Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-08-08

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one who is more than twelve 7
months in arrears. So, if you S
are delinquent, please pay up s
AT ONCE. If you do not, we S
will have to take your name :
from our list. We do not z
{ want to do that, but we have z
no alternative. 8
The primary election in Iron
county was quiet and orderly. I'm
0 fici&l returns from nine out of
thirteen precincts indicate that the
Democratic vote in the county was
in the neighborhood of $50. The
Republican vote was light. The
four precincts not yet heard from
are Imboden, Bells, Loves and
Henderson's, in the west end Of
the county. Major, for Governor,
swept the county, and his majori-
ty will probably reach $50. At the
[ronton precinct the vote was Ma
jor, 121; Cowherd, Sc. Cowherd
has probably lost every precint in
the county. 1t will require COM
plete returns to determine two or
three of the contests for county Of
fees. John Marshall has defeated
Walter Fitz for Assessor. AS far
as heard from VIM. Blue is SO
votes ahead Of Engledow for Sher-
if and Tom Jones is 83 in the lead
of Thompson for Treasurer. The
four precincts yet to be heard from
in 1910 had a Democratic vote of
105, SO the result in these two in
stances is somewhat in doubt. For
Judge of the County Court, South
ern District, the race between SUIT
ton and Lewis is very close and
will probably require the official
count to determine. A surprising
feature of the election was the
Democratic vote at Des Arc-about
1870. That's, at least, go more votes
than YER expected there. We
have been assured, though, that
the vote was regular and all right.
We trust so and that it will show
up just as good in November. The
Republicans in the county voted
for Mckinley for Governor and
Nipper for Congressman. Hayes
Summers was an easy winner in
the contest for Sheriff. We will
print the official count next week.
John L. Thomas, of Jefferson
county, former judge of this cir
cult, uses a half page Iof a recent
issue of the Hillsboro Record telling
of the Dinning-Vail contest over
the office of Judge in this circuit
from 186S-72. Judge Thomas re-
cites much of the record in the
case, but he could have been much
more concise and clear had he
simply stated that the entire pro-
ceedure was nothing more nor less
than an effort Of a Republican,
backed by a Republican state ad-
ministration and Republican SUI
preme Court, to deprive a Demo-
crat of an Office to which he had
been honestly and fairly elected.
1t was a way the Republicans had
of doing things when they had the
upper hand in Missouri. In the
course of his article Judge Thorn
as quotes from a letter received by
him from Judge Dining. From
Judge Dinning's letter we take the
following: "After | received this
commission | went to Ironton to
hold court. Judge Vail also APP
peared. This was the April term,
1871. James Buford was Sheriff
and Jacob AXE clerk of the court.
We both assembled the bench about
the same time; each ordered court
opened. Court was opened by
Mr.. Buford. Those days the
sheriff went to the window and
announced the opening Of court to
the town. When the sheriff re-
turned Judge Vail ordered him to
remove me from the bench. The
sheriff told Judge Vail that he
would not obey his orders, that he
believed Dining was the Judge
and would obey his orders.'
Judge Thomas adds the following:
"Note: Judge Vail ordered that
Dining be fined for contempt of
court, but the clerk refused to en-
ter the order. Judge Vail then
left the bench and room in pos