Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-10-25

and wanted to be considered so, he
would have explained to his audience
why he had the right t advocate free
coinage, while the Democrats did not.
He repeated the oft-told Republican
lie hat it was not until 1896 that
the discovery was made that a crime
had been committed in 1873. Was
the Hon. John wilfully lying or is he
simply ignorant? Doesn't he know
that a free coinage bill was passed by
Congress in 1877, and would have been
q law but for the veto of Rutherford
B. Hayes, who was at the time filling
an Office to which Samuel j. Tilden
had been fairly elected? But why talk
to Hon. John? Either he doesn't want
to be taken seriously, or he's in den
sest ignorance. 'Twould be charitable
to accept the latter view. But when
the Hon. John got to discussing the
late war With Spain, and issues of the
present campaign he fairly outdid him
self. Truth stood not in his way, and
he was not to be hampered by facts.
AT times, though, he was heartily
cheered by a portion OF his audience,
so. evidently, some one was pleased,
anyway.
Fifteen years ago Rev. Ben Deering
was quite prominent in the revival
work in Southeast Missouri. Even in
these days there were a number of
people who lacked confidence in the
Rev. Ben, and subsequent event long
since proved their suspicious well
found. After pretending to be a Dem
ocrat all his life Rev. Ben is just now
engaged making speeches ju~stlfying
the war in the PHILIPPINES and endors-
ing the .'canteen'' and trust President
surely a consistent course for a fol-
lower of the meek and lowly Nazarene.
The editor of the jefferson City Press
seems to know considerable of Rev.
Ben and his career. Here is what the
last issue of that paper says regarding
him: land now the Rev Ben Deer
ing is stumping the State for Mckinley
and Flory. OF course, everyone
knows that Ben, like Dick Dalton,
Gene BrOkmeyer, General Billie Rider
and Il. S.Daley of Cedar City, have been
seen Ben, like the heather Chi ee,
is peculiar. He has an unenviable
reputation as a preacher, an evanGe-
list, a politician, lecturer, life insur-
ance agent, agitator, promoter. ETC.,
etc. He never vent nto a game with
anybody in his life but that the other
fellow got the worst of it. Nobody
ever had dealings with him, religiously
or otherwise, but that he found him
self holding the bag. Ben is always
out for Ben. 1t is long green thai he
wants. He has not a conviction but
that he will sacrifice it if seen in
time. He is as false to his old church
as he is to his old party. Rev. G. II.
Briggs of Fayette could write several
very interesting chapters of this tickle
exhorter. He could tell something of
the preacher who could weep at the
drop of the hat; who could go tue
gaits in several different languages,
and who is as full of schemes as a dog
is of fieas; who struck Webb City,
Carterville, Rich Hill and other points
in Missouri a few years ago and in due
course of time struck out for greeuer
fields, leaving everybody in the lurch
who trusted him. He could tell other
facts in connection with his life which
would be interesting reading just at
this time. The columns of the Rich
Hill Mining ReCteaC could tell of the
estimate the people of that section
placed upon Ben, who knew him a few
years ago. Poor Deeriugi For a pal
try few hundred dollars of Hanna's
slush he would join hands with Dalton,
Biller Rider, Brokmeyer, Daley and
other blatherskites and abuse and viii
lily the people who have been his
friends and prove a traitor to the parry
to which he had sworn eternal allegi-
ance. Later on the Press will have
more to say of Oeering and will give
some of the reasons why ne has so sud-
denly, while on his way to Jerusalem.
seen the light; why he has become all
at once a Republican and very much
interested in the dear people,"