Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-09-10

Investment Co s securities $4,000 IN cash, the
company has tried to make me surrender the
| $1,000. and because did not think proper to
do SO. sundry efforts have been put forth to
make me do so by blackmail: the case was
srled before Judge Valiant. and won. In his
opinion. he said that my actions In this matter
could not be successfully attacked from legal,
business or moral standpoint. The case was
appealed, and is now in the supreme court.
propose TO protect the bondholders. who scat
tered all over our state. and viii hold every
dollSr in my possession until the courts order
me- 70 give it up In trying to do my duty in
this case, God only knows the abuse have
had TO stand.
I learn also that my administration OF the
Fifth national bank trust does not meet with
the approval of Mr.. Lewis personal St. Louis
organ. just at this time. In looking over the
list OF stockholders and depositors Of the bank
LOO not see that any OF them are interested.
and possibly their dissatisfaction should not
be considered, but my work receiver Of the
fifth national bank has been Endorsed by
Comptrollers Trenholm, AbrahamS and Lacey,
the comptroIler's office counselors. the depos-
itors and stockholders committees in the city
Of St. Louis. the st. Louis press. without a
single exception; also Of ex-Gov. Francis, Col.
C. H Jones, Hon Nathan Frank Col j. B. Nc
cullagh. Hon. Carl Daenzer and hundreds Of
others qualified to speak.
When the bank was turned over to me By
Examiner Foreman-and let US state here, Z
m ade no fight for the receivership-he said:
Lon, God have mercy on you, it's the worst
mixed up AFFAIR l ever saw: If you get ANYTHING
at all out CT it you will surprise me- He did
not when seriously speaking. think 1 could
realize over 331I per cent. out OF the wreck in
two months paid the depositors so per cent
on their claims, and in a very short time paid
them 50 per cent.
In the great excitement attending my taking:
hold Of this work. it is strange 10 me that did
not offend many. but as far as 1 know I made
an enemy of but one deposition, and L accom-
pAshed this by simply trying to help him he
mad claim OF 5000 against the bank; he had
lost in the failure of the. old Butchers and
Drovers' and was almost mad. When he
learned Of the collapse he drove to the home of
the late Mayor Overstolz, president of the
bank, rang his bell and shot his home full of
holes knew he was desperate ami almost
crazy, and 1 took special interest in him. all
the time keeping my EYE on the gun" He
wanted to sell at ., then at 81, then ut 90 then
at go but prevented. / went to BoonVille to
spend the Christmas holidays While mere
ne wired me or wrote me he was
onered about sixty, and l told him to wait
until I returned before selling. When 1
reached st. Louis he had sold his claim. He
was the happiesJ man in St. Louis whom
him; never met him, but he wanted to take
sonnet hing" with me, but when 1 reached D
point beyond 90 per cent his ardor cooled
and he turned against me; many of my
friends told me to be armed and ready to pro-
tect myself against him. He claimed Nelson,
my Drother-in-law. bought indirectly his
claim, and intimates We divided the profits
Well, Nelson never bought his claim; he never
bought any claims against the bank. 1 don't
want to be held responsible for anything Nell
son does; he is old enough to take care of him
self; he is as Independent as hog on ice, and
If any man has anything he wants to say TO
him, he can always be found doing business at
the old stand: don't come to with Nelson's
business. have as much of my own I can
attend to. As to my record as receiver of the
Fifth national bank I am willing to stand or
fall upon that Enough of the personal for the
present
THE NATIONAL PLATFORM.
The democrats IN national convention as
sembled have given a platform upon which
every democrat, upon which every friend of
humanity can stand. a platform which says
what it means, and which means what it says;
a platform in which there is not the slightest
semblance OF a compromise or straddIe upon
any of the important issues OF the moment.
They have given US in the boy orator of the
Platte and the shipbuilder OF Maine standard
bearers who are platforms within themselves.
Democrats who have spent many years of
then lives IN fighting the battles for the
masses as against the classes, and for the re-
storation Of our fathers money to the position
it occupied Ia the monetary system of our
country before it was struck down at midnight |
by conspiracy that was both foul and damn
able silver was struck down with the dagger |
of an assassin-are asked by the republican |
party to indorse standard of crime. |
The fruits Of this crime have been summed |
up as follows: 1t has given the homesteads of |
OF our railway mileage is in the hands OF re-
ceiverS; it has given idIenesS to four millions |
Of would-b be toilers in shop and field; it has |
given creative capital no scope for use, and |
little or no returns for risks assumed: it has ,
given the silver miners ruin: it has given /
naIF r01G tn Of
women and helpless children; it has produced |
3 sea of tears and volumes of groans and /
prayers for succor; 1t has blighted hope and |
blasted aspirations in a million homes; it has |
produced mobs and riots and the calling forth /
Of armed forces OF the nation to check and con-
troll: 1t has produced over two hundred mil |
lions more of government bonds, which are so /
many financial letters to shackle the feet of |
industry; IL has filled 10000 graves with de- |
spairlng suicides: it has robbed the farmer of |
hope. it has darkened his once happy /
home, and filled his and his famiIy's /
hearts with fear and anxiety for the fu-
lure; how any man with heart, who loves |
humanity, and who loves his country. can look
upon this sad picture of woe and misery with
put feeling of Indignation arising in his |
throat against those responsible for it, without
anew to do all in his power in the /
great fight for financial freedom from Englands
and Wall streets greed and avarice, and for
he restoration OF the peoples rights, Is mys-
40 be safely much longer delayed.
My friends, what confidence can you have in
The candidate for public favor who will at
Tempt in the mannerism and dialect of the
clown, to tell you, in your anxiety and distress,
hat you are the most prosperous ana happy
people on earth, that you should let we'll |
enough alone. etc.
Is he not your most dangerous foe?
Is he not a dangerous leader:
Mr., Lewis, in his ChiIlicothe speech, says:
The people will not take silver" Have any
If you feIlow-citiZens ever refused to take any
If It? Who won't take it? He says il won't
,ost any express to get Carlisle to ship you
'ome; but great God! the express is not a
It is not drop in the bucket
4 We could only get 1t would pay the ex-
press willingly and great deal more. Every
,ent in our country of silver is in use, and do
ng the work for which God Almighty and the
constitution designed it, Mr. Lewis to the con-
rary notwithstanding, and there is room and
demand for mere
Mr.. Lewis says. with almost cruel heartless-
less send in your paper money and get sill
-er. You don't need it. help yourselves, etc.
This IS like wag conducting poor, starved
nan up to Delmonico's Broadway restaurant |
moving him piles Of tempting bread. meat
md fruits, and telling him to help himself |
tc- 1t is thus we are wroDged and robbed. and