The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-04-11
BARKIS' BUDGET.
He Feels Ashamed of St. Louis
and Puts His Oar Into the
Election.
Sizes Up Republican Greed
and Tells the Story Of
Mule and a Slug.
ST, LOUIS, NO., April, 9TH.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, April. 9TH.
EDITOR BAzOO.-I have lived in
st. Louis, boy and man, for fifty
years and / have only felt ashamed
OF it twice during that time.
The first time was when away back
IN the SOS. / don't recOllect the date
and don't want TO, Washington King
was elected Mayor on the knOw-nOth-
ing ticket and the second time was
last Tuesday when a ticket of carpet
baggers and chronic office seekers
carried the day in contest with men
infinitely their superior in every way.
Mark me. Nj. Editor and readers
of the BAZOO am not astOnished or
overwhelmed at the result of Tues
days election. | anticipated it. Twas
the inevitable outcome of misman-
agement on the part OF the men
who assumed to control the
canvas and a consequent indifference
Of the democratic masses. 1t is as
serted unanimously by republican
leaders and seems to be believed
throughout the state, that st. Louis is
republican stronghold.
There was never a greater mistake
made. st. Louis is democratic, but
when the leaders OF the democratic
party in the city fail to carry out the
principles of their party and neglect
to stand by the people who stood by
them. naught but disorganization and
indifference can result.
| hope last Tuesdays contest may
awaken the honest people of st. Louis
to a proper sense of their duty as
American citizens. For four years to
come, st. Louis, the metropolitan city
of Missouri, will be dominated BY a
pitiful and contemplate clique, which,
if it could. would bring back the
old DracOnian code. which cost
the honest voters of st. Louis so much
to down. am sorry that the severe
lesson, much needed as it was, comes
Just at this time, when St. Louis most
needs a strong and able municipal
government, but, l guess We can stand
it, we will have to try to anyhow.
THEIR USUAL GREED.
l notice that the republicans, with
the greed characteristic Of spoilsmen.
propose to contest the cleo ion of Joe
Brown, the only man saved from the
wreck by the demosrats. Brown was
elected over Fishback. the Globe DEM
ocrut nominee for city auditor and was
the only democrat on the municipal
ticket who escaped the cyclone.
Captain Joseph Brown is a man of
national reputation, against whom
not word can be said. Fishback
was editor of the old Missouri Demo-
crat, the predecessor of the Globe Dean
oerat, a newspaper whose motto is,
make money, no matter how, but
make it somehow"
GRI.LE's MURDERER.
The event of the week in criminal
matters was the awful murder of Fred
Grille, a veteran soldier, in a room of
a down town tenement house. The
details of the crime remind one of the
stories Of the strangers of Paris.
Grill was decoyed to the room where
he was garroted by two men. The
seems to have been cody
planned and deliberately executed.
The murderers have made their es-
cape. but the police are after them
and profess to have clues and evidence
that cannot. fail.
MYSTERIOUS DEATH.
Another mystery, that is pulling
the police authorities, Is the sudden
and apparently unaccountable death
of Mrs. Maus, the wife Of a Cas-
avenue jeweler, who, with nearly his
whole stock in trade, disappeared on
the day of his wifeis death. The
coroner Is trying to find Why Mrs.