Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1884-12-18

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dumped into the creek at the foot of
the hill and swept away, while Mr..
Childress shrugged with proverbi-
ally quiet team, now almost unmsn-
ageable with the same old brand OF
haunted hill terror that the ghost
used last spring. And
And the community is holding it's.
breath and awaiting developments.
Gen. Marmaduke-The Civil vs.. The
Military idea.
In another column we print an In.
teresting interview with that gallant
soldier and wise and popular Demo
cratic leader of the great State OF
Missouri, Gen. Marmaduke. This
gentleman, after one of the hottest
campaigns that has ever taken place
in that State, has been elected by
the Democracy Governor of Missou-
ri. Of one thing Gen. Marmaduke,
In conversation with US, expresses
himself especially proud. With the
modesty of the true soldier and real
ly able statesman, he declines to be-
ieve that his election, in the face of
the combined elements opposed to
him, was due to his own merits AMI
personal popularity, and insists that
much of his success, nay, the old
war-horse would insist, nearly all ef
it, is due to the Democratic newspa-
pers of his State, not a single one of
which received, asked or desired a
cent of contribution from him or his
friends to make his fight. In thete
days when every defeated politician
takes consolation in abusing, and al
most every successful one in belit-
tling, the services of the Press, it is
refreshing to hear this noble gentle
man and gallant soldier pour out,aIld
not for publication either, his un-
founded praise of the press that raj
lied to and unselfshly supported
him.
Since Gen. Marmaduke's presence
in New Orleans he has received a let
ter from one of the largest and most
influential military organizations of
Missouri, proposing to take part in
his Inauguration on the 18th of JAN
uary. To this letter the Governor
elect responded, just as a true Dem
ocrat should have done, that, while
he believes with Jefferson that well
organized militia is the safest reli-
ance of a free people in time of
war, and hence that he will do all in
his power, as Governor of Missouri,
to preserve, strengthen and general
ly advance the militia of This State,
yet he desires that the ceremony of
his Inauguration shall be entirely a
civil one, and that no militia display
shall be made. In short, Gen. Mar
maduke realizes that he is to be in
augurated as the Chief Magistrate. OF
a great State, and not as military
chieftain.
The views of this gallant Nilsson.
rian, fully in accord with those OF
the States, frequently expressed, we
trust will be adopted by Mr.. Cleve-
land and that on the 4th of March al
Washington City, as well as at JEFF.
ferson, Missouri, on the 18th of Jan.
ury, all the military paraphernalia ol
clubs and professions, as well as all
the exhibitions of the pride and poml
of military display, introduced by
the Republican Party to subordinate
il. the minds of the people the eivi
to the military idea, will be absent
The renaissance of the Democratic
Party everywhere should be accom-
panied by return to those simple
and majestic forms which character
lied the earlier and better days o.
the Republic, and the abandonment O.
that vulgar military parade, not thai
which accompanies military move
ments in the field where heroes risl
and give their lives, but that which
has come to degrade our civil deraon
strations and subordinate the civi
to the military idea i'll the minds
of our people.-New Orleans Stzes
He Mingled with the Whirl and Go