Mexico weekly ledger., 1888-04-26
The Man of the Hour.


Despite the malicious mud sling
ing and Misrepresentation of the
most corrupt elements in politics,
the movement in favor of David r.
Francis for Governor of Missouri,
grows in strength from day to day.
His fitness for the highest Office
in the State is demonstrated by the
character of the opposition. He is
opposed by all the boodlers, the
political crooks, and the constitu-
tional soreheads, who recognize
that the old order of things is pass
ing away. The candidacy of a
young man, man with qualifca-
tions for affairs, means that the
professional politician is played out
1t means the government of the
State is to be managed with view
to increasing it's wealth and in
f1uence and population rather than
with view to supporting at public
expense an army of superannnated
schemers, and business imbeciles,
who, if tagged away from the pub.
lie pap, would die of inanition
1t means that the tax payers, the
makers of the State and city wealth
are to have representation in the
execution of laws which are opera.
tive mainly through their endeav.
ors. It indicates that the State
will no longer be governed by the
creatures of political plots against
public policy, conceived in the
slums and pothouses. 1t means
the beginning of an era of decency
in politics and the death of the pc.
litical element known as the "un.
washed"
Mr.. Francis is opposed by O'Day
whose Doodle has blocked all leg
islation tending to relieve the peo
pie of the tyranny of railroads by
the State Committeeman, who SCI
in his growing popularity the down
fall of their profits from the regu
lation assessments, and the down
fall of their oligarchy by Glover
whose political career has been /;
continual wrangle and snarl; by th'
lobbyists, whose schemes of pub
lie plunder he has frustrated; b,
the ineapables, into whose hands
he would not trust the administra
tion of great city's affairs
Every clique or clan of plotters anc
schemers that has stunk in tn,
nostrils of decent men, rises up t.
denounce Francis, and in doing 81
endear him more strongly to all tn
lgood, honorable people ofthe State
| 1t may be said of d. R. Francis
as was so strikingly said o
Cleveland, "we love him for tht
enemies he has made"
I He has not only given the city
a good administration, he has boom
ed it as it never was doomed before
ION every occasion when the State
should have been represented By
its highest officers the young Mayo
of St.Louis had to take the post
and always acquitted himself with
credit to the people. He pressed
forward when the political freaks
and fossils fell back, and demon
strated himself a leader where
others had been mere figure heads
He is the kind of a man Missouri
has waited for so long; the mar
who applies to the management Of
| public affairs the same rules hi
Iapplies in private business. III
represents action as opposed tt
torpor, progress as opposed tt
tpermane9cy, capability as opposed
to imbecility in affairs, and decency
as opposed to all that is dark
disreputable and disgusting il
politics.
/ Francis is the man Missoar
wants for Governor, and Missoar
I will have him unless the eyi
principle is stronger than the good
I S. 2. Emmons will have an a,ic
ton sale of Shorthorn bulls a
Montgomery Saturday, May 12.
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