The Lincoln County herald., 1873-03-12
THE HERALD
tROf. MO- kARCR u. 1913.
SesateP EateW0od.

~ehev0 feieatne0 cflticieing tho vote
~ sssator Gatcwood Of shis distrist on
sas senatorial contest, believing tba,
probably be ses sndeS NE impression
shat the people Of his district did no,
largely fssos Genesal Blair. We wero
~ lesss willing TO sccord to him honesty
Sus . secent action Of his ~ the senate
&e are not disposed TO pass over without
quitting 10 our objection, not only in sela.
zion to him, but all the peoples servants
<ho are seut to Jefferson City to attend
strictly TO state business, and who in.
dulee IN such pastime. lie aud Senator
Brockmeyer quite recently had tilt in
reference to an appropriation Of some
sort, and the debate waxed q little warm
Senator Brockmeycr made allusion to
some Of tho newspaper comments Uhe
Troy Dispa'ch and others) regarding Mr..
Gatswood-s vote for United States Sena.
tor; (but VIC can't, for the life of US, see
what relevance there was in such pro-
ceedi.g, as it certainly had little or moth.
log to do with the question before the
senate.) Some Of the newspaper re.
porters took occasion to publish Mr..
Brockmeyers remarks, excluding those
Of M. Gstewood. MIR. Gatewood was
offended at this, and few days there.
after ''rose to a Question Of privilege" to
reply to MIR. Brockmeyer and 60 for the
newspaper reporters.
As before stated Mr.. Brockmeyer in
his speech referred to certain articles
which had appeared in the Troy Dis.
patch This gave him shadow Of ex
cuse to waste his constituents time in
defending his vote for senator, and with
very low degree Of dignity attacking
our neighbor, the Dispatch, 10 which he
sees proper to make somo assertions that
SAVIOR less Of truth than fiction. The
first, that Dr. Mudd, who was delegate
from this county to the senatorial con-
vcnlion that nominated Mr.. Gatewood,
went there with his pockets full Of prox
les. Now that is eminen,ly incorrect.
DR.. Mudd held only one proxy, that
Of Mr.. q. T. Dunn, who had instructed
him under no consideration to vote it
for Mr.. Gatewood But the vote of
Lincoln county amounted to but little in
convention that was "cut and dried
by the delegates from the other two coun.
ties in the district. His next apparently
correct, but most unjust assertion, was,
that he received larger majority over
his opponent in this county than Col.
HUT did. Mr.. Gatewood certainly
meant to make 1t appear that he is more
popular here than Col. HUT; but why
didn't he state the whole truth ? then
the public would be better able to draw
a proper conclusion. Col. HUT was
candidate under strictly partisan regis
tration, when the whole mum Der re g istered
fell seven or eight hundred short of the
number registered when Mr.. Gatewood
was candidate besides, Mr.. Carroll,
our selflauded senator's opponent, was
very unpopular here, as all over the
district.
Mr.. Gatewood need not have spent so
much time in defending his vote, and
trying to delude himself and others into
the belief that he is conscious of having
represented his constituents, for he knows
we'll enough by this time that he hasn't,
and the less he says about it the better.
As for his attacking the Dispatch, it was
little, unbecomipg his position, and uu.
dignified, even if he had confined him
self strictly to the facts. A man Ger.
'ainly has a right to defend himself, but
tito halls of the scnste, where he is paid
by the people to attend to their business,
Is no place for this. lie has no right to
waste the time he is paid to legislate, in
defending himself from the attacks OF
newspapers. The people have burdens
enough on their shoulders without pay.
ing man to make ~ sleeches explaining
why he did this, or why he did that
Let him set that right when he returns
home, on the stump or through his
favorite organs.
Tha ST Charles Cnsmns thu most