Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-09-09
Col. Sam B. Cook.
THE MEXICO EDITOR TOUCHED
UP BY THE R0CHEPoRT, MO-,
COMMERCIAL.
What His Co-Workers Think of HIM
How He Did IT, Referred to as
An Inflated Bladder"

let's NO opportunity pass to distort
and procure articles against this paper.
Heretofore we have not retorted in
kind, not because we could not, but
because we did not want to misuse our
columns. 1t is hardly worth while now,
but we Will give one article from the
Rocheport (Mo.) Commercial, a paper
published by W. ]. McQuitty, a
staunch and true original free silver,
Lon v. Stephens-W W. j. Bryan Demo-
crat, who has since been appointed to
office by Gov. Lon v. Stephens; and,
by-the-way, the sentiment in the ar
ticle is said to be endorsed by the
Governor. Anyway, the editor was
appointed to Office after publishing
the article. 1t was published Nov. 90,
1896, and we give it in full, with the
head, as follows:
GAN INFLATED BLADDER"
"There was once a NEUROLOGICAL
fool, famous in ancient lore and the,
delight of the inmates of the nursery,
whose name was Don Quixote, an ad-
die p youth who imagined he
was a great and valiant knight and
entitled to honors and glory because
with lance and steed he attacked and
subdued a wind mill. And when he
presented himself at court and de-
manded that he be knighted by the
queen for his marvellous and heroic
achievement, and her majesty sug-
gested that he had absorbed all the
wind of the apparatus that he had so
valiantiy demolished and was evident
ly using it to brag with, he was sore
distressed and angered, but was brave
enough to still keep the opinion that
he had formed of his courage and
proves.
"If the writer of that ancient fable
had postponed the story until this
year of our Lord, A. d. 1896, he could
have drawn his character from reaIIife,
for the prototype of Don Quixote ia at
this day within the borders of the fair
State of Missouri and the name he goes
by at present is Colonel Samson Bun
combe Cook chairman of the Demo-
cratic State central committee. He is
an inflated bladder, a know-nothing,
with all the proclivities of the wind
mill which the unfortunate knight so
heroically slew in cold blood. He can
do more blowing to the square inch
than q Scotch bag-pipe and never for
gets to give himself credit for every
thingthat ever happened except when
he is asleep, and then his mush. brain
lies dormant like that of a %slumbering
tadpoie in stagnant water. Oh, ne is
a great man, so great that, failing to
see any mention OF his greatness In
the Commercial, he hastens to send us
a letter celebrating the same and in
s~inuating that the Democratic victory
was the result Of the plans evolved in
his gigantic mush- brain, and a COM
plete justification of his traitorous con-
duct in giving away four of Missouri's
electoral votes to the Populists with
out receiving anything in return.
"The great mar is a great fool, or
else must have the intellect of an i'm
becile,or more likely, hasn't any intel
lect at all. Does he forget how he
idied away the days of the campaign
quaf1ng rich wines and luxuriating at
the Planters Hotel in st. Louis, all
paid for by the money of the dear
beloved candidates and the Demo
cratic voters throughout the State.
Does he forget that the city of st.
Louis, the base of operations of the
Democratic State central committee,
gave over 1900 Republican majority,
and that even the precinct where the
committee held forth went Republi-
can? No, he does not forget, but he
lies about it and vainly enieavors to
make people believe that the splendid
majority given to Stephens and the
whole Democratic ticket should be
credited to him. But the people are
not fools and they size this wind bag
up for just what he is worth-nothing.
All through the campaign he was a
blood-sucker to the candidates and the
party. He has been a blood sucker
for years, and he now claims the
credit for the Democratic victory in
the hope that the party will reward
him with the nomination for Cover
nor in 1900. He never made q bigger
mistake in his life, for the boys from
the brush,' the honest rural voters
Of the State who elected Stephens,
will turn down this inflated bladder
who is so conceited that he imagines
that the people will swallow his windy
brags about himself. They will re-
member that 1t was he who maintain
ed the State central committee head
quarters at a weekly expense of ST.
700, not counting the whisky bill, all
OF which was paid by the honest vot-
ers of Missouri. They will remember
that it was he who lavished big sums
of money on luxury, but failed to ad-
vance the cause OF Democracy one
iota. He was a milestone around the
neck of the candidates. Boone county
stands as an illustration of this. He
never sent a speaker here or spent a
dollar in the county, yet Boone rolled
up the largest Democratic majority of
any county in the State.
"The great Samson Buncombe
Cook encloses the Commercial an ar
ticle published In these columns before
election, stating that Cook proved
himself either q traitor or a fool in
giving to the Populists Tour electoral
votes without getting anything in
return There were no comments
accompanying the clipping, but what
the iilustrious wind-ba meant to con-
vey was, Nov you 9 I was wise. We
have won the election and all on &C.
count of my superior wisdom. Amt
I an oracle? Amt I smarter than Ba-
iaam's ASST And now ! win have
Stephens under my thvmb and con-
troll tho patronage, for the victory is
mine and If you want anything you
win have to come crawling on your
hands and knees TO me. My, what q
smart man am T.
Poor deluded fool, how he will
when he finds that Stephens
and every other successful candidate
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