Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-02-22

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leaders have ceased to take their bear
ings from the ancient landmarks of
Democracy. There are men. high in
its councils who have no care for its
principles. no reverence for its tradi-
tions, and no knowledge of its history;
who, in their hearts, prefer the political
theories of Alexander Hamilton to
those of Thomas jefferson. These
men will calmly vote to continue the
national banking system, or to continue
the federal tax on state banks, protest
ing DANGEROUSLY all the while that they
are loyal to the party and its principles,
Notwithstanding the fact that every
canon of Democracy forbids govern
mental partnership with private enter
prise. and prohibits the use of the tax
ing power for any other purpose THAI
that of raising revenue. The Demo-
cratic party, since coming into complete
control of the government nearly a year
ago. has been subjected to some CREW.
Gus disappointments and has witnessed
some shameful sights. 1t has seen a
President, honored and trusted to an
extent that has seldom fallen to the lot
of a party leader in this country, step
down from the platform upon which he
was elected, turn his back upon the
principles of his party, treat with
supercilious contempt the counsel of its
most trusted servants, and in the place
of the usages and traditions of his party,
set up his own private preferences on
the ground that he was wiser than its
principles and purer than its practices;
and with platitudes upon his lips about
public offices being public trusts, at
tempted to coerce the House and Senate
coordinate and independent branch
es of the government-intos subscribing
to his personal views by the granting
or Withholding of appointments to
these public trusts, according as they
might be beneficial or injurious to the
parties sought to be Influenced. 1t has
witnessed with CONSERVATION men, old
in its councils before Mr.. Cleveland
was known, submitting themselves to
be his willing tools in the face of their
records of a lifetime, While these
things may be discouraging, We must
recollect there has been a solid
phalanx of Democrats who have pre-
ferred principle to patronage and have
fought increasingly every un-Democrat-
ic measure that has been presented;
who have steadily refused to be either
f1attered, bribed, or brow-beaten into
betraying their party. Let no Repub-
lican imagine that his party will reap
any advantage from the faults of the
present administration. They would
not have been committed had it not
been for active Republican assistance.
Silver could not have been demonetized
if Sherman and Reed had not been Mr..
Cleveland's trusted lisutenants. Sher-
man pats Mr.. Carlisle on the back, and
says, my dear boy. a bond issue is the
right thing-the people be id"
Every Republican was arrayed against
the Wilson bill, which was only a step
in tho direction of removing the burden
of taxation from the shoulders of the
people, and if the state bank tax is re-
tanned, it will be retained by Republ-
can votes. The Republican party is
for every Objectionable
measure of the Cleveland administra-
ton, for without its aid not one of
them could have passed. Whatever
else may happen we feel sure there will
be no increase in the Republican vote.
Democrats may stay at home, in of
years, as rebuke to unfaithful public
but none will forsake the
creed of their fathers for the played
put ultraisms of the Republican party;
and 1916 will show that they stand
houlder-to-shoulder for the old land
marks and principles of Democracy.