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

W stnt governments ana realty TO the
flag; but he would not take the oath
prescribed by the Drake Constitution.
He was human, as all really great
men are. He had human heart and
human sympathies. In the confeder-
scy, among those who had opposed him
were many very close to him by the
ties of blood and friendship, and he
would not swear that he never synpa-
thized WIN any of them, or that he
had never aided or comforted any of
them in their hour of distress. And be-
cause he would not take that oath his
ballot was rejected And so this great
democratic general who, to save the
Union. had stormed like some fury in
carnate in the wild whildwind of war,
was disfranchised because his lion
heart beat little softer sometimes
when he thought of those he loved. but
against whom his sword was uplifted.
He brought suit against the judges for
rejecting his ballot-charging that the
proscriptive law under which they
acted was in contrayention of the
American bill of rights. The election
judges demurred to his petition on the
ground that it did not state any cause
for action, and both the circuit and SUI
preme court sustained the demurrer
and dismissed Cen B1air's petition
without hearing. --- --
JUDGE wooDsoN oUsrED.
Judge Warner Woodson was the demo-
cratic candidate for county clerk in
Boone county. knew Judge Woodson
well. He was splendid type of the
old school Missouri gentleman-unas-
Stunning in manner, simple in his habits,
generous in his hospitality, honorable
in his conduct and manly in all he ever
thought or said or did. Few mon have
ever been more beloved by the people
among whom he lived. His republican
opponent at the election to which I
refer was one Henry y. Cook. Wood
SON received a large majority of the
votes cast at the polls He was com
missioned and took possession of his
Office and entered on the discharge of
his duties In 1867, at the instigation
of Mr.. Cook, the attorney-general
of the state instituted a
quo warrants proceeding to GUST
Judge Woodson and ultimately to in
stall his defeated antagonist It was
charged that Judge Woodson was in
eligible to hold the office because dur
ing the war, then long passed, he had
sympathized with somebody engaged
had had a son in the confederate army.
and he would not swear that that boy
was shut out from his heart But he
did swear that he was never guilty of
any act of disloyalty to himself, and
never committed any act OF hostility
against the government of the state or
the United States On the contrary.
he proved, and it stood undisputed,
that he had voluntarily borne arms for
the government under the command
of officers of the federal army. But he
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radical supreme court ousted him from
the office to which the people had elect
ed him, and Mr.. Cook was subsequently
indicted into the office in contenptuous
disregard of the popular verdict by
which he had been repudiated at the
polls
GEN. SHIELDS CASE.
/ will give you another case The
life of Gen. James Shields, whose honor
ing dust lies sleeping in Missouri soil
to-day, was 4 beautiful, brilliant and
one He achieved conspicu-
BUS fame on the red fields of two great
wars He was one of the real heroes
who came back from the land of the
Montezumas- He was a ma jor-general
in the Union army, and held his veteran
lines firm and unyietding even before
So critic onslaught of Stouewall
.Dach.5n's intrepid squadrons, ontain
ing the very flower of the southern
chivalry. During his life he represent
ed three states of the Union in the SEN
ate of the United States. In 1868 this
great Irish-American soldier and states
man was the democratic candidate for
congress in the Kansas City con-
gressional district. He was opposed
by Mr.. Robert L. Van Horn, the
editor of the Kansas City Journal,
Maj. Warmers home organ, published
within an arms reach of his threshold.
Gen. Shields received a large majority
of the votes cast ut the polls. But that
was a matter of small moment in those
days The returns were subject to re-
view at jefferson City. Mr.. Van. Horn
from the people to the Rod
man returning board. What mattcred
il that Gen. Shields was literally GOV.
cred with scars and MANNED by
wounds received in battle? What mat
tered il that the people who knew him
and loved him had done all they could
to honor him? He was a democrat He
hated tyranny and dispotism, and
hence he hated Missouri radicalism,
and denounced it, too. with eloquent
Van Horn was a prominent
and typical radical, smooth and
plausible fellow, as unctuous and oily
william as ever scuttled ship or cut a
editor of an influential
republican journal placid, discreet.
INSCRIPTIONS politician These
virtues made him omnipotent at Jeffer-
son City. All Rodman had to do was to
take the jackson county ballots and
returns and drop them gently In among
The glowing Goals of o red-hot stove,
make changes by additions and sub |
,traetions in the returns from other |
attach his signature to a docu- |
nent certifying that the Hon. Robert |
T. Van Horn had been duly elected to |
he Office of representative, and the |
hing was done. Gen. Shields re-
NAMED at home; Editor Van Horn went |
o congress. And Editor Van Horn and |
lis Journal-the same old Van Horn |!
md the same old Journal-are now |
waking the very hills with their
pen, progressive Missouri" And no
Wonder, for the picking has not been
,ood in recent years for gentry of the
IAN Horn stamp, and they hunger
for the feshpots again.
JUDGE WOOD 8 CASE. --t
will give you another case. In 1868
William L. Wood was the democratic
for Judge of the Sixth ju-
licial circuit, composed of the counties
# Jackson. johnson, Lafayette, Saline,
'ettis and Cass- C. p Townsley was
lis republican opponent At the cleo
ion Mr.. Wood received majority of
100 votes But Rodman was appealed
o. He threw out the vote of Jackson
county, which had given Wood over
800 ma jority. There was utterly no
'eason for throwing it out. The con-
pirators did not even pretend to give
'eason- It was simply bold act of
insolent, official RI scality.
rownsley was commissioned, and In
January, 1889, took possession of the
,fiice for term. of ak. years. In 1878