Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-08-04

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disguised. / resent, therefore, any ac-
cusation. any allusion, any insinuation
which would put upon me the faint of
bigotry or intolerance.
But l may say to this knight Grant
of the New Missouri" who is comm g
with the dawn of new era-an era of
religious freedom and universal politi
cal toleration-that l never affiliated
with, countenanced, or applauded any
citizens because they were charita BILE;
that ever shut young women, support
ing their widowed mothers, from the
school-houses of the land; that ever put
Methodist preachers and Catholic
priests in felon's cell for holding
aloft the white standard of the Son Of
Man.
NEW MEXICO.
And apropos to this, l might with
perfect propriety, for it is a matter of
public record, call attention to another
item of recent history, in which Maj.
Warner and both bore part-and he
bill pending in the fiftieth congress for
the admission of New Mexico into the
Union as state. Maj. Warner was
a member of the committee
on territories. At the same con-
gress he and his republi asso-
ciates Joined in recommending, advo-
eating and voting for the admission of
Wyoming and Idaho. The combined
population of both Wyoming and
was AS, 900, and the total assessed val
uation of all the property located in
both amounted to sa7, 6l2. 800. At that
time New Mexico alone had a popula
ton of IS, 500 souls, and her assessed
valuation amounted to SAC, 041 ,010.
The population of New Mexico, there
fore, was larger than that of Wyoming
and Idaho combined. and her property
valuations were nearly equal to
the admis sion of New Mexico to the
Union. Why? Why vote to admit
Wyoming and Idaho, and against adj
uniting New Mexico? The democratic
members of the committee on terrific
ries brought in a report recommending
that New Mexico be admitted to state
hood. The repu blican members brought
in a report opposing her admission.
Maj Warner signed the report twas
charged in that document that the
people of New Mexico were untitled
for American citizenship, because,
among other things, a large majority
of them were extremely supersti-
tious;" that superstition prevailed to
greater or less degree among all
classes, the intelligent as well as the
ignorant" that they had IAN abiding
faith in saints and images" and in 1.-The
Virgin of Guadaloupe;" that some of
looked upon bits of wood as all power
full in every emergency" In this rude
and unfeeling way the Catholics of
New Mexico were assaulted. Things
sacred to them were jeered at and
scoffed at The Mormons of Idaho
were good enough to bring that
republican borough into the Union;
but the Catholics eff New Mex
leo were too low-debased by re-
member when Mr.. Joseph, the demo-
cratic delegate from New Mexico, rose
from his seat, towering in his wrath.
and hurled his bitter and scornful in
vective against those who had made this
brutal assault upon the religious con-
victions and practices of his people;
and remember, too, how the repub
lican authors of that outrage fled be-
fore him like frightened birds seeking
shelter from the storm. They came
clamoring up with disclaimers. Some
swore they didn't mean it, some they
didn't know it, some they were sorry
for it Maj. Warner joined in the
chorus with some apology, excuse or
justification. He can give his own ex-
PLANTATION, if he wishes to the public
But whatever the apology or explana-
ton. let it be borne in mind that Maj.
Warner, in common with all his repub-
lican colleagues, continued to "stand up
against New Mexico and vote against
her admission. The major can explain
why he did so, if he wishes. But when
he comes again to insinuate illiberality,
bigotry or intolerance against me, let
him not forget that I never signed
public document assailing a great COM
munity because their religious convic-
tions did not accord with mine.
REPUBLICAN OBSTRUCTION.
Turning now, Mr.. Chairman, from
this long record of extravaganza, cor
ruption and prescription of the repub-
lican party when in power, desire to
ask Maj. Warner what part he has sus-
tanned, and his party has sustained, in
the history of the state since their over
throw twenty years ago. The demo- |
cratic party was restored to power in
1879. Maj. Warner says Missouri has |
been poorly governed since then-that |
culated to retard instead of advancing |
the growth of the state. But if that be |
true, which deny, what part has Maj. |
Warner and his party played in this |
long history of s1oth and stagnation? |
Certainly during all this period the
party is unquestionablyr re-
sponsible for the conduct of public af-
freres have been citizens of the state;
they have managed to remain here in
spite of accommodating discouragements;
the major himself. with the green hills
of Wyandotte in sight, has not gone to
share in the bounding prosperity of
Kapsas, but has hung like a fading
flower to the dead walls of Kansas City; |
Col. Dick Kerens, instead of stretching
himself like a verita BILE Goliah in Chi
cago, spread out there before his very
eyes, has continued to limp dwarfish
along the silent streets of St Louis;
now, being here, what have they done
as good citizens to lift the state up and
advance her standard along the path
way of progress? What has the repub-
lean party done? -....s-
Mr.. Chairman, never in human his
tory did any body of men release their
hold on power more reluctantly. Never
did ravenous tiger with dripping fang
skulk from bloody feast more unwill-
ngly than did the rascals of Missouri
from the place of power they had abus-
ed and the opportunities for plumber
they had enjoyed. They chung to
power with desperate tenacity and re-
their hold upon it breathing
curses against the state. From that
lay forth, through all these 20 years,
hey have bounded the state, decried,
traduced her and put every
possible obstacle In the pathway of her
progress. AT home and abroad, on the
street, on the highway, on land and
liver and sea, in public places, from the
stump, through the press, in every way,
,y every means and agency they have
.lamored and vociferated their denucia-
ion of the state. They have heralded
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