The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1896-09-10
COOPER cousrr,s FINANCES.

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| our work u failure: hut. nevertheless, our WORK
| was q great success, and now Cooper county
has not q dollar of straight debt, while hel
| township debts, bearing only hye per cent
| have been almost osliterated ard our taxes
are lower than in any other county In central
| Missouri.
| Had this disturber, this grave-digger. his
| way, you would have, fellow-citfzens, to-day Q
debt upon you of at least million dollars,
| bearing eight and ten per cent compound in
| terest. and your land would not be worth ten
| dollars per acre.
am holding among the Nayada Bold and
| Investment Co.'S securities 10000 in cash; the
company has tried to make me surrender the
| $4,000, and because 1 did not think proper to
| do soi sundry efforts have been put forth to
| make me do so bt 5iaekmaii; the case was
| tried before Judge Valiant, and won. In his
I OPINION he said .hat my actions In this ma stef
| could not be successfully attacked from legal
| business or moral standpoint. The case was
| appealed, and is now in the supreme court
| propose to frotect the bondholders, who scat
| tered GIL over state. and will hold every
| dollar in my possession until the courts order
me to give it up. In trying to do my duty in
| this case, God oaly knows the abuse 1 have
had to stand.
1 learn also that my administration of the
Fifth national bank trust Goes not meet with
the approval of Mr. Lewis personal ST. Louis
organ, just at this time In looking over the
list OF stockholders and depositors Of the bank.
do not see that any of them interested,
be consideredi but my work US receiver OF the
Fifth national bank has been indorsed by
Comptrollers Trenholm, Abrahams and Lacey,
the comptroIer's office counselofs. the depos-
itors and stockholders committees in the city
Of st. Louis, the st. Louis press, without a
single exception; also of ex-Gov. Francis, Col
G. H. Jones, Hen. Nathan Frank, Col. j. b. Nc
Cullagh, Hon. Carl Daenzsr and hundreds Of
others qualified to speak.
When the bank was turned over to me bf
Examiner Foreman-and let us state here,
N ade no fight for the receivership-he said:
Lon, God have mercy on you, it's the worst
mixed up affair ever saw: il you get ANYTHING
at all out CT it you will surprise me-" He did
not. when seriously speaking. think 1 could
realize over 331a per cent. out of the wreck; in
two months paid the depositors so per cent.
on their claims and in very short time paid
them 95 per cent.
In the great excitement attending my taking
hold OF this work, it is strange to me that did
not offend many, but as far as know made
an enemy OF but one Gepositor, and 1 accom-
plshed this by simply trying to help him: he
had claim OF 5000 against the bank; he had
lost in the failure OF the old Butchers and
Drovers and was almost mad When he
learned OF the collapse he drove to the home Of
the late Mayor OverstoZ, president OF the
bank, rang his bell and shot his home full of
holes. l knew he was desperate ami almost
crazy, and l took special interest in him, all
the time keeping my ''cye on the gun" He
wanted to sell at 25 then at 81, then at 40, then
at so, but prevented. 1 went to Boonville to
spend the Christmas holidays. While here
ne wired me wrote he
offered about sixty, and told him to wait
until 1 returned before selling. When I
reached St Louis he had sold his claim. He
was the happiest man in st. Louis when saw
him; l never met him. but lie wanted to take
something with me, but when I reached
point beyond 60 per cent. his ardor cooled
and he turned against me; many of my
friends told me to be armed and ready to pro-
Hnn.,v ni,,ct y afn,,x
my Drother-in law. bought indirectly his
claim, and intinlates we divided the profits.
Well, Nelson never bought his claim; he never
bought any claims against the bank. don't
want to be held responsible for anything Nell
son does; he is old enough to take care of nim-
self; he is as Independent as a hog on ice. and
il any man has anything he wants to say to
him, he can always be found doing business at
the old stand: don't come to me with Nelson's
business. have as much Of my own as can
attend to. As to my record as receiver Of the
Fifth national bank 1 willing to stand or
fall upon that. Enough OF the personal for the
present.
THE NATIONAL PLATFORM.
The democrats national convention as-
semblcd have given Us platform upon which
every democrat, upon which every friend OF
humanity can stand. platform which S Us
what it means, and which means what it says;
a platform in which there is not the slightest
semblancc of compromise or straddle upon
any of the important issues OF the moment.
They have given us in the boy orator of the
Platte and the shipbuilder of Maine standard
bearers who are platforms within themselves.
Democrats who have spent many years of
theii lives IN fighting the battles for the
masses as against the classes, and for the
storation of our fathers money to the position
it occupied Ia the monetary system of our
country before it was struck down ut midnight
by a conspiracy that was both foul and damn
able silver was struck down with the dagger
OF an assassin-are asked by the republican
party to indorse standard OF crime.
The fruits of this crime have been summed
up as follows: 1t has given the homesteads OF
thousands of toilers to the creditor; one-third
of our railway mileage is in the hands OF re-
ceivers; 1t has given idleness to four millions
of would-be toilers in shop and field; it has
given creative capital no scope for use, and
little or no returns for risks assumed; il has
given the silver miners ruin: it has given
nalSedncSS, hunger and cold to millions OF men.
women and helplt SIS children; it has produced
a sea OF tears, and volumes of groans and
prayers for succor; it he's blghted hope and
blasted aspirations in q million homes; it has
produced mobS and riots and the calling forth
of armed forces of the nation to check and con-
troll; it has produced over two hundred mil
lions more OF government bonds, which are so
many financial fetters to shaclsle the feet OF
industry; it has filed 1000 graves with de-
spairlng suicides: it has robbed the farmer Of
hope. it has darkened his once happy
home, and filled his and his fanly's
hearts with fear and anxiety for the fu-
ture; how any man with heart, who loves
humanity, and who loves his country, can look
upon this sad picture OF woe and misery with
out a feeling of indignation arising in his
throat against those responsible for it, withou:
determining anew to do all in his power in the
great fight for financial freedom from England's
and Wall streets greed and avarice, and for
the restoration OF the peoples rights, is a mys-
terry to me; the settlement OF this question can
no be safely much longer delayed.
MY friends, what confidence can you have in
the candidate for public favor who will at
tempt in the mannerfSm and dialect OF the
clown, to tell you, in your anxiety and distress,
that you are the most prosperous and happy
people ON earth, that you should let well
enough alone. etc.
Is he not your most dangerous foo:
Is he not dangerous leader?
MI, Lewis, in his Chillicothe speech, says:
1.-The people will not take silver" Have any
of you fellow-citizens ever refused to take any
of it? Who won't take it? He says it won't
cost any express to get Carlisle to ship you
some; but. great Cod the express is not q
consideration; 1t is not drop in the bucket
II we could only get 1t we would pay the ex-
press willingly and great deal more Every
cent in our country of silver Is in use, and do
ing the work for which God Almighty and the
constitution designed it, Mr.. Lewis to the con-
trary notwithstanding, and there is room and
demand for more.
Mr.. Lewis says, with almost cruel heartless-
ness; ''send in your paper money and get sill
yer. You don't need it. help yourselves, etc.