The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-01-25
THE DEMOCRACY OF MISSOURI.
No Republican VIII occupy sh'
seat OF senator Vest.
FAYErTE, HOWARD Co., Mo-.
Iannonu IN lAln

OF the next Legislature and succeed Sen
ator Vest with republican. Is there.
IN iact, any serious danger of this, or is
II sedative thrown by the republican
organization to the hungry. horde of dis
appointed Office seekers whose failure
of recognition by the present admins.
traiion threaten the disintegration of
their party IN Missouri? Let facts and
hgures speak
NO" In determining the political
complexion OF people by the votes
they cast, ! take it'to be a fair method
oil computation to base our calculations
on the head OF each ticket, for It's this
mead that represents the principles, or
platform, OF each party, aud whilst
democrat or republican might for vsrI-
ohs reasons voie against his local party
nomiDt tor some offices. vet for presi.
ueht every democrat of the faith voted
,1r Cleveland and every republican for
Harrison.
In 1884 Cleveland carried Is counties
IN Missouri and Blaine Al. Clevelsn,.
also carried the city Of ST. Louis by 81
malori'y over Blaine (Lesueur's Man
usI, p. %. In 1858 Cleveland carried
the same number of counties he did IN
1854, losing in 1883 the counties OF
Cape Girardeau, Pettis. Holt, Carroll
and Crawford that he carried 10 1884
ana carrying the counties of Barry
Davies, Linn, Livingston and WoriE
that he lost in 1854, while Harrison
carried the same number as BIaine-4l
and also carried ST. Louis by 1856.
VI the aforesaid counties carried by
Cleveland. only six were carried bI
less than 70 majority over Harrison
Barry, Cedar, Clark, Worth, st. Clalf
and LiviDgston-whiIst OF the counties
carried BY Harrison over Cleveland
seven were carried by less than rs ma
jority-Carroll, Crawford, DeKslb,
Moniteau, Nodawsy, Pettis aud Snlli.
van. SO lar as any comfort can be
derived from close counties the odds
are with the democracy. The IS cOun.
lies carried by Cleveland are entitled
to % members OF the legislature, each
one, except Buchanan which has 4, all
democrats; jackson, 4, 2 democrats
and republicans; johnson, 2, / each,
democrat and republican, and Saline,
2, both democrats. Now any man con.
versant with Missouri politics knows
that these Is counties will, almost to q
mathematical certainty, send n demo.
Gratis 10 the Legislature, which with one
each from the counties Of Pettis, Nod
away and Greene, would give the
democrats TO q certainty 10 members
OF The house OF clear majority OF ~
o, er all opposition, with fair prospec,
OF carrying the seven close republican
counties, sGd the other two districts In
jackson county snd almost certain 10 re
deem the eastern district OF johnson
county, which was carried by Kelley (rt-
pubIicsD) by only nine plurality.
1 make no attempt TO figure on the
city Of st. Louis. A wise man OH. Q
said, there are three things that surpss.
the understanding of msn. Yea; four
that know not of. The flight of All
eagle In the air, the course of vessel
ut sea, the way Of a serpent on q rock
| and The way Of man with a maid
and had ho lived IN these times | au.
sure would have added, and how the
people of large city would vote.
In the senate 9 democrats, q repubh-
cans aud l united labor, representing
the l6 odd numbered districts hold
over, with vacancy in the twenty.
fifth, occasioned by the death of Sena.
| tor Allen. There are IL senators to
| elect from the even numbered districts
aud the vacancy in the twenty fifth Ia
| be Sled. Of these districts the follow
ing may be counted certain tor the
democrats, Cleveland having carried
| each of them by from 1000 to 5000
except the fourteenth or Jeffe rson City
district, which he carried by over 600,
to.wit: Second, sixth, eighth, tenth.
twelfth, fourteenth. sixteenth, twenty.
second, twenty fourth, twenty.sixih III
and twenty eighth. This would give
the democrats tor certain 20 members
OF the senate, or q clear majority ol
six over all opposition; the repubica ne
can count with certainty on the TWEEN
tieth and twenty-fifth districts, which
with their hold-overs would give them
members; the fourth and eighteenth
may be considered doubtful, Harrison
having carried the eighteenth by only
1923 majority over Cleveland aud the
fourth by 432. ! max. no calculations
| upon the St Louis districts. These
figures show the utter iruitlessne.s OF
the claim OF the republicans that they
have ghost OF a chance to unseat Vest
eha oPton w 'ut UIttITeu
words OF good cheer. AL that 10 neces
sarv is to stand by your guns.
Now few words In answer 10 the
boast of the leading republicans OF
Missouri and voiced by every journal
that they control, "thal the democracy
is losing ground IN the state" Agsin
to the figures. In 1884 Cleveland's g
majority over Blaine in the state oi
Missouri outside the city of st. Louis,
was 81. .4S2 In 1888 C.eveland's majority
over Harrison outside the city OF ST,
Louis was 81 ,946. a clear gain IN the
state outside the city of st. Louis OF
2 2.462. I guess W. K. p, who wrote
IN the GlObe-Democrat Of the 4th, ,"that
the young men Of the state and farmers
were tired OF Bourbon rale and were
breaking away from the old party y
had never noticed these figures.
commend them TO him. In this con.
nection II would not be Inappropriate IL
call attention TO the above figures o.
a powerful refutation Of the charges @,
incompeteDcy that have been 90 recE.
lessly made against our democratic
state committee by uninformed parties
The Globe Democrat of the 9Th IN
an editorial on the communication oi
wv. K. p" says: "ln few of the
northern commonwealths between ls7C
and the present time has the growth IN
manufacturing Industries been so grea,
as 1t has been in this state" Yes, and
he might have added agricultural and
mining industries. When does he date
the commencement Of the prosI Gritty o,
Missouri? In 1870. Yea, verify, 1870.
This was the year of Missouri's redemp.
ton by the democracy, and since lhx,
time her march has been onward aud
upward. The republicans had DOS
session Ct the state for fifteen years
alter the war, and yet iu 1870 she cast
but 10000 more votes than in 1860,
they turned her over to the Democracy
millions upon millions of dollars Il,
debt, her credit impaired, her indus.
tries bushed. and nearly every county
in the state saddled with heavy bonded
Indebtedness; but the mere fact tha,
the democrats once more had control
of the state seemed TO iniuse new life
into her people. They went to worL
with renewed energy. The grand old
state through her agricultural, minera
and manufacturing resources. re.
spondcd readily to the touch of the
husbandman, the miner and mechanic
Immigration and capital, following In
the wake of thrift and enterprise, pu,
In their appearance, and the radical
Missouri OF 1870, with I,OU0 900 OF
population, without credit and no ef-
tort at development, has now grown
into democratic Missouri OF 1890 with
5,25O.oOO people, with credit as good az
the government itself, with as fine AZ