Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-12-15
Mr.. THURMAN WAS RIGHT.
Truthful Utterances of an Old Stand
ard Bearer of the Demo-
cratic Party.

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Some friends of Senator Allen G.
Thurman, assembled in his law Of
flee after the Greeley defeat of 1872,
said, in their Encouragement, that the
democratic party might as we'll disband.
Gentlemen" replied the Old Roman,
this is too small a room in which to
kill the democratic party" Thurman
was right, says the Albany Argus, Only
two years after the overwhelming Gree
ley disaster, in 1874, there was a demo-
cratic landslide all over the country,
and in 1876 Samuel ]. Tilden was elect
ed president, although deprived of the
Office by the fraud of '76. The o
has not been built, the election has
not been held, in which it would be
possible to kill the democratic party.
The sweeping victory of President
Roosevelt, largely personal in its ma
ture and intent, caused the defeat, this
year, of all but a few democratic candi-
dates, and Immediately after election
volunteer undertakers assembled to
bury the democracy, while quack doc
tors detected life enough to prescribe
their nostrums as the sole hope for the
patient. But no democrat believed for
a moment that the party wa dead, and
there were few, indeed, Who even in the
earliest gloom and disappointment of
that tremendous landslide, were ready
to fly to the extremes of radicalism and
to admit that never again would the
democracy in its present form rally and
go to the polls"
During the weeks which have elapsed
since election day, we have talked with
many democrats. Never, after a defeat,
were greater and more general pluck
and "spunk" apparent, This spirit is
especially noticeable in the younger ele-
ment of the party-an uncommonly
good sign. We are told that since cleo
ton day 40 new members have joined
the Young Mems Democratic club, of
this city, which body converting within
a few days after the defeat at the
polls voted to continue, as a permanent
Organization, at a meeting as enthusiast
tic and as we'll attended as many that
were held by the club, in the midst Of
the campaign.
Better luck next time is the gen
eral democratic feeling. There is g
belief, widely prevalent, that mistakes
made this year can be corrected and
avoided in future campaigns; that
democratic organizations must be
strengthened, built up and solidified, all
tho yaar roupd ond mot i,,ct haforo oIoo
ton; that, in a dozen states, the vote
polled by the democratic state tickets
shows that Roosevelt's personality rath-
er than the republican party was what
the people indorsed; and that, come
what may, win or lose, this is not going
to De a one-party country. nor lack a
vigilant, persistent and intelligentdemo-
cratic opposition.
While the campaign was on, Sec
rotary Shaw professed to treat the deficit
as a matter of no consequence. Now
that it is over, and facts must be looked
in the face, he will tell congress in
his report, soon to be made public, that
the deficit this fiscal year will exceed his
lt6tinldlC Vi ySui u6o, oho ehuI OSohoihy
lis imperative. He is reported to have
told congressman privately that by the
end Of this fiscal year the available
cash balance will be down to SEC, 000, 900,
and that will be absorbed by the
deficit Of the year 1906. The repub-
Leans have got to choose between reduce
ing expenditures, reducing the tariff to
10 revenue basis, or levying stamp taxes.
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