The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-07-08
CONGRESSMAN COSGROVE
Mai. Edwards Makes a Charge
Upon His Cowardly
ASsailantS.
Brave Truths Bravely Spoken
in Defense of a Brave,
True Man.

ST. Joseph Gazette.
The last men on this earth to lift the
bloody shirt in any form, shape, or fashion
are those men In Missouri calling them
selves Southern Democrats. As mass they
have been fighting this spirit of tyranny
and oppression ever since the civil war.
They should so continue to do this When
ever and wherever it lifts its hateful and
proscriptive head. If they appeal TO the
hates and passions OF the old war days in
some certain localities where the southern
element is very powerful, how could they
deprecate and denounce such an appeal
when made against them in localities
where the northern element In the party
was very powerful ? They must know
| that
PRESCRIPTION BEGETs PRESCRIPTION.
the world over, and that if a man is to
have special political privileges in some
quarter because he is from the south, 9TH
ers elsewhere will demand the same be-
cause they were from the north. Strife then
begins-mean, passionate, destructive strife.
There is and can be no discipline. Party
rules and obligations snap like pack
threads. Instead of 8 harmonious democ-
racy-united, aggressive, loving Its organi-
cation for the principles il espouses, know
ing no faith, creed, past association, or ma
tionality-there is q torn and disputed
democracy, raking about among the bones
and graves of the past, seeking to find there
some reason for the hatred and the bitter
ness so savsgely manifested
Some such war as We have outlined here
is being made upon the
HON JOHN CosoRovE, OF COOPER COUNTY,
the present representative from the Sixth
district. He is being denounced for want
of sympathy with the southern people.
when every bonest southern man In his dis
trict knows that during the darkest days OF
pillage and disfranchisement in Missouri
when a rebel so-called, was no more &C.
count than a fea-bitten dog-this brave
New York democrat, taking at times his
very life in his hands, spoke against the
villainy of the test oath as one having in
spiration, fought prescription from the
stump all over Central Missouri, denounced
more bitterly than any southern man dared
TO do, the cowardice and tie crime oil dis
franchisement, and even faced dauntlessly
and pistol in hand upon more than one &C.
ca.ion the sconndrelly rufians who sought
to silence the fierce speech and the stslwart
MUCH Is FAIR IN POLITICS,
but no war like this upon John COsgrove.
Whatever else the Southern people are,
they are not ungrsteful. They cannot
strike him down at the bidding of a small
number of interested politicians, some of
them, sssassin-like, stabbing him over false |
and anonymous signatures, In the news |
papers. Each Southern man in Cosgroye's |
district, who knows that every word We
here print In his favor is true TO the letter, |
ought to resent as he would blow the at |
tempts of these personal or political enemies
of his 10 do him injury. The very appeals |
made 10 them are insults. They are APP
peals which 60 upon the assumption that
the
SOUTHERN MEN OF THE SIXTH DISTRICT
ARE FOOLS.
That so rank vet are all the old war preju-
dices that they can be aroused In moment
at the bidding of any demagogue who
chooses, from the meanest of all motives,
personal vengeance, to first play upon them
and make them prominent by lying repe-
tition. Silence these slanderers, and ST.
lence them now. Cosgrove, since being in
has never cast a vote that was not
also cast by his democratic colleagues
has simply in fact been democrat, know
ing no section and feeling no sectionslism.
Beat him if you choose, but beat him fair
". Not with lies. Not with anonymous
SANDERS. And, for the sake of democratic
supremacy in Missouri, pot with the bloody
shirt