Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-10-29
A Proclamation.

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now drawing to a close, your Commit
tee has regarded the political campaign
as one of education. To disseminate
knowledge has been our aim, and oul
energies have been bent in that direc
tion- Not one word of personal abuse
has been used by those Democrats who
have taken the stump. FREQ discus
| sion, free silver, and free Americanism,
have been our wateh-words, and we
noY announce to you our sincere be-
lief that VIM. J. Bryan will be the
next President of the United States.
We believe that the people of this land,
the people that the Ironton Republi-
cans call anarchists" ''repudiators, -
and ''Iunatics, +" will see to it that the
people of this dear land are able TO
manage their own affairs without the
Intervention of English influence
Sincerely believing this, we address
ourselves to State and county af-
fairs. The Republican Committee, OF
which w. L. Gay is Chairman. and w.
w. Haywood, Secretary, last Saturday
issued in the Republican a Proclama-
ton to the voters of Iron county. con-
tanning an appeal to Democrats to elect
the Republican ticket. Not content
with an attempt to stir up dissension,
they indulge in personal abuse. As
the stars, Bryan and Stephens, mount
higher. their vision of governmental
aid state patronage fades invo thin air,
and desperate, despairing effort will
be made TO cox. fiatter and persuade
Democrats to give them something in
the shape of county Office. In order
to compass this they appeal to person
al feeling, private pique-anything to
serve their purpose. How awkwardly
the Republican wolf masquersdes in
sleeps clothing!
In reference to the county campaign,
they say ''there are no issues involved,
and in which there should be nole of
any political n .ure." Wherever both
parties have nominated county tickets,
there you will find issues Involved as
broad and deep as the platforms of the
respective parties. The Republicans
of Iron county have placed in the field
full ticket and every nominee has en-
dorsed and is working for the mainte-
nance of the single gold standard
adopted by the Republican convention
at St. Louis. The Democrats of Iron
county nominated a ticket and every
man thereon is an earnest advocate of
the free coinage of silver at a ratio of
16 to without waiting for the consent
of any nation. No issues involved!
Look out for deception! The voice is
Jacobs voice, but the hands are the
hands of Esau.
The Proclamation closes by asking
Democrats to elect the Republican tick
ct that good may result. Let the
young men ask the old gray-haired
Democrats what Republican rule was
in Iron county. You will learn that
in those dear old days if Democrat
went into the Collectors Office to pay
taxes he was cursed as rebel
and traitor, as he is now called an an
archist and repudiator. Then we had
large State and county debts and high
taxes. with warrants below par.
Methinks l hear you remark, ''they
have changed since then" Not so.
The present Secretary of the Republi-
can County Committee. w. w. Hey
wood. was one of the old register
ing officers, and has aided in disfran-
chising hundreds of Democrats. He
has not changed, but simply lost his
power. The leopard cannot change
his spots.
The principal part of the proclama-
tion authorized by the Republican
Committee was to extol the Chairman
thereof. w. I. Gay, and solicit his
election; on the theory, we presume,
if the world does not exalt thee. exalt
thyself. He is pictured as model of
executive ability. Since they raise the
the issue, let US take a glance at the
facts and measure his executive abili-
ty. A few years ago, the Republican
candidate for Presiding Judge sue
ceeded Franz Dinger as Mayor of the
City of Ironton. When he was elected
to the Mayors Office, Ironton was in
fine financial condition, with surplus
fund of nearly 5000. When Mr.. Gay
went out of Office in December, 1894,
the City had a deficit of between 800
aud 5000, and warrants selling for
goods at 20 per cent. discount. No
settlement had been had with the City
Marshal for more than a year and Mr..
Gay went out of Office without forcing
the Marshal to settle, leaving that
duty to his successor. If this is his
record in a city where the revenue is
1920 per year, what would be do with
the financial condition of the county
with money to the amount of $4,000
to $15, 900? We point to this as an ev-
idence of his executive ability. We
do not question his honesty, as we are
convinced that he is an honest man,
but allude to it as an evidence of his
incompetency for the Office to which Re
aspires.
Again, this glowing proclamation
asserts that the Republican candidate
for Presiding Judge, sis the man want
ed at the head of county affairs, even
though a hard effort is being made by
personal enemies to defeat him by
bringing forward a young scion of the
Democratic county monarchy" Who
are the personal enemies? Democrats
who are in favor of Love Carly, be-
cause they know he is a man thirty
years of age, a staunch Democrat,
honest and efficient? A young man,
1t is true, but one well equipped for
the office TO which he aspires. Then
personal enemies of Mr.. Gay brought
Carly out! That is serious, indeed.
Everyone who knows anything about
the matter. knows full well that Mr..