Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-07-05

THE LExl1
these issues before the people candidly,
fairly and as intelligently as l can, and
then if by such clap-trap and pleas OF
little politicians as to where a man
lives, YOU say l must remain i'll private
life, it will be without regrets Oh my
part. I have tried to understand these
questions. Whether l do or not is for
YOU and not for me to say; but should
be elected to congress- it will be my
highest pleasure to Join that noble band
of patriots who are there, few III num-
Der, battling for the constitution and
the liberties of the people.
Tell me what interest there is in the
future of this great city that demands
that no man shall represent her in the
federal congress unless he has the con-
stitutional and charter qualifications OF
a member of her council? You have
CONQUERED, as 1 have said, these hills ,
and rolled them back into the valleys,
and a. l have tried to show you the in
terests of your city are Unidentified with
the democratic party. Do you tell me
that the democratic party with ats
grand historical past, with the grand
mission committed to it in future to
bring back constitutional liberty to this
country has dwindled down to the in
significant issue of where a man lives,
whether in Lafayette or Jackson coan-
ty? My fellow citizens l lived in the
adjoining county when a mere boy.
How many, l ask you, are here to-day
that were here then. | suppose ! would
be safe in saying you are nearly all en-
igrants. You have come from New
England, from the Western states and
from portions of Missouri. You have
built up this city aud made it a grand
metropolis, started it upon a grand
career which l honestly aud sincerely
believe is but just begun. Yet would
you tell NE that the great commercial
heart that throbs here rattles like 2
mustard seed politically? Do believe
it? No. l believe such issues are
raised only by demagOgues who do not
understand the political history OF the
country, who care nothing about the
great truths to which l have alluded,
and who try to get into Office by CLAP
trap. Isn't it true? let them face the
issue. l am going all over this district
to face the people. l. have no dark
work to do but 1 propose to talk to you
from an honest platform. While l
claim no greater patriotism than any
one elae who wishes to see the govern
ment brought back to its purity under
Washington and Jefferson, l would not
give a fig to get into congress simply to
draw the salary OF the Office. Ifthere
is any one thing above another that has
rpiped this country it is the demagogery
of the men who do not dare to go be-
fore the people and discuss the paiiticai
issues of the day. Whom asked any
thing they rear back upon their record;
rear back upon some criminal case, and
talk about where they live.
Now, in conclusion word. We
| will never convince the intelligent,
thinking republicans of this country,
the men in whose hearts there is q
desire to assist in this work, unless we
convince them of our own political
honesty, and we cannot do that until
we are honest with ourselves. What
has your county committee done I
thing back. / talk 1t out. What have
thCy uOHV 4u0y nave odVu lldC 90c
man who receives the solid vote of
Jackson county will receive the nomi-
nation. Are you prepared to accept
such trickery as that !? That will not
dOs They saw that, SO they met the
other day to conform their action to
that of the congressional committee,
We have no objection TO that. The
congressional committee is the legal
authority, aud its orders are entitled to
respect. They insisted that the man
receiving the highest number of votes
in any representative district should
have the vote of hat district. Well
and good, for this was the order of the
congressional committee. What else ?
They did not stop there. But this coun-
ty committee, the mere servants and
agents Of the people, stepped in in their
sovereign capacity, and put themselves
up as kings, and they say if the man for
whom you vote Is not nominated your
vote shall be turned over in a body to
the next man. That is what 1 call
s~ugar-coating. When you go into a
convention the people r there in their
sovereign capacity, the expression of
the delegates is an expression of the
will Of the people, and the people either
instruct them or do not instruct them.
Now, according to the way you vote,
you instruct for the first man; the peoe
pie do not instruct tor the second choice,
the county committee by a mere order
attempts to instruct for you. Why not
let the people instruct who is to be their
second choicep A.gets a certain number
of votes, but is o nominated. You
have no voted as between the other
men, but the committee steps in and
casts your vote for Mr.. b. and makes
a selection for you. Hereby is a nom-
i%nation, which is equivalent to an cleo
ton, and these seven gentlemen abso-
lutely decide who is to guide your po-
litical affairs, and cast your ballots into
the box. Do you tell me this is not des-
potism Or tyranny in its worst form ?
There is no democracy in it.. The men
who do that either eve knew or have
forgotten what democracy is. say
it is nti-democratic- a it
is tyrannical. And l say to them that
so sure as they dare to do this wrong,
the nan who will represent
the democracy of this district in
the next congress stands on this
platform. Because the noble, gen.
eroas hearted people of Kansas City
aud jackson county, if ] come here
with the vote OF Lafayette and John
son counties, will say, we will down
such a monstrous wrong; we will not
let 1t succeed; We viii 90 to johnson
or Lafayette county for a candidate.
Now, mark my words. There uwells
III the breasts of the Democratic masses
of this city and county that sense of
political honor, that high conception
OF political right that they will not
quietly submit and bow their necks to
such u rule that is repugnant 10 every
principle of democracy. Talk TO Inc
of the seven to eight commission doing
that which was wrong, t~yrannical and
unjust! This rule OF the committee is
more arbitrary, o %tyrannical, more
unjust.
Now, my fellow-citizens, allow me
to close with ali earnest expression that
the grand hope OF the country, which
Is in the democratic party, may find its
first and highest expression il its will
and determination to do right to its own
members. (Great applause.
thank yOu gentlemen for your kind
though ill deserved attention.
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