Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-09-06
M. R. SMITH NOMINATED IN THE
THIRTEENTH.
The Following are the Resolutions
in Full.

BISMARCK, Mo-, Aug. 25, '06.
Former State Senator Madison
r. Smith, of Pennington, is the
Democratic candidate for Congress
in the Thirteenth Missouri District,
according to the declaration of the
Congressional Committee for the
district which met here.
The vote of the district in the
primaries was cast up by the COM
mittee and it was found that Mr..
Smith had received 9,t69 out of
10, 11S polled. Mr.. Smith delivered
brief address before the COM
mittee, thanking them for the
honor.
He declared it to be his firmest
belief that the Thirteenth District,
which two years ago went Repub-
lican by 37S votes, for the first
time in many years, would return
this fall to the Democratic column
by the old-time majority, which
before the election of the present
Congressman, M. E. Rhodes, was
around 1000 votes.
The labor record of Congress-
man Rhodes in the first session of
the Fifty Ninth Congress was con-
demned by the committee on reso-
lutions.
The resolutions pledge Mr.. Smith
to "the most friendly and devoted
service to the farmer, the toiler in
the mines, in the quarries, in the
mills, logging camps, and railway
service, or wherever justice and
duty demands such service"
President Roosevelt's course is
censured, particularly as it applies
to the Statehood bill. The reso-
lutions are as follows:
WHEREAS, The returns from the
several counties of the Thirteenth
Congressional District show that,
in the Democratic primary cleo
tons held in this district, the Hon.
M. R. Smith received majority OF
all the votes cast at such primary
elections; therefore, be it
Resolued, That the Hon. M. R.
Smith is hereby declared to be the
Democratic nominee for Congress
in this (the Thirteenth) Congress
sional District of Missouri.
RESOLVED, That we can but de-
nounce the record made by Presi-
dent Roosevelt as being insincere,
full of bluster and, at all times in
the crisis, evasive, and we charge
that he has been on both sides OF
every great economic question that
was before Congress at its last
session, and that those that were
enacted into laws were emasculated
of all vigor in their enactment, and
that the President was an active
agent in that unfaithful work.
We condemn his course in the
Statehood bill and charge that it
was partisan in the extreme, and
as unpatriotic as partisan; and in
this connection we denounce the
action of the Republican member
of Congress from this district, in
his efforts to kill the Statehood
bill by voting against it and fol-
lowing the narrow, partisan lead
of Speaker Joseph G. Cannon.
| We condemn the course of the
Republican member of Congress
from this district for his failure to
accomplish anything of worth tc
his constituents.
| We further condemn his ap-
parent course of hostility to the
large labor vote in this district,
aggregating not less than 5000
votes, 1000 of whom are miners, in
that, Notwithstanding the eight
hour bill, the immigration bill, the
anti-injunction bill and other
measures of like import were pend
ing before Congress, his voice al
no time was heard in defense oi
these vitality important measures
to labor. Moreover, not a word in
defense of the 5000 underpaid.
overtaxed, oppressed toilers in the
mines, mills, railway service and
lumber camps of this congressional
district was uttered by our Repub-
lican member.
| We commend to the people oi
this district the candidacy of the
Hon. M. r. Smith, and in doing SC
we will vouch for him, if elected
an earnest effort on his part tc
serve all according to their merits,
and especially do we bespeak fol
him the most friendly and devoted
service to the farmer, the toiler in
the mines, in the railway service.
in quarries, in the mills, logging
camps, or wherever justice and
duty demand such service.
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