Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-11-26
Free Silver Men Spotted.
Special to the Post-Dispatch.

SDSCiaI 10 the fOSJ-DlSp3tCn.
De SoTo, Mo-, Nov. NV. w.
Shuh, formerly of st. Louis. has been
chief clerk to Trainmaster Hayden
here. on the st. Louis and Iron Noun
tain Railway for the past eight or min
months. The work in this position is
hard. and requires quite an amount of
night work to keep it up. When the
notices were given the employees of the
| railroad to become members of the
sound money club, Mr.. Shuh told tn q.
officials that was not his belief. and
he would not sign the papers, but re-
mained a loyal Bryan man without
making any fuss about it, always de-
claring his political independence,
chen it was questioned. The train
master returned from the South yester-
day and showed the clerk a telegram
from Supt. Hardy requesting him to
dispense with the services of his clerk
on account of reduction of forces.
Hence Mr.. Shuh is out of job.
Now every one acquainted with rail-
reading knows that it is impossible for
the trainmaster to run his Office with
out clerk, and all believe that as Mr..
Shuh's work was satisfactory that he
Is let out because be is a free man,
and free silver man, ard all know
that another man will be in his place
soon. presumably goldbug.
But this matter brought to light q
greater and mo re outrageous attempt
at coercion. or discharges of men who
exercised their political freedom and
rights. 1t is reported and not yet de-
MED, that Superintendent Hardy
wrote to Gen eral Warner, and he re-
ferred the letter to Chief Surgeon Out
ten of the Missouri Hospital. asking
that he dismiss Drs. Farrar and Hig-
ginbotham of this place and put in
Drs. Auerswald and Jones, local gold
bug Republicans, as local surgeons for
| the road. As yet DIR. Outten has not
complied with the superintendent re-
quest. but sent for the local surgeons
| and told them not to resign their posi-
| tions. Drs. Farrar and Higginbotham
are prominent men here, aud liked by
all the railroad men.
DR.. Auerswald who is suggested for
one of the successors, has just run far
behind his ticket, and defeated for
county Coroner. 1t is said that the
superintendent gave as his reason for
the charge that these men voted for
Bryan; that one rode ia the silver
parade, and the other decorated his
front with Bryan flags. This has Gre
ated no little excitement here, and the
Democrats are determined, If this
thing keeps on, to see what there is in
law on these matters and IL there is
no law covering them to see that one
is passed that will by the next Legis-
lature which they say must pass a
stringent fellow-servant law, and re-
duce the passenger rates to 2 cents per
mile.
As the Post Dispatch is the only st.
Louis paper that stands up boldly for
the rights of free people and free
government, this is sent In. This is "a
starter for the wholesale coercion that
will follow four years from now, and
these examples are intended to make
the other men turn over to the gold
side to hold their jobs. So that there
will be no such thing as voting a free
mans ballot by the railroad men here
four years from now when the great
struggle of freedom from the domina-
ton OF corporations and trusts Is on
between the people and Wall street.