Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-11-20
DEMOCRATS, READ.
Filley's AudacIiy and yim-In Vino
Veritas.

Mr. Chsuncey 1. Filley was rendered n BAN
quet In st. Louis q few niShtk ago. In response
to y tssst he made the following speech
Mr.. Chairman, my fellow cItizens. my Ger
man fellow citizens: My words can convey
little of what l leel fer this welcome and for the
many klndnes.es which have received ut Tie
i hnau noiitics BY them. Two Jay. .ler my ar
rival in the city / am unexpectedly called TO a
banqnet given in my honor. Judge Daley has
and has given me far more credit
than I deserve. but 1 want to say to you that l
for my first duty Is owed to Missouri and l or
gsnized here before l left for Indiana. Far six
Or eight months, we had been quietly organic
Ing. until We had everything complete in every
county In the state except five. which We could
not handle very readily then. but which came
around all right after the Indiana election. Al
the start, there seemed to be q palsy on the re-
publican party in the interior OF Missouri, but
the thought suggested itssii mat we might a.
grasp Of the rebel brigadiers. II was evident
that it was not possible to do this in an open.
at ali. secretly, silently, by a machine-and the
machine dia 1t. [Chcers.l HOWE BY nomi-
mating. wherever possible. n
can, who is as good as = republican on every
question but dnance-and who cares for fuance
ut this late day. when the republican financial
policy Is accepted by both parties? The fight
was to beat the brigadiers, and no victory is SO
pleasant to ne as this. here in Missouri. for
Missouri's gain OF congressman decides the
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down with the secretary OF the state central
committee and figured out that We could posi-
bly, elect fifty members oil the legislature. Our
organization was better than it had ever been,
aud through this organization we were able to
put in republicans, or where that was not
possible to honey-iugyls in republican, green
hackers. Look at the gains, and then say if you
Dan that this was the work OF an unorganized
mob. Organization did it. and of this organiza-
6rst of September. On that date u postmaster
down here at NeOsho sent me $40, and the same
man has since sent another $lO-voluntary con-
tenn you can't call it anything else.
Every democratic repeater who came into In
diana was watched so closely by republican de-
tectives that be could not pick his teeth without
being SEEN Don't think that I did all this
It was we three, Steve W. Dorsey, Geo: c.
list. He is one of the best workers l ever saw,
and | am proud to have been associated with
him. After we got through with Indiana they
wanted US to take charge OF New Jersey, but 1t
could not be organized as Indiana was, where
we had the machine in every city. ward. own
ship and precinct.
not entirely a German one, and that even the
cOlOred men are represented. and l take this
occasion to say that with the Germans. negroes
and other republicans we have got u goou 5000
A voics-.'Don't forget the poor
~ am not forgetting them
''But ye didn't mintiou them at ALL
They are the ''Other republicans Don't l see
my friend Judge DALEY here, and would l Tor
y HUI !. " uoI l buppoSC ! tuihh NC n -
.French1nan. do you, or an ~'Itaiyan ?'' No;
l mentioned all classes OF republicans, includ-
ing myself, who belong 10 the working Class.
This government has got 10 be manag II by one
| party or the other, and it Is the duty of every
citizen to belong to and work for one party on
the other. Parties ale u good deal like churches.
they have their trustees, the central committees,
and they assess their pew-holders. ofice-hold-
ers; only we ask pew-hOlders for voluntary
contributions, you know. The republican party
has also TO hank the schoolhouses and the news
papers. Since the war the habit of reading
newspapers has become more general, for We
learned to read them then when We had relatives
ut the front. and when a person gets used To
reading u newspaper does lie ever give it up 2
No, never. The newspapers have taught the
peOpls intelligence ON fh ,ncial Questions. They
were scattered broad cast all over the land. and
when we sprung the labor and tariff issues OH
the democracy the iariners and laborers knew
what they meant and democracy Was dead from
that day-t0o dead sven to kick"
Closing Mr.. Fllley said that he was cOnstitu-
tionally opposed TO banquets. but he was glad
of this one. Tor ii gave him the opportunity oil
saying that with the cooperation oil the men In
that hall, they could make st. Louis republican,
in the spring. Would they Cooperate Yes.
Then fall TO Il.
They lei! to It. liatening to the music of n gles
club, smoking cigars, making speeches xnG
doing Othsr things TOO tedious to mention.