Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-08-13
DEFENDING vlLLAlNY.

Republicans should be the Last to Re-
vlve the History of the Tilden In
iquity.
1t hardly pays to talk morality to tho
thief whom the law has failed to prose-
cute, and who has possessed his stolen
property long enough to fritter it away
after the manner of thieves. He has
beaten the law and all propriety, and
it is the proudest chapter in his bad
history. He gives his red scarf to the
breeze and shows his wolfish teeth
whenever the law is mentioned. He
snaps his fingers at the penitentiary
and laughs at the common Jail What
are they to him? What is it to him
whether justice prevails, whether our
political system is purified, whether
society is properly protectedp He has
had his triumph over good law and
good men, and when at last he yields
up the ghost on his iron bedstead the
triumph is his fondest recollection,
whatever the humiliation of his death.
and he knows that it will be preserved
for the dedication of thieves for many
years to come through the literature
that thieves most read.
The Rochester Post-Erpress is a de.
cent newspaper and it is very strange
that it should assume to defend villainy
that has long since been adiudged by
popular sentiment to be villainy and
nothing else, and that apparently every
other Republican newspaper would be
glad to have forgotten. Mr.. Tilden
had but one vote to get in three States
that were by common consent Demo-
cratic, and he was lied out of these
three States by the Republican party.
This is the fact without regard to the
methods employees; and the subsequent
history of the party-from the triumph
of Mr. Guiteau to the escape of Mr..
Dorsey, and its defeat last November
shows that it profited from its villainy
as thieves and assassins generally do.
The Post Express talks volubly of cipher
dispatches and of the whimpering'
Mr.. Tiiden. The cipher dispatches
were legitimate means to avoid as
sassination; and it is not Mr.. Tilden
who whimpers, but the American peo-
pie, whose system of election was
slaughtered to keep old scoundrels in
place and give new ones positions that
beyond all question belonged to better
men.
We observe that the Saratogian, OF
Saratoga says tuc OiSSuSSIOu VI Inc
fraud Of 1851 is proftless 1t viii
find that such questions as thct never
grow old. The treason of Arnold and of
Judas is as new to-day as it was when
it first began. Great crimes grow in
popular condemnation the longer they
are remembered, and the memory Of
them must be preserved as means to
present and future safety. The Post
Express talks volubly also of the fail
nre to nominate Mr.. Tilden in 1880 and
1884; but it will hardly venture to say,
in its largest zeal in behalf of political
meanness and injustice, that that is
argument, or to deny that Mr.. Tilden
might have been nominated last wear il
he had chosen to be, or that he would
be nominated in 1888 if he were a
younger and a well man. The great
crime which lied Mr.. Hayes into the
White House is more crime as the
years go on. It can never be atoned
for. The men guilty of it will be re-
membered for it as men are remem-
bered for treason and assassinat
Let the Republicans nominate in 1888
any man who had to do with it, and
they will find themselves branded by
popular sentiment with a meaner and
more ineffaceable brand than jeff
Davis or even Rutherford B. HAYES
ever carried. IN y. Graphic.