Iron County register., 1899-11-30
The Asylum Awarded.
From the De Soto Facts.

From the De Soto Facts
Pennington has been awarded Asy-
lum No. 4, notwithstanding il promised
only Sc, 800. and notwithstanding il
lies more than three miles from The
railrosd, against De Soto, which sub
scribe6 SIS. 600. and has seven daily
trains each way every day. and every
other Qualification that FarmiDgton
can claim. This is unfair and unjust.
We protest against the action of the
com mission and insist that the award
has been made without justifying rea-
sons. Instead of placing the ins;iiu-
ton IN the most accessible place the
most Inaccessible of all the competing
points has been chosen. Instead OF
taking De Soto's offer of guaranty
that the landed property should not
cost more than the SIS. 900 subscribed
by her, So. 800 has been accepted. We
have been cheated out of our rights,
and, by inference slandered as to our
natural advantages
There is something wrong. Some
thing that does not appear on the sur
face. There is a'.pull''in it. Pennington
is the home of NJ. L. Clardy and others
who have figured prominently before
the commission, aud have succeeded
against and over all the advantages
and efforts OF the other competing
points. They have won the game and
the State pays the difference in the
original outlay. ard the perpetual
difference in the future expense of
trans portation 10 the most difficult
point 10 reach OF all the competing
towns. The award was wrong, and
again We say, We protest
Another and q vigorous protest
comes from the Bloomfield indicator
"a paper of unimpeachable Democ-
racy- Even that paper strongly OPP
poses the partisan Indifference shown
in the award. 1t gives utterance to
its wrath, and threatens rebellion in
the future. Here is what it says:
The commission TO locate the South
east Missouri Insane Asylum met at St.
Louis on Thursday last, and after two
days deliberation announced to the
rival applicants that while no decision
had been reached, that only Ironton.
Arcadia. Fredericktown and Farming
ton would be further considered.
Among other things they told the Dex-
ter representatives that Dexter was too
q ear the bottoms, that while their 10
cation was the best. their proposition
clear, railroad facilities frst-class, yet
they were entitled TO no further con-
sideration. This is the old story over
again. Southeast Missouri considered
only when needed for a purpose. In
cam mpaign year our central and north
Missouri friends come down this way,
rigged up in a last year suit of clothes,
and from every stump regale US with
such pleasures, as such sturdy yeoman-
ry of the southeast Gibraltar of Mis-
souri, Democracy. and many other soul
soothing expressions, and wind up by
asking US to rally in future as in the
past around the ticket, and that If We
do so they will be elected. This has
been repeated every two years for the
last quarter of a century and has
worked like charm. The seven cor
ner counties roll up at each recurring
election an aggregate Democratic ma
jority of seven thousand. and are al
ways 10 be relied Oh; OF this We are
proud. but We are getting tird. awful
tired of extending favors always and
when We ask favor at the hands of
the state. TO be told that we are not
worth even consideration. the little
poor hill counties jast north OF rs al
ways getting the lions share of favors
awarded to Southeast Missouri, while
half OF the time their return for the
same is in party sense very uncertain
What We object to is being called gio-
rions Southeast Missouri when votes
are needed and swampers when we
happen TO ask even modest return
Stoddard is one of the best counties OF
the state, and her sister counties Of
Dunklin, Mississippi. Scott. New Mad
rid. Pemiscot and Butler equally as
good, have Jared just as we have for
the last twenty-five years We say TO
the people of those counties that your |
position in the Democratic party of
this State entities yon 10 more consid-
GRAFTON than you have been receiving.