Iron County register., 1890-10-16
Republicanism en- the Wane.

The President OF the Republic IN Club at
| Pilot Knob gave notice through last week 5
| Truth that there would be meeting of the
club Saturday night for the transaction of
important business. The business to be
| done may have been important but the clubs
| former members evidently did not desire to
| participate for, when Saturday night came,
after waiting until a late hour, but ten per-
sons, including the president, put in lhe-r
appearance. SO, if there was important
work to be attended to the few present had
| to shoulder the responsibilities, and bulge
forward in new campaign of spreading
| schools and misleading the voters by
false promises never intended to be hiled
| And we should think the working man ana
| former Republican in this vicinity would
abstain from any further intercourse or
mingling with the Pilot Knob Republican
| club. Who does not remember the lies and
| infamous means resorted to for the purpose
of securing votes by that organization dur
! ing the last campaign: Tue voter was told
that if the Democrats were successful the
| Knob would shut down, hard times prevail
and the worklngman would find starvation
staring him in the face. The vicinity was
| flooded With the forged extracts from Eng
lish papers so prevalent during the last cam
paign, the Cleveland and Thurman free trade
| flags printed and paid for by the National
Republican Executive Committee were scat
tered everywhere, and almost every other
disreputable praotice known in American
politics was resorted to in the effort to delude
and deceive the voter in to the belief that
dire calamIties would take place in the event
that Mr.. Cleveland was reelected. On the
other hand, though, the laborer was assured
that if MI Harrison was chosen, times would
Immediately brighten up, work become
plenty, wages high and it was asserted by
some parties who considered that they were
in position to speak semi officially, that
just SO soon as the news of Mr.. Harrison's
election was received, the St. Louis Ore II
Steel Company would at once commence
sinking three large shafts tor the operating
and developing of new veins of iron which
bad been discovered ny the diamond drill,
and hundreds of men put to work. Mr..
Harrison was elected but that Is the only
part of the program that has ever been car
ried out. Instead of the lively times that
were promised the workingman has encount-
cred reduction of wages and general busi-
ness depression, such as have not been known
in this country for years. The three shafts
have not yet been commenced and we are
sorry to say that, so far outsider can
Judge, there is no Intention that they soon
will be. With this memory before them it
would be strange indeed if the voters in and
around Pilot Knob were to again come up
smilingly and offer themselves as victims for
Republican duplicity and Misrepresentation
But they will not. The recollection of the
past two years is with them and that recol-
lection promises a Democratic majority at
Pilot Knob next mon,h. The REGISTER
every day hears from some of the older citi-
zeus in Pilot Knob, who have been Repub-
licans all their lives, but now publicly an
uounce that they are tired of Republicanism
and intend supporting Sam. Byrns and all
the other Democratic nominees in the COM
ing ELECTION. We welcome and hail them
one and all, and with Democracy once more
In the ascendant, we trust happier times are
before us all,