The Butler weekly times., 1892-07-27
The Missouri Campaign .


There is no civil war sectiola'ism in
it. 1t stands for the alert, progress
sive element which is pushing Mis-
souri, steadily forward; which IS en-
larging its business, doing its heavy
work, increasing its prosperity IN
every possible way. I, IS a ticket
that stands for the largest possible
liberty; the least possible intermed
ding by government with the pri
vate affairs Of the p>opie.
The republican, ticket stands Tor
return to the methods of depotism
which prevailed when William War
ner secured his first office in Mis-
souri,: when Count Roinan 'over
| came the indecent Bourbon maJorl-
! t." by burning the ballots cast
d suinst Warner and declared hl.n
elected by the returning board plan
| 1t is as al advocate OF this plan;
as an advocate of the to.ce bill with
Is returning boards and its ''bayo
net behind every ballot that Vii
liam Warner reappears III Missouri
politics After the knowuOtLing
minority report he made on the
question of admitting New Mexico
to the Union he ceased to represent
the Kansas City district in congress
only to reappear now, when the
force bill is an issue, as its leading
advocate in Missouri. For this he
is the right man in the right lace
While he has declared white demo
Gratis III New Mexico unfit for citi
zenship i'll a state Of the Union Oh
the ground that as Catholics the,
bow to the cross, pray for their dy
ing and a,e guilty Of other like ''su
perstitious practices he has done
all he could to force the social equal
ity of the negro in the grand arm,
of the republic, and has been instru
mental in forcing Union soldiers res
idents of the south either to dis
band their posts of the G. \ II, o!
to accept tie companionship Of lie
groes for their wives aud daughter.
at then open camp fires and th'
gatherings Of their wonans rcllet
corps This may be a matter o
conscience with him We DO no
impugn his motives, nor DO we wisl
to deny to the negroes OF Missouri
Or other state their full equal
ity before the law, but We know tha
such conditions as the radicals wisi
to bring about are not expedieut 10
white people OF for negroes III Mis-
SOurI OF elsewhere.
Accepting an office and drawing
salary on u title consisting of tn,
ashes Of burned ballots nay hav
been Il matter Of conscience Will
him also. Once more we repea
that it is with his record, not Wit
his motives, that the people Of Mis-
souri, are now concerned And OF
this record he is fitting lieutenan
for Benjamin Harrison in fore
bill campaign for returning boarc
and bayonet control Of politics. TIL
men who nominated him were Rcac
tionists. radicals and narrow section
alists, extremists III everything, act
ing on the rule that the end the
! wish to attain justiies the mean
used III attaining It.
This little handful Of fossil radi
Gals, with Warner at their head. wis
to stop the clocks of No and tur
their hands back 20 years to the tim
when they did not care how til
voting was done so lo1g as the
could do the returning; when an al
verse majority, no matter how grea'
could be disposed OF by putting tn
ballots in the stove presided over b
Count Rodman. the associate an
patron of William Warner, the ma
i who first introduced William War
l ner to Missouri politics By the fore
bill ard fair elections device of n
/. turning the adverse majority int
4 the fire.
When the head Of the radical ticl
f ct stands for Rodman's stove in th
S past and for Harrison's force bill
: the present, no Missourias who
in favor of liberty and progress wi
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