Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-09-19
ENTlRELY uNTRUsTwoRTHY.
Republican Party Unworthy of the
Peoples Confidence.

Republican Party Unworthy Of the
Peoples Confidence.
Chairman Babcock. of the republican
congressional committee, who has been
studying American politics in Europe
turing the last four months, is re-
ported as saying: I'm the last house
d representatives out of a member
snip OF one hundred and twenty eight
On the repu blican side there were only
n1teen free coinage men, and they
neid these views simply because their
dfstr1cts demanded it of them
only fifteen free coinage men per-
maps. and perhaps they were sacrific-
ing their political convictions merely
70 Mold down their political jobs, but
now many more were prepared to
sacrifice their convictions in like man.
ner for a like purpose? How many
were prepared to make any kind of
dangerous financial experiment in
order to keep a few doubtful mining
camp states in the republican column?
How was it in the preceding con-
Rress? Everybody knows that con-
Rress was republican in both houses
and everybody knows that that con-
Rress passed the Sherman act, which
destroyed the stability of the standard
ana brought on the panic of 1893
Perhaps not more than fifteen re-
pubiicans then were free coinage men,
and they may have been free coinage
men only because their districts de-
manded it of them. If so the case is
ALI the worse for the party. A party
Is not to be trusted when its repre-
sentatives sacrifice their convictions
Tor the sake OF party advantage.
This is precisely what the repub-
hcan representatives in the Mckinley
congress did if they were not in fact
SILVER men. Jones of Nevada laid down
the ultimatum of the avowed free
coinage republicans to their party as
sociates He said in substance: You
must pass this silver purchase bill
which the house has just passed
Furthermore you must come to our
terms or we will turn our silver
states over to some other party at the
next presidential election
These threats prevail over the al
legged convictions of republican sena-
tors and representatives. The trade
was made. The Sherman law was
passed in July and the Mckinley rob-
~ 800 - 10" was tChooC~i wv duu d
half months later in pursuance of the
bargain Can the people trust party
which thus trades off its professed
convictions for votes for a robber tariff
law and for electoral votes needed to
fasten that law indefinitely upon the
victimized people? 1t is not likely
that they will.
True. when the president convened
the next congress in extra session
many republican senators voted to re-
peal their silver legislation. Appalled,
by the panic which was spreading dew
astatiou over all the land and which
they knew was produced by their own
Legislation, they for the moment ad-
mitted their fault and voted for repeal.
But not on that account are they to
be trusted They have been insisting
ever since that their silver legislation
did not cause the panic. They have
been insisting, in effect, that the
American people struck themselves
with panic by voting the democratic
party into power. A party which will
thus retract its own confession the mo-
ment immediate danger is past, party
which will thus SANDER and insult the
people. cannot be trusted to act in &C.
cordance with its professions. This
party will not only put the country
back into the mire of McKinleyism,
but it will make any kind of trade
with the silver fanatics and plunge
the country into another panic if it
can see any prospect of partisan gain
by the operation
It will do this without hesitation,
trusting to its phenomenal ability to
lie of the consequences of its own
political crimes upon the democratic
party. It is unfit to be trusted.-Chi-
cago Chronicle.