The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-02-06

SJdtt nave lIt W. wv o'' iou |
and |, or any other man can call a |
convention if we want to, but whom |
will we represent? Whom do these
fellows that have signed this call
represent? Everybody knows. Why |
don't they take in the self aggregationP
Where is Ollie Teele and the pretty |
typewritersp Where are the ANAL |
gamated citizens, the perfect reform |
ers, the Municipal League or whatever
thev call the movements that these
same men get up every October in
New York City for the purpose of
defeating the democratic candidates? ?
There is no necessity of my saying
ANYTHING about them. They have
been at this business ever since 1888.
| see here in the list of names those of
men who called mass-meeting on
the same plan as this in 1888 for the
purpose of preventing Governor Hills
nomination by the democratic party.
The party went ahead and paid no
attention to them and elected Governor
Hill without them. | see here the
names of men who have done what
is the meanest thing in poltics-men
who went into state convention in
1883, as democrats, stayed until the
end, and then during the campaign
all they could by active work and
financial contributions, to defeat the
nominee of that convention. If there
is anything low down in politics think
that is the furthest down.
"These same men 1olted in 1890
| and r,naHn alliannn xuith tho
republicans. That was the Ollie
Teele's year. l did not say how
many of them did so, but many of
them did so. Some of them had secret
alliances last year. Some of them
were out against Governor Flower.
They have never been democrats.
That is the only fault have to find
with their call. They say they want
to get together those in sympathy
with the democratic party. These
people have never been in sympathy
with the democratic party. They talk
about the true sentiment of the party
throughout the state. What do they
know about the sentiment of that
partyP They have never worked with
the democrats, but against them, and
they have never met the masses of the
democracy and knew nothing of their
feelings. Their alliances have been
mostly with the republicans. Those
of them who are democrats are only
conditional democrats anyhow"
Lynchburg tVa.) News.
1t Is an easy matter to stand be-
tween n double row of frilled shirt
fronts and preach to the democratic
party about .Jacksonian courage, but
it is a better example for n man to
stand at the head OF the line where
the battle is fastest and most furious.
David B. Hill is not q dress-parade
democrat. His panoply is nor swal-
low-tail coat with boutonniere. He
is a Jaeksonian democrat, indeed, who
fights for his party in season and out
of season with persistency that is
constant and courage that has never
been matched. When the force bill
was threatened, and they were silent
whose folly made the crime possible,
Hill aroused the country like fire
bell at night by his ringing denuncia-
tions. When the fight ragged hottest
IN the fall of 1890 he was everywhere
in the enemy's front, while not q
whisper was heard from the lips that
are swiftest now to dictate the plan OF
battle for 1892. In the spring of last
year, when the citadel of democracy
was assailed in New York, and other
distinguished men were conspicuous
in the fight by being on the wrong
side of it, Hill was still on deck; and
he has but just triumphantly emerged
from one of the fiercest and most
memorable struggles ever witnessed in
this country, in which his devotion and
courage achieved for him and his party
the most brilliant victory that has been
won over the republican forces in the
history of empire state politics. When
these events were taking place was
the time to display "Jacksonian cour-
age" because they were events that
tried mems souls and tested their nm
selfish loyalty to the democratic party
and fidelity to the principles that AM
. mate that party.
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