Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1883-03-03

Florida, coming nearer Ill pOlnt O.
on the other side, has 269.'-
4s3 inhabitants and 4s7 retail liquor
dealers, or one to each 553 Inhabitants
Kansas, with a population OF 996 ,OS6
and also prohibitory law bm
Mr.. Ingalls,. And democratic gov o
-- $50 "
Mr.. Vest. With democratic gov,rii
,,sGs. a -. hs. .,,, as immense majority be
lieve for the rest OF the repubiicx,e-
ticket, represented ou this floor b ID
two republican senators ~ =.
Mr.. Cockrell. Aud . solid republic,
can delegation in the other house.
Mr.. Vest. Yes. with solid repnb.
lican delegation In ths' buse oil repre-.
sentatives. Kansas has : Population Of
996 .O86, and has 1882 retail liquor.
dealers. or one to each S79 Inhabitants.
South Carolina has population of
9s5, ,577, difference of only 500 in !
population, aud has one retail liquors
dealer to each 917 inha bitants. Tske
the state of Massachusetts,. for l Ger.
talnly would not make any statement
here and leave out Massachusetts. 1t
has population OF 1,7S3 0S5; retail
liquor-dealers, 1919; or one to each
of Plymouth Rock, in the land of
essentially stsaiy habits, one liquor
saloon to each 244 people! North Caro-
lima. with -ap0pula,ion of 1895. $50. has
retail liquor dealers 1875, or one to
each 70S inhabitants, instead of one to
eac h 244 Inhabitants, as in Massachu.
setts.
Mr.. President, these are official
otot ;gt, a.,1, Ia,
men upon the other side of the cham
Der whether they can now cay that the
whisky interest Of this country and
the saloons of this country have given
success to the democratic party ovef
them At the last or At any other elec.
tion. For twenty odd years the whisky
interest of this country has voted
steadily with the republican psrtys
All the leading distillers and brewers
have been arrayed uponAthe side of
he republican party. Ii this! interest
has given the republican defeat in tho
recent conflict, what gave !he demo-
cratic party defeat in all the contests
from 1866 down to this hour. Who has
availed itself of this interest in the
psste They themselves by making
the charge assert the fact that the
liquor interest OF the country oy sup
porting them has enabled them to
achieve success and to hold the Offices
and power OF the county in their
| hands. ss3e eNI
Mr.. President the democratic party
of the Unlted States is not held togeth-
or BY the cohesive power Of public
plundsr. II Office had been necessary
to hold Us together We would have
gone to pieces years and years ago.
For twenty.odd years. through defeat
aud disaster, oftentimes without a,
gleam of sunshine, not even the star
light of heaven to guide US .npon our
path. we have struggled and fought
aud sacrificed for what we believe to
be right. No power has been with us;
no political assessments to give us q
campaign fund. No corruption fund
has been in the b ,nds Of the democratic
party to purchase the franchises of the
country. II plumber, II Office, had
been the pabulum upon which our
party fed, it would have starved 10
death years and years ago.
say now to the gentlemen ON the
other side Of this chamber. you may
defeat us aeain; II q in the hands of
God and In the future; but 80 long as
the love Of local calsest.xovernment exists
in the hearls Of the An,.=icau people.
so long ~ the divinity tba, presides
over the hesrth.st Of every cssnen
Is the germ ol the great political idea o
state sovereignty aud of The right o.
each community to govern itself, &c
long under God will we meet you face
to face aud hand to hand and dispute
your supremacy.