Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-03-17


fiorid, ornate, persuasive, supplicatoRy.
and pathetic. All fell on dead
ears He vowed that the sI50. 600 he
wanted would diminish freight rates @
cents a bnsbei ON all Oregon wheat. but
nobody seemed 10 care one Whit. He|
that he needed it in a politi-
cal way. Nobody hearkened to mis- cry.
He suggested that all the money the
Oregonians got hold Of they sent back
east TO buy supnlies Of coffins and such
stnff bnt the hardened sinners only
rrinned.
A Missouri Eeenomist.
Dockery of Missouri ran amuck ON
Oregon. so To sneak. and by use of ora
torv and nermiratiou saved To the neo.
nla slk0 fOO that aay and more than
Al on0 ooo n,t;matalr. a nrettv good
dav,s WORK nermit ma to saw. to be
oredited tn Democracy peneralIv and
Dookerv nartionlarIv. Somehow Demo-
cratic Dookerv of Missouri manages by
boox or crook In save a considerable
onantun, of the naonle,s money every
once ;n awhile such men as nookery
heat the danoe-tbsy really do. Actual.
Iv stinov with the nnblio moueyi WHY.
bless nv stars. since I come to think,
that's the yery sn,no identical, historic
charge they brought nearly a century
ago against q certain redheaded Vir-
qinian named Thomas Jefferson. who
loved In nlav tbe. fiddle and farm and
philosoph;ze. "Oh. damn himr, the
urodieals of that day cried. "He spends
his own money like q thoroughbred. but
he's a regular skinfiint when it comes
Go the public money. He's a queer
duck" And so after nearly 100 years
Alexander Monroe Dockery Of Missouri,
an unwashed Democrat. actually fol-
lows in Jefferson's footsteps and tries
to save the public money, which dis
pusted Mr.. Tongue exceedingly.
But IL Tongue had looked ten feet
from where he was standing and had
let his eve rest on Governor Nelson
Dingley Of Maine he would have been
go assonished that he would have been
dumb though his name is Tongue, fol
while he couldn't get nickel for Ore.
eon 1850, 900 was appropriated right of
the reel for little port called Rockland
up in Governor Dingley's district The
governor asseverated solemnly with his
hand on his heart that he never asked
for that sum or any other, and for feal
this amazing statement would not OK
swallowed he brought as oompurgatori
Uncle Joe Cannon and Hon. William
A. Stone OF pennsylvania, manipulatol
OF "the hog combine and candidate fol
governor OF the Keystone state. Whei
they were through eompurgating. Jerr,
Simpson, who has q SINK In MS heaf
where the bump OF reverence ought g
be. phrenologically speaking, hopped III
and declared that the appropriation
committee had to run after Governo
Dingiey, catch him VI ct armis, throw
him down and ram tne money INTO nj
pocket. but the Iact remains that Tn
governor 9 little port was Wen proVioe'
Tor, and Mr. tongue waggeo ms songu
In vain ana got no pap. "hereloses so
three reasons-f1rst, governor Dlngie.
is chairman OF the ways and mean
committee; second, ne has been IN con
gress nearly 20 years; third, ne ives u
Maine. Now, II Mr.. tongue Will oupii
cate these persuasive environments y
Will ssano mucn ne''er 'nan'e W soA
pie ias appropfia'ion'
''The Loud BILL"
Signs Of disintegration in the Reput
1ican party in congress multiply. 3
three days of hard hand to hand hgh'
ing we killed the notorious Loud bill.
1t was done by an almost solid vote
Democrats, Populists and Silver Reput
licans, together with few Republican
who. living in rural districts, could nc
be whipped into the support OF this OF
pressive measure, which In Its enee
was deleter1ous TO a ree press. At was
distinctlyely antl-hepuplcan Ficsory
but could not have been won save ie
| the weakening OF Republican olsclpllns
The truth is certain Republican COZ
gressmen are beginning to bolt the leat
ers and heed the people. On our sid
| Moon and Richardson OF Tennessee, be
| Of Colorado, Lenz OF Ohio, simpson
Kansas Oocnran ana noSI ~ .aot . : ,sar
deserve special mention. TOOK q nan
myseiI. l saio iheei oIi"'
The Main objection.
The great objection to this bill is thi
It is detrimental to newspapers and d
minishes the diffusion Of information
and I repeat now what said before
that Democrats are In favor OF the WI
est possible dinusion ., Ahowleuse.
have sucn impiiels iaisn III tae p,opo1
tlon that truth Is mlshty anu WIZ ~
vail tnat were ! as I,on as 'onn
Kockefeiler wouIa pupiisn popu.
edition OF Jenerson Works anu pu.
copy into the hands OF every Vo1er
the United States aDsoiuteiy cerea
that it would make the country Lem
cratic for all time TO come
| One OF the most eminent Oh Americs
preachers said, we must eoncate' v
must eouoste, or we masS po.,s
Thomas Jenerson' tne mooelh 0oi
mon, declared tnat ne Wouio rasner :.
in country Win newspapers ous WY
out governments Inan ~ = ooune
!; / with o government pus wisnou' no"
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