Mexico weekly ledger., 1888-10-25
TWO MEN


TWO MEN PICTURED.
On the 9th day of next month
the voters OF this State will decide
whether Francis or kimball shall
for The next four years occupy the
Gubernatorial chair, the most i'm
portant office within the gift of the
people of Missouri. The office is i'm
portant because the man occupy
ing the place Is known all over the
sisterhood OF States and stands up
above all as the representative of
the people who have placed the
charge of their affairs in his hands.
Hence we should have an able, hon
est and 4 truly representative man,
for that man will fix the standard
by which the whole people of the
State and the State itself are judg-
ed. We need, as all officials should
be i'll the Chief Executives chair, Il
man of brains and honesty, because
the duties to be performed are of
the greatest importance. We want
a man who has the energy and
acumen to ascertain his duty, and
the nerve to fearlessly and without
favor or affection to do it. A man
should be known to possess all
these qualities before he is entrust-
ed with so important Il charge.
On the one hand Mr.. Kimball Is un-
tried and unknown, and until Boss
Filley decreed that he should be
the standard bearer of the Repub-
lican party, his acquaintance was
limited to his own county. His
abilities as u lawyer, though of
past middle age, have given him no
distinction among the felloH-mem-
bers of his profession. There is
no p~retense, even among Republi-
cans, but he came from and is DOM
mated by the worst element of his
own party. On the other hand is
Mr.. Francis, who, by his own en-
ergies, has arisen from a poor, PEN
niless boy to the foremost rank in
business circles and has achieved
a wonderful success in his own
private affairs. During his strug-
giles with fortune he has won and
maintained the respect and perfect
confidence of the business element
of the great Metropolis of the West.
To achieve those things it takes
ability, energy and honesty. As
Mayor of that great city-St. Louis
his career has been phenomenal;
in that capacity he has not only
~benefcially, ably and conscientl-
ously managed the affairs entrusted
to him, but has the respect, conf
dence and the affection of that great
people. No Executive of a great
city or State was ever so popular
as Mayor Francis is to-day with
the people of St. Louis. This
proves that to his other qualities
he is possessed of the acumen to
see the right, and of the nerve to
do it. He is an exampler of the
civil maxim that ga public Office is
a public trust" Notwithstanding
that other men possessing the re-
quisite qualities for Chief Execu-
tive, sought the place of standard
bearer of the Democratic party, the
people of that party, having full
faith and confidence in him, arose
and almost as one man, proposed
to the people of Missouri that he
should be entrusted with the exc
cution of their laws for the four
| years to come. How will the voters
of Missouri treat that proposition
on the 9th of November? Be you
Republican or Democrat, laying
aside all prejudice and feeling, and
after looking through the pure,
clear glass of reason at the two
men, .can you but say with your
ballots on that day that you will
trust your State affairs to the
man agement of David R. Francis