Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1892-10-20

} canvass has been a miserable failur
and a disappointment to all hi
friends. 1t has been one of abus,
and villification of a Commonwealth
over which he pretends to expect t,
4 preside as Chief Executive. Go,
forbid. He has driven more me,
from him than he has drawn to hin
by his outrageous methods. III,
has made assaults upon our party
leaders that were absolutely false
he has slandered our citizens gener
ally and he has insulted the farm
ing element by calling them moss
backs, and picturing them as hid
eous mosters, sitting on fences pick
ling their teeth with their knives
and squirting tobacco juice at grass.
thoppers. How many men are there
in Missouri (it matters not whether
they We're born here or elsewherel
who approve Of these attacks upor
them and their country2
''This is our home; our interests
are here, the States success is oul
success, our interests are identical,
we love old Missouri, the home OF
our fathers, with all its hallowed
memories; we have always stood
up for her, and we propose to stand
up for her now and forever, and we
denounce Mr.. Warner as traitor and
slanderer. We propose to protect our
State from the assaults of MIR. War
ner and the mouthpiece he takes
around with him, one Webster
Davis, who has disgraced himself
on several occasions by telling the
world how ashamed he is of Mis-
souri,.
"Warner is running for Governor
on tract. He has instructions
from Washington City and tips from
Wall street. Let's see. 1t was
$65, 900 of Doodle they were to re-
ceive if they could convince these
fool fellows East that they had a
show of 'redeeming Missouri. And
then they say "a son of a Jew be-
trayed them
"In the event of Harrison's sue
cess it has been arranged for War
ner to fall into something equally as
good as the Governorship. Web
ster Davis, his travelling chamber
maid, will also be taken care Of, he
hopes.
"This gentleman, SO roughly
treated, is no less than Hon. Isaac
Isaaes, ex-secretary of the State
League of Republican Clubs and
a prominent Hebrew business man
at Kansas City.
THE TREASURY ALL RIGHT.
"Major Warner, Major Murphy
and others are trying to leave the
false impression everywhere they
60 that there is something fearfully
rotten in the Treasury Department.
They don't say what it is. 1t is
true we did have little accident in
the Treasury Department few
years ago, but you all know acci-
dents will happen in the best regulat-
ed families. Every dollar that was
lost by the unfortunate holland has
been paid back with interest into
the treasury and my receipts in full
have been given for it. The State
has not lost the fractional part of a
1 cent by that defalcation. Mr..
holland now wears stripes behind
the prison bars.
GAS Treasurer of the State of
Missouri, l will say if the Republi-
cans haven't any confidence in the
examinations made of the Treasury
Department at one time by Hon.
G. J. Parsons and at another time
by Hon. J. M. Weeks, the one a
prominent banker and Republican
politician of st. Louis, the other a
prominent Republican of Jasper
county and the Republican candl-
date for Auditor of the Treasury
Department, l would be glad for
any of them to come to Jefferson
City, take a peep into the treasury
count the cash and look at the
books. If they will do so, l will
risk what reputation / may have ol
being an honest and truthful mar
that they viii find no snakes in the
pot they will find the cash intact and
straight; they will find the books all
balanced; and they will find wher
they intimate that Auditor Seibert
was in any manner responsible fol
the holland shortage that they have
slandered one of our noblest anC
purest men.
"Now, fellow citizens, l have
given to you in as plain language al
l have at command the reasons why
I am Democrat and why / thinl
you should be a Democrat. | thinl
none the less of any who may diff
fer with me. honestly think tn,
situation alarming, and calls fol
every effort we can put forward {.
avert those dangers which threater
our peace and prosperity. Your re
sponsibility at this time is appalling
| l firmly believe if every Democra
will do his duty, if all would joir
hands in love and hope and pres
| the battle on, our victory will b
sure. If there are any factional diff