Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-24

L am proud to belong to any personal
ambition. | should regard my Democ-
racy as of a poor quality if l were
to obtain great popularity in a Re
publican convention or enthusiastic
support from the anti-Democratic
press. l am neither the champion OF
dis-organizers nor will | consent to
be championed by disorganizers. l
have back of my candidacy no power
full combinations of men. who, during
recent campaigns, have been the open
enemies of the party, and who are at
this time engaged in a conspiracy 10
turn ove the Democracy to those
who clamor for reputation of party
platforms and for national re-organ-
ization. My political fortunes have
never been ~syndicated, and they will
not be syndicated in this campaign.
! am not a candidate upon n issue
alone, but intend to stand upon the
Democratic platform and advocate its
every plank.
Since arriving at my majority, in
every campaign, National, State and
municipal, | have freely given what
ever of ability l possess in
advocating those policies of govern
ment which are for the best interests
of all the people. When the Democ-
racy requested that l resign the Of
flee of Prosecuting Attorney to assist
in redeeming Kansas City from Re-
publican misrule, l responded to the
financial sacrifice.
All good Democrats feel some sat
isfaction in the fact that Kansas City,
formerly solidly Republican, has been
carried by our party in the last three
campaigns, and by steadily increas-
ing majorities. These services have
not tended to popularize me with the
Republican machine, nor to endear
me to the Republican press.
The grand old Democratic party of
the State of Missouri is good enough
for me. If individuals have betrayed
the trusts imposed in them by the
Democratic party, we will purge the
party of their presence, but the party
will continue to exist is a potent
agency for pure government. Our
party in the future as in the past will
battle for honest government, cham
pion the rights of the masses, insist
upon fair taxation, oppose the ag-
gressions and usurpations of privilege
and seek to keep all branches of the
government free from the stain of cor
ruption. When it ceases to do this
it will no longer be the Democratic
party.
In all things let the watchword be
Economy, but Progress" | would like
to see this State, which we all sc
greatly love, placed SO high that al
the world would do her homage.
The amendment to the Constitution
providing for free text books in the
schools should be passed; it will cost
the State some money, but there is
no question more important than ed
ucation, and no investment which pays
a better dividend.
QUESTIONS OF NATIONAL POLICY
But great National questions press
upon us in the settlement of which
missouri must do her part. The com
ing campaign may be crucial.
There never has been a time in thu
history of the Republic SO momentou'
as the present hour. The battle. o
all the ages has been between tn
advocates of, pure Democracy and tn
~possessors of privileges. The strug
gle is as old as the world. 1t began
at the moment when the superior
brute force of some savage enabled
him to enslave his fellows, and to en-
| tail his powers to his children al
} privileges coming to them by birth
} The system was extended until al
that tended to sweetenelife was monoI
} olized by certain privileged individ
uals.
Back of practically every privilege,
class, the thing which enabled it t.
+ maintain it's powers, was the monoI
olization of the sources of wealth
Finally, the masses were reduced tt
mere beasts of burden, bearers of tn
| yoke of practical slavery.
Then came the great legal revolution
} in England the promise and prophec,
of our present liberties. This revol
ution brought about the passage O
: the Statute of Mortmain, which ha'
l the effect of releasing to the peopl
, some of the sources of wealth. Thi
, was the beginning of the greatnes
! and progress of England.
When our fathers settled upon tn
I virgin soil of this country, they re
remembered the evils of the oil
English system. They undertook t.
enact a constitution, which woul
! render impossible the m%onopoliza
ton of the sources of wealth. Ac
. cordingly, they prohibited the entail.
ment of lands and with infinite sc
= licitude and care wrote into tn
!. Statutes of nearly all the states iI
= hibitions against large capitalizatio,
|, by private corporations. The grea
= men of that day knew that if col
porations were created with unlin
tied power, it would result in tn
, monopoliZation in the hands of a fey
! gigantic concerns of such trement
! Gus energies as would enable them t
= crush the individual.
! The dangers which our father
= foresaw have been multiplied bt
q yond even the broadcast scope G
their fears.
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