The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-03-20
DEMOCRACY CAN BE TRUSTED.

credulity.
DEMOCRACY CAN BE TRUSTED.
The democratic party has proven
itself worthy of every trust which tn
people of this state have confided to it
Strict economy and judIcious manage
ment of the peoples affairs have char
acterized it in all the years of i'll
supremacy. 1t has given to b STATE
clean, competent and worthy officials
and has demanded of all of then
honest and incorrupt public services.
At times in the history of the party
mistakes have been made in choosing
public servants, and though these
mistakes have been few, they have been
promptly remedied. Partisan policy
sometimes calls for a concealment OF
public corruption, but always al the
price of public dishonor.
BE it said TO the credit of the grand
old democracy of Missouri that she has
never sacrificed the public veal to
shield corruption or incompetency i'll a
public official.
When the brilliant and magnetic
Ed Nolnnd, once loved and honored by
every democrat IN this state. and re-
spected by members of nil parties,
yielded to temptation and appropriated
to his own use thousands of dollars OF
public money, the democratic party,
looking solely to the public veal, cast
ing aside It's partisan pride, called ITS
once honored son TO public account
and dealt with him impartlally and
honestly.
Ed holland, the democrat, was tried
before a democratic jury and sentenced
by a democratic judge TO prison; a
democratic supreme court confirmed
the sentence, and a democratic COVER
nor refused TO grant the pardon or
condone the offense.
Every dollar that Ed holland embez-
zled was paid into the state treasury,
and the taxpayers lost nothing.
Although Missouri was what the repub=
licans called ''beastly Democratic, "a
the party taught its officials, in Ed
Noland's case, the price of dishonest
public service. While Quay, in Penn
~sylvanis, was promoted by the republic
cans to his position of UniIed States
senator, after a similar crime, Ed
holland languished in a state prison.
In the past few weeks the democratic
party in this state, though recently
continued in power by a "'beastly"
majority, called to account two of its
public servant in Kansas City. 1t
was heralded over the state that demo-
cratic police commissioners in Kansas
City were protecting public gambling.
The charge was a serious one, and one
that was hard to prove.
A democratic organ-the Kansas
City Times-took the initiative step,
and made an investigation upon its
own responsibility. Upon this inVesti-
CATION it made the charge that the
police commissioners were shielding
the gamblers. A democratic senate
investigated these charges, and in the
good old democratic way, without
whits-wash and without apology, re-
turned a verdict that the police con-
missioners were guilty of the charges.
A democratic senate rejected the COM
missioners, and d democratic governor
appointed in their places two men
whose regulations for honor and integ-
rity are statewide commissioners who
know the right, and ''knowing, dare
maintain"
Party expediency and partisan poll
tics were cast aside, that the public
veal might be subserved. Democratic
officials were condemned and turned
regulations, that honest public service
might be rendered.
These are but two instances IN which
the democratic party has saGriced its
own officials for the public good. They
are the only two Instances we call to
mind in which snch sever treatment
was necessary, but these instances
to give the people assurance of
what the party expects of the servants
of the people. and these instances
speak volumes for that grand old party
that has nov for more than u score of
years guarded with an ever watchful
eye every trust confided TO it.