Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-05-21
AS TO THE PULLING OFF OF
MACKSp

no ~ luE UT OF
Masks"
The real motive of the LEDGER is
through deliberate and persistent
misrepresentation to hold certain
Democrats responsible for party de-
feat should we meet with disaster in
November. 1t would gladly @ Mis-
souri, and the Ninth District go Repub-
lican if the responsibility could only be
placed on those Democrats who are
just now entrusted with party man
agement. Its ambition to pull down
is vastly stronger than its desire to
build up. Success for the Democracy,
coupled with the resultant credit to
those now in charge of the party
affairs, would scarcely cause the LED
GER to GO wild with joy. The loss of
the State ticket and the election of a
"sound money" Republican t Con-
gress in the Ninth District would not
the LEDGER to weep gurgling
tears of grief il it could only have the
placing of the responsibility for party
disaster.
The Inteliigencer does not propose
o will it nave q controversy with
any paper that 30 much rs pretends to
desire Democratic success, but Wa
shall not hesitate to strip the. Snask of
hypocrisy from the faeGa of mischief
X whenever common fairness
demands u The Mexico IntpiIigencer,
Maay ii, 1896.
The management of the Mexico
LEDGER is opposed to personal jour
nalism; it is especially opposed to
any warfare between Democrats.
For years the writer has stood this
kind of abuse; for years the editor OF
this paper has been viilified and mis-
represented by S. b. Cook, of the In
teliigencer.
The above is a fair sample of the
contemplate attacks made to attract
attention from what is really going
on in the Ninth District of Missouri.
The ADORE is Il aoiliful and deliberate
t%dtsehoOd.
The people of Mexico are well post
ed on who threaten to scratch the
Democratic nominee for Congress in
the Ninth Congressional District next
fall. They are all close to Sam Cook.
Let the "mask be torn OIL" Name
them! Let the political "hypocrites'
be shown up!
Mr.. Cook has been highly honored
by the Democratic party, and while
he has been honored by the party has
1t not been dishonOred by him?
He has posed as a political martyr,
giving his time and money to the
party ''for the sake of the party" In
this he has fooled many, perhaps, but
not all the people here at home who
know him 80 well.
Probably the time has come to
"strip the mask" from political hypo-
critics.
The Mexico LEDGER has not inter-
fered with Mr.. Cooks political ambi-
tions. This paper took no part in the
brilliant alleged ace he made fol
Congress. The high honors confer
red upon him by the Democratic party
appear to have made him arrogant,
to say the least. He seems to have
become bigoted, overbearIng and in
tolerant, and proposes to exterminatt
honest, conscientious Democrats
men who do not aspire TO do more
than vote; men who only ask to bt
permitted TO how wood and draw
water.
Perhaps the time has come-in view
of the disastrous results of the elec'
ton of 1894 under Mr.. Cooks man
agement-when the people of the
state should know whether this mar
was doing yeoman service to the
party in the city of st. Louis, where
he pretended to have his headquarter'
and was under salary, or whether hi
was spending his time in revelry ant
secretly encompassing the defeat o
some Democrat whose place he Gov
eted.
SO ''the masks are to be torn OFF,
That being the case, let's clean thu
job up forever and amen, politically
and otherwise. There are politica
~hypocrites and personal hypocrites
All should be stripped naked, es
pecially those who stand on higl
places and ask that this be done.
"Strip off the masks!" Turn Oh
the calcium light! Let the people
Judge!
The LEDGER shrinks from persona
journalism; it is most undesirable ant
not to be INDUCED in except whel
forced upon you. II it is to be thrus
upon us, now is the time.
II MIR. Cook is prepared for the con
sequences let him proceed TO execute
his threats.
When IL to "pnlling OF
masks" the LEDGER, in this instance
at least, is right "in it,"