Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-05-20
FROM JEFFERSON COUNTY.
De SoTo, Mo-, May 18th, 1886.

G ooAo, Vno., Way l4tn, 1880.
Ed. Register.-The Judicial pot is
still boiling in this county, though your
county candidate don't seem to concern
himself much about it.
1t must be happy thing to have an
even temper. There are plenty of
scavengers in our county. and when
led by two such men al the leading law
hrm In Potosi, you can judge of the
flavor of the mixture. But I am glad
to say that no respectable persons APP.
prove of personal abuse and defama-
ton, and it always does the abused
party more good in the canvass than
harm, if he can only endure it without
kicking.
Our leading democrats in different
parts of the county have been at work,
and still are at work, trying to get Col.
O'Fallon to order the delegates at the
township meetings to be elected by
batlot-and that only democrats, or
those who will pledge themselves to
vote the entire democratic ticket at the
November election, he allowed to vote
for delegates. Petitions are being sign
ed and the result will be known this
week. AS Judge Emerson has been
protesting against the present plan,
and we democrats have been kicking
lively about it, there is some anxiety
here to know what your man will do
if we can't get fair deal by ballot.
The county is sure for Mr.. Emerson,
if a ballot can be had, and only demo-
Gratis are allowed to vote. But if re-
publicans are allowed to vote i'm the
mass meetings with the democrats,
here in De Soto and at Crystal, where
republicans are in the majority, and
where the employees of the railroad and
the Crystal Glass company are under
the control of the corporations, and
dare not go against the wishes of their
employers in an open division in a
crowd, then democrats would be snow
ed under by persons not entitled to vote
at all ina democratic meeting. In d
large mass meeting there is no way to
drive the brazen republicans out of the
crowd. But if a vote by ballot is held,
then only democrats need be allowed
to vote.
Besides this injustice, the meeting in
Joachim Township was ordered to be
held three or four miles from the GEN.
tire of the township where it has al
ways been held, at Balley's, and where
the county democracy can easily at
tend, and it is now ordered to be held
in Crystal City, right under the nose
of that corporation, and where 900 to
500 of their men, aliens-republicans
and all-can DE brought into a mass
meeting i'll 10 minutes from the time
the whistle sounds!
Is this good democracy?
In Rock Township, the meetings
have always been held in the centre,
about four miles west of Kimmswick.
But now has been called in Kimms-
wick, on one edge entirely, where the
Merchant Exchange dealers i'm futures
control the republican crowd, and
where the honest, hard working demo-
Gratis, the farmers, can't get so easy.
All this is making our county demo-
Gratis very wrathy, aud the manipu-
lators will be showed under, if the
democrats can get a fair ballot and an
honest count"
Mr.. Emerson has made many friends
in our county by his gentlemanly
course and the kind manner in which
he ulvas speaks OF lis opponent.
A JEFFERSON DEMOCRAT.
ITO this we have to say, that if this
rascally policy is pursued in Jefferson
county, Judge Emerson will squarely
refuse to continue his candidacy for the
nomination if he has the dignity and
self-respect we have always credited
him with.-EDITOR