Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1859-09-08
The Next GOvernOr.-The Rail-
Roads

The next Gubernatorial canvass, and the posi-
ton of parties relative to the Railroad system of
the State, continues to attract attention. The
reader will recollect an article copied into our
paper few weeks since, from the Republican,
The ST. Joseph Gd-ette, the Palmyra Courier, and
other papers, have taken grounds against the COM
Fiction of the Pacific Rail Road-and indeed a.
galnst any further aid from the State, to uncom-
pleted Roads. The Louisiana Pike county, Her.
following extracts are from its last article, and
by far the bittcrest article it has published
"The Missouri Republican and the Railroad
sharks of st. LOUIS have concluded among them
selves that the next Governor shall be an out-and-
out Railroad man, eren ifhs is II Black Republi-
can, That dictatorial journal has issued is die
tum that the Democratic party must selec. thor
ough going Railroad men for its standai d-hearers
or Ego into mInority!" We shall see. We do
not like 10 make promises in regard TO our future
course too far in advance but are strongly tempt
ed to declare that Toe ,ciH support no man for Cor
ernor trho is committed TO these immense Railroad
schemes. If our party must go INTO minority
for adherIng to its time-honored principles, and
for maintaing wise economy in public expendi-
lures, let il 20. II is better TO be in minority
than to be wrong. IL The State is 10 be bankrupt
ed by extravagant and wasteful expenditures, let
the ruin be accomplished by the opposition, rath-
er than by the Democracy.
We adTnonish our Senator'S and Representatives
in the Legislature TO be very cautious about vo-
ting away the peoples money for carrying out a
the means Of the State. And we caution the as
pirant for Gubernatorial honors 10 be aware how
he commits himself TO such Quixotic enterprise.
The domineering article of the Missouri Repub-
icdn, in which it attempts to force the Democrat
ic party 10 take position in favor Of granting
further aid TO complete the Pacific Railroad TO
Kansas City, even under the existing contract, has
Democratic press of the State from what the Ed
itor anticipated. The St. Joseph G0sette, Dem
ocratc paper Of the right stamp, takes the Editor
TO task :, and handles him without gloves. What
we wish to call attention to is the unfaIrness of
the Republican after it the storm it has gath
cred around it, The Editor repeats in even more
Objectionable language that aid must be granted
to this railroad, il matters not what comes to the
Democracy. He says that the measure has met
with opposition as was TO be expected, but that
the hostility proceeded only from the friends Of
the Hannibal and st. Joseph Railroad, and that
they opposed only from interested motives. Did
not the Editor know that the loudest condemna-
ton of his position that reached his ears came
from county which is not Interested in the St.
10. Railroad, anu no more friendly 10 IL IMAM 10
the Pacific Railroad? And yet he openly asserts
that the only opposition 10 his measure comes
from the friends of the Hannibal and st. Joseph
Railroad. This attempt 10 mislead the people of
Missouri TO the true direction of popular opin-
ion, perfectly consistent with the Republicans
morals.
We want to see the whole Democratic press Of
the State take position on the question, whether
the Republican is TO make platform for the DEM
ocrats to stand on in the next election. We want
TO see how many Democratic papers will have the
independence TO think for themselves, and oppose
the Missouri Republiean-how many are willing
to see the public treasury plundered, and the stu
pendous fraud practiced upon the State by Price
l. Co., in the name OF contract, sustained-how
many are willing to assist the purchaseable Ere
publican" in carrying out measures that will put
money into the pocket of its Editor.
The Jefferson Examiner seemingly endorses the
l"Republican's" article by publishing il without
editorial comment. What does that mean? Are
we to infer that that paper sustains the 'Repub-
licanv in demanding more aid for the Pacific Rail-
road under the existing contract? We can tell
that paper that it will not remove the tarnish
that its Democracy has sustained in its attempt to
read one OF our best and ablest Democrats out Of
the party, by pinning IFS faith on TO the Republic
can. The injustice done w. A. Hall may be ex-
cused on the grounds of indiscretion, but humanity
and slavish submission to the threats Of a paper
having so little Democracy as the Republican will
admit Of no such excuse"