Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-07-12
Dockery and Railway Employees.

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Dockery and Railway Employees.
The following is taken from the Sc
dalia Democrat of last Sunday:
Many Republican politicians, in seek
Ing for some ground upon which tc
to base the hope for an increased vote
for their party in Missouri. have
jumped to the conclusion that because
their nominee for Governor, Joe Flory
railroad employees who have been Dem
ocrats heretofore are going to fall owe,
each other in rushing to the polls tc
vote the Republican ticket.
Never was there more fimsy
ground upon which to build a hope,
and never was disappointment more
certain!
The railroad employees of Missouri
are intelligent men. They must be
in order to perform the arduous and of.
ten hazardous duties required of them.
Being intelligent men, they act from
reason and not from mere class preju-
dice.
They are Democrats, Republicans,
Popuiists or Prchibitionists. They
have their clearly defined political con-
victions, and, like the lawyers, the
physicians, the carpenters, the farmers
and men of other avocations, they go
to the polls and vote as their judgment
dictates.
Nobody carries the railroad vote of
Missouri in his vest pocket.
Then unless some good reason for
doing so can be assigned, there is no
ground upon which to believe that
Democrats among railroad men are
going to vote for the Republican NOM
inee for Governor, and to assume that
they will so vote is to insult them.
No such reason has been assigned.
In all the speeches made and articles
published in advocacy of Flory, the
Democrat has seen no effort even to
show that Flory has ever done any
thing to earn the gratitude friendship
of railroad men.
To be sure, he was himself a rail-
road employe years ago, and quit his
to go into politics. But
this is no reason why railroad men
should vote for him unless he has done
something to show an especial friend
ship for them.
Dockery was once a practising ply
sician, and Sam Cook is a newspaper
man, but nobody assumes that the
physicians and newspaper men are 60
ing to vote the Democratic ticket
merely because these TIVE names are
upon it.
But, while there has been no proof
offered that Flory ever did anything
to merit the especial esteem of railroad
meu, there is abundant evidence of
Dockery's labors in their behalf, and
evidence too, that the railroad men
these efforts.
In proof of both of these propositions
the Democrat submits the following
letter, which is self-explanatory:
E. E. CLARK, M. CLANCY.
Grand Chief Conduc- Grand Secre-
tor. tary.
ORDER OF RAILWAY CONDUC-
TORS OF AMERICA.
CEDAR RAPIDS, To-, May 21, 1898.
Hon. A. NJ. Dockery, House of Repre-
sentatives, Washington, D. c.:
Dear Sir-I have noted with pleas
ure the efforts you put forth in con-
nection with the recent passage by the
House of Representatives of the bill
known as the arbitration
Bill, /" in which we have been deeply
and assure you that your
work is appreciated by myself and
hose whom represent. Yours truly, |
E. Z. CLARK.
G. G. G. |
Here, then, is the Democratic nom-
nee. man of especial ability, broad
minded, liberal, safe, conservative,
With a public record upon which there
s neither spot nor blemish and who
las given proof of his regard for and
interest in railroad employees and other
lasses of laboring men.
Is it reasonable that all this is to be
fset and overbalanced by the mere
ccident that his opponent was once