The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1890-06-05
Democratic Politicians and
the Farmers.

-EpIToR ENTERPRISE: Did 1t ever
occur to your mind how wondrously
kind the average democratic politi'
clan, from congressman down to the
editor Of a country paper becomes
towards the dear people and particu-
larly the farmers at the eve Of every
election? Did you ever notice the
remarkable zeal and the great solicit
tudc of these patriotic (?) dema-
gogues for the welfare aud interests
of the laborer and agriculturist? How
sweet they are on the farmers. How
they cspouse the cause of the op-
pressed and downtrodden agricultural
and laboring class when an election
is but a few months distant. But the
dear people and especially the farm
ers must be told and warned by these
disinterested and unselfsh (?) poll
ticians and editors Of the fearful
condition they arc in and the utter
ruin that stares them in the face.
Prcjudiccs must be stirred up and
appealed 10 by the fellows who are
candidates for reelection, promises
must be made by these democratic
patriots to the farmer and the labor
er lust before the election to be for.
gotten as soon as the polls have
| closed. Year after year the good
people will listen to the political SER
mons Of these great democratic re-
formers and when their conventions
meet they will instruct their delegates
for the same nan who but two years
before has made the people some
solemn pledges and has shamclcssly
broken them. And is it not so!
What in the name Of common sense
has the Hon. Richard p. Bland, con.
gresham from this, the Eleventh
district of Missouri, ever done fol
the interest of the laborer and agri
culturist of this district? What bill
OF measure has their champion Of Tho
great silver kings Of the west ever in
troduced in congress for the dlrec
relief and bettermcnt of the farmer
and Iaborer of this district? Nothing
positively nothing, and yet the demo
cratic laborer and farmer in thu
Eleventh congressional district vii
go as q delegate to his county con
vention and instruct the delegates tt
the congressional convention to vot'
for Dick Bland first, last and al
the time, to give this great patric'
and statesman another chance to leg
islate for the silver kings and stant
up in congress along side of Dockcry
to misrcprcsent his own state ant
district before the representatives O.
the American people. Such were TIT
scenes enacted in the house of repre-
scntativcs but two weeks ego. Blu
the honor, prosperity and greatncs
OF the State of Missouri which Blanc
and Dockcry sought vainly to de
tract, was ~valiantly vindicated by TIL
Hon. Nathan Frank, a republical
congressman from Missouri. 1t wi
not do for Dick Bland or any othe
man to stand up in congress and tel
us that a terrible mortgage del
is over q number of counties in thi
district. 1 am in a position to kno'
' Mr.. Editor, aud have it from an en-
ploye of the office Of the secretary Q
state that, for instance, according
the report of the recorder of decd
of your county the average mortgag
indebtedness of Usage county durin
the last seven or eight years does nc
exceed in any one year the sum {
S $50, / am also informed by tb
: same official that other counties j
2 this district make q similar shown
t in regard to their mortgage deb
Z. The correct figures named woul
I have been furnished Mr.. Bland ha
he applied for them to Secretar
Lessueur. AS 1t is lie has made
consummate ass of himself and III
wilfully misreprcsentcd the condilio
c of affairs in his own district and c,
= posed his great ignorance. 1t
, plainly to be ecn that these nois
I Missouri statesmen, Bland, Decker,
Heard and IIatcE-waose polite,
: fences are ominously shaking, mu,
i ventllate their great cloquence, mui
] be extrem 'ly sweet on the farmer an
= laborer, whose terrible condition an
fearful su 'ferings exist only in u
minds Of these great democratic den
{ agogues who want to be returned
congress or step into the gubernI