Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-04-30
OPINIONS AND POINTERS.

--''Republicanism and the cause of
honest elections go hand in hand" says
a New York contemporary, which needs
to refresh its memory by a careful re-
perusal of the Dudley letter.-St. Louis
Republic.
-Beniamin Harrison, who is swing
ing around the circle in pursuit of re-
nomination to the presidency, will
probably find it upon his return just
where he left tin the inside pocket
of Hon. James G. Blaine.-Chicago
Times.
The misfortune of Mr.. Edmunds'
retirement from the senate is made pc
culiarly sad by the fact that it places Mr..
Hoar first in the line of succession to the
craftsmanship of the judiciary commit
tee of that body.-St. Louis Globe DEM
ocrat (rep.).
-"Shall the republican party dis
band, or shall it go to the country?"
asks one of our leading republican ex-
changes. By all means let it do both.
It's usefulness is over, and, perhaps,
breathing pure country air would invig-
crate the best of it's members enough
to make them democrats-Louisvi
Courier-J ournal.
THE republicans will not dare de-
fend the Mckinley bill in the next pres
idential campaign. They will play the
same old game of promising to correct
their mistakes, but they will find that
there was a great deal of wisdom in
President Lincoln's observation: you
can fool all of the people sometimes
nd e II
the time, but you cannot fool all of
the people all the time. ''-Chicago
Globe.
"A republican organ made in
dlgnant by the statement that Ben
Harrison's trip is junket provided by
railroad corporations declares 'that
Mr.. Harrison refused to accept free
trip across the country, and is paying
for it like a man." 1t is stated that the
expenses of the journey foot up d round
S1S5,000, of which great sum the presi-
dent with his teeth firmly set together
has insisted upon paying the price of a
hrst-class passage by ordinary convey
ance from Washington to San Francisco
and back. The more one thinks of the
deacon's backbone the more one is con-
WINGED that that grand old man
wouldn't accept a favor from railroad
corporation any more quickly than he
would accept a seaside cottage from a
real estate ''com bine. Chicago News
Dividing the Billion.
''Where did all that billion dollars
goo" is a common question regarding
the appropriations of the billion-dollar
congress.
A good deal of it went in appropria-
tions to promote the reelection of the
republican leaders of congress. The
New York World drags few of these
little grabs to light. Mr. Cannon OBJ
tanned 500, 900 for a post office in his
own little town of Danville. Mr.. Quay
got $50, 900 for building in his village
of Beaver Falls. Senator Ingalls, Sc
cured 100000 of the plumber for
Atchison. The California members of
the appropriation committees obtained
100000 for their state. Wisconsin's
share was $3.50, 1000. Mr.. Mckinley Sc
cnred 500, 900 for his town of Canton.
These little sums will not account
for billion dollars by good deal. but
they are enough to show that the
spirit of grab was rampant and that
the republican statesmen were in it for
all they could get. Luckily it will be
some years before they have another
chance to loot the treasury.-Boston
Globe.