The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-09-07

vote for the submission of this ques.
ton to the voice of the people. Mr..
Turner is an eloquent and able speak.
er and he was listened too with deer
attention.
A loud call was then made for the
congressional nominee, Guitar, bu:
that gentleman saidIhe had not forgot
ten the occurrences two years ago on
that platform and declined 10 speak on
the present occasion.
EX-GOVERNOR FLETCHER
being called for that gentleman came
to the front and in a lengthy talk
spoke of the wonderful prugres made
under the domination Of the reLubli.
can party, the growth of towns and
cities, the increase of railroads and
The general progressiveness of the
state of Missouri in particular.
The democratic party is party he said
which remains the same yesterday, to-
day and tomorrow, without changes
and Its doctrines are the same as were
those presented by John c. Calhoun
in the long ago. The same old state
rights doctrine, all that is due to pro-
gress has been made under republi.
can rule. The good of
this party may be said
to have been borrowed from the old
Wing party and this was in part true.
He thus spoke of the question which
the republican party took up after the
death of the Wing party. The re-
publican party had
ALWAYS GONE FORWARD
while the democratic party has neither
gone forward or backward. On the
question of submission he thought
that when a respectable part Of the
people want to vote on any question
concerning the rights of the people
they have a right to vote. He did
not think that the temperance people
always displayed sense and wis"ed
there were men among them who had
little political sense. He referred
to Sam Jones assertion that no third
party is needed and believed he
was right. He also thought that the
republican party is the only party
which will lead on to the uplifting of
man and also of progress. Mrs Cairns
referred to the remark of Governor
Fletcher concerning the lack o. sense
shown by the prohibitionists, and
said that it was true but now that
they trusted the republican party to
go forward and show the way
Gen. Forrest in sespOnse to an en-
thusiastic call, said that the repub-
lican party had never fought battle
but that he was in it. He outlined a
history of the republican party
from '4S to 81 and the part
he had taken in Its battles. He had
always been a temperance man
and for forty years he had been wag-
ing the battle against intemperance.
There was, however, no principle In
volved in the prohibition and sub |
mission questions, 1t was the accident
of circumstances as was slavery and
other questions. He did not believe
there was a man IN Missouri who de-
MED the Missouri citizens right to vote
on the question of submission, and he
believed that the people had right to
dispose of this question or let it alone
if they have TO do so. The speaker
took up the question of temperance
from a personal and individual stand
point and pathetically applied it to his
cwn boy and the boys of
his neighbors, but still insisted
that the republican party should
merely consider the question an acci-
dent and not a principle. He paid a
very glowing tribute to the influence
Of women and closed amidst much APP
plause.
A motion to adjourn until o'clock
was overruled, also a motion for
4 recess of fifteen minutes,
and amid calls for Filley, Warner,
ETC., a motion was finally introduced
20 permit.
SENATOR ROGERS OF ST. LOUIS.
% address the convention. He OPEN
d his address by paying tribute to
ZEN. Forrest who had just preceded
him and then took up as
lad all the other speakers
he old story of progress made under
he rule of the republican party and
aid that for the few errors made,
he had ...
No APOLOGY TO OFFER. 8
20 much had been accomplished. He
bought the only way to deal satisfac-
orily with the prohibition question
vas to work zealously in the
enatorial and Legislative districts,
Hedging the candidates for the legis-