Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-08-09

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Cured to us hat he was likely a
Daughter of Rebecca and entitled to
this place of vantage; but later on We
were informed that it had been agreed
that the shadows of both Williams
should grace the platform, but that the
Democrats had failed to procure a pic
ture of their candidate, as we'll as to
provide a speaker for the occasion.
Well, the dancers were soon twinkling
| their feet to good, old-fashioned hoe
| down music-the kind that knocks all
the perfunctoriness out of saltatory
exercise, and makes it an earnest, soul
absorbing joy. This continued until
high noon when reluctant pause was
given for dinner. Ample justice was
given this meal, and before digestion
could make amends for INDUCING ap-
petite, the music and the dance were
on again. AT 1870 a halt was called,
the platform cleared, and the Hon.
John Fl. Raney took it. He held it
until the hour-hand of the clock pointed
one-fourth way round the dial. He
said a good many things in that ninety
minutes, some of which, to our sur
prise, some people in the audience pre-
sumed to audibly call in question. But
the ladies-God bless 'em!-applauded
at the appointed periods with a zeal
worthy a better cause. The writer.
who admires the Hon. John, and
knows him a. a mighty good fellow,
mentally objected to several of his
conclusions, as well as his statement
of alleged facts. Only one of these we
care to question now. OF course when
he said there was no such thing as i'm
perialism and gave Mckinley and Mark
as his authorities, we acceded: when
he intimated that s'hard times" were
known only under Democratic rule,
and s'good times" we're the absolute
possession of the Republican party, we
forgot about '73 and '92. and passed it
by; when he proved his own honesty
of purpose in that he had grown up a
Republican in a community that gave
official preferment to Democrats only,
we heartily agreed, but marveled won
drously at his taste, and the ancient
legend of the old lady kissing the cow
by ~preferment suggested itself. But,
in sober earnest, when the Hon. John
began talking about the ~'.silver craze''
we understand it had attacked his
mentality before the Mark Hanna
proclamation laid down the gospel and
the law-he strained the courtesy of
his hearers, not TO say their credulity.
According to his story. told there to an
audience presumably of at least ordin-
airy intelligence, there had been no
''kick" made at the crime of 1873 until
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cratic party made silver an issue then
because they could trump up no other.
The fact hat as long ago as 1873 an
remonetizing silver passed both
of Congress and failed to be-
come law only because it was vetoed
by President Hayes, seemed to have es-
capped his memory. He had evidently
forgotten that famous speech of John
G.. Carlisle's-where is Carlisle now?-
became as a household word.
But the most amazing thing in this sec
ton of our Hon. Johns Rebecca picnic
speech was the assertion that the Dem
''leaders" made silver an issue
in 1896! Why, the common run of US
had to chuck overheard
the officers who had waved the old
off her course, before we could
again head her in the right direction.
The Hon. John also intimated that the
Democrats this year have side-tracked
silver and taken up Imperialism in its
stead. To this bald assertion specific
contradiction would be superfluous.
He said the Democrats were quoting
Lincoln with approval to-day, and that
n thirty years they would be quoting
the great and good Mckinley" Now,
fear that this smart saying wasn't
original with the Hon. john
We have a hazy recollection of having
heard or seen something very like it
prior to that classic day at Annapolis,
where the Daughters were assembled
but let that pass, too. 1t is SO typi-
cal of the half-truth methods of his
party, is this smart saying, that we are
glad to mere set it down. Democrats
quote Lincoln against the Republicans
Of to-day, for the reason that the latter
base nine-tenths of their claims to the
gratitude and confidence upon
The things the party did under his
guidance. 1t is, therefore, competent
prove by his words that his so-called
Oh III 0oSSO0oOAS dAO ISOCAAACIo
md hypocrites. Without awaiting the
of years, the Democrats are quot
.ng McKinley-hasn't the Hon. John
it? One may read, any old day,
n Democratic papers, quotations from
5he Presidents famous 'splain duty"
and criminal aggression ~utterances.
It is not that they reject Mckinley less
that they desp1se his twistings and
MS turnings more. But, perhaps, the
most remarkable part of the Hon.
speech consisted of what he did
not say about the Anglo-McKinley alli-
ance and the Boer war. 1t was strange
of memory, and many went away
of the burning e~loquence
ne would have expended on the heroic
struggle of a sister republic for c%ontin-
ned independence, if he'd only thought
If it! 4 piteous, most piteous, over
sight! Think of the applause he MISS
opportunity lost! The poet
There's a tide in the affairs of
men, which, taken at its flood, leads on
fame and fortune"-there or there
sbouts. o. John, how could you so
Mss the tide, which, you have been as
siduously taught, waits for no man,
which, once gone, is gone forever,
Or until the next timei After the Hon.
John had perforated, the Rev. John
Crowley made a few calculations, but i
hey were untimeously cut short by the
mpetuosity of the platform proprietor, ]
who wanted TO get his money out of the
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