Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-07-13
CAMPAIGN, 1882.
WHAT WILL REPUBLICANS DO?

Now that a satisfactory Democratic
ticket has been made up, the univer-
sal inquiry is: What are the Repub-
licans going to do:" Possibly this
question will not be satisfactorily
answered until after the State Repub-
lican Convention shall have been held.
The Republican party is everywhere
divided into two factions, and special
effort on its part this year is not nee
essarv for the maintenance OF stall
wart hold on the offices in Missouri
in the gift of the President. All that
here bears relation to national politics
Is the election of congressman, and
tic late re-districting leaves little to
hope for in this direction. The Re
publicans really have nothing in sight
lcrond the few counties dominated
iy them. and Audrain is not one of
them. This moribund condition of
the Republican party i'll this State,
however, is not wholly due to its late
chickering's. For years it has had no
higher incentives than federal patron
age. Consequently, it has been des-
titute of genuine enthusiasm, and its
course has been dictated by persons
to whom ordinarily party management
would not be entrusted, and who have
resortcd to make shifts and cO-opera-
lions utterly valueless as sources of
strength.
Under its present leadership, the
Republican party is capable of any
thing. and seems to be engaged in
trying to find out how far it a use
what is left of the National Green
bauk-Laboritcs. 1t is anxious, after
having assisted that party at the last
election, to have another trial. This
year it desires to count Greenback
votes as It's own. This is natural !;
hut all the help it will get from that
source won't amount to anything, for
if there were & possibility of success
the Observation-Disclosures are not the
men 20 stand back and let others reap
what might be harvested.
If the Republican party should
conclude to assist Greenback candi-
dates, it will again impart to a de-
funct organization the appearance
OF life by being paraded as its
voters. 1t will he incumbent ON it
also, to furnish all needed campaign
ammunition, and submit to the loss
that will inevitably attach to an i'm.
polite and inc0ngruous connection
holding out no chance whatever Of
benefit.
Robert +. Smiley, representing the
firm Of Holt & Hall, of Osceola, Iowa
and who has been in Mexico for som
time ~eHdeayo:ing 10 establish a cream
cry iii this place, has just returned
from Huntsville. where he has been
few days, making arrangements in re
gard to the building of a creamery a
that place. There has been already
company formed at Huntsville with
capital of $1,000, consisting Of Holt 1
Hail OF Oseeola. Iowa, r. E. Lewis
F.. s. Bedford, D.. L. Benton, o
Huntsville. Mr.. Bedford to satisf,
himself III regard to the creamer
business. made M extended tour O
Iowa, and while there visited a mum
her of creamcrics that were in sue
ccssful Operation under the Holt 1
Hall system, and also visited indiyid
ual crcameries and returned HON
fully satisfied that it was q safe an,
paying investment. Mr.. Lewis is on
Of Raildo!pil's most successful farm
ers, and Il man whose gOodjudgemen
in a lifetime of neutrality-suspicious.
warranted him in investing in th
Huntsville creamery. The othe
members of the firm are all good an
reliable business men.