Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-06-08
Mr.. Bissel and ''Us Little Fellows .

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Mr.. Bisseu and "Us Little Fellows .
| 'sUs little fellows voted for Mr..
Cleveland just the same as anybody
else," writes correspondent from
Lone Oak, Tex. s'Why keep the Re-
publicans in the fourth-class post of.
fees or any other offices when the peo.
pie have seen fit to turn Harrison out
and to put Cleyeland inP We, the
people of Texas, voted to make Mr..
Cleveland President, and Mr.. Cleve-
land has appointed Mr.. Bissell Post
master General. Now, are the people
going to rule, or is Mr.. Cleveland go
ing to hold the people down to Repub-
lican rule? This sort of thing will
cause many good Democrats to join the
third party. I, for one, think Mr..
Cleveland ought to think of us little
fellows, who voted for him. We have
as much right to seek the fourth-class
post offices as he had to seek the Presi-
dency, and say it will work hard
ship on the next nominee of the Dem
ocratic party of the United States.
! We voted for change in the post Of
fee at Lone Oak and there has been no
change. Who is to blame, and who
would wonder at the party splitting
have been voting the Democratic
ticket for 50 years, but if can't get
what vote for done, what is the use
of my voting the ticket? I might as
well join the third party"
! AS the name of the writer is not
sent us for publication, we withhold it,
but we will furnish it to Mr.. Bissell il
| he wants it. The communication sums
up the situation in an admirable way.
And it moves us to few remarks in
behalf of Gus Little Fellows"
There are some who seem to think
it a mighty noble and patriotic thing
to be a successful candidate for an office
with large salary (an Office, by the
way, for which the person appointed
to it may be most eminently and
egregiously unfitted), but if any Dem
ocrat who does not happen to have an
influential friend who is partial to him
even when the partiality is at the ex-
pense of the people in general and of
the Democratic party in particular
when such Democrat, we say, wants
to be fourth-class Postmaster at a
salary Of $3.50 year, then it seems
that these very great men who have
undertaken to reform the Democratic
party look upon him as a petty. con-
temptible Spoilsman! '.Us Little Eel
lows are not to be allowed even to
touch the phylacteries of such eminent,
exalted, Predestinated reforms as these
who are so much greater and better
than the Democratic party that they
can turn up their noses at every Dem
ocrat who objects to life tenure; can
denounce as "a Spokesman" every Dem
ocrat who asks for Office and can try to
create the impression, merely for the
sake of catering to the prejudices of
the Theodore RoOsevelts, that the Dem
ocratic party, the party of liberty and
progress. is so infected with 'sthe De-
moralizing Mania for Spoils'' that it
must needs go down to destruction un-
less it has Mr.. Bissell of Buffalo for a
reformer and a savior.
Mr. Bisseu is good man, an admir-
able man in some respects, most adj
mirable man. but it is very evident he
knows very little about the Demo ;ratic
party if he thinks he is Anointed of the
Lord to reform it. ..Us Little Fell
lows are not what we ought to be.
We know that. But we are Demo-
crats-Straight Out, uncompromising
Democrats-and we are going to hold
to the principles of the Democratic
party until it thunders. No matter
who is against the party, "Us Little
Fellows" are for it, and we propose to-
enforce its principles regardless OF
New York Toryism and Massachusetts,
Mugwumpery.
We trust Mr.. Bissell will understand
these thing better after. awhile. He
has the making of a very good Demo
crat in him, and nUs LittloWs" will
make very good Democrat out OF
him. It make take some time to do it,
but we will do it in time. e.-Republic-