Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-11-28

The elections are over, and the gen.
tlemen who entered so enthusiastically
into the scheme of eliminating Bryan
and what they are pleased to term
Organism, now have leisure for taking
stock. Apparently their scheme has
not worked az smoothly as was ex-
pected. Those states where the de-
serters of 1896 and their allies. the re-
organizers, have succeeded in gaining
control of the party machinery have
gone Republican by the most pro-
nounced majorities. 1t has been dem
onstrated that Democrats will not fol-
low a leader who flies the yellow flag;
neither will q gold bug fight under the
banner of Democracy. Oil and water
will not mix. No party can long en-
dure q state of affairs in which a large
per cent. of it's members would have
looked upon a victory in the State of
Ohio, under the leadership of the re-
organizers, as an unmixed calamity,
and where another portion were ready
to throw up their hats and howl with
delight when il was learned that Dem
ocrats, under the leadership of Mr..
Bryan, had been defeated in Nebraska.
These two factions have not a single
thing in common, except a historic
nsme. The differences between them
are fundamental. One believes that as
the money of final payment was cut
into halves the characterization of
silver, whereby the value of money
was almost doubled and the value of
all property not sustained by artificial
means reduced in almost the same
proportion, silver should be restored
to its former station; he other be-
lieves that such legislation would be
equivalent to highway robbery. One
believes that, as the life Of the door
man must be jeopar6ized whenever his
country demands that sacrifice for the
common good, the rich mans dollar
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the life of his more humble fellow citi-
zen; the other believes that our civil
ization rests upon property, and that
all other considerations should be set
aside where its security is involved.
One believes that the greatest evil
hat can af1ict a country is a cheap
man; the other believes that the great
est calamity that can befall a nation is
q cheap dollar. One believes in things
as they are; the other in things as
they ought to be. One sees no harm
in monopoly SO long as trade is good;
the other sees only evil in monopoly,
because it tends to enslave men. One
contends for a free country; the other
for a rich country. The Republican
party, under the leadership of Hanna,
is the party of the dollar; the Demo
cratic party, under the leadership of
Bryan, Is the party of the The
man who places the dollar above the
man Is out of place in the Democratic
party; the man who places the man
above the dollar is out of place in the
Republican party. Every attempt to
get these two elements to act together
In the same political organization will
prove abortive. Before there can be
any hope of victory the Democratic
party must free itself from every Re-
publican parasite, no matter what his
plea for recognition may be. For the
gold standard man there is the Repub-
lican party. 1t is q gold standard
organization. The same party opens
its doors wide TO the protectionist and
the man who believes in the divine
of the Federal Judge. Let the
party cleanse itself from
every faint of Republicanism. Let the
who whine that no one can
be elected upon the Democratic ticket
II principles are adhered to. retire to
life or the Republican camp;I |,
they are hurtful to the party. When
the Democratic party ceases to be a /