Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-04-05
A Word to Democrats!


We this week publish call for a
convention of the United Labor Party,
| to meet at Ironton on the 18th inst,
to nominate a candidate for Congress,
and also TO choose delegates to State
convention to be held at Sedalia, May
18th. The call is signed by one "Glad-
hill, Organizer residing in ST. Louis,
and his scoop-net takes in, in addition
to the Knights of Labor, the Farmers
Alliance, the Wheel and several other
organizations, heretofore supposed and
averred to be social and cooperative,
rather than political. Did the Demo-
cratic members of the f. a. in Iron
county authorize Mr.. Gladhill to issue
such call? Are they aware that the
almost sole purpose of this so-called
Labor movement is to compass the
defeat of the Democratic party in Mis-
souri, as well as the Union? Their pa
pers-one of which, The Nep order,
now lies before us-persistentiy ignore
every beneficent act of the present
Administrations: it's restoration to the
people of millions of acres of public
lands squandered upon corporations
by Republican Congresses; its efforts
to reduce the grinding taxes which
have enriched the capitalist at the
expense OF the farmer and laborer; its
bringing to naught the many schemes
laid to deplete the public treasury
all these things are studiously ignor-
ed, and their best word for the party
founded by Jefferson and sustained by
Monroe, jackson, and other patriots,
is Bourbon" "Mossback," yellow
dog party etc VIII Democratic
farmers train with them? We rather
| think not.
AS an evidence that this movement
dictated by heads remote from coun-
try districts, ignorant and careless of
the interests of the men they seek to
delude-to show that this movement
is not intended merely to secure new
legislation, but is to be used as an of
| e-getting machine for malecontents,
discon tents and hungry aspirants, we
herewith append the following print
ed in the K. of L. paper above re-
ferred to:
HURRAH FOR OLD IRON COUNTY!
Mr. EdHOr-At meeting held in Ironton
on the 10th between delegates of the Farm
ers' Alliance and delegates of the knights of
Labor, from the various assemblies of both
organizations, i: was decided to go into CO.
operation both in business and legislation.
We have not yet decided to put out full
Labor ticket, but we think it is very proba-
able we WILL The poor old Democratic
party, that has been in power here in Iron
county so long, has begun to feel weak
kneed, and they are trembling in their boots
for fear we will pat out a ticket of our own
for they know if we do we will carry the
county by large majority.
Nest of our county officers that are in
office to-day haye been in Office here for the
last twenty five or thirty years. This used
to be Republican county, and the same
men who used to fill the offices here as Re-
publicans are filling them to-day as Demo
) Gratis. Consequently they have right to
tremble in their boots; for they know the
F. a. and X. of L. are the majority in the
county, and if they put out ticket they
can be counted on to man. They are men
that can't be bought for drink of whiskey
or a glass of beer, and if they didn't see our
shadow last grounding day they will the
: next. Yours respectfully,
r. NJ. SUMMERS,
NJ. W. L. A. 591, X. of L.
: Ironton, No., Feb. 18th, 1888.
"Upon what meat does this our
. Caesar feed that he has grown sc
great?n Mr.. Summers, as chief officer
of X. of l.. Assembly No. sol, has is
, sued his mandate, and the Democratic
party must succumb. 1t has become
, "weak-kneed,n to use the words OF
this regal proclamation. If SO, when
. election day comes we will stiffen up
the sinews, and, in place of decrepit
| men, he will find vigorous warriors
f While we have not had much to say
heretofore on this question, from this
+ time on we intend to speak out in
meeting in favor OF that "poor old
party that Mr.. Summers affects tc
: despise. The time has come when we
believe all good Democrats should
show their faith by works. Let the
, weakened, the soreheads, and those
of little faith, if there are any, go over
to the enemy. 1t is no time for lag
ging. Line up and answer to the roll
call. If men are Democrats from prin-
ciple this screed of the Master Work.
man of a secret society will not strike
terror. 1t will simply put in Demo
Gratis the courage of Scotland's chief
/ tain-''come one, come all! this rock
5 shall fly from its firm base as soon as
i T." Again, he informs us that naosl
5 of our county officers have been in office
for the last twenty-five years; thai
this county was once a Republican
county; that the same men who used
; to fill the offices as Republicans are
now filling them as Democrats. What
a fund of valuable information this
man possesses! Democrats who have
fought the battles of the party in this
county for twenty-five years would
= not have made this discovery if the
gentleman had not kindly volunteered
t the information.
1t is true, Iron county was once Re-
r publican. Is this where the shoe
} pinches? Does Mr. g wish it to he Sc