National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-12-31
A DOUBTFUL STATE.
MISSOURI AND THE NEAR FUTURE.
Few Interesting Facts and Figures Relative to
Bourbon Ruie-The Democrats Rent Asunder
by Internal Dsscnsions--The Situa-
Don Graphically Described.

~ASlssourian" sends THE REPUBLICAN the fol-
Lirirg THE REPUBLICAN, Is one Of the few Re
publican papers IN the country that seems to have
any well. defined ideas as to the proper course to
be pursued to defeat THO Democratic party in the
BouthCgn States the only section Of the Union In
which II has had an uninterrupted lease OF power
during the past ten years. THs NATIONAL REPuB-
mcAN evidently thinks II more important that the
Bourbon Democracy should be defeated I'm the
Rouhern States than that q few Republicans
should hold local offices aud have the crumbs of
Federal patronage ut their DISPOSAL and It there.
fore advocated the Readiusier movement and en-.
cournRcd rs leaders IN Virginia Itakeit that you
are favorable TO such policy ~ any given Demo.
date the elements of
OPPOSITION TO BOURBON ISSUE
~ sucn stare In taking an account OF those
Southern states which may by proper manage.
mcntb be carried by the opposition 10 the Democrats
yon seem TO have overlooked the State of Mis-
souri, IN which the Democratic party IL worse
crippled than any other Southern State, exccpt the
States Of Virginia md Tennessee. While you arc
rendering sensible aud wholesome advice to Re.
Publcans would II not be well to give the Repub.
iieans Of Missouri small prescription gratisP To
i ii my meaning more plainly let inc give
FIGUREs coScERsrSo MISSOURI
The Democrats have not the overwhelming ma
lority In that state which It Is generally supposed
thcy nave by people who arc not familiar with its
politics IL is true that, since 1870 the Republican
party has not stood the shadow of ghost Of n
chance 70 carry the State No more does II to- day.
But an element, or, more properly speaking, q new
party, hns arisen In Missouri which has made the
only aggressive, determined war against the
party isthc National Greenbaok party. In 1916.
snat pa,sy polsd 9t9s votes for Cooper In 1880 it
IN 1876, TiiDEs's MAJORITY
over Hayes was 58043; over both Hayes and
Cooper, 81 $40. In 1873, when candidates for So.
premo Judge, superintendent of public pfiools
and railroad commissioner were .k only State
oncers voted for the DemonrN.t vote was 1856 III.
and the combined Republican and Greenback
VOC HifHh %aFcAst for separate candidates, was
N2Ol, leaving Democratic majority Of27 90.
~ 1880 THE VOTE FOR PRESIDENT
was rs follows: Hancock, 20S,G09 Garfield, 49,.
ity over the combined Republican aud Cireenback
vote only Of l0907. Taking the vote cast for Gov
.ty was still less being only 1896 the vote stand
Ing For Critenden, Democrat. 207 go: for Dyer.
Republican, l636S6; for Brown, Grecnback 36,3Ss.
AGAIN, IN THE WINTER OF 1867
the Democratic Legislature gerrymandered the
State In most shameful manner. making, as
they. confidently believed, every congressional
district Democratic by Large majority" as
Statesman Sloto would remark. Notwithstanding
THIS gerrymander, Nicholas Ford, Greenbacker,
was elected TO Congress from the Ninth District In
1873. and In 1880 four Greenbackers and one Re-
publican were elected from the Sixth, Seventh,
Eighth, Ninth, ana Tenth Districts, and but for
the stupidity OF a few Republicans an ex- colonel
IN the Union army during the rebellion would
have been elected over Bland IN the Fifth Dis
that district was 7GO more than the vote Bland re-
FROM THESE FACTS AND FIGURES
the careful politician make his calculations rs
TO the result OF future elections In Missouri. The
further fact that the Democratic party in that
State Is being rent asunder by internal brols and
discussions, which can neither be quieted nor
suppressed, Is one which should have much weight
With the student of politics In considering the
possibility nnd the ways and means Of taking Mis-
souri, out Of the hands OF the Bourbons at the next
election. The happy condition of the Democratic
party In that State Is correctly and graphically de-
scribed by the Sedaia Democrat, the organ of Sen.
ator Vest and the unreconstructed Democrats of
that Stnte in an editorial which recently appeared
In Its columns from which
THE FOLLOWING Is AN EXTRACT:
The old chivnlrous devotion to the law of caucus
and convention is dead in Missouri That her.
maphrodite thing called Independence is set up in It's
place IL Is the hour OF plan and whine and npos-
trophies to conscience and TO sort of beggariy
bastard called free political action. Everything APP
the old onegallows fellowsthose who once regarded
bolter md a horse-thlef as Synonymous scoun.
and and ba6ble of the utterly utter The parii,
fs ysrv of mo,h ns old days are now statesmen.
,he M national debt There are oprlyatcs any more
fnce for Office the resoundlng cry OF "the devil take
me e, blindness y + heard from every quarter where
fortune Of Griitenden 10 be Il Governor Of party
n ever See Since S S aSs e IL ssanE Itself
III. III had about dozen offices to bes'-S origin
hS S ana sS sSM was for
S Ss and Of ad the peat eat dsaTty beiyes9
public and will Ne washcd until the end Ali sorts
e par sSs az tne v an sor
EaniSeIs; until II makes but little difference now what
sSys yes and be damned II he says no. |
~ Lhl s,s iae Is part Of the course Democracy
dense lgnorance terrible Want Of manhood AND III
processes of herd OF Texas cattle
:, In conclusion, would say as one who loves |
proper management, she Will be one of the first |
10 the front ana " turn her face to the morning."