Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-11-23
MlSSOURPS WEIGHT.
Her Representatives In Congress will
Take Prominent Part In the
Coming Debate.
From the St. Louis Republic

VI Impressive ueUdtoS upon tu0 ulOs
important questions of government
1t is fact that not one of thes
main questions can be debated with
out prominent part being take
by Missouri man.
Missouri has a member of tn
Ways and Means Committee MI
Tarsney will necessarily be one @
Chairman Wilson's lieutenants OIL
the floor. No leading question o
appropriations can be settled withou
a word from Mr.. Dockery. Mr.. HUI
is new member, but he has alread,
been welcomed by the Democratic
chiefs and will be assigned to impor
tant service in the tariff and othe
debates. Mr.. Bland is in charge
of coinage measures, and in all cur.
rency discussions is the recognized
leader of the Western side. Champ
Clark in one style of oratory and
Judge De Almond in another have
achieved regulations which will give
them large audiences whenever they
speak. Heard, Arnold, Morgan,
Fyan and Burnes have great inhu-
ence among their fellow Congress
men. Hatch never rises withou
leaving deep mark on the debate.
In the Senate our two Missouri
men are as powerful as any other two
members of that body. Except Sena-
tor Mills nobody in either house has
a record in tariff debate that COM
pares with the brilliant display OF
Senator Vest in 1888, when he was
called upon suddenly to assume the
leadership vacated by Senator Beck.
Senator Cockrell's extent of informa-
ton and vigorous statement make
him a force in every movement
which tests the strength of parties.
All this is familiar to Missouri
people. The point of it at this time
is that in the constructive measures
of the Democracy in its first con-
structive opportunity since the war
Missouri representatives are essen
tial to the development of party
strength at every stage. Whether
proposition originates with the
President, with one of the depart
ments or with a committee, all the
Democratic members fromNewYork,
Pennsylvania and New England
could be better spared than those
frofa Missouri.
In the silver debate the admins
tratiou and the Missouri Democratic
delegation we're at variance. Mr..
Cobb alone supported the admins
tration policy all through. The
special session is over. Its work
was done when the Sherman act
was repealed. The Democratic
party cannot afford either disagree
ment or lukewarmness which has
no reference to the living present.
The fiscal policy of the party is to
be enunciated, defended before the
people and enacted into statutes.
Foreign questions of unusual gravity
are to be passed upon. The acts
of the executive in pension expendi-
lures will be bitterly attacked and
must be vigorously sustained. The
responsibilities of the party in pow
er are very heavy. 1t takes not
only a routine harmony OF votes,
but harmony of enthusiasm on
the Democratic side to successfully
repel the opposition and to Getain
for the party the supremacy won
after so many years of heroic
struggle.
1t does not behoove either the ad.
ministration or our Missouri men to
bear too many memories of the sill,
yer debate into the regular session.
The administration will be wrong il
it undertakes a punitive syste M o.
dispensing patronage to the disad-
vantage of Missouri members. The
Democracy is not anxious to dea
with any Garfield Conkling dis
sensions at the opening of the gen
eral engage ment with an enemy
which will miss no chances of attack
Patronage is not the only thing
about which the administration ano
it's particular friends should b
careful The West and South l2av'
their views of what Democratic
measures should be. Mr.. Cle've
lands leadership is cheerfully &C
quiesced in; we voted for him wit
, that understanding. On the oth,s
hand, he can hardly expect the Ell
iistment of Southern and Western
enthusiasm unless the measures
conform to the Southern and West
ern interpretations of the platform
Borrowing trouble is not pleasing
occupation, but it does more goot
to point out easily avoided source
of mistake than to moralize owe
! mistakes after they are made.
A Queer Cooing Place.
A graveyard is not very cheer
ial place for courtship, yet ther
seems to be a good deal of billin