Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-11-03
The Voice of the Charmer.

The Republican Charmer is abroad
oily sweetness. Butter would freeze
in his mouth and his heart Is filed to
Overlooking with love for his erstw bile
detested enemy, the Democratic voter.
He wants ''good roads, he wants The
State to progress" he is solicitous
for its welfare, and his soul pines for
the good and grand things promised
its people if they will only bow down
and worship at the shrine of Plutoc-
ratus. He is patriotic par excellence.
'.Where the flag has once been raised
bathed in the blood of our heroes, it
must stay forever" And how fifty
and unanimously the gaping crowd
applaudsi Of course! All that Uncle
Sam has to do is to thrust himself into
any brawl, and if his little finger SO
much as oozes drop of blood in the
skrimmage his striped waistcoat and
star-bespangled habiliments must re-
main and illuminate the historic spot
for all time. If he go to the assistance
of a weaker neighbor badly bested
in a struggle for liberty, the homestead
of that neighbor must become the
property of Uncle Samuel forever, re-
gardiess of pledges and protestations of
disinterestedness before assistance was
rendered. This is the logic of the
I'Charmer, but his song is sweet and
attuned to the hottest emotions of men
who do not stop to think.
But it is of his local song-his sounds
from home and of home-we desire to
speak more particularly. Here he
brims over with goodness of the truly
good type, and his strains are pitched
in the heavenly key of morality. He
wants all candidates-that is, Demo
cratic candidates-to be pure as new
fallen snow. Does the candidate-the
Democratic candidate-love the wine
in its redness? Does the candidate
we mean the Democratic candidate
.spass the buck'' in the Silly hours of
night? Does the candidate-he of the
Democratic faith-in the flush of youth,
or the haleness of middle life, take an
occasional browse in forbidden pas
lures? If he do either of these unholy
things, says the unctuous Charmer,
then is he unfit to receive the SURFACES
of honest, God-fearing men.
But what of the Republican candi-
date? An, the Charmer sings not of
him! Why should he waste his breath
and strain his vocal chords to paint in
sound the lily and breathe a brighter
sheen upon the glitter of gold refined?
The sancti6e6 can do no sin, in the eye
of the Charmer. The Republican cam
didate is righteous by patent. II he
have weakness for old Bourbon, do
we not read in the scriptures that a
little of it may be taken for the stom-
ach's sake? IL he breaks the seventh
commandment. did not David do like
wise, and was he not man after Gods
own heart? As to the card habit, can
you find denunciation of the practice
anywhere in the Good Book? Has he
been in durance at his country's call?
Was not Paul also made to wear the
gives by the Democratic Philistines,
who seem to have been in control of
the government in those far-off days?
Did any one of the imprisoned mem
bers of the Great Whiskey Ring suffer
in estimation in the Sanctuary of the
Elect? Does not Matthews Stanlius
Quay wear the Senatorial toga with
honor and profit, even although his
wicked enemies have set the Ieaden