Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-09-04

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BILE duties and insatiate exactions far
outw eigh its honors and emoluments.
Expectation is rarely attained; while
public opinion and ambitious rivals ex-
ercise such severe censorship and un-
fair criticism over US that u best efforts
and deeds are often turned into weap-
ons for our destruction.
From sucn a. position a man OF sim
cerity and sensiblity instinctively
shrinks. And vet with all this in my
mind and before me, I am alive to the
welfare of my country, and not above
| the influence and entreaties OF nay
friends and party. Like unto every
good citizen l recognize the obligations
of patriotism, and the duty of fealty to
the behests of the party which COM
mands my devotion: Where loyalty to
these demands a champion l think l
have the manhood and courage not to
shrink from shivering a lance in the
cause. [Applause.
1t has been represented to me that a
crisis in the affairs of the democratic
| party of this congressional district re-
quired that 1 should yield upon its al
tar all mere personal considerations
and interests and carry its banner in
the pending contest. While L felt
persuaded in my own Judgment that
in your lists were men more formidable
and valiant in political knighthood than
myself, and that partial friends per.
haps overestimated my strength said
to them: elf it be the sense Of the
convention on consultation, fairly and
harmoniously expressed, that my can
didacy is essential to success it would
be unreasonable not to accede to its
Wishes" But l further said. "lf q
nomination can only come to me
through collision with deserving as
| pirants, to be followed with complain
ings and iealousies of the disappointed,
[ would have none of it." CApplause.
In this announcement 1 was perfectly
sincere. | am informed by your COM
mittee sent to wait upon me that my
nomination is rendered agreeably to
the condition of my acceptance, That 1t
is unanimous, with whatever that i'm
plies. 1 am here to say that l yield to
your wishes; that l receive from your
hands the democratic banner and, with
| all devotion and courage, 1 promise to
carry it where the fight is thickest and
| so far as good faith and honorable en-
deavor on my part can avail to furl it
only when victory is written across its
folds. CApplause.] Accepting the
nomination under the circumstances. L
feel that l have the right to ask and to
expect that every democrat in the dis
trict will do his whole duty.
This is a democratic district. To set
it down once more in the column where
| it of right belongs only requires har-
mony, unity and faith among all those
who believe in the policy of democratic
principles. 1t only requires that they
forget the schisms and dissenslons. OF
the past; that recalling the glorious
memories of democratic achievements
| and the high hopes for the country in
/ spired by the present administration,
| they stand in line, shoulder to shoulder
and heart to heart. [Applause.
OneHwofd personal to myself. You
need not, gentlemen of the convention
and fellow democrats, anticipate that
the unaniinity with which you have &C
corded me this nomination, will abate
one element of the n which the
opposition c~ustomarily hiss at every
democrat. The more they fear him the
more bitterly they assail' him. | have
been in public life enough to have made
something of q record:
"Never vet
Was noble man but made ignoble talk,
He makes no friend who never made a foe.'
GApplause.] l am a man of earnest
convictions and positive oplnlons, and
[ have aver had the courage of nv
convictions. /, therefore, have a way
of making q record in public office.
| Our modern civilization is prolific in
crops of eunuchs in office who beget
nothing, and who are mostly valuable
because they are unassailable. Jap
plause.1 1t has not been my policy to
SO much set my sails to catch the
popular breeze as it has been to reach
the wide, open sea of truth aud right.
That way, God willing, l shall con,
tinue to sail. [Applause
To say that | have not erred in the
past would be to affirm that l am not
human. No doubt there may be found
some acts in my public life which the
cunning demagOgue, the hucksterer in
party SANDER, and the scurvy politician
of low degree will attempt to distOrl
to my prejudice. But after this beastly
crew, which ever infest u politics
have dinned the air with their below
ings and dlmmed the sky with the dir
they paw into the air the light of rea'
son and truth will shine in upon my
conduct and show that it was at leas
inspired by honest conviction and
sense of public duty
With advancing age has come som
abatement of the ardor of youth. !! .
recognize in public affairs that Otter
Cancellation and compromise are boil
expedieut and wise. But I shall never
surrender principle and manhood tt
appease the insatiate appetite of popu'
lar clamor. Applause.
1t elected l shall deem it an honor o
no small degree to represent at Wash
ington City one of the grandest dis
tricts in the v~alley,of the Mississippi
II is q noble constituency, worthy o
any mans ambition aud pride. Grea
i'm agriculture, threbbing with indus
trial energy, and containing within it,
limits the livest, the most progressiv,
and hopeful city between the great in
land sea and the setting sun. Zap
plause 1t will be my aim to give
wings to her commerce, to magnify hel
importance and to guard all her ma
ttIldl lutCIcSl6s L 6udl1 10 AO Ol1uS
partisan, but try to represent the bes
interests of all the people. By pru
dence, fidelity, industry and u broat
conservatism, I shall strive to bring
blessings to my immediate constituents
And while dimming no lustre of all TIT
stars that shine in unbroken constella'
ton on our national ensign, l hope tc
be able to contribute something to keel
the star OF empire westward in it,
course. (Applause. Now, gentlemen
when you return TO your respective
constituents, 60 with glad hearts, full
of hope. Let your every utterance b.
a proclamation of triumph. Organic
your forces systematically and in de
I tail. Organize for victory, and as SUI
as the ides OF November come the da,
will be ours.
Thanking the convention, one an,
l. all, for the great confidence reposed i
me, and hoping that | may in som
measure prove myself worthy of th
compliment, shall detain you no Ions
'. er. lApplause.l
SKETCH OF JUDGE PHILIPS.
John T. Philips is a native of Boon
county, Missouri, and was born D
cember 81, 1884. His father had settle
J. there in 1917. Young Philips W,
reared on his fathers farm, and h
l. youth was passed in much the sou
ID manner as that of other farm lads in
l. new country. He attended distri
school and entered the state universe
he of Missouri when IL years old, and a
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