The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-08-25
MISSOURl'S
What Some of the Most Brilliant
Missouri Editors Think of Them.

What Some of the Most Brilliant
Missouri Editors Think of Them.
BE SLOW To CONDEMN.
Columbia Herald :-'Missouri demo-
Gratis should be slow to condemn Sena-
tors Vest and Cockrell. Their long and
faithful service entities them to better
treatment than summary judgment
without an understanding of the facts.
During their twenty years of service
they have never tlinched in their fidelity
to their constituents. Not a stain or
a suspicion attaches TO their career.
They have stood constantly and bravely
for the people at all times, and with
opportunities unlimited to have ell
riched themselves, even legitimately,
they are both poor men to-day"
EARNEST AND PERSISTENT.
Richmond Democrat :-''SenatOr Vest
Is an earnest INT persistent tariff re-
former and TO his zeal may be attributed
the senate bill accepted by the house. 1t
was the purpose of German, Smith and
other senators to prevent a reduction of
the tariff, and keep the Odious Mckinley
bill Saddled on the people. This program
was modified by Vest and Jones after
much hard work, and they deserve great
credit instead of abuse"
VEST AND HIS STRAWBERRIES.
Kansas City Times :-''Senator Vest
OF this state has just reason for pro-
%nOunciRg anathemas against the press,
when q public journal in the city in
which he lives and stands respected per-
verts what he says and abuses him for
utterances that are its own inventions.
No skulking assassin has ever committed
q more d%astardly crime against society
than the Star of this city did last evening
OF this state in congress.
.Ihat paper says: MIR. Vest gives his
solemn assurance That he was ready to
sign any report tne house conferences
would prepare, although he knew 1t
would DE immediately rejected by the
Senate. Inc obvious purpose IN pub
lshlng that Misrepresentation was to
create IN the public mind the Impression
that MI: Vest was tr~eacherous to his
tarliI reform PROFESSIONS, ana was Will
ny " 'no ineaSI M u'iueI CoiiSIu.
Senator Vest repeatedly admOpished the
house cOnferrees of the danger that
lurked i'm DELAY. and bore with marvellous
patience the dily-dallyinp of the house
cOnferrees. even while the effect of IL
was purpOSely or otherwise to put i'm
putatiOns on the senator and his col
leagues,
Senator Vest has been from the
beginning of the tariff controversy, now
happily ended, a most faithful, able,
consistent and persistent advocate of
tariff reform. When the complications
over the matter had become so involved
that there was scarcely a raw of hone.
Senator Jones and himself took upon
themselves the herculean task of recon-
CLING the differences. While thew were
thus employed, with adrOit enemies in
front, they were attacked from the rear
by q lot of neWspaper guerillas whose
barbarous methods shamed the faces of
all decent newspaper workers, but they
persisted until the work was finished.
But the liars, slanderers and libellers.
the miserable creatures who live upon
the garbage and filth of public life, are
still inSatiate in their appetite for SLAM
der, and the senator of Missouri must
suffer on"
uAsTy CONCLUSIONS
BOOnvllle Advertiser Isn't IT about
time for somebody to raise his voice
against thos elf-cOnstltuted and self
Important critics VINO rush into PRINT
such nasty CONCLUSIONS! isn't IL about
time Tor some n 70 q halt, In q
spirit OF fairness 10 MI. vest, and ask
tnat senator DC II cOhdemhed until
all tne 1actS nave Deen learned ana
welghedT Mr. vest has behind him a
record for consistency, SteadfastneSS,
honesty OF purpose, fidelity 10 principle
and ability IN craftsmanship, as a public
servant, That should stand AS a OF
strength, "a Duttressed wall, IN the path.
way OF those VINO would assaii ms good
name. And ms many iends IN Mis-
snOuld stand Ill Solo phalanx De-
nlnd that record, nhtil they know--n
tney ever Go.that ne mas Detrayed ms
party anu i~isiePresehIeu MS coIstit9-
ehts. ISL tnat iaiti ISL ~ iignIs Is
IL moi u simple JuStice 10 MI: est,
axna~t from the nannia he sarvasa W
:If Missouri democrats know any,
thing at all. they know that Senator
Vest did not assist i'm the killing of tLe
Wilson bill in the upper house. He rs a
radical tariff refOrmer. ALWAYS has been
and ALWAYS will he. M he cOuld to-dav
piye the merican people a better reform
measure than even the unamended VIII
son bill. we doubt not that he would do
it. In this respect his tariff sentiments
are dramatically opposed to those of
S.oin.ai' L.iNo otu o.aI"' ~ o'C
enemies Of tariff reform. In the recent
mighty struggle over silver coinage, MIR.
Vest championed the cause Of the people,
while MIR. German led the gOld-bug
forces of the senate chamber. In a word,
George q. Vest would see the redemp-
ton Of every pledge and every promise
made by the democratic party in the
Chicago convention. Many of his con-
~stituents may not understand his present
attitude toward the greatest political
question of the hour, but neither do they
understand the complex details of the
issue now before the senate, and, there
fore, are incompetent to sit in judgment