Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-24
"Turn the GuerrilIas Out"

Train robbery in Jackson county
will never cease until the cause, Of
which masked bandits are the effect,
is eradicated, or rendered harmless.
THE cause is the sympathy of the
dyed-in-the-wool butternut Democracy
of Jackson county with train robbery.
This element must be driven from Of,
flee. 1t must be taught that the days
OF wal and rapine are over, and that
Kansas City does not propose to have
the specter of Quantrell preside over
its department of justice. The rea-
son train robbers have not been pun
ished is simply, because the officials
have truckled to the element in Jack.
son county which still bears allegi.
ance to the late ~Confederacy.
These persons are still at war
with the United States and don't com,
prehend that robbing trains is not an
act of reprisal and war. To get into
power it has been the custom of the
worst men of the city and county Dem
ocracy to fraternize with this Guer-
rilla element, and elect to office it's
sympathizers and kinsmenN
Nor are these ancient and dust COW
cred ~utterances. Nor yet have they
been confined to n paper. They
have been the common stock in trade
of many of the Republican papers, al
though the Star in this, as in most
things infamous, leads on the mob.
1t was but on July 18th, last, that
the Globe-Democrat gave tongue again
to the old villainy. In this %insance,
however, the assault was not directed
against eX-Confederates alone, but was
a general b~roadside aimed indiscrim-
inately at all Democrats who live in
the country districts. A preliminary
word. Edward Hickman was Secre-
tary of Chief of Police Hays of Kansas
City; he was transferred to another
position by the Police Board, and John
Marens, formerly a Democratic editor
of Hamilton, Missouri, was appointed
Secretary. Here now, is the infa-
nous article:
"Hickman is distasteful to the rural
Democracy of Jackson county y = d"
and its objection to him is that he shot
and killed a train robber, who refused
to obey his summons to halt. " "
But the rural Democracy in Jackson
county, which idealizes and idolizes
fellows who hold up trains, have not
been brought to a frame of mind
where they can be either forgetful or
forgiving. The rural ring of the party
thinks it is retribution too long de-
layed, and not sufficiently severe, be-
cause he is not removed from the rolls
altogether, and they will go after his
scalp with renewed vigor, regarding
his removal from the Secretaryship
as a waning of the powers behind
him."
April 9th, 1865, the war was ended,
and children then unborn are now the
heads of families and counselors of
State, Another war has come, n
sons of those who wore the Blue and
those who wore the Gray have died
together upon Santiago hills to give
an added glory to their common flag,
Thirty-eight years have passed, but
the surviving veterans Of the Confed-
eracy, who through them all have
been the best of citizens, are still the
targets for an envenomed press.
Yet, again let us consider. These
are the same papers that, having for
years cast the foulest Of SANDERS upon
the reputation of the State, suddenly
raised the cry, STAND up for Mis-
souri," but, even here, the force Of
long continued habit got the rssgte~.
and so they mingled such u%tterances
as poor old Missouri and Moss
Back Missouri" with Stand up for
: Missouri" 1t was a delightfully."-
, ludicrous though insulting paradox.
But the people of Missouri re.
membered the day when the Re-
publican party had not "stood up
for Missouri" but had stood Missouri
up" and robbed her of mor than
, twenty millions of dollars, and they
respectfully declined to repeat the ex.
: perience.
| Once more let us reflect. These cyr
the same papers that only last cam
:. paign asserted that the public moneys
had been pilfered, and the school
fund looted, and that in the face ct
the indubitable facts continue to this
. very day to insult the intelligence of
tho nennle of the State Inv iusiStant