Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1854-06-29

UST"ONE OF THE PEOPLE, IN the last BRUINS
wicker, does not like the way we show up Mr..
Flournoy, the anti Benton candidate for Congress
in this district We don't suppose he docs--hard-
" think Fournoy likes il himself He SETS out by
saying the article in "The Tines of the 18th, "for
brazen etfrontery and unfounded assertion, sur
passes any article TO be found in the annals of the
history of the political campaigns and contests of
this country" That is broad charge, and when
we read it, we thought our article must have been
more tart than We supposed when we wrote it,
and fastened on to see what we had said We
found we had stated that "Mr. Fournoy was
yirginian-one of the first families we supposed"
Is there anything wrong in that? Mr.. Flournoy is
virginian, Gone of the People" tells U.S. and Vir-
ginia is "very dear TO him for its sw Get memories
and halowed associations" ooh, carry me backl)
There was no "brazen efrontery' in that assertion,
then. Is he not one Of the "frst fames,'' then
Perhaps not, and therein is the "unfounded asser-
ton" We are not particular on this point, and
therefore announce that Mr.. Flournoy is not one
of the "frst families"
Mr. Flournoy has been a citizen of Missouri
"eighteen years." and has served the people eight.
He served Benton thirteen and the Antics five, but
when he was called upon TO vote for the people
electing their own officers, he said no; "not be-
cause he lacks confidence IN them, but because he
did not think it erpedient." The people, however,
thought it both erpedient and right, and took the
matter in their own hands. How he served the
people in other respects, will be in other parts
of this paper to-day, and in future numbers.
Says Gone of the People," speaking of what is
street talk, viz: that Fonrnoy declared poor peo-
pie ought not 10 be allowed vote, "This is a long
since exploded charge, which the Editor of the
Times attempts 10 galvanise into life" We never
heard the charge until he was announced for Con-
gress and if it has been before made, and ''explo-
ded," why don't his defenders give the charge, and
the evidence TO prove ITS falsity. When this is
done we will give him the benefit Of our columns
10 set him right.
We remarked that our readers were aware that
until recently, in Virginia, poor people were moi
allowed TO vote. some of the People" replies a.
follows
"Your readers are aware Of no such
thing, Mr.. Times. Under the constitution
formed by the convention Of '29 and 80
no man was allowed to vote anleSS he lrdS q
houSekeepcr, head Of a family, paid a pop.
erfy tcI, hoarerer small, into The Aaic rere.
me, or ,cas The opner Of a freehold calued al
fDcnty- fue dollars, or a rererSionary interest
in land, acorih fifty dollars. Most assured.
ly the power to comply with any Of these
qualifications docs not make a man rich"
! No. not rich but it makes him richer than the
man who has no property, and because of his pOU.
| Isn;o Cd rSsi,rb 70 hay q,
our assertion, exactly. instead of refung it. If
man is so unfortunate as 10 have no pfoperiy--and
there are many such even in this State-he is not a
qualified voter. The man that has fifty dollar
Jackass can vote, provided his jack don't die be.
fore the election. Ii the Jack dies, vote is lost
In that case it is the jackass that votes, and moi
| the man!
| So Mr.. Flournoy does not want 10 prevent the
| poor people from voting. They must have JUS
enough property 10 "pay tax, ho,ccrer small, into
the State revenue'' or be the owner of free-holc
valued at Twenty-Five dollars, or a reversionary in
terest in land worth fifty dollars" And, say
some of the People," an ability 10 ''comply witt
any of these qualifications, does not make MAJ
rich"
If it does not, and the right of suffragei is to b
governed by the number of dollars man is worth
the principle is the same, whether you require hin
to be worth fifty dollars or five hundred. Wher
is the difference?
This is the way the charge has been "eXploded,'
is it? Flounoy is willing for poor people 10 vote
but they must be rich enough to pay some tax
howcver Small-anust own something, free holt
valued at only Twenty-Five dollarSi That make
men good voters, but il they have not got tn
twenty-five dollars, then they are too poor t
/. vote!
This rule would exclude but few votes in Mis-
souri, but it is outrageous in principle, and thoug
: the terms are low, yet Missourians wait no sue
standard, however well it may have suited the
+. VS. of Old Virginia.
Gone of the People; has not helped his candi
date much. "ENplode" again.