Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-03-29

the Republic the official organ OF 4,
''true Democracy"-that is, Folk
Democracy-for the State OF Mis- /,
Has not the Chairman OF
the Folk Democratic State Com
mittee-Judge w. N. Evans-so
established it, and recommended
it to the ultra-pure as a pillar OF
cloud by day and a pillar of lire
by night? land if the Democracy
follow it, we, too, will be wander
ing in the desert of defeat for forty
years-or more.) Hark We, my
brother! Be careful of your ways
and meekly bow to the will of the
Saints if We would breathe in the
sweet incense of Righteousness.
Another break or two like the fore
going, and you, too, will be classed
amongst the "thugs and boodlers."
Don't delude yourself with the
notion that because your past life
has been consistent in honor and
integrity, therefore you will be
Immune from the slurs of the
Saints. No, no! They will none
the less condemn you, hate you,
and seek to despitefully use you.
The house of your former friends
will know you no longer, and you
will have to flock to yourself.
Your Democracy-the Jeffersonian
brand-is but a delusion and a
snare: an old-fogyism replaced
with latter-day little things to
keep our neighbor in the way he
should go and the better to fit him
for the rule of P~lutocracy. The
encroachments of the Fedora
judiciary, the autocracy OF the
postal department, the right o
local self-government-all these
are as nothing to the keeping dow1
of "the lid," the abrogation OF tn
race track, the squelching OF thu
profanity of the police, and othe
easy, goody-goody specialties t.
dazzle the popular eye. Folk De
mocracy is the thing, my brother
Il And the Republic being its ~officiall'
0 appointed exponent, it is here's
,. to question the orthodoxy OF it
u enunciations. The halo OF Ike
} form hides every shortcoming-
Is every sin. I know some Of tn
~ erstwhile most constituencies
10 scoundrels, gathered under tn
wing of Righteousness, are no
Of pure as the driven snow. | kno'
,e others, traitors to the party in tn
l. campaigns that determined wheth
It. er the people should rule or sin
a into the condition of abject SLAYER
IT to Plutocracy - the campaign
when the legions of Democrat
j. were headed by the ablest an
i'll purest champion of modern tim'
n who sit under the drippings
til the sanctuary, secure in the OF
a saving grace of Folk and nj
va glorifed; while others OF us a
Il barely tolerated in the back pew
for the sole reason that all is gri
that comes to the mills OF tt
i Saints on election day. If ,
OF would not be elected from tt
amen corner, Bro. Mac, l besee'
you, curb your impotence, forg
'es the past, and sink all question
ne Democratic principle. In the shi
n ing lexicon of. Reform the wo
DIV Principle is turned into Princip
Is and the recusant ho refuses t
Ter interest of unquestioning gloritie
me ii on cannot sit with the elect. L
as fanfare of Little Things spectac
larly exploited must satisfy yc
rm every desire. Viue la Republique,
COMMENTING on Joseph Me-
Patterson's declaration in favor
socialism, the Philadelphia Pul
Ledger says:
A large number Of well-to-
young men like Mr.. Patterson
philanthrophists, college prof
OH sors, educated and cultivated n
ent and women who are not disturb
an, of the peace and have no politi
,os or other axes to grind-are pls
ing with the socialistic irebral
and are quite willing to leap wi
ana out taking the precaution to loo
ne The Public Ledger must not ov
look the fact that a large mum
hey of well-to-do young men and w
rig TODD old men, also a large nu
aeo Der of newspaper editors and 4
re-. who pose as statesmen, are pl
ame ing with the plutocratic frebra
,uld The offenses committed in plut
pro- racy's name have done more
1oo encourage socialism than all
med literature that has been prir
lson upon that subject. Indeed, we
iked lieye that at the time of the
'rtly str;Lo coma s,cb statement
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