' -''' ''''-'''i
Edmunds only added force to the fact that
if Blaine manages by hook or crook the can
nor 10 any s parfy 20 g
fenSive with candidate of whose record they
are ashamed, whose future makes the bust
rsistently opposed by every truly independent
newspaper in the country; and whose cleo
ton. should that be brought about by some
mysterious agency would be regarded as the
triumph of demagogism. -s<s 3.
That is what the election would sig
Nifty, but to the triumph of dernagogism
we must also add the triumph of cor
ruption. Eight days later theL or,1nere1al
declared some more frozen truth as FOL
lows: H2Tsa D. 3ug 7-al.i itGE 4. ss,s.s a.
Outside of ring of politicians who have
found.ln Blaine a bold fractional leader ready
there was no regret expressed. nor was there
any felt when his name was stricken from the
list of d Tne man Vas at d that hat
turn over the def1led pages of his record as
member of the National Legislature. The
business men know how mucn there was in
his career then to mark him as a man impu-
slve. dangerous and unreliable. ''t-+
.'These be strong words, my mast4
ers, but none too strong for the appli-
cation that was made of them. HOW.
can a newspaper face its own honest ut
terances of less than five months ago
and expect to 7 carry any weight of in-
tiuence with Supplying arguments, Ia
boriously and speciously prepared to
meet a partisan energeneyP When
Judge Tourgee in his attempted defense
of Blaine at Dunkirk.. n. ~. was eon=
fronted by the estimate of his character
and record to which he had signed his
name few months before, he retired in
confusion from the contest. He showed
that he had enough sense of the falsity
of his position, to blush for the incon-
sistency and insincerity into which, for
party reasons, he had rashly permitted
himself to be betrayed. Were it not
for partisan urgency Mr.. Blaine would
not have a single honest defender in the
country. Boston lost. llssit.th h.