New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-29
MISSOURI.


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MISSOURI
The Republicans of Missouri ought to do
quite as well as those of any other State, in
proportion to their strength, at the Congress
sonal elections this Fall. For in no other
State has the Democratic party displayed
more clearly its character and spirit; IN no
other has it more openly assailed the public
credit; in no other has it more shamelessly
robbed the people for the benefit OF ring OF
corrupt politicians; and i'll no other has the
greed Of oflice-seekers caused more bitter
duarrels among Democratic candidates.
The spirit of Missouri Democrats with re-
spect to the Constitutional Amendments is
sufficiently illustrated by a recent speech OF
| Colonel Geo. Vest, formerly a member OF the
| Confederate Congress, and now the most
prominent Democratic candidate for the Sena-
torship. He declared that negro had mo
"mOre business to vote than an Orang-Outang,'
and if ever elected to Office he would be
elected on that principle. Ever since Blair
denounced the Constitutional Amendments
as unconstitutional and void" in his
| Broadhead letter, the Democrats Of Mis-
souri, have been equally frank in express
ing their reactionary and revolutionary spirit
whenever they thought it safe to speak their
minds. Vest owes his great popularity among
them largely TO his conspicuous lack of the
discretion which other leaders exercise. In
respect to the credie Of the Nation and its cur
rency, it is enough to remember that Bland
and Buckner are Democratic representatives
from Missouri. In no other State, probably,
is the desire for Reputation stronger or more
outspOken.
The conduct Of the party in State affairs
has been strikingly illustrated by recent events.
| The State Treasurer admits that $516,3S3 II
OF the State funds was locked up in the
broken Mastin Bank, although the Constitu-
! ton prohibited him from depOsiting the pub
| lie money in any bank. The 50. Louis RepWb-
! Ecan says cit is quite impossible for any one
- to tell with certainty what the condition OF
| {" the Treasury s,n even after the supple
mental report just made by the Treasurer,
| and calls upon him to state "where the re-
"mainder Of tho moneys are" It shows that
the Bank of st. Joseph did hold S12S,0O0
July l. but could not OF did not respond when
| the Treasurer was in need. The St. Joseph
Gazette, controlled by an officer OF that bank, as
serts that the Treasurer was delrauded by the
| Mastin Bank, and that "he still holds the
" check on the Mastin Bank for 100000
which was turned over to him as cash by
"his predecessor, and which he has not been
" able to collect" But that paper is silent as
the grave in regard TO the part OF the 1t.
Joseph Bank in the matter. IheJe6ersOH city
| Times states that the Bank of Commerce in
| this city has cashed the July coupons, and
holds them until the Fund Commissioners can
| raise the money, but adds " The Fund Com
missoners have as much authority to hy-
"pothecate old railroad bonds as they have
10 put coupons up the spout" And The
| Saline C0uaU PrOgreSs, which, like all the
Others quoted above. is a prominent Demo-
| cratic paper, observes: " 1t would appear from
! call that has been published, that a ring COW
"erlng Kansas City and ST. Joseph exists,
which is in some way (nOt likely to be
profitable to the State) connected with and
"using the States money" 1t is hardly
necessary to quote Republican journals, after
these, but The Kansas City Journal Of Com
merce states that water bonds amounting TO
| S35OO0O have beer lodged as additional Sc
curity with the Bank of Commerce, though
they never were owned either by the State or
by the Mastin Bank, which held them as trus-
tee, and also asserts that the st. Joseph
Bank owes the State S12S,000 on
deposit, $5O0,0OO lost in, the National
State Bank, for which responsibility il
admitted by the Bank of st. Joseph, and more
over about $500 900 on that dishonored check
of the preceding Democratic Treasurer, which,
it appears, was Endorsed over to the st. Joseph
Bank and received by it as a deposit of State
funds. Whatever the precise facts may be,
the State is in wretched predcament.
The Democratic Congressional wrangles have
been very bitter. In the XIlth District there
is a bolt against Glover. In the With,
leading Democratic papers denounce the NOM
nation of John T. Crisp as outrageous, and
Judge Lawyer has come forward as an indie
pendent Democrat while DR.. S. N. Durham
is Greenback candidate. In the With
District, Morgan, the present member,
was beaten on the 1G9th ballot by /. r.
Waddill in the Xth on the 25Gth ballot,
G.. f. Rothwel was nominated by votes
cast for him as a compliment by men who had
bargained 10 nominate somebody else; and
in the IXth, after very bitter struggle, the
present member was renominated over at least
four much ADLER men. In the With, an old feud
between the present member aud A. NJ. Lay
has been revived by the defeat of Critten-
den and the nomination of Lay in the WITH,
Hatcher has also been shelved for Davis.
In the lid District formerly represented
by Mr.. Cole, who was elected by bitter
Democratic wrangle two years ago, the strife
has been so bitter that u nominating cOnven-
ton has been abandoned altogether, and the
nomination is TO he submitted to II direct
vote. In the Hid. after most definite charges
of foul play and threats Of boiling, all previ-
Gus action was resciuded by the committee,