Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-03-24
NUMBER 80.

When the banquet ended they crowded
about him and pressed his hand and
would not let him go. He bore these
houors modestly, as he always does.
It was plain, however, that Mr.. Bryan
himself believes that he will be the
next nominee and that he is even now
preparing for a struggle that will be
more gigantic, and more successful,
than the last. He will be renominated,
think, because he is the legitimate
leader of Democracy that has thrown
off the thralldom of the East. From
1868 until 1896, for twenty-eight years,
or seven presidential lustrums. every
nominee of the Democratic party had
been taken from the East. The list is
Seymour, Greeley, Tilden, Hancock,
Cleveland. Cleveland. When it found
that it could no longer dictate and fur
nlsh the nominee, that geographically
inconsiderable slice of the United
States known as Yankeeland played
directly into the hands OF the Republi-
cans. 1t will be long before another
Democratic nominee Is taken from the
sunrise side of the Alleghanies. That
fetch is destroyed. Whatever the out
come, the party is rid of an Old Man
Of the Sea named New York, who has
ridden it hard and turned traitor when
he was thrown. In fact. the East
should have no part or place in the
Democracy of America. 1t is untitled
for it. 1t is the lair of the money devil.
1t is directed and enslaved by money.
Any act it might perform for the De-
mocracy would be done with a traitors
intent. .As at present constituted, it is
naturally Republican, because the Re-
publican party is the party of violence,
bigotry, fraud and plunder 1t is the
party of the classes. 1t has not a prin-
ciple which was not stolen from Feder-
alism, an organization fathered and led
by Alexander Hamilton, West Indian
by birth and king worshipper by ma
ture. When it had succeeded in rob-
blng the South of its property in slaves
without paying a dollar therefor, be-
yond that which was expended in war,
it should have died for it had not an
issue, nothing to live for beyond hope
of office. This is to-day the party of
the East, and one of its most shining
ornaments is Stephen Grover Cleve-
land, the Count Fosco of America, for
the reason that he is the only fat vii
lain in the political history of this
country and Fosco is the only fat vii
lain in literature.
Bryan belongs to the new Democra-
cy, which is the old Democracy, puri-
fed and brought back to the tenets of
the fathers. This is the Democracy
of the West and the South; the De-
mocracy of equal rights for all and
special privileges for none, the Democ-
racy of the great, plain common peo-
pie, who have made this country what
it is and who will keep it in spite of
every trust ever created, every mono
poly ever fostered and every Cleye
land ever Uttered. This is the De-
mocracy which opposes a centraliza-
tion of our government; which looks
with disfavor upon a perpetual office
holding class; which will see that
the poor man pays for his coat just
what that coast is worth; which views
with loathing the vast Goldfish aristo-
cracy of wealth nurtured since the war;
which holds it to be an indisputable
truth that no man can be worth $780,
900, 900 without having stolen $99, ,500,
900 of it; which believes that the su-
preme court is as much a servant of the
people as is a justice of the peace;
which regards with alarm and aver
sion the growing power and encroach-
ing disposition of the federal courts
and which will break that power, if it
takes a saber, down-driven through
flesh and bone to do it. When Democ-
racy again enters into power, whether
Bryan or some other man is its stand
ard bearer, it will be because the West
aud South have grown. The prepond-
erance of power will have been trans
ferred to the sections where it belongs.
When that happens, it will be a cen
tury before the East again grasps the
reins of government, if it ever does.
The chances are that it never will.
The East is stirring. 1t is restive un-
der its loss of political fortune. As a
first step toward regalning control of
the Democracy, again TO sell it to bawds
and panders and the money changers
who sit in the temple, it has resolved
to make war upon Bryan as the repre-
of the Democracy OF the great
parts of this country. 1t IS |
the belief that, with Bryan beaten and |
out of the way, the Democracy of the
West and South will be divided and,
being divided, will fail a prey to its
solid foe. This movement Is un-
loubtedly the result of secret confer
ences between d. B. Hill and Bourke