New-York tribune., 1885-03-13
MISSOURI B OURBONISM.
IT'S GENERAL LAzINEss AND RAsCALrTY.


POLITICIANS TRYING TO GET UP DUELs AND So
CIETY LroNIzINa MURpERERS WHILE THE
STATE GOES TO RUIN.
lrRoM AN ocCA AsIoYAL OF THE TRIBUNEl
ST. LOUIS. March 11.-They are q nice LOT, these
Mssourians. One needs to be here he, and to get
the atmosphere the place. before he quito believe
that in this year grace 1885, such state OF society
exists in one of the United States. You get up in tho
morning and buy q newspaper to read with your
breakfast and you find therein the bloody diatrbe OF
Major Rainwater anent the Governor of this Common
wealth. The Major considers that the Governor is
really remarkable compound of coward, knase and
fool and expresses his appreciation in language which
IL expected to result in duel The Governor had pro-
duced documents which tended to show that years be-
fore the Police Board had been hired by the gamblers
to nuy the law in their interest, and that Major Ram
water had been recipient Of the large fund collected
Whether Pulitzer, who now edits " The World vii
write all he knows about the matter in highly inter-
esting article is doubtful but if he does there will be
amusement as well gore. Meanwhile, it is very in-
strucve notice the tone in which these eyerts are
generally commented upon. Rainwater has been q
candidate for Mayor OF this city on tho Democratic
SIDE and Marmaduke was elected Governor by the
Democrats last tall and supposes that the dis
closures and the mud singing will harm either oil them
public opinion to the slightest extent unless one or
try to kill somebody in duel II So he will be sent to
Coventry The unpar sin out here is to obey
the law any man from Governor down can 90 the
other thing with mpunity.
For instance here is Frank James, who has been
doing the other thing since the Civil War closed,
and has developed faculty of getting living In
any other way. Elsewhere he would be called coarse
and vulgar specme, OF a rOboer and murderer But
here literally the hero OF the State and the latest
conrvance of the State author ties Is to prevent his
surrender uson to the authorities OF Minnesota
for the murder of bank cashier in that state, by
getting ND bogus case through which the Missouri hero
haf ad nnin nall AIT
laws of Missouri. Ii there Is jury anywhere III the
State which would find him guilty OF anything. 1t must
be in part yet explored As ior the Governor.
if he should allow Frank James to be taken out of the
State for punishment anywhere else, that would be as
fatal to his political prospects as refusal to hight
duel with Major kainwater One thing Llay be said
of Governor Marmaduke; he has no pardon brokers
him. far the public has yet discovered. and
IL Il not many days since there outcry, you
member about alleged payments OF large sums IN one
case 900. ty conyicts their friends, to secure
pardons from Governor Crittenden tho Democratic
predecessor Of the present Governor. near friend
of the Executive alleged to have received the
money but whether any OF it ever reached HIM there
is of course oof The only thing that ioieraDy
clear about matter is that pardons were granted 10
persons who did pay somebody money for them. me
interesting feature again. Is that puOc opinion s no.
the Governor and the whole incnes to think that
il does not make much dference but he looked upon
as quite an unworthy man because he allowed these
thing. TO be published without killing somebody.
Then there is going TO be an investigation about
purchase of bonds. The State through It's f9nd Com
| and tn Fund Commissioners employed Drokers IN
Newly ork TO effect the purchase, and the bonds were
turned the State at price which 1t is now alleged
can be proved beyond question to have been about
Sl50,0O0 more than could have been pad ior them
| in the NewYork market. This 10 considered. ID TINS
Democratic region, Objectionable transaction, prin
cipay because it fonnd out, and brrgs some sort
of disoredt upon Democratic State government and
The common criticism heard hereabouts Is hat the
| Fund Commissioners were fools. aud had no business
| to do anything in so bungling way. -
And then here is this railroad strike, about which,
lnnki itn a
| political disturbance When the Governor was FIRST
called upon send troops for the defence OF life and
property in held by the strikers he took high
tone and wa. not going send soldiers to shoot down
| workingmen But il subsequently came TO pars that
various capitalists and officials, who know how money
raised 10 carry on the last Democtatic campaign,
of which this Governor product and where some OF
II was spent tho Ight IL expedent That properties IN
| which they were interested should be projected Their
views expressed in such manner that the Gov
e,np d th;r ,epS. ali over tbeSfate are as mad
as hornets and promise 10 make II hotter than any
place below ground tor the Governor AMI his Demo
cratic friends the next time they get chance TO vote
| II he enforces the law with anything like hdehty.
the working people will denounce him tool OF the
corporations and really what else he is II is hard TO
| say. But a matter Of TACT, nothing has been done
thus far which the law itself does not require. The
difficulty is that in this section IL is to enforce
or to obey the law and the whole so unpopular that
YOU have get lever of tremendous force under "a
| man iu order q make him do his simple duty.
Meanwhile. what is becoming Of this great common
| wealth rarely endowed by nature. and capable OF
lust vegetatng Its bcundess resources lie still un-
| developed. almost much they were twenty years
| ago While other Southern States have been making
wonderful progress Missouri enjoys her BoarbJDsm.
| In 1870. tor example $4,000 tons OF pig iron were
made in this State-more than was produced in all the
| other Southern States except Kentucky. Alabama
| then produced $3.50 tons last year lo9,664 tons
Tennessee then produced 2s6sS tons last year II pro
| duced l34. 597 tons. Virginia then produced l7233
tons last year it produced 157.4s3. But NJ ssouri
| starting with 30 900 tons IN 1870. has never risen
| above $4,000 in any year. and last year produced
10000 tons. There could hardly be n better example
the working of things in this state for the
of the State the world knows. unrvaed for the
production II there not obstacles to the
employment of capital and :he enlistment OF industry
| and enterprise from esevhere-ol stacles 10 which
the Bourbons here obstinately shut their eyes but
which are nevertheless practically insuperahe-this
great would be tagging behind in the for
wealth aud prosperity. nor allowing ITS vast iron de-
posts to remain tilted. permitting the finest
water power ia the world 10 be wholly unused. nor
raising about tenth OF the wheat which should
produce allowing its arteries of commerce to be
blocked and stopped by little handful OF strikers