Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-10-09

and you voted a-ainst the Government
| [Appiaus - If you tell him that bounties
| are uncons. itutionai. he says: Where were
You in the dark lays when the / fe of this
| country was in DANGER" Laughter you
| were against the Government. and you have
no right now To say word in re9ard to
| what we do with the common treasury of
the American people. and y"u ought to feel
| good, like Sancho Pauza, :tuI never look
| gift horse in the mouth. (App!ause.l You
| are luc - becau se you are p .rInitte 30 live
| here at all Applause and laughter. I
| What right havc you to quest. on our IN eth
| Cd: The Government is ours; won ii
| with shot and shell and saber stroke We
| pinned il together with bayOuetS; bove
( waves that enstngnined garment, the en-
| blem of all Republican patriotism, the
| bloody shirt" Laughter and applause,l
| NV friends, the Republican party has not
| survived the sectional aud war spirit that
| brought it into existence and perp -tuates it
to day. Look at the Senate of the United
States. The publicanS have admitted
| during the present session of Congress and
| the last session six new States with popu-
| lation IN the aggregate of 150,D00 people,
more ihan one third :-ss than ;he Dopula-
ton of the safe "f Mis- souri,. AN yet Mis-
souri, has two senator AMI these six states
| have twelve, with twenty-four electoral
votes to decide who shall be PrPsf of the
United Statrs in the mex. election. Two of
the Sc stttc--Nyomirg and iaho-haTe not
| together l20,pDb people all told. Tine ratio
| for Il MONT or of the House of Representa-
| tives - 2,J9I The City OF s.. LJuss mas to-
day 10000 peopie-morc til IN one naif OF
the whole population OF these SIX States ad-
family OF the Uninn.
THY WILL GROW.
But, says some enthusi lstic Republican,
they will grow" [Lau shser.l rnsy, Will
grow Ike TODsy in "Uncic To MS Cabin"
Yes. NV friends Nevada has erown-ha<n't
it? Nevada ha. day one third less pop
ulation than when it came into the Union
ID -risive laughter.I Nevada ha. to-day
less than 1000 people. ami Yet she mas as
many votes in TIL. Sen ate of the United
States As New York, Illinois or Missouri, anu
has three votes in the Electoral College.
Coyote. sage brush, jack rabbits and min
t.;ll N ~ rp q de-. Ia fate nj nn
political destinirs of the Am -rican people.
APP ause.l l ask any honest man, aud
not speaking alone to Democrats,
IL ri4at that your proparty should be
taken from You in the torn of %axation;
states that have not any one of them, with
the exception of South Dakota, Il population
equal to the ratio of reprrsen alton for
member OF Congress in the popular branch:
stephen y. Douglas laid down the rule.
which has been adopted by all intelligent
men ever since, in the great Nebraska dis
cusson. that state should be admitted
into the Union that did not have the
requisite population for a member of the
lower branch of Congress. Bnt o-day, in
order Ia pat the Senate Of the United States
absolutely and Indefinitely under the con-
are admitted without regard to populat, on,
and for political purposes only. New Mex
leo has 2I),6G people. bat New Mexico stands
outside and vainly knocks for admittance.
Arizona j. precl"ded from coming into the
LnIon With -, = larger popniation than either
Mexico AMI triz ma are suspected of being
Democratic ~gAtcs fCneers.
The HOUSE CT REPRESENTATIVES,
Let us now look ut the House of Repre-
sentativrs. The House of Representatives
to-day has ceased to be for nll practical pur-
poses Il Legislative body. 1t is governed by
one man. = bold determined partisan. who
stops at nothing to achieve the ends and
purposes of his party We are told tn 1t ma
iortieS must govern; that is tn. basis 0f all
Irce govtrnIn mt; but maj critics must gov
crn according To iaw,tnd when thy cease to
govern according to law they become dcs-
EOtISlH pure ana simple. Applause. The
highest and most ~acft d right of very
minority - 10 resist, &c or ling to parlia-
mentary law. what they b. ievc to be th.
unjust and vic led legis!at o that til" ma
inritv seeks to impose upon them WHAT
he course of Mr.. II ed is not that he is IL
Z epublican, not that he seeks to carry out
me purposes and dogmaS Of his party. but
it is that he ignores the central parliament
airy law of the land: that he trdmpIes upon
the minority and says that the minority has
no rig hts 1T ALL and that he alone consti-
tntes the House of Ropres cntativeS of the
United States. LDcrisire cheers! I honor
brave man; l respect Il determined and
frank political and personal oppon emf, but
hate sneak. l would rather be shot
- own in open night a hundred times over
than to be waylai and aSsussinated by a
coward and Il sneak, | respect Mr. Reed
when he stands forth boldly and openly AMI
to be the right and the truth. He is Re-
publican. known as such to all the world.
countrymen AL precede"ts shall be stricken
down, all parliamentary law shall be torn
tt pieces. because the Republican party of
to- day needs certain legislation, or so
called legislation, in its political behalf in
the House over which he DreSideS.
AN INCIDENT IN THE HOUSE.
| witnessed thu other day, by accid ent, in
the hall of the House o. Representatives, Il
scene that Will never be efftcel from my /
to be present in the hall when the Ianston |
ease was pendlnG-when a c0lored man |
from virginia was seated over white man |
who had been fairly and honestly elect ed, |
think. beyond question: as the ReDrese nta- |
tive of a Virginia district There were from |
seven hundred to eight hundred negroes |
in the gallery. They considered it race |
issue; they were there for the man of their |
color. Ignorant. their pas, ions inffamed.
taught to believe that great outrage |
was being perpetrated upon a negro and |
so soon rs the doors of the House were |
opened upon each day they througed to tn e |
gal Ieries for the purpose of with essing the |
scene enacted upon the floor. The Repub
course of the proceedings interposed some |
o bjcctionS and the negroes broke forth in |
the gallery; crying regular order reg
They were not called to order. They ap-
plauded every speech made in behalf of
Langston, and exhibited their disapproba-
ton of ching that said against |
him. They We're fnf1amed TO Il degree that |
they believed that the fate of their race de-
pended upon the issue then before the Rep
re sentatiyes of the people in that House. |
thought, as looked upon that turbulent as
sembIy. resemblinga most disorderly mass
meeting rather than the councfl chamber OF
II great, free, intelligent and virtuous pco-
PIE. W hat would nave been the Sentlmen
nf Thomas Jefferson, George Washington.
James Madison. john Adams and the other
of the Revolution who established
th!S Government, if they could have looked
down in lDJ years upon sucn Il scene- APP
DlauSe.
Now. my fellow cit zens, am not II ere to
abuse Mr.. Reed am here to attack his
methods. l say If any pres iding officer ar
rogates to himself the right to count
present and voting men who refuse to vote
for satisfactory reasons to themselves. he is
an autocrat. and can pass in the same fash
ion any measure that II" sees proper.
THE LODGE BILL
II there il any thing upon which 4 free
government is absolutely based it is the
right "f II free Intelligent American citizen
to east his ballet without EntiIn iiation so as
to impress his opinion upon the institutions
and iaw' OF the country. The difference.
bet weeu our Government and the govern |
,ufnts from whose abuses we separated is
that here the people govern themselves
W itnout force. withO9t Sptdiery. without Il |
central power to overawc and intjmi'late- /
There - now rcndtnr IN the Senate OF the |
United states Il bill which. in INV Judgment. |
strikes down the Stcrel right of every
American freeman. II it be enacted there
try-nevert neVcr, never! EApplauSe.l 1
know have come to that age wnen think
can look without partisan bias. cody
and disposition ateIy. upon the proposed leg |
what is knoHn a. the Force bill is enacted |
into Il law tn-re will never be another free, |
honest, untraGun"led expression OF popular ]
opinion in these United States Island here |
o. hit before psup!e. in Il community |
whose older citizens have seen the opera |
ton of this law in Il modified form. |
Younger men, remembe- how, in 1876. in this
city. 500 names were stricken from the reg |
istTatiOa lists of the supervisor and deputy |
appointed under the election law
now upon the statute books. Ten hundred |
and twenty ght deputy marshals paraded |
these streets with arms with clubs and pfs- |
tn air hal in