Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-11-03

Mr.. j. ii. Elliott announces in this
paper that he is a candidate for Con-
stable, and desires us to tell the public
that he has made no arrangements to
appoint any person in case of his cleo
tlOn;jall reports to the contrary are
false.
Hons. M. L. Clardy of Pennington
and Jos. j. Russell of Charleston de-
livered Democratic speeches at the
courthouse in this city last Friday even
ing. Both gentlemen were in splendid
shape and did themselves proud. Mr..
Russell's explanation of the workings
of the tariff was especially good; he
made the subject plain and let the facts
speak for themselves. Mr.. Clardy, in
his own iniminitable and eloquent man.
ner, showed up the evils of Republican
ism generally, dwelt at length on ma
| tional issues and closed with talk on
State matters. Both were mastery eff
forts and received frequent and hearty
| applause from the large audience in at
tendance.
Now, just for a moment, be fair, be
honest and just. Republicans, aren't
you have had to resort to in the con-
test just closing? OF course you are
not sin it" when it comes to logical
discussion of the real issues of the cam
paign; you haven't a single leg to stand
upon; the facts and figures are too
overwhelmingly against your side of
the question. You dare not meet the
Democratic arguments in fair, square
debate, so what do you do? You have
lot of tin medals made, and distribute
wildcat" Cleveland money. Now,
we'll leave it to you, isn't this rather
small business for a s'big, broad nation
al party?" Don't you. think it would
much more become you to appeal to
the intelligence and reason, than to re-
sort to such baby practices? We sup
pose, though, that we ought to be
charitable. You have grown desper-
ate. You see the handwriting on the |
wall and the frantic efforts in which |
you are now engaged should be attrib- |
uted to a premonition of defeat, decay |
and disintegratiOn
..X." our Pilot Knob correspondent, |
this week refers to the fossil Democ-
vi 1EOu Guilty. We utcu
not state, is Republican; we suppose |
he applies ..fossil'' to the Democrats of |
this county because they are primitive
enough to be honest; because, although |
in the majority, they are fair. honest
and just with the opposition; because |
they are not imbued with that spirit of |
progress and advancement" which |
characterizes the Republican party,
wherever it is in the supremacy; like |
they were here years ago when Demo-
Gratis were disfranchised by hundreds
and all manner of means were resorted !
to for the purpose of carrying elections;
no regard was paid to fairness or right,
it was anything to win. Of course, a
person who approves of such proceed
ings, and party with such a record,
hasn't an overly amount of regard for
the sturdy honesty that has character
lied the actions of the Democracy ever
since they have been in power in this
county. Happily, though, ks"
standard and idea of what should be
lacks a heap of representing the Amer
lean people, and so they will speak in
thunder tones on the Sth day of NOvem-
Der. and the .'fossil Democracy" as
*" terms it, will sweep the country.
In conclusion, not for publication, but
private gain, is tx" wagering any
money on Warmers election?