Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-09-22
Well, then, do you mean to say that
lawlessness is all rightP"

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A poor, pitiful letter, indeed! A
most depressing and discouraging let
ter to fall under the eyes of a lot of
jaded, over-assessed, unenthusiastic
Republicans, all waiting for bringing
battle cry" to echo to the chilly heav-
ems! And the man who wrote it How
was it possible to get up a genial glow
of admiration for man who made such
a weak and uninspiring showing for
himself? Was this prolix, struggling
screed to move men to throwing off
their hats in the air and splitting of
their lungs with maddening. delirious
cheers? Such were the questions that
saddened the hearts of the Republican
men on the morning of that bright.
but cool Autumn day, Tuesday, Sep
tember 9th, 1892. And the morning
passed and noon came, and then even-
ing, and then arose Mr.. James G.
Blaine, with bitter JOY in his heart
and with his shrewd old eye cooked
toward the setting sun, as it sank be-
meath the icy waves that beat upon the
Bar Harbor's shore. And he gave has
letter to the public. 1t was not let
ter of acceptance, because Mr.. Blaine
had nothing to accept unless it might
be. as the old joke runs, the situation
in which he found himself. But if he
had had Presidential nomination to
accept, Mr.. Blaine need only have add
ed one little sentence to that letter to
make it a letter of acceptance of tho
fullest and completest sort.
For that was a letter! No beating
about the bush there! No wandering
nor tiuttering nor sputtering! No six
columns of desultory dreariness. No,
indeed. Hardly more than column
in all and a slap-bang-here-we-a
in every paragraph! Cannon, of
course, and old enough CANNON, too
perhaps too old to be really serviceable
if 1t came to the test of actual use-but
CANNON with the real Blaine snap to
it; with the self-assertive, convincing
dash and swagger that nobody can put
on to compare with Blaine; the kind OF
thing that sounds well, and goes we'll
so long as it can go in a hurry.
Cannon, of course-s.Thomas Jeffer-
son was a protectionist: Thomas Jeffer-
son was Democrat: Democrats ought
to be protectionists-The Mckinley Bill
didn't go just right at first; but it's work.
ing elegantly now, and is going to work
still mote elegantly in the fotasreAke-
is building up a tremendous
trade with South America, positively
and we'd all have
been millionaires if somebody had only
thought of the idea before did-Those
Democrats are at their cheap-money
tricks again: they want to flood the
country with an irredeemable currency:
never can trust ,em, never in the
world!"
Fine old smoky CANNON, you see.
In fact, you might call those two let
5ers CANNON and spinach. But the gam
mon has flavor to it, and the spinach
is SO old and wilted and flabby and in
,ipid, and then so ill-prepared and in
nutritious, that it seems ashamed to
couple the names. And this, If you
please. is the accepted leader of tho
Party who has made such
l lamentable and uninteresting failure
Of his first attempt to proclaim his new
leadership. And this, if you please,
S the rejected leader of the Republican
Party who gets up, and in an Off-hand
manner shows him how he ought to
nave done it. 1t is but bluff, of
course; but, oh, what an admirable
,luffl Note the artistic way in which
t is done. Both letters are dated
september Sd, both are published Sep
ember 9th; the dull one in the morn
ng, the smart one in the evening, af-
er the people have had time to real
re the weakness of the dull one. The
me is long-too long; the other is
hort--but not too short. The one is
imid, mincing, equivocal; the other is
'old and audacious. The one tries to
'olster up its feeble assertions with
eebler bits of testimony; the other fibs
way as frankly and fearlessly rs
hough the truth were no more than d
natter of taste. The one falters and
ools with the Force-Bill issue. and on
Y succeeds in showing that the writer
nows that the bill is indefensible and
Unpopular, and constitutes mean
ause to champion; the other utterly
gnores the subject of the Force-Bill;
o utterly and completely and totally
hat you can not help seeing that the
ritter has confidence enough in his
wn powers of impudence to keep up
is intrepid policy of ignorance for the
xo months that lie between this and
lection Day. And, last of all, note
ne Blainiest touch of the whole busi-
ess. Mr.. Blaine puts forth his plan
campaign, not when it might be
ractically tried, not when it might
erve as help or suggestion TO his chief
nd coquerer; but only after Mr.. Ben
amin Harrison has spread before the
-orld the policy born of his sadly COM
mind, and has hopelessly
Ii,noalf IN ayerv error OF