The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-08-29
COWHERD THE WINNER.
Nominated for Congress on the
First Ballot.
LAFAYETTE LOYAL 70 YOUNG,
But Jackson County Was United
on her Bryan" and Lafay-
ette Made it Unanimous.

The man whom | shall present is n
man whose honesty is hey yuEd all que :
ton, whose integrity is beyond cavi'
who Is known and recognized as brin 4,
for free silver-the democratic pillow =
boy of Prairie township-Wiliam
Strother Cowherd. -
When the Third district was called
Major WoOdson, who had been Mr..
Cowhcrd's strongest rival in the Kansas
| CITY primaries, arose and took the
| platform. Every one ut once realized
what he was going to do, and he was
heartily applauded. In a well-worded
speech he withdrew his name from the
consideration OF the convention, and
seconded the nomination of Mr.. Cow
herd. Frank Walsh, one of the most
brilliant young orators in Missouri,
also seconded the nomination of Mr..
Cowherd, and one of the delegates
who was for Finis G.. Farr announced
that Mr.. Farr's name would not go
before the convention. The name of
Judge Young, of Lafayette county, was
placed before the convention by Hon.
John G. Worthington. The mention
of Judge Young's name was greeted
with hearty applause. TIE nomination
was seconded by ii. j. Groves, of Lea
ington, in one of the best of all the
good speeches which were made during
the day. He caught the crowd aud
kept it cheering constantly, and there
were many words of praise for his
effort, after he had finished. He said
of Judge Young, in conclusion: "He
is the foe of plutocracy and the friend
of democracy. He is able, and if NOM
mated and elected will come back to
you noble representative. 1t is time
that Jackson county, which always
gives us the convention and takes the
candidate, was taking the convention
and giving us the candidate.''
The first ballot resulted rs follows:
Cowherd, 75; Young 90; John N
Southern, 2. Young received the solid
! nineteen votes of Lafayette county and
three votes from the First legis-
| lativc district of Jackson county.
Southern got his two votes from the
same district. The city voted solid for
Cowherd. AS soon as the vote was
announced, M. V. l.. McClelland,
chairman of the Lafayette county dele
cation, moved to make tie vote unan-
imous, and the motion was carried
| amid loud cheers and cries for Cow
/ herd. NJ. V. l. McClelland, +. p.
Walsh, John G. Worthington and j.
j. Fulkerson were appointed to escort
Mr.. Cowherd to the stage.
THE NEXT CONGREssMAN's SPEECH.
Mr.. Cowherd received great ova-
ton when he stepped upon the stage.
1t was such u greeting that could never
have come TO any man unless he is per-
sonally very popular. He said
"Mr Chairman and Gentlemen of
the Convention: | can find no fitting
words in which to return to you my
thanks when | consider the distin-
guished democrats whose names have
been mentioned IN connection with this
nomination. / am doubly grateful for
the honor you have done me; graft
tude speaks the language of the heart,
not of the tongue. If a desire to serve
you intelligently, and determination
to serve you loyalty can speak for me,
l hope to show my gratitude by some
thing better than empty words. /
frankly confess have long cherished
the honorable ambition of representing
this district IN the halls of congress.
If successful in this campaign, l shall
ask no better epitaph than that my
enemies may say | servedyou honestly;
my friends, | served you well. L am
not unmindful of the Importance of the
obligations assume with this nomina-
ton, nor needless of the weight of
responsibility that will follow If we
succeed. l shun neither obligation nor
responsibility. | thank you for reiter
ating in your platform here today your
loyalty to the one dominant issue in
this campaign, the free and unlimited
coinage of silver ut l6 to l, indepen-
dent of the concurrence of any other
nation on earth. 1t is folly to say that
$1,000, 200 free men, inhabiting the
most fertile land beneath the sun, en-
bracing in its agricultural! products the
fruits of both the temperate and torrid
zones; its mountain ranges stored with
precious metals and it's valleys full of
coal, to say that such people are not
strong enough to make financial
policy of their own is to say that they
are both fools and towards. BY the
lamp of history we know weaker
nations have maintained both metals ut
a parity, and we have no fear of our
ability to do the same.
ssIf we coined all silver bullion pro-
duced last year from the worlds mines
it would increase our money about
S1.56 per head, about one-third as
much as it has been decreased since
1898. So, when they threaten us with
the silver of the world, tell them we
welcome it, We shall trade them the
Af hn far or fan
bullion, coin it into dollars and send
them singing into the pockets of the
farmer and labOrer, carrying with them
new era of prosperity and plenty.
Wen meet the dishonest cry of an
honest dollar with the absolute proof
of a dishonest dollar. When they cry
for the protection of the rich, We'll de-
mand equal protection to the poor.
When they talk about repudition and
the rights of the creditor, we quote
them the prophetic words of the i'm
mortal Blaine, and ask why they have
doubled the burden on the back of the
debtor. But while we talk of money,
let us not forget that money talks.
We must meet in this campaign the
organized and aggressive wealth of two
hemispheres. This is to be battle
royal and to the death. Money will b.
master of men, or men must master
the forces of money.
ga dollar growing IN value and a
nation growing in strength never yet
flourished on the same soil. The only
man satisfied with the existing stand
ard, to which the republican party
stands pledged, is the man who Is rich
in dollars, and dearer than they ever
were before. The man who is rich in
property as well as he whose capital is
stout heart and willing hands de-
mands that there be sufficient blood in
the veins of commerce tn 1t it shall not
only beat at the heart but tingle at the
finger tips.
"Already the enemy has abandoned
the hope of the farmers vote AMI is