The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-06-28
WHY YOUNG MEN OF REPUBLICAN
ANTECEDBNTs SHOULD VOTE
THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET
THIS FALL.

and patriotic.
We have given as n reason for so
doing the tact that the ticket is a repre-
sentative one. Let us see whether or
not this is true. Rhetorical assertions
that it is not, and that in some vague
way the phantoms of republican pur.
poses Of thirty years ago should govern
will go for very little.
The country is getting tired of war
issues, and a great many former repub-
licans are becoming weary of a party
which has nothing else to live upon, and
which twenty five years after the wal
Is over has not sense enough to reduce
war taxes, but desires to make them
even higher than they have been.
The democratic county ticket in the
first place is composed OF intelligent
men, who are a part of and representa-
tive of the intelligence aud active, live
energies OF the county, as ~contradistin-
guished from a party which has
practically no existence here apart from
the negro vote. This Is n reason why
young men of republican leanings
should become democrats, when they
would be upon the side of and with the
mass of the educators, the preachers
and teachers, the intelligence of Lafay-
cite county.
The democratic ticket is entitled TO
the respect OF young men who think
for themselves because it is representa-
tive in that it was made by the suffrage
OF the entire party, and not by small
neighborhood cliques In the several
townships. For instance, while there
were nearly four thousand votes cast
In the democratic primary election, il
the future is to be judged by the past.
less than three hundred voters all told,
in the entire county, will have to do
with the selection OF delegates which
will name the republican ticket. Here
tofore there has not been an average
attendance at the republican township
meetings of over 10, which multiplied
by s, only amounts to l20, but say that
they this time redouble their exertions
and get out 800 voters to help them
make their county ticket, then In SO far
as votes are concerned the democratic
ticket will prove to be something like
ten times as representative of its party
as the republican ticket-in other words
a young man who votes with the dem
ocrats in Lafayette county has just ten
times the chance to be represented in
its primary work, which really controls,
as though he voted the republican
ticket.
Young men OF heretofore republican
antecedents, too, should vote the dem-
ocratic ticket this fall because upon the
leading issue of the country the demo.
Gratis are abreast of the progress and in
telligence of the world There is but one
university in the United States to-day
which does not teach free trade, and in
that protectionist beneficiaries had TO
replace at it's head a free trader with a
protectionist for evenu The ~unboughl
and unbuyable intellect OF the nation is
oppcs ed to the policy of exclusion and
and of unnatural barriers against the
interchange of commerce between ma
tions. Young men should not tie them
selves to a superstition of the barbarous
past, when they may step out into the
light OF a fuller and a brighter day.
Young men Of republican antecedents
who live In the west should vote the
democratic ticket because the repubIi-
can party is the creature OF Wall street
upon the financial question, and for the
reason that, no matter what mistakes
or concessions the democratic party
may have made in the past, il is to-day
committed to the policy OF free coinage
of silver and q more abundant currency.
The republican party, led by Mr., Reed,
of Maine, stands Tor a gold standard, a
limited supply ofmoney, and high rates
of interest. The democratic party,
led in by Messrs. Mills
and Bland, stands for the reverse o!
these things. I'm the recent contest in
the house of representatives every dem
~ocratic congressman from Missouri
voted for free silver, and every repub.
lican congressman from Missouri voted
against IT.
The democrats OF Missouri are this
fall going to increase their majorities
everywhere. They will gain in the
legislature aud In congressman. This
will not be because OF the rascally
record of the republican party when il
was in power in Missouri. 1t will not
be because the republican party piled
on Missouri, by straight out robbery
and by Northumberland Of It's best
people, the immense state and county
debts that the democratic party has
since been diligently paying off. 1t will
not be because the scoundrelly Drake
constitution imprisoned Catholic priests
and Protestant ministers tor conscience
sake. II will not be because the repnb-
lican party of Missouri chooses 10 keep
its whisky ring thieves in the fore
ground az leaders. 1t will be none oil
these things. though they constitute a
record black enough to damn forever
any political party. These are old
matters, which il is not even necessary
to recall. The battle nov Is on living
issues-it is being fought on the tariff
lower taxes il lie being waged for the
re Acknowledgement OF silver, more
money with which to do the business
of the country; and II is pitched npor
a higher plane than that set IN the sue
cess of a party by means OF blocks'Oi
five, bought with money tried out o
manufacturing industries, which bride
money wa taken out of the pockets o
a people unwilling to pay it.
There are other good reasons why
Young men of republican surroaaIingI
and leSnings should pause and thini
seriously before they vote the republi
can ticket this fali5 why they should
l pnt aside the p~reiudices of AAs pact ant
vote with the democrats upon the 'fvl
. issues Of to-day; but these will suffice