Fair play., 1892-09-10


New York or Virginia, Ohio or Ken
lucky. is not regarded as an interloper,
nor is he branded as a carpet-bagger.
How dare Maj. Warner address such
language as that to Missourians in tins
hearing of all the world? How dare h.
assert by direction or indirection, by
open statement or covert inference,
that any honest man coming to Mis-
souri, from any state in this Union TO
seek home Will be regarded or treat
ed as an interloper or carpet-bagger,
or win be in anywise ostracised. mis-
used or Disseminated against? What
warrant has he for caiumny so base
as that? In what county or city or
hamlet in Missouri is that sort of thing
done or permitted? Is it here in ST.
Louis? Is it in Jackson? Is it in Bu-
chanan? | want to know where II Is.
OF course there is no such place any
where in this broad state. OF course
you know. as does Maj Warner. that in
no land under the sun is there a braver,
more hospitablc. kindly. moral. intelli-
gent or enterprising people than those
who inha bit the sunny slopes and
fecund plains of this great state
The vast population of the state,
composed of enormous contributions
from every section of the Union and
from almost every country in Eu-
rope, and no honest man can
say he is ever Disseminated
against in this day and genera
tion because of his nativity, his politics
or his religion. Maj. Warner knows
this as well, full as well. as you or |;
and yet to subservc partisan ends and
to advance his vaulting ambition he
levels his reckless, monstrous and ma
lignant invectives against the state and
the people of Missouri. His speech is
replete with bitter. rasping gibes and
denunciationS like that | have quoted
and farpitched and stained compari-
sons made to the discredit of the state
He struggles with all his might to put
the black mark of shame across the
fair white brow of this queenly com.
monwealth, under whose uplifted and
protecting arm he has prospered for
wears, and whose generous hand has
showered undeserved honors on his
head. OF Illinois. Iowa and Kansas he
speaks in terms of elegant praise. Oh
these he paints picture--attractive,
beautiful, suberb. On the foreground
hands linked and luscious lips
parted, are liberty, happiness,
progress-a charming trinity-dancing
and singing in the sunlight. He paints
a picture Of Missouri likewise-dark
forbidding, repulsive. In the fore
ground, snllen and somber, are pro-
scription, discomfort, sloth-a hateful
trinity-crouching and scowling in the
shadow. These pictures he hangs upon
the outer wall, and standing there
calls the world to witness. To one he
points with proud, exultant smile; to
the other with a sneer rupon his lip
Mr. Chairman, these things are not
true. They are base libels. they are
atrocious calumnies But if they were
true what part has Maj. Warner ant
his associates contributed to produce
such a result? Who has been creep
ing like asSaSSins on the track of the
state? Who has given wing to coarse
and brutal accusations against The
people and their institutions? WhC
has denounced the people of the STATE
as bigoted and proscriptive. inhospita
BILE and fossilizeti? Who has denounced
the state by all manner of contemptu
ous epithetS? Who has denounced il
as the robber state, and it's government
as being in league with bandits? Wht
has labored in season and out. at hom'
and abroad, to put upon it the brand
of shame and of reproach?
THE SANE OLD GANG.
And now, sir. after having thus de
bauched the state, having sacked its
treasury. having prescribed its citizens
having disfranchised its taxpayers, hav
ing stolen its offices from the people
having imprisoned its women. its priests
and preachers. having put every oh
struction possible in the way of it
progress, that same old crew CONF
| careering over the hills again under th
| leadership of Maj. Warner, Col. Val
| Horn and the balance of the old gang
| CRYING Justify: Down with democracy
| Give us a New Missouri
Mr.. Chairman, | read a sad story ono
| of Il beautiful matron upon whom
| fiend had set his lustful eye. From hi
approaches and love-making she flee
with loathing and disgust. In reveng
| he began t. perSecute, following on
| woe fast upon the heels of another. IL
kidnapped her child and hid it away
| He dispoiled her of her possessions ant
| reduced her to want. He put lie
abroad on black wings and with whis
! pering lips to scandalize and dishono
| her. At last she turned to him and
lifting her hands walled out, as did On
| in the olden time: ''Why persecutes
Thou me? What wouldst Thou hav
me do?'' Surrender thyself to my EN-
brace: give thy beauty and thy charm
to nv rude lust" he said. 'Do this an
will put thy child in thine arms again
/ will restore thy possessions to thee:
will go forth and absolve thee from a
polluting shame, and swear thou art a
| pure and chaste as anything in Heaven
But your defilement must be the pric
of Your redemption"
| Mr.. Chairman, in like manner thi
old radical party, which has done al
these hateful things have enumerate
against the state. and many more be
sides. comes now to MS. not repentan
and apologetic, but with insolent an
menacing mien, and says: I'VE wi
cease our war of defamation agains
the state; we will retract the slandel
Gus stories we have circulated; we wi
cooperate with you henceforth in you
| efforts to bear the state onward an
upward in the march to progress. Blu
if You would have us DO these thing
YOU must abase yourselves before IL:
| YOUR lluNJ SUI
our hands and restore 20 us absolut
power and dominion iE the state"
there a Missouri democrat living to-da
ready to do that thing? If so, then h
is unworty to be freeman. He
made of that vile stuff from whic
contented slaves do come, or of ths
metallic stuff which puts some ne
hope of dividend above self-respect, an
makes commerce of liberty.
Mr. Chairman, thank God that Mi
souri, Is not dependent upon these pc
pie for her prosperity OF her good nam
Her star of progress has gone steadil
mounting along its shining pathway
spite of the baying and the snarling I
the animals Her proud escutcheon
too high-lifted to be reached blythe d
filing touch of these defamers. II.
reputation is like Caesars wife-abo,
suspicion
Let us turn now to the brighter pas
in Missouri's history. and behold no
plain a tale will put these slandere
down.
UNFAIR COMP MPARIsoNs.
In his Sedalia speech. by juggliI
with figures and talking about p.
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