The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-05-09

They did not know what kind Of
stuff a Delaware boy who could enlist
at fifteen years of age, serve four
years. read law and be admitted to the
bar all inside of six years. was made
Of. He laughed at their threats of
starving him out and told them if he
could not practice law he could saw
wood. To prove it he bought a cord
of wood a~buck-saw. and went to work.
In Il day he had hat cord of wood
sawed and piled up in his Office. That
ended the starving ont business. and
Is. b. CahoOn. by his manly, courag-
eous course as Il lawyer and i poll
t%ician. has won the good will OF the
people OF Southeast Missouri. The
Republicans are urging his nomi-
nation for governor at the next Re
publican Stale Convention"
Humonity loves courage and despises
cowardice. Informed recently that to
defeat his nomination for governor
adverse parties, 20 poison the minds
OF Republicans against HIM. were
secretly circulating the report that he
was a Catholic. Comrade Cahoon in
an open letter written by him April
IL, 1896 to DR.. ). y. Bates, did not
stop by simply saying he was not :.
Catholic. and did not expect to be one.
but like the brave and consistent Re
publican and lover of liberty ne is,
went further and also said that a man
of his patriotic descent and his own
action as a Union soldier had no need
to proclaim his Amcricanism on street
corners: and hat he whose sole early
education was in the public common
schools: who was a teacher in them
and ever since their devotee, did not.
IN d TO prove he was their friend
have to carry a placard on his breast
Inscribed. Il am Il public school
man." He further in that letter said:
My Acknowledgements without say
ing, and must be tested not by lip SER
vice: but by my past service to our
country and to its glorious public
schools.
l am ready. if need be. to fight for
both. as | certainly will against all
foreign or priestly. be it Catholic Or
Protestant, Interference with our poll
tics. because We do not propose to
tolerate for an instant the slightest
direct or Indirect union of church and
in this country. Yet, formyself.
| will ever fight my political battles
and above board, and not as a
member of any secret political society
Or party.
In my Judgment the Republican
which IA certainly be depend
upon ut all times to protect the
country and its public schools, and to
guarantee freedom and justice to all
so completely covers by its sub
lime creed al that is good in Ameri-
politics and thought. that there is
actually no excuse, especially just
now, for the existence of any other
political party, be it public or secret.
say, in all seriousness, that the Re-
publican party itself embraces. in my
Judgment, all that is worthy of con-
servatiOn in our public or political
life, and it may, in the future. as in
The past, safely be depended upon to
guard all our public institutions and
Jur national interests. and be equal
10 all III public needs.
Besides these views. | wish while de-
| am opposed 10 foreign con-
labor to emphatically say that
stand where Washington and Lin
;oln stood, ready to take by the hand
my worthy foreigner who. in good
comes permanently to live with
and become an American citizen. |
would join his political and personal
.Ortunes with us. and neither reward
.ng or Furnishing "a mar on account of
his religion Or on account of his lack
Of it, | favor, in short. the largest po-
.itical and religious liberation con-
with the broadcast American
.sm. | intend ever so to stand. come
personal failure or success would
so stand then be the occupant
Df the executive mansion of Missouri.
Not so to stand is. in my Judgment,
ignore the bcs' of the fundamental
principles for which II fathers died.
To abandon for temporary Office or
success the principles of political as
;imilatiOn and recognition of people
Of foreign birth who come TO share
our political blessing and of religious
~oleration is to my mind Il desertion
IF what | esteem IS the best in true
as well in true i;epubli-
| for one, will never abandon
Sooner than do it. / say per
sh honor, fame, glory, riches: perish
life itself"
Time will prove Comrade Cahoon =
light. If the principles of ths Isepub-
lean party do not cover ali oar
rational needs, it will cease - exist.
t covers them all-embraces every