Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-10-23
DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES.
IFrom the Kansas City Times.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Oct. IA
democrat jealous in the interests OF my
party, l take this occasion to utter a
few words of advice and admonition in
the ears of my democratic brethren.
The reason of this %gratuitous action on
my part at this time is the fact that we
are now approaching a congressional
election. For the suffrages of the demo.
cratic electors of the fifth congressional
district the delegates of the people
chosen after he manner and custom OF
our party in convention assembled with
perfect harmony and unanimity OF
action selected Judge John F. Philips,
q talented, honorable, scholarly gentle
man, a man who represents the
purest sentiments of Jeffersonian
democracy; a man with the courage
of his convictions Ia rare thing in these
degenerate days. !; a political Chevalier
Bayard a man already equipped for
his duties with the knowledge which
comes from experience; n who is
now armed c~ap-a-pie, and if elected
will at once step into the congressional
arena and do battle for the principles OF
democracy against the donghtiest cham
pion in the lists of the opposition. The
busting energies and wideawake activi-
ties of Kansas City will have in Judge
Philips as a representative the quality
and capacity that her present position
and future needs demand.
Opposed to Judge Philips is Major
William Warner, a gentleman who at a
time when mems passions dominated
their reason, as a so-called champion
of the labOring man (but now and
always cheek by jowl with the Journal
q corporation organ) managed by trad
ing on the temporary factiOnal animOsi-
ties engendered to secure sufficient
votes to give him a seat in congress.
In his nice little speech accepting a re-
nomination by the republican party
he tells us in effect that this campaign
should be a personal one; that he is as
much a representative of the democratic
rs of the republican party, therefore
party lines should be loosely drawn,
and that he would appreciate the favor
very much if the democrats by their
votes would again elect him, the most
radical and rampant republican in the
state, to the seat in congress righttully
belonging to a democrat. His friends
and henchmen are going about in the
district cooling in the ears of democrats
endeavoring to again lead them to do
an act in cold blood which they did
two years ago when blinded by passion.
Nc democrat worthy of the name will
vote for a man who represents princi-
pies SO ~antagonistic to the principles
and purposes of the democratic party.
Do we want to make the principles of
the democratic party paramount in this
nation? If SO. we must fight for and
uphold them. The principles of the
democratic party, in the language of
Jefferson our illustrious founder, ''form
the bright constellation which has gone
before us and guided our steps through
an age of revolution and reformation.
The wisdom of our sages and the blood
of our heroes have been devoted to
their attainment; they should be the
creed of our political faith, the text of
civil instruction, the tcuchstone by
which to try the services of those we
trust, and should we wander from
them in moments of passion and alarm
let us hasten to retrace our steps and to
regain the road that leads alone to
peace, liberty and safety"
No intelligent laboring man will
allow himself to be at all influenced by
the oft repeated statement of how good
q friend and unseIishly fond Major
Warner is of him, for the reason that
however urgent that gentleman and
his friends are to have him sacrifice his
democratic principles by voting for him
you would always find him voting with
the republican party on this and every
question, as witness the record of that
party on the labor question.
DEMOCRAT.