Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-04-04


BRO. AXE, of the Ironton REG
ISTER, gave j. R. Burton, Federal
convict, a nice write-u in his pa
per last week. Burton served out
his time and was released from the
Ironton jail last Friday. Burton,
while serving as United States
Senator from Kansas, was indicted
and twice convicted for acting as
the paid attorney of IN alleged
fraudulent concern in st. Louis.
We admire Bro. Axes sympathy
for the fellows who are down. The
man who takes the part of the
under dog generally has a good
heart. But the graceful compli-
ment which the old Democratic
Val horse of the REGISTER paid
this convicted Republican United
States Senator on his departure
from the Ironton Jail would have
looked better in a setting of better
loyalty to the Democratic admins
tration of this State than the REG
lister is showing. The REGISTER,
we are sorry to say, a see moth
ing good in Gov. Folks admins
tration to commend.-Jdckson Cash
Book.
The REGISTERS expressions in
regard to Senator Burton were the
result of my conviction that he
was innocent of crime or violation
of law. Four United States Su-
preme judges bear me out in my
conclusion. Senator Burton claims
that he was the victim of the Presi-
dents personal displeasure; that
if he had not committed the I'M
pardonable sin of opposing the
will of the "Political Community
interests" no thought of his
prosecution would have entered
the mind of any person. We know
Teddy brooks no opposition or
interference, whether it comes
from the fundamental law of the
land or any State or citizen there
of. See the California episode.
Burton says he offended him in
exercising his sworn duty as
Burton was indicted,
convicted, and the trial set at
naught by the Supreme Court. He
was re-indicted, that indictment
set aside, and a third presentment
For what? For alleged
violation of a forgotten statute,
which statute, as noted above,
four of the nine judges of the court
of final resort declare did not APP
ply to his case. If it did apply, a
dozen Senators have violated it
time and again. Why were none
OF these prosecuted? A special
attorney was sent out from Wash
to assist in Burton's prose-
cution, just like another special
attorney is now in st. Louis to aid
the Government in the trial of E.
G. Lewis, charged with violating
some postal law or ''ruling." No
attorney was on hand to
prosecute in the trial resultant up
on the S61,500 looting of the st.
Sub-Treasury; but maybe
that was because Of "over-con-
fdence'-eh? Be that as it may,
these things bother me, and the
horrible thought sometimes comes
to me shat / am so constituted as
to be incapable of discerning right
from wrong-o of discriminating
between justice and injustice. So,
to be absolutely free from SHINING
against possible innocence, I try
to give the accused the
benefit of the doubt. Seriously,
my brother, see in the malevolent,
despotic use of authority a great
to all of us; and it is be-
cause our Governor is always
reaching out to add to his Office
and authority the powers now
vested in the people, that I
oppose him and will continue to
oppose him as long as I believe in
The teachings of old Tom Jeffer-
son. In this am I not Democratic,
Bro. McGuirep