Mexico weekly ledger., 1888-08-30

IN III a resident of Rails
MNA N county. He now
@NAlEM lives at the town
@S Sof Saverton, on
INN 1.-The Mississippi,
M MI where he owns
Dick Dalton. and operates a
fine fruit farm. Mr.. Dalton is
very popular and deservedly so.
He has twice been a candidate for
Congressional honors. He was
elected committeeman over Sam
Cook, of this city.
A Pretentlous Editor.
To the Editor of the Ledger.
MEXICO, Mo-, Aug. 27.-The
"editor of the InteHigencer," as he
seems very much pleased to style
himself, is very much wrought and
rent up over his recent defeat forCen
trail Committeeman, and is exceed
ingly contemDtuous at the idea of
any of the 'little circle of political
managers of this town"having done
any thing to compass the aforesaid
editors defeat. The main trouble
with the editor and would-be boss
is that he does not fill as much
space as he imagines he does. His
defeat required very little effort and
very little was spent in hat direc-
ton. The ~"'little circle" took no
more interest in it than merely
that ordinarily put forth by those
who desire harmony and success IN
the party, and the complete rout
of a jobbery boss. They are will
ing to accord to the editor all the
credit that is due to his wonderful
energies displayed in announcing
himself as a candidate for the
place, and in securing the solid
vote of his own county, which was
given him upon that original theory
of his, that it makes no difference
about the character of the candi-
date, he should always have the
support of his own county delega-
ton. The editor and would-be
boss boasts that he carries the vote
of Audrain county in his pocket
not the pistol pocket-and to be
able in any emergency to manipu-
late the politics of the county in
any given direction. "a While this
may possibly be not true, yet it
does not follow, it so, that
the "little circle" should dance at
the crack of his whip, Or that his
arrogant presumption should
be petted by giving this editor a
position of honor and trust in the
management of the party.
The Democratic party of Mis-
souri,, is a grand and a great party,
and when this editor has fully
realized that fact, andthat it honors
only men ofworth andhonesty-not
n1ncompoops and men whose only
claim to acuteness is chicanery and
trickery-he then will doubtless
find out why he is doomed to sit at
the feet of his superiors.
!, Occasionally the Democratic
! party makes a mistake in choosing
it's servants, but never when a ''lit-
:, tie circle" which has only the sue
cess of the party at heart, get a
, chance to wing such a dirty bird as
! few up on this occrsion.
A committee should have been
chosen, as was done, which would
be in full accord with the head OF
the ticket, and about which there
Turks no suspicion of treason to its
: success.
The great editor and would-be
. boss aspirations to the place were
, the rankest of cheek and gall, in
view of his extreme hatred to
many of the successful candidates
who were placed upon the ticket.
a Seeking as he did to be the guard.
i ian of the success of men against
whom nothing was too false to say
or write, presents a spectacle Of
cheek and unlimited gall not sur.
& passed by the ass which took up
the chorus after the nightingale.
Not in accord with a single senti'
ment of the nominating sperit that
gave the Democracy a set of the
=. grandest men that ever was pre-
sented for its suffrage ; yet asking
to control the destinies of these
4 men. Presumption rank! Yes:
rank, in that, this "editor of the
, Intelligencer'' thought he could at.
o tain a position of honor and trus'
o in such a respectable body.
The editor pirates about his sup
port of E. c. Kennen for electol
as being in contrast with the con-
duct of the"little CIRCLE" who, he
claims, put Kennen forward. The
fact is, and the pretentious would
be boss knows it, as well as h
knows he told a falsehood wher
!, he said that these same men fol
= lowed up Clay and tried to knit
him after he carried this county tina
. Kennen was not a candidate fol
elector and was voted for by thu
Audrain delegation without hi
knowledge or consent. His defea
for elector has an exceedingl,
etropro Ior of hovinr haop hro,1oh