Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-01-25

The House being In committee OF the Whole
on the state OF the Union, and having under
consideration the bill III. X. u entitled "A bill
to define and fix the standard OF value. to main
tain the parity OF AL forms of money issued or
coiLed by the United States, and for other pur
poses -
Mr.. CLARK of Missouri said:
Mr.. CHAIRMAN: Republican jubila-
ton over the result of the recent cleo
tions is one of the most amazing phe-
nomena that have observed in forty
nine years of tabernacling in the flesh.
Laughter.
II reminds me of story once heard.
A young physician was called in case
of great delicaCy. When he returned
to the office, his veteran partner asked
him how he got along. First rate"
replied the youthful disciple of fscu-
lapius. 1.-The mother and baby are
both dead. but ! saved the old man"
[Great laughter.l
SO with the Republicans. Laugh
ter They lost Maryland. Their
beastly ma jority in Ohio was reduced
to a minority of fifty-odd thousand.
The fusion majority in Nebraska was
multiplied fivefold. The FuSionists
made large gains in Kansas, The Re
publicans of PENNSYLVANIA sustained
great losses and were so badly scared
that they imported a Job lot of heelers
and reporters from this city laughter q,
but Republicans howl with delight be
cause they saved the old mani" Great
laughter and applause on the Demo
cratic side.
With their combs cut, both wings
broken, and their tail feathers plucked,
they still crow because they saved the
old mani" Renewed laughter.
After the celebrated Hampton Roads
conference the following dialogue took
place between Abraham Lincoln and
William II. Seward: Ibid you see
Alexander H. Stephens" asked the
President. Eyes" replied the Secre-
tary of State. "See him with his over
coat on?" Eyes" "See him with it
Off" eyes" did you ever see so
small a nubbin in so large a shuck?"
"No."
So with this Republican victory on
which gentlemen plume themselves.
1t is very small nubbin in very
large shuck. 1t seems to me that they
must feel much the same as did Pyr-
rhus, King of Epirus, when in walking
over field he had won by the skin of
his teeth, gazing upon the piles of
corpses of his brave followers, he
victory and we are undone!"
CIVIL SERVICE As PRACTIcED BY
REPUBLICANS.
So far as / am advised, there is only
one Republican in the House thor
oughly justified in rejoicing over the
November elections. That is my VEN
cradle and amiable friend from Ohio,
Gen. GROSvENOR; not because Nash is
a minority governor, but because the
means resorted to to elect Nash at all
demon strate that our beautiful and be-
wildering system of civil service reform
Is now placed in "the process of ultimate
extinction" [laughterl, an object dear
to the heart of the gentleman from
Ohio. And it must be peculiarly graft
flying to him that its overthrow was
accomplished by two Ohio statesmen,
President William Mckinley and Hon
William +. Burdell, treasurer of the
Republican State executive committee.
They killed Cock Robin dead as a
smelt.
When the President declared in his
inaugural that mo backward step must
be taken in civil-service reform" all
the civil-service reformers in the land
and all the benefciaries of that system
pronounced him "another Daniel come
to judgment" and General GROsvENoR
and other Republican spoilsmen retired
into the Cave of Adullam. But the
President, growing weary of behold
ing the mourning couutenances of
Grosvenorian pot-hunters had com
passion on them and, forgetting his
inaugural, took step-a long step
backward.
Indeed, he had on his seven-league
boots and at one step went backward
about onc-eleventh of the entire dis
tance Travelled over and fought over
inch by inch by the reformers in many
long, wearisome years, for by Execu-
tive order of May %, 1899, he turned