, 1841-12-04
For HI RADICAL.

.usssrS. Edaors-Since the name of the vete-
ran Boon, of Pike county, has been been brought
before the people of Missouri as suitable per-
son to be supported by the State, for a seat in the
Congress of the United States, objections have
been made, that the residence of Colonel Boon
in this State, is of too recent a date to give him
a preference over older settlers of the State
This objection might be urged with some little
force, provided that long residence in a state
could give tOJan individual, all the requisite quail
hcqtions so essential to Representatives in Con-
gre.s, and their services as such, were local to
the ate in which they may reside. But this is
mot the case. Representatives in Congress are
eiesed under the Constitution of the United
STATES. are the representatives of all the states
of the r..lon; and all that is required by the Con-
st~itu,ion. to render a citizen of the United States
eligible 10 a Z in Congress, is, that he be
sawenty five years Of age, and a citizen of the
State n which ne IS chosen at the time of his
election Should Gel. Boon live until the next
August election, he will have been a citizen of
Missouri three years and fire months. Now we
Consi,ution-loving Democrats should not require
Of one of our fellow citizens, in our political re-
~latiOns, more than is required by the Constitution
itsdt. During Col. Boon's twelve years services
in Congress, while , member from Indiana, his
voice was heard and iei: in the councils of the
naion, in support Of the best interests of Missou-
ri, before some of the present saspirants'' had
ever set their foot in the state. He was the
the uniform advocate Of the reduction of the
price of the refuse public lands, and of
granting to actual settlers the right of pre-
empton, TO cover their improvements from
pubic sale, until they were enabled by their in
dusty, to make payments for their homes at the
Government price of 81 % cents per acre.
ColBoon was, during eight years of his Con-
sresional services, q member of the committee
on he public lands; and when the Prescription
rigt bill was passed by Congress in 1898, he
wa Chairman of the Committee, when his great
infence was exerted in favor of Western into
res and in vindication of the hardy sons oil
Missouri, who had settled upon the public lands.
Sc his speech delivered in June, 1888, and it
vii be seen, that Col. Boon was defending the
rghts and interests of the people of Missouri,
Ing before his having become a resident among
s. Col. Boon is, and ever has been, a fearless
nd unwavering Democrat, and is favorably
Known to the leading Democrats In all the
States of the Union; and with his talents and
known integrity as a statesman-with his devo-
ton TO the cause of Democracy-and expert
ence of twenty three years service in the State
Legislature, and in Congress, would enable him
to effect more for the great cause of Democracy,
and the best interest of the people of Missouri,
than could be expected at the hands of any one,
not possessing similar advantages. Pike county
in the hands of the Federal party, when
Col. Boon settled in the town of Louisiana, but
was soon after reclaimed, and is now Democratic
by from fifty to one hundred majority.
A VoIcE FROM OLD PIKE.