The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-01-18

OF silver are IDIOTS. wen,
do settle 1t.
Then we are refreshlngly assured
that Vest is to be succeeded by a repub-
lican on March 3, 1897, on the hypoth-
esis that the republican legislature
which is to do the job is already
elected. o, wise criticl o, sweet
voiced Jacki haven't you INDUCED in
what might be deemed a premature
brayP Wouldn't your chief do well to
send you a different brand of hay upon
which to feed your massive intellect
Would it not be as well to wait awhile
and see what Missouri has to say upon
this important matterP
Next, our poor, unfortunate senators
are berated for misrepresenting their
constituents, for not knowing their
views, or knowing them, wilfully set
ting them at defiance, and for having
engineered the expressions of the last
party convention. Singular Men who
do not knew their party's wishes, or
who set them at defiance, and yet who
control its ~councilsi Wisdom must be
a great and glorious thing when it
inspires the sap in writer's head to
the evolution of thoughts so big as this
with portentl
Upon the heels of this bit of urban
brain work comes a most witty sally.
To two gentlemen, his friends and
n~eighbors, Senator Cockrcll is said to
have given some of his dinners of
spareribs and turnips." Let us all
Taught This is SO funny-.'spareribs
and turnipsi" And why notP Many
a better man than he who gibes has
been glad of the turnips, not to speak
of the spareribs. But what business
of this slanderous and lying squibbler
was it upon what Francis Marion Cock
rell fed his guestsP What right has
the NANCY cur to invade the sanctity
of a gentleman,s homer And Francis
Marion Cockrell is a gentleman, as
must be every soldier who led as Cock
rell did, and every true man who lives
as CockPell lives. Spareribs and tur-
nips! And why notP Hospitality fit
to he dispensed by kings and accepted
by heroes has been offered upon less.
Has it come to this, that American
Representatives are to be measured by
their wealth. that terrapin and can
v~asslacks are TO be the test of states
manshipP And yet, forsooth, il the
truth were told, it is pennies to dough-
nuts that the servants in Frank Cock
relrs kitchen are better fed than has
been for much of his life the mongrel
thai has attacked him. He is a Mis-
sourian, remember, and Missourians
are neither used to starving, nor of
starving any who may come within
their portals.
But, worse of all, not content with
minor malice, this mendaclous puryeyor
concludes the work of his Chinese
slink-pot by i%nsinuations that Don
Cameron sis not sitting around with
Vest for nothing" and that he knows
something mysterious about Frank
Cockrell's house IN Washington City.
Since when has Mr.. Dana come to be
an assassin of character, a printer of
defamations? Is it reputable journal
ism thus TO attack honest men because
of a difference of opinion upon a public
question: These two senators are the
honored and trusted public a of
the fifth state in the American Union.
They stand So high that none have
cared, for years, 10 contest their high
office, and none will soon care to do so.
nNeither CockrelI nor Vest Is lis
tened TO in the senate" Stupendous
and marvellous lie! Only the other
day Vest electrified that body and the
country by a speech which was the
admiration OF friend and foe. No
keener blade is drawn in forensic con-
test than the one welded by George
Graham Vest. and e~oncededly no mans
of facts is more needed in
the senate than is that of r. NJ, Cock
rell. Careful, painstaking. honest, .
truthful, with a neyer-failing memory, !
he is an encyclopedia of statesmanly I
Few states have in their J
senator's two such stars a Vest and :
CockreIl. Until New York ceases to
be so far out-elassed in she senate as il :
has long been by Missouri. it bebooves
its sealawsg writer's of political fairy !
tales 10 be more modest, to lie low and :
to sing small. I