The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-04-20
LINES FROM LAMONTE.
Crop PrOspects-The Political
Campaign-NOtes of Cen
eral Interest.

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ence. Gentle spring has at last put
in her welcome appearance in this
section and garden making is the Or
der of the day, while farmers in the
adjacent districts are busy preparing
for corn planting. A careful exami-
nation of the fruit buds here indicate
prospects for heavy crops of apples,
pears, cherries and small frnits, with
probably half crop of peaches. The
wheat prospects are the finest known
for many years. As to business it is
decidedly fat, as is usual when farm
ers are kept at home by work.
The chief topics Of note are politics
and the strike, and there seems to be
a strong tendency to couple the two
together when considering the merits
of candidates. This, of course, proves
decidedly embarrassing to many
of the devoted patriots who
desire to emulate themselves and their
talents upon the country's altar for
the benefit OF the dear people. That
it should be so, however, is inexplica-
bic only upon the well known princi-
pie that office-seeking, like capital,
renders the wisest and best men cow
ards at times. To an unprejudiced
and uninterested spectator, however,
it is very plain to be seen that the at
titude of the candidate for any office
which will be given by the people
next November must in large meas
ure enter into the elements of their
success or defeat, and it is quite as
apparent that almost without excep-
ton the sentiment of the rural districts
is set as flint, both against the strike
and the order of the Knights of Labor
as alike detrimental and disastrous to
the public welfare and general good
order and good government, and the
Law and Order Leagues are looked
upon as the bulwark for the enforce
ment of law and order and sequent
public prosperity. 1t may be un-
wholesome to some to read so plain a
declaration but it is given to all alike
as a naked fact, and if there be those
who do not care to take it as a pointer
let them 90 their own way until the
time comes when they must by its op-
Grafton feel and know that truth is
truth whether believed or disbelieved.
NOTES.
Every LamOnter seems proud OF
the grand record Sedalia is making as
a loyal and law-abiding city and
conservator of equal and exact justice
and freedom to all.
Some of the prominent candi-
dates in this section are on the fence
Just now and don't seem to know on
which side Of the fence the court
house is situated.
One or two of the office seekers
who have honored our town with
visit lately seem to have concluded
the gray horse the better horse though
they were riding the bay on previ-
Gus visit.
quite a number of Sedalians
visit this place daily. They seem to
think it delightful suburb and La
monters hope that many of them will
soon prove their appreciation by erect
ing country homes here.
There seems to be q disposition
among candidates to accuse their an
of being inclined to do that
they themselves were guilty of a
few weeks since. Be careful gentle
men or it may become necessary tor
the law and order element to step in
as the arbiter between the republi-
can wolf and democratic hyena and
walk of with the lions share of the
spoil. This is another pointer.