The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-10-05
GENERAL +. NJ. COCKRELL
Addresses a Crowded House ON
the Political Issues of
the Day.
Republicans and Democrats Com
pared With a Bad Show
ing for the Former.

Woods opera house was crowded
last night with people of every pOlit.
zeal faith, to hear Gen. F. NJ. Cock.
rell. The general was introduced by
George P. B. Jackson.
He commenced his speech by telling
of our great government and greater
people, and promised his remarks with
the statement that two political par
ties were a necessity to good govern
ment. He said that it was the duty
of the people to pat in power the
party that would give them the wisest
and most economic administration.
If the republican party would do this,
then put in the republicans; but il
the democrats did it better, then put
in democrats.
The speaker then made statistical
comparison between the administra.
ton of the two parties in the state of
Missouri, which made a bad showing
for the republicans and a correspon.
dinghy good showing for the demo-
Gratis. He gave bewildering array
of figures in relation to the
public schools, penitentiary and
public printing. He stood on the
stage on the same spot where .ex-
Governor Fletcher stood, at the re-
cent republican convention, and de-
nounced the sale of the Iron Mountain
railroad by Fletcher in scathing terms
and pronounced it a case of basest
robbery. He said that it caused the
blush of shame to mantle the brew of
every honest man In the state, when
he thought of how the people were
robbed by the transaction. The Gen
eral stated that the republicans
accused the democrats of being neither
aggressive nor progressive. He said
that the democratic party was not one
of mushroom gr~wth, but that its
principles were older than the oldest
man in the house, and would live
after the youngest man was dead and
gone. He then gave an account of
what the democrats had done for the
public schools, and said that nd state
in the union had done as much in
proportion to its wealth and pOpu-
latiOn.
In regard TO the railroad question,
he said that the democratic party did
not pretend that they had reached
a satisfactory solution of the question,
that no government on earth had. as
yet, solved the problem, but that the
democrats of the United States
had made progress and
that it wonld take time and expert
ence to make a satisfactory solution of
the question.
. He claimed that the democratic
party was the only true friend of the
labOring classes, and said that they
had been tainted with being the bare
footed and one gallowsed democracy;
that if election day in November was
4 cold day, it was always counted that
he democrats would not poll full
vote on account of the barefoOted fel-
ows not coming out.
The speaker then made comp trisOn
If Missouri and other states as regards
orOgressiveIess, and showed that Mis-
'ouri had Outstripped a number of
states. He challenged
between Missouri and any
tate in the Union under republican
'ule. He compared the expenditures
# the republican congress of 1884 and
he appropriations of the democratic
congress for 1887, with a gratifying
esult In favor of the democrats.
He spoke at length on the National
Bank system and the greenback circu-
alton and claimed that the people
we're indebted to the democratic party
or the greenback circulation of to-day.
lie showed up in fine style the falIacy
f the high tariff being a protection
the laboring man, and gave an
pit and true illustration. He stated |