Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-06-22
MARK HANNA's PLATFORM
Braxen Falsehoods That Are Flatlyg
Contradictcd by History
and Records.

| Mark Hanna's Ohio platform is COM
posed of brag and promise in the ratio
of about ninety-nine to one. The brag
part is about equally divided between
| lies concerning the dreadful things
| done by the wicked democrats and lies
concerning the miracles wrought by the
| sanity republicans.
In the former category of lies are
such statements as that under the last
democratic administration and as the
result of democratic principles and poll
icy ''our industries were destroyed, cap
ital and labor were unemployed, the
poor suffered as never before in our
history, every branch of
trade felt the blighting influence of
the democratic hard times,
the gold reserve disappeared, the gov
eminent borrowed money to pay cur
rent expenses, and so on.
Of course. there is no mention of the
fact that 1.-The democratic tariff, which
is alleged to have been the cause of all
the misery, was very much higher and
more protective than was the original
republican tariff of 1861. Nor is there
any mention of the fact that there was
panic in 1873 under a tariff republican
in every feature, which was fully as
disastrous as that of 1898 and fully as
productive of suffering among the poor.
Nor is there any allusion to the fact
that the gold reserve was fast disap-
pearing for nearly three years before
the beginning of the last democratic
administration, and disappearing I'M
der the operation of republican stat
ute known as the Sherman silver pur-
chase act. Nor, finally, is there any al
fusion to the fact that under wholly re-
publican legislation the annual surplus
of $100,000,000 or more of Cleveland's
first administration steadily fell dur
ing the Harrison administration and
was converted into a deficit some
months before Cleveland's second adj
ministration began.
All these things are facts of history
and official record, and they fatty con-
tradict the assertions of the Hanna plat
form and brand them every one as
brazen falsehoods.
And they perform the same Office for
the other category of lies, all of which
are to the effect that the recovery from
the depression following the panic of
1S93-the republican silver law and
prodigal expenditure panic-was wholly
due to the splendid republican admin
istration" of William Mckinley.
After uttering this long string of an
cient and notorious falsehoods in def
amation of the democratic party and
laudation of the republican party, Ham
mas platform goes on to say that Ito
the same master guidance y the
people can safely commit The solution
of the momentous problem of the flu
ture of Cuba, Porto Rico and the Phil
ippines. Their wise solution win vast
ly increase our foreign trade, spread
American civilization abroad and add
to the honor and power and glory of this
great nation"
That is Just what we have been hear
thing to the major, implicitly trust to
his infallible wisdom in guiding the ma
ton to honor and power and glory. Not
to do this is treason. Still, some of us
will obstinately adhere to the opinion
that the abandonment under this s'mas-
ter guidance" of the great principle of
self-government on which our republic
is founded has not only involved us in
a ferocious war and contributed not
thing to the honor and power and glory
of the republic, but, on the contrary,
has furnished its honor, dimmed it's
glory and impaired it's power to pro-
mote the spread of free institutions in
the world.-Chicago Chronicle.