Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-10-18

CDDItfSeu tHe1r SulIt, anu are now In the
hands of the court. That was all That Is
the sum total OF disorderiy conduct at st. Louis.
was no military force there, nor scarcely
q deputy marshal The onlv sctive force en-
ployed was the metropolitan police. Several
leading railroad officials have written me com
plimentipg the efficiency of the st Louis police.
For an example / venture to give an extract
from a letter Of W. B Doddridge, General Man
ager of the Missouri Pacific. Speaking of the
tsThe police department of this city have re-
sponded and are doing everything In their power
to preserve the peace No department could be
more prompt and eff cient than our police depart
So much for st Louis. On July 10 the Kan
sas City chief of police, in making a report to
siDaring the strike this department had no
trouble In maintaining order We had no occa-
sion to arrest anyone connected In any way with
The CHIEF of police of St. Joseph reported a
similar gratifying state of affairs in that city.
% July 20 1 received a letter from s E. GRANGE,
general superintendent of the great Burlington
system, in which he said:
1--WE have experienced no trouble at st.
Joseph. We have aiways found The chief of
police very efficient in giving us assistance in all
cssss where necessity required it,"
record Outside these cities there were but
three points in the state at which there was any
disturbance of sufficient consequence to attract
field and Thayer. At Moberiy we had our
first and most serious trouble. But even
thsre' almost without 1ioting, without
the presence Of soldiers, without a
swarm of marshals, in four or five days order
trains of every kind wer operated over the
ertire line without Interrupt ion The civil
authority of the State proved ahundantiy COM
ton. And the same civil power was equally
effective at the other points of disturbance, al
though somewhat more embarrassed by the
unnecessary Interference of Federal maIshals.
A prominent official of the II nsas City and
Memphis railway. writing me from Springfield,
here are.gratih-d and proud of the position taken
by the State authorities to promptly suppress
disorder aud protect the rights of property and
the business of this city"
But, whilst / can not and ought not to refrain
from giving public credit to the efficiency of the
local police and constabulary, l am proud to
testify that the greatest credit after all is due to
the people themselves. The railroad men of
Miissouri. like the miners of Missouri, are a
we look back and consider the ciGcamstsnces,
the excitement, ,he pressure upon them, the
ORDERLY manner In which 95 per cent OF the rail-
road employees of the State d-ported themselves
is worthy of the highest commentator. Mis-
souri, is best in many things. but above ali she
is blest in the high character and superior
strong In the hearts of Missourians Any class
that would prove itself uDfaithfui to the State
wonld fall under the ban of deep and universal
dis pleasu q Our safety is anchor. d to the solid
rock of a high and intelligent natriotism
During the last twenty-five years the pro-
SreSs OF the state has been marvellous. We
have escaped, what Others invited, a ficti-
tious growth, a mushroom development.
We have gone steadily forward, building on
a solid foundation, until today grand old
Missouri towers In almost unrivaled strength
among the greatest and most majestic of
commonwealth. Paint the picture of Re-
publican misrule and hang 1t there. Paint
the picture of Democratic administration
and hang it here. Hook upon that and
then upon this. Contrast the two. Why
should this state be taken from Democratic
control and delivered again into Republican
hands? call upon Missouri Democrats to
bllnltn on fhAtTs RIM NJ nnh taln mn tho
sword. Let us rally once again and still
niger advance the peerless standard OF the
sfafe I ae, me tracy ns Mis Samoc Is nne t tno the
front and makei it in all things the model for
the Nation.
GET TOGETHER.
Democrats nave been divided. Upon some
important questions they have not been
harmonious. in one sense, this is to be re-
GREETED; in another 1t is a cause for con-
graduation. 1t shows that the old indie
pendent spirit of the ancient Democracy Is
still ascendant. The Democratic party has
never been one of trucking subserviency. I
to be Democrats. Hove bold men who speak
without apology and act without permission.
BY free discussion: by nd .s,Is nd ns6 con n
the line of truth. Be true to the party.
Speak the truth. but 10 not forget that the
There are questions we are to settle among
ourselves-party questions to be settled
within the party. But the most urgent and
pressing duty now resting upon US Is to
sweep the common enemy out of the way.
Let US first thrash the Radicals again. Let
us summon all the clans to battle, and when
bring our differences to a proper ADJUST
ment.
THE WESTERN MAN.
For years 1 have opposed the dominance
of Eastern influences in the Democratic
at jefferson City in the House of Represent
tatfves, announcing my candidacy for the
governOrship, l declared my hostility to the
domination OF an Eastern man at the then
approaching Chicago convention. In April,
1898, in a speech l had the honor to deliver
before the New York Board of Trade, 1
Western ideas and a Western man. At all
times and seasons l have been engaged In
country to the other. 1 am rejoiced to see
that the sentiment is growing in strength
and that many able men are coming TO its
support. i am not hostile to the Eastern
states. Far from 1t. want them prosper
GUS. happy and great. But ! cannot ignore
the fact, and to that fact l do object, that
those states nave been long prospering at
our expense. The EASTERN states are more
inclined than the Western to sacrifice patrf-
otto interests to commercial considerations
For years the fiscal and economic affairs of
the Government have been directed from
that quarter. a hoped that the grasping
spirit of Eastern sectfonalism would diSap-
pear upOn the accession of the Democracy to
power. 1 regret that 1t did not. On the
contrary it has been permitted to fntrude
itself with too much authority on our Demo-
cratic councils, and to exert a potent and
hurtful influence on our party policies. But
in 1885 we Will assert our supremacy and
nominate a Western man on a Western plat
form. He must be "a stalwart, genuine rep
resentatfve of Western manhood and Ideas;
not merely a makeShift. He must be West
ern in sentiment, not simply in residence.
There are western men. VINO are wholly
acceptable to Wall street That is not the kind
| want Iwant a Western candidate nomi-
mated by Western men, not by the brokers
| of New York or the society dudes of Boston.
Hereafter We should take our affairs in our
own hands. The Democratic party is all
right. We may be betrayed and outraged
by this man or that. but the party Is all
right. This is not a time for Democrats to
shirk or sulk. 1t is in the hour of danger
that a mans metal is tried. towards only
desert when the tide of battle is at its height.
Whatever may be charged against us, the
truth remains that the Democratic party is
our only hope. The true principles of De-
| mocracy are forever right. The people must