Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-06-11

and has spent much time, labor aud none,
/ in trying to establish school here, and will
be glad to communicate with any partie.
who may feel disposed to aid this enterprise
A final meeting of the prison inspectors
was held at Jefferson City last Monday ev-
/ ening and after a short discussion a vote was
taken on the location of its branch peniten-
tiary, which resulted in the selection of Cape
| Girardeau. Nothing further was done than
to make the selection. The inspectors will
go to Cape Girardeau this week and make
| arrangements for the purchase and also for
| the commencement of work ut once. They
have not yet decided on the amount of land
necessary, but it is quite likely they will pur-
chase about 200 acres. After their return to
Jefferson City they will decide on the num-
Der of convicts which will be put to work on
the building. 1t is understood that the in
spectors were not a unit on the selection OF a
site until quite recently. One was for Lou
isiana, another for Kansas City and the last
for Cape Girardeau. The Cape Girardeau
people have manifested strong desire to
obtain the institution, and kept Il delegation
at jefferson City for nearly three weeks past
1t will be remembered that ut the late term
of the circuit court for Ripley county, Judge
Wear ordered a change of venue to Iron
county in the case of State Us. Diefendorf.
At that court Judge Wear refused to try the
case for the reason that he had been of coun-
sci therein, and the election of a special
Judge was ordered. A vote was taken, but
before the result was announced Judge Wear
ordered the case to be transferred to Iron
county, and the prisoner was sent here to
await the October term of our circuit court.
Last Monday Sheriff Turner of Butler cOun-
ty came here, with an order from Judge
Wear for the prisoner, who it seems Will be
tried in Butler county, under new ruling
ofithe Judge. The officials of that county
quashed the old indictment, procured anoth-
er and the case will now come up de nouO.
There was some question as to whether the
jailor here could give up his prisoner, under
the circumstances, but he finally let Sheriff
Turner take him. There appears to be a
fine chance for first-class middle in this
case, but we don't care to comment just now.
In another part of this paper we reproduce
an article entitled, "No Tampering with the
Verdict of the People" The conclusions of
and his argument is incontrOvertible. The
people last fall did vote to ''turn the rascals
out" We defy any man to produce single
Democrat in Iron county, in the State OF
Missouri, or in the United States,wh did not
vote for ga change" and Il change with the
voters meant then and now means, the dis
placement of the rank and file of the RepuD-
lican officials-not merely change in few |
of the leading offices. If the voters last fall |
had believed that the election of Grover |
Cleveland meant only Democratic President |
and Cabinet, hundreds of thousands of them
would have not taken the trouble nor spared |
the time to go to the polls. No. sir! They |
want the ''change" made manifest at home
in the offices with which they have direct
" to do; and, with less than this, the fruit
IF the glorious victory OF 1884 will, AS the
apples of the Dead Sea, turn to ashes on their
ips. We do not ask undue haste on the part
If the appointing power; but the conclusions
If Mr.. Hay are as erroneous as they can be,
md, if he follow them up, they can result
,nly in disaster to the party to which he
yves his present preferment.