Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-07-20

stick" which appears to be the con-
trolling idea OF those radical Repub-
licans who write such stuff. The
Pharisees are not all dead yet. | re
peat, for IL Is a glorious fact In Mis-
souri, history, Democratic history, that
II per cent Of the Missouri delegation
in both house and senate in the Fifty
fifth congress were college bred men.
As the delegation In the Fifty-sixfh
congress Is the same as in the Fifty
FIFTH with two exceptions the per-
centsge wiz run about the same. OF
the II men composing the Missouri
delegation IA are stalwart Democrats
and, to say the least Of il, win average
up fully with the three Republican
members from st. Louis. Several
Democrats Of that delegation have
been teachers in high schools and col
leges and two of them presidents Of
colleges, n at the very early age OF
2, and yet The Globe-D Democrat in its
rage because the Republicans cannot
carry this state takes out its venge-
aace by siandering not only the Dem
ocrats Of Missouri, but the Democrats
OF the entire country, and yet it is a
shining Light. file leader, bellwether.
whip cracker and high priest in that
party which falsely arrogates to itself
all the virtue, all the intelligence and
all the patriotism Of the Union. Ap-
parently the man who wrote that mon
strous lie does not know the history Of
his country.
The first Democratic president,
Thomas Jefferson, was one OF the
three finest scholars ever elevated to
that Office, John Quincy Adams and
James A. Garfield alone being his peers
in that regard. The GIobe-D Democrat
knows, II 1t knows anything, that the
next Democratic president, william
Jennings Bryan, is not only the first
of living orators, but is also a mag
niheent scholar, and 20 on to the end
OF the chapter. II knows that, barring
the negroes IN Missouri, nearly all of
whom are Republicans, no state as
young as Missouri shows so low a per
centage Of initerates. When a man
tells a lie. he owes It 20 the credulity
Of mankind to tell one that somebody
win believe. The Globe-D Democrat is a
wretched bungier at the bad business.
But to show that I am not alone in
my opinion as to the falsity Of its pre-
posterous assertion l quote the wash
ington Posts comments on the same
paragraph from the GloLe-D Democrat.
Smiling Log1c.
The Post, as I have frequently said
heretofore, is the most ably edited in
dependent paper in America, with a
pronounced bias toward the Republic
an administration in general and for
President Mckinley in particular. The
Post says editorially:
Capable teachers can be found in
all parties, although it must be con-
fessed that they are scarce among the
Popullsts. The best kind Of retaliation
Is to return good for evil. A faculty
devoid Of prescription Is what that in
stitution and all other colleges need.
THE last sentence OF the paragraph
quoted from The Globe Democrat is
not In harmony with the truth. There
are many states in which nearly all
the educated men are Democrats, and
our st. Louis contemporary ought to
know that among them there is an am
pie supply Of good material for col
lege faculties. Even In New England
the president OF Harvard is a Cleve-
land Democrat. DR.. Andrews, former
president Of Brown, is with Bryan on
the silver question. Taking all the
college faculties in the eastern and
middle states, M would find a great
many professors who are decidedly
anti-Re2ublican.f
The smiling logic Of Republicans
was, Is and always win be as follows:
@The earth belongs to the saints. we
are the saints. Therefore the earth
belongs to u.s."
Democratic National Convention.
While the Democratic national con.
yentlon Is more than a year on, divers
ambitious cities are taking steps and
measures to have 1t held within their
limits. Among these Is Kansas City,
the young giantess that stands at the
mouth Of the raging Kaw. st. Louis is
not this time a competitor for this
high honor because sine Is hotfoot aft
er the Worlds fair to celebrate Jeaer-
sons Louisiana purchase, the largest
and most profitable deal in real estate
ever proposed In this world since the
devil took the Saviour to the ton Of a
high mountain and offered him the
dominion Of the world 10 fan down
and worship him. II is safe to say
that no other city In the Union can
oneF es many Inducements to secure
the convention as can Kansas City.
She Is within 20 miles OF the geOgraph-
ieaf center Of the United States. She
is the second largest railroad center I'm
the country. Tickets TO more differ
ent places and different countries are
sold at her Union station than at any
other place on the face Of the earth.
She Is the center Of the commercial
implement trade, the beef packing
business and the live stock trade OF
the universe. Her hotel facilities are
abundant She offers In her conven-
ton hall one Of the largest and most
eommodious assembly chambers in the
United States. and what Is a good deal
better its acoustic properties are well
nigh perfect.
When was attending the head
camp Of the Modern woodmen Of
America there recently, I made OBJ
.servations and tests for my own sat
iEfacfi0n- ] am certain that that hall.
IL closely packed. win seat 10000 per
sons comfortably and that a man who
knows how 70 a~rticulate and has fairly
strong lungs a without any strain
ing Of hts speaking apparatus make
himself heard in every nook and Gran.
ny Of that yast building. II would
really do the average citizen great I
good and afford him much pleasure 10 I
visit kansas City. for n one foot Of a |
COMPASS were placed az the new Gus
iouse and 4 circle with aradius OF
100 miles described abort Il II would
contain a body OF farming land whose
sqnal In fertility and prodnctiveness
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