Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-10-23
MAJOR WARMERS SPEECH.

liam Warner, last Wednesday night,
one seldom hears.
He began by ridiculingJudge Philips
dignity, and proceeded to substitute
something better by making of him
self a harlequin, in a manner which
would better justify his claims to pro-
ficiency as end man in a minstrel show
than competency as a congressman.
He strutted about the stage with hair
awry and eyes %protruding, and to en-
| phasize the fifteen Or twenty old
chestnuts that he got off as wit would
| place his hand upon his knee and squat
and blink in a mi to make Dobson
and Crane die with envy. 1t was funny,
and we all laughed, but it was neither
argument o sense.
He asserted that Judge Philips had
called him ugly, hump backed, &c {,
and retaliated by accusing the judge OF
being a dandy who sdraws his mantle
about him and shrlnks away when he
meets a workingman." Both of which
assertions are demagogical untruths
aud unworthy OF Major Warner or any
other man seeking an election al the
hands of an intelligent constituency.
His speech was big with the first per-
son singular, and he swelled out his
breast to proportions which would JUS
tify one in believing that a hump from
his back had penetrated to his shirt
bosom when he. IN a declamatory tone,
announced that: every fellow who
votes against me will have a pang of
conscience as long as he lives"
He had the grace to deny that he
wrote the republican state platform OF
1884, which denounced Missouri as a
robber, non-progressive state, and
which did more to drive away capital
and immigration from the state of Mis-
souri, than forty such decisions as that
of Judge Philips in the Long case; but
he failed to say that he reported it
favorably from the committee, which
practically amounted to the same thing
as writing it. We are glad to see that
he is sufficiently ashamed of it to-day
TO attempt by indlrection to make peo-
| pie believe he had nothing to do with it.
lie quoted Ex-Governor Koerner, of
Illinois, as saying, that he was a German
by accident, an American citizen from
choice land a republican from principle;
but he forgot 10 state that the corrup-
ton and bad faith Of the republican
party have long since driven Governor
| Koerner out of its ranks.
He stated that Senator Vest said at
Higginsville that he, Warner, had dis
graced the district. Senator Vest SAID
no such thing. He did say that it was,
a disgrace for a democratic district to
send a republican 10 congress, and so it
is, but the disgrace lies in the dissen-
sions and bad faith of democrats who
out of personal spite vote for republic
cans and against their political con-
| ~victions.
He pretended to be harassed because
he was from Wisconsin, when as a
matter of fact his organ at Kansas
City IS harassing Judge Philips be-
cause he is from al adjoining county in
Missouri, calling him an importation,
SC. and he said that if he had hailed
from Kentucky he supposed it would
be all right.
He illustrated his knowledge of
Shakespeare by coupling Banquo's
Ghost with Mark Antony. an anachron-
ism of which he seemed personally al
together oblivious.
He represented Judge Philips as not
wanting to be elected to congress, when
no n knows better than does he that
Judge Philips did not desire or seek the
nomination, but once having accepted
it was avOwedly anxious that he should
be elected. He ridiculed democrats as
habitual Office seekers, saying that he
could not be shown a democrat who
would not take the Office Of dog pei
ter if he could get it. The major neg
lected to add, that since years ago he
held the Office, by the grace of Rodman
and the destruction of the ballots of
the people of Jackson county, against
their will, of circuit attorney, that as
such officer, as United States district
attorney and as congressman he has
had a pretty steady pull at the public
teat himself. He passed over his love
for the Irish, no doubt because he fear
ed that some N would ask him why
he helped to defraud old Gen. James
Shields out of his seat in congress, and
why it vas that the widow of the GAL
liant Jas. A. Mulligan had to wait for
recognition until Cleveland was elected
and appointed her pension agent at
Chicago. He had the word on his lips.
He said, "Home rulel" but stopped
and passed to something else.
He drove a murderous stiletto to the
heart of republican financial policy by
advocating the democratic doctrine in
fovor Of the free coinage of silver.
He arraigned democrats for denounc-
ing the republican party as favoring
monopoly when it had as the chairman
Of its state committee the leading rail
road attorney of the state, presumably
meaning MI. Jno. O'Day. 1t may be
excusable in small-fry republican poll
ticians to make this charge if they
know no better, but Major Warner
ought to know that it is untrue. The
chairman of the state democratic COM
mittee, in the last canvass as we'll as in
this, is DR.. d. Ii. Shields, of Hannibal,
a gentleman who owns moi a dollars
worth OF railroad stock, and whose
speech at the opening of the conven
ton in st. Louis shows him to be in
thorough sympathy 18th the masses as
against corporate influence of any kind.
The fact that there are two railroad at
torneys on the committee gives them
no sort of control of its affairs, and
should not be too loudly denounced by
a party whose chief orator and candi-
date for United States senator is Gen.
Jno. B. Henderson. The major attacked
Mr. (Ihilas chairman Of tho donoorot;o