Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-12-12


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The Democrats stats osntral sosu-
mittee met ct the Southern hosol. 81
Louis. December 8 Cbafruaan lfa6a3t
welcomed the junior members, = ~
termed those elected 1T Pertle Srr1nna.
on behalf and IN the name 81 The
seniors He expressed the hope that
the combination would b 3 winning
one In tho coming campaign.
Calling Mr.. Carroll. Of Unionvflle. 70
tho chair, Mr.. Mafiit addressed the
committee, rendering his resignation
as chairman. He assured the commit
tee that he had no feeling on account
OF the Pertle Springs convention. and
his resignation was due to business
reasons.
Mr.. Mafatt's resignation was not 90
cepted-20 to II.
The vacancy caused by the death Of
A. c. Sherwood was filed by the cleo,
ton of j. L. Fort, of Dexter, the gem
tleman receiving Is votes to II cast for
r B. Oliver. of Cape Girardeau. After
the adoption of resolutions on tho
death of Mr.. Sherwood, Chairman Maj
fit again asked to be relieved OF the
cha1rmanship. but no attention was
paid to him.
Chairman Mafiitt was instructed to
call the committee together within ten
days after the meeting of the Demo-
cratic national committee. The latter
is expected to meet on jackson Day."
January s.
AT the meeting to be called by Chair
man Maffitt the committee will call
state convention for the election Of
delegates to the Democratic national
convention
The committee on address reported
as follows:
ADDRESS TO MISSOURI DEMOCRACY.
ST.. LOUIS, Mo-, Dec. 8, 1895.
To TIE Democracy of Missouri:
Your state central committee. called
together by the regular party author.
ity, desires to call the attention of the
voters of our party to the present
status of politics in Missouri.
For more than TWENTY-FIVE wears our
party has been intrusted with the man
apement of public affairs In the state
When the democracy came into power
it found bonded debt of more than
$40. 600. 600, the securities for which the
republican party had souandered. We
were paving a tax of SO cents ON the
500: fraudulent bonded indebtedness
of manv millions had been fastened on
many of the counties of the state. All
this, while large number of the peo.
pie were denied the right of suffrage.
During it's incumbencv the damnc.
one-fourth what it was in 1879 Wa
more than doubled the school fnnd ~
the state bava saan the ,,on,1.t;o, -
Missouri increased more thar ooo coo
and the taxable wealth of the state
doubled. In the meantime the taxes
have been reduced tn Ok cents IN the
500. and every man has been given =
voice in the control of nublic Affairs
This is the record made bv the democ-
racy of Missouri.
Tn 1909 tho annhl;car card;a.+a "a,
governor threw down the gauntlat =,
the people of the state. when he da-
clared that the most nrosnerous ,er;od
in the states history was when radi-
calism controlled the state. His pa0a
of battle was accented and the owes
ton was souarelv nresantea RI the no.
pie: .Shall we return tn the DAYS NJ
1868 to 1s70 or shall we stand IN the
record for twenty wears ~ aar,ocrat 10
Governments" We know the snland;d
results of that camnaion.
Unfortunately divisions have .r;a.u
in our party on onestions Of nrhlic
policv since 1902. d;v;s;ons that car.ed
45. 600 democrats To remain awav fror,
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