Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-05-03
TRIUMPHANT DEMOCRACY.


Democratic Principles and Democratic
Achievements.
CHICAGO. April "a Last night the Iro-
quois Club, the most influential Demo-
crate organization of the West, and a
number of invited guests met in the BAN
quet hall of the Palmer House to celebrate
Stephen A. Douglas anniversary and to
discuss appropriate topics of the day.
The remarks made by Pension Commits
sioner John C. Black on triumphant De-
mocracy" were received with unbounded
enthusiasm, as they deserved to be- After
eioquently sketching the misrule of the
Republican party for q quarter of CEN
tury, the General said:
At the call of the people for relief arose
Democracy. at last triumphant and adj
dressed itself to the restoration of power to
the people. No greater task was ever laid
on human organization. Every avenue
to ascendancy was INSTRUCTED ny trickery,
by the fears of humorous allies, and the sui
len inaction of its defeated opponents All
the machinery of Government was in hos
tile hands; the plainest outlines of public
affairs had to be studied and mastered by
the men of the Democracy. Unused to the
situation into which they were suddenly
called, they bore into the labyrinth of Off
cialism in one hand the lamp of the explorer
and in the other the scourge of the reform
er.
about to be summoned again to the bar
of public opinion, a Triumphant Democracy
presents the record of its brief term of re-
newed office, and challenges your calm re-
view of its accomplishment
1T has restored many million acres Of
the public land to the use of the common
people; it has reopened the trail of the
emigrant and made the American pioneer
welcome to his own; it has wrested from
the hand of giant corporations and unhal-
lowed combines the plumber which they
had accumulated under the pretended
processes of law; it has torn their Illegal
privileges from private syndicates, and is
dragging the giant robbers to the bar of
justice. 1t has lessened by many millions
the annual expenditure of the cost of Gov
eminent 1t has shorn away a myriad of
useless offices, and is at this very day in the
National capitol engaged in the great task
of cutting down excessive taxation, and of
leaving the surplus wealth of the country
| at home with the plain people of the land
THE Triumphant Democracy has shown
that it is competent to administer the
affairs of the people in their interests; it
has dissipated the prejudices which OBJ
scured the judgement and the fears which
terrified the people; it has demonstrated
that the American citizen, from what Sec
ton soever of the country he may come, is
able and fitted to participate in his own
government 1t has banished the gigantic
phantoms which arose in the mirage of
war, and in place of hate, revenge and
fury, has substituted a reign of peace, of
common interest, and of fraternal reg 4rd.
It has destroyed the dominance of
section and brought the Ameri-
can people to the consideration of
common interests; it points them to the
common possible achievements and glories
of the future. 1t has turned absolutely
from the things that were sorrowful and
blood-stained, and has advanced to those
where the heart and brain of the whole
American people may find the highest
fruitage of renewed affection and of ma
turing Judgment Away from the Red Sea,
where our beloved persisted, and the wilder
ness where Gods wrath smote u.s. it leads
to a shore of a nations Jordan, and points
to land of promise, where our children
shall build the temple OF concord, and our
sons eat the bread of peace
sThe Democracy has held sacred and has
tar advanced the claims of the pensioner as
the common debt of the common people to
be sacredly, honestly and muniicently
paid Never since the tender hand of peace
| first bound up the wounds of rugged war;
never since the awful fruit of battle cum
! bered the red earth; never since men died
| has greater munifcence or more eager
willingness been manifest than has been
shown to the pensioners by the Triumphant
Democracy-which, God willing, shall for
many years pour the Nations reviving
streams by the stricken and desolate.
@From the general sum of public tax
| alton it has met and is meeting every law
| full demand made by the war, and holds Sc
| cure every substantial fruit of victory. 1t
hoe 1pixy r,1oo md f1,o,,
sands of the unworthy, the corrupt, the ex
travagant, and is placing in charge of the
| Government men drawn fresh from the
| people, and who are animated by the de-
| sires the wises and the aspirations of q
| generation whose tide of young life sparkle
| in the sun of our new heaven; yet in its
| vast sweep it leaves unscathed all achieve
ments of righteous victory. and all fruits Of
| National triumph. It leaves to history to
| gather sacred ashes into sacred urns,
| and addresses itself to the living needs Of
the poisoning and fragrant present
1T has faithfully collected the revenues
of the Nation; destroyed the scandals in
| the customs service; broken up the under
valuation systems and made the custom
houses of the United States the clean out
posts of clean men on all our shores
1T has preserved the Nations faith and
| peace with the Indian; removed the ulcer
Gus and irritating plunderers who wrought
their nefarious practices under Govern
meat contracts in the midst of the tribes;
and in it's three and a half years has led
the red men again into paths of peace and
| decent relations with their white brethren;
| it has re-awakened the trust that was dead
| in the savage bosom; it has taught him
! that the cross of Christ does not, under
Democratic Administration, stand for
disguised speculator, nor the American flag
| for trading booth
1T is restoring our navy to the high seas;
and in another four years of ascendancy
will set the starry flag on the old ocean
home of conquest and renown.
ut has restored confidence in it's meth
! dds and intentions to the business world
| and to-day the volume of our trade is un-
rivaled at home and abroad in the past or
| present
Its traditional politics still welcome the
| immigrant to our shores, and make his
children our children; his hopes our hopes;
his honor our honor; his prosperity our
| prosperity; and it is matter of no concern
! whether his progenitors themselves landed
J in the Mayflower or took steerage passage
in the Umbria,' if only the true American 10
revealed in his life"
-'ThAe IS no telling what petit
| Jury a,ll DO" he's long been Il saying
among LAWYERS. Here is the latest
| Illustration of it in Atlanta: One man
| was suing another for a mule and the
| jury broI ght in !, verdict for the plain
tiff for $50. On the first ballot they
had stood: Five for 81 for the plaintiff,
| three for ) cents. one for So. 90. one
for $3.50. and two for 1925. atlanta