Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-10-13

Neighbor Miller is we'll fixed on
this mundane sphere, with an ex-
cellent helpmate to enhance his
happiness and share his prosperity.
One would naturally conclude that
under these conditions love and
peace and goodwill would bless
his being and shut out from his
heart the evils of discomfort and
envy. But, alas!
Neighbor Miller, grown great
through fortunes favors and his
own exertion, it seems deemed
himself entitled to special privil--
eyes in other directions. He
sought to take part in affairs of
state-a laudable ambition-but
refused to have his genius and his
influence circumscribed by the
base rules binding the common
Democratic herd. These special
privileges being denied him by
the sordid satellites appointed unto
the matter in hand, my neighbor
waxed wroth and swore vengeance
upon them and their kind and
their children even unto the third
generation.
Now, one Frank Mullin, and d.
vers men anxious for political adj
vancement, saw Neighbor Miller's
wrath and fostered and famed the
same until the p~lutonian heat
therefrom welded all their souls
as one, sheltering under the agis
of all-consuming, never-to-be-sa-
tiated Revenge! These knights,
assisted by one Hightower, (some-
times called Skytower and named
in divers other ways), ravaged the
land. from north to south, from
east to west, and gathered unto
themselves, by hook and by crook,
by fair-speaking and by deceiving,
sufficient spoil unto their purpose,
They then built a machine, bring
ing the parts together from places
far distant, the like whereof the
land had never known. This ma
chine they did charge with venom
and malice, and falsehood, and
behold the marionette called to
oversee it, did spit these poisons
forth even to the ends of the land
and beyond, SO that men went
about crying, What shall we dc
to be saved? The marionette is
but of wind and our spears have
no hold upon him, and his masters
and the builders of the dread ma
chine, behold! they go about with
glad hearts and chuckles up theiI
sleeves that we waste our strength
in vain!" Then said one who had
been spat upon through the ma
rionette, 81 will even go behind
the machine and hike its owners
to the fore and the world will see
what shall come of it!'
and, By the Great Horn Spoons,
wiH, Ncighbor Miller!
AS to your Republican co-part-
ners, I have little to say of them,
Their purpose is to serve them
selves-that, and that only-and,
from a political standpoint, all
possible means to that end are
considered legitimate. I can find
excuses for them, but none fol
their so-called "life-long" Domo-
cratic tools-the most cultivated oil
whom you are, Neighbor Miller.
to the regret of your old-time
friends. You send me word thai
you have nothing to do with the
machine set up for the demolish-
ment of certain men against whom
you have personal pique. But,
again, alas! Were not its COM
ponent parts shipped here in your
name? Was it not your financial
standing that made the original
owner thereof content to risk his
property afar from his control? If
you had brought it here for the
advancement of public interest,
'twould have been different, and
would have gone with you, hand
in-hand. | know you and your
co-partners assert that your pur-
pose is to establish Good Roads
and induce Political Purity; but
once more, alas! Have you not
aided for years to keep in Office a
certain man whose failure as road
overseer hath no equal in the coun-
ty or State? He being property
less, did you not even go so far as
to deed him a lot in your town in
order that his eligibility might be
within the bounds of the laws re-
quirements? AS to Political Purity,
is that induced by gross mis-
representation and the liberal use
OF money! Did not you, or some
one of your pure-souled coterie,
| Sand word IN A ndv Wiatt fhot "a