Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-06-14
NUMBER 40.
LIMEKILN CLUB. |
Brother Gardner Delivers Fervent Ap-
peal for federation In Politics.

Brother Gardner Delivers q Fervent APP
peal for federation In Politics.
ssUp my way" began Brother Gard
ner, as the lamps were turned up,
s.libs man whom hev knowed fur a
dozen vars as an honest, upright,
hard-working citizen. He am kind to
his wife, tender wild his children, an
he would sell his boots to pay debt.
Dar' has bin no time in de last six or
seben y'ars dat Iwouldn't hey bin glad
to lend him any thing | had or to git
up at midnight to do him favor. De
odder day he was put up as a candy
date fur some small Office. If it had
bin on my ticket it would hev bin all
right, but it was on de opposishun. As
q consequence hev bin goin' aroun
callin' him liar an a horse-thief, an
warnin' my friends dat if he am 'lected
dis kentry am gwine straight to ruin
at once. wouldn't lend him my axe
or shovel to save his neck, an l hev
my suspishuns dat he beats his wife
an starves his children.
ssIn nv feelings / am exactly like de
rest of you. De candydates on my
ticket are all right; de candydates on
de odder am all wrong. Seriously, my
frens, what fules we make of our
selves in pollyticks. We work, long
side of a man fur a y'ar-naybur wild
his family-like his principles admit
his worth-stand ready to fight fur
him, if necessary, but all of a sudden
it comes out dat he am put up fur of
fee. He am put up, probably, fur de
very merits we hev diskivered an
praised, but dat settles us. We am
ready to abuse him high an low, an
to stoop to de basest trickery an dis
honesty-to defeat him.
Sample cases kin be seen all around
us to-day. A man may differ wild us
on poetry, religun an all else but pol
lyticks. De VERY mint he can't go
our candydates his goose am cooked.
We say to ourselves when de campaign
opens Let us hope dat boat parties
will bring out deir VERY best men.
What we want am honesty an respect
ability in official posishuns. Good
men are hunted out an prevailed upon
to come to de front, an den one party
squars off to frow mud at one set, an
de odder party squars off to beslime de
| odder set. Men who hev lived fifty
years of honest, upright lives am
dragged frew de mud by loafers only
six months out of Stait prison, an we
stand ready to punch de head of our
best friend in case he can't agree wild
us. Am it any wonder dat American
politics am cess-pool, and dat Amer
leans elected to represent counties,
| districts, States an de Gov'ment am
looked upon wild suspishun by de world
| at large.
''I want to say to each an ebery one
of you dat de bigotry of pollyticks am
| de disgrace of the present generashun.
| A party must hev monumental cheek
| to argy dat it includes all de honest
men in its ranks! A man must be
leetle less dan fool who reasons dat
his way of thinkin' must guide all his
friends! An yet dat am de prevailin'
idea of to-day, and good men am being
slandered an lied about an dragged
frew de mire simply bekase dey differ
| wild us on whether de Gov 'ment should
| pull on its right or its left butte first.
81 has heard some of dis talk around
dis hall. I don't want to h'ar any mo-
| of it. Work for whom you please an
vote for whom you will, but doan' be
idiot enough to ascribe to one all de
varchews an to charge de odder wild
all de crimes on airth. We am all
heah wild de same interests at heart
all luvin' our kentry an all anxyus to
put her ahead. If we differ in our the
ory of how it should be done it am be-
kase no two men kin agree on de best
way to get a bar'1 O. cider down cell
lar. ."-Detroit Free Press.