Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1897-11-25
The Chairman of the State Democratic
| Central Committee.


Central COMMITTEES.
| From the Marshall mo J Progress.
Strong in the conviction of the rec
titude OF our purpose, and profoundl,
penetrated by a sense of the necessit,
that something should be done, tn,
editor of the Progress ventured th,
mediation Of e-maker between
editor Cook, the Chairman of tn,
State Democratic Central Committee
and his rival editor, MIR. White, of tn,
Mexico LEDGER. We regret that tn,
Chairman Of the State committee doel
not accept our interposition in thu
spirit in which it was offered. Anf
that our purpose In the matter wal
good, and that we entertained no un.
kind feeling toward Col. Cook, is fully
attested by the private letter which
we had previously written Edito,
White, who, in vindication of us
against the charges of Col. Cook
makes it public.
Dol. Cook seems to be in a perfect
ebulition of passion, which has proba.
bly, betrayed him into the unseemly
predicament he now sustains toward
us. He seems to have pre-supposed
that we, too, were his enemy and bent
on defeating him in his aspirations to
become governor, and that, therefore,
he would get rid of us too by the exer-
else OF his autocrat authority and put
US, too, beyond the pale Of Democratic
communion, where we could inter-
pose no practical harm to him In his
scramble for the nomination for Gov
ernor. 1t ID this that we object to in
Editor Cook. He seems to be more
interested in Cook as candidate than
he is in hdrmonizing and combining the
strength Of Missouri Democracy. Being
himself a candidate he ought to resign
his position as q member Of the commit
tee. The committee fixes the rules and
regulations for conducting the primar-
les and the nominating convention
and it will be unjust to the other gen.
tlemen who aspire to the chief place
on the state ticket that Col. Cook
should have any such advantage over
them-an advantage which might
tempt him or any other man who
possessed 1t, to commit wrong-doing
that would corrupt the party. 1t
requires no analytical power of per-
ception to understand that candi-
date for a state Office should not be a
member of the State Committee-that
the two positions are inconsistent.
We don't know upon what grounds
the Chairman of the State Com
mittee impeaches the Democracy of
the Progress. He fails to make any
specification. II he would turn it out
of the pale of Democratic communion
let him see to 1t whether he, or it,
gets out first.
The Progress was Democratic jour
nal at time when there was no other
outspoken newspaper opposition to
Gov. Thomas @. Fletcher, outside of
the city of st. Louis, and for its bold
ness was mobbed by misguided men,
who, at that time, felt it q patriotic
duty to hunt down Democrats as
they would beasts of prey. Through the
long years which the Progress has
been published under its present
management, it has cheerfully sub
mitted to the decisions of every Nat
ional Convention in the PRONUNCIATION
of party tenets. We can't under
stand how the Chairman of the State
Committee feels justified in issuing
his edict, placing the Progress beyond
the pale of Democratic communion,
unless he is infatuated with the falla-
cious idea that no Democrat Is loyal
and worthy of communion withDemo-
Gratis who is also not in sympathy with
Col. Cooks aspiration to be governor.
Our knowledge of party organization
and party management run a good
many years back in the political his
tory of our commonwealth and most
all the embarrassments and perplex-
ing difficulties to threaten Democratic
unity and Democratic success have
been occasioned by the designs of the
party's selfish Office seekers, of whom,
we strongly fear, Col. Cook is one.