Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-05-17
GETS VICIOUS.
Attacks the "Message"-.
Democracy and
Bryan.


wrong politically. This Mexico
gentleman has been sending the
said relative different copies of the
MESSAGE with certain paragraphs
and arguments marked, to try to
lead the said relative into better
way of thinking. So far he has
made but little headway toward a
change. The other day the Mex
leo relative received the following
letter. The reader will notice that
the intention is all good-humored,
and we would just as good humor-
edly add that if Democrats never
change Republicans do, and in the
present generation much for the
worse. If Lincoln were alive to-
day do you suppose, for one mo-
ment, he could yoke with Mark
Hanna and his crowd in this year
1900! But here is the New
Workers. letter:
Thank you for papers received
and which | have read with inter-
est. Now of all grab games ever
heard of it is trying to make the
people believe Bryan Democracy
and Lincoln Republicanism are the
same. 1t is case of larceny and
Islander. Bless you, don't you
know a Democrat never changes!
They have always been opposed to
liberty and advance. The Demo
cratic party was the Tory of l176,
the secesh of 1861, and now they
are responsible, by their howls,
for the continuance of the war in
the Philippines. Gee whiz! but
my head wouldn't be worth cop
per if made a speech to this effect,
! suppose, even in Audrain
county.
If those who feel that this
country ought to have the initia-
tive and referendum, government
ownership of railroads, canals,
waterworks, electric and gas light
plants, would form Il party and not
try to drag in the Democrats, they
would be on their own feet and
might be recognized by the q. O..
p. See!
This howl about one soldier
being worth all the gold Of the
Philippines is all right. Life is
precious. Why didn't these same
folks who are backing up this the
DRY think of it from 1861 to 1868!
Human life was cheap then. Why
was not this howl made when we
have had to punish the Indians!
Why wasn't this howl made as we
stole acre after acre from the Red
Man! It's all for Bryan politics
and it has cost thousands of lives,
on account of 1t.
II am with you in detestation of
the liquor business in the army. If
Mckinley is defeated it will be
more on that account than any
other. He has not had as much
backbone rs | was in hopes to see!
But it is far better than the party
who wrote the Chicago platform.
If possible we must keep control
four years longer, until Roosevelt
comes to the front. He is a man
all backbone, and think him an
ideal politician. Don't you!
Bryan says we are not trying
to breed discomfort. Why does he
make such an assertion guess
his conscience pricks him.
AS for taking the Philippines
without their consent, five or six
times in the history of our own
country have we acquired posses
sions inhabited, and never before
was such e cry made. The Phil
ippines are ours and we must gov
eln them. 1t is ii fact, and the
more opposition in this country
the longer the war"
Now, seriously, in passing, the
MESSAGE would just notice that if
a Democrat never changes he can
forget. The above, tho not in
tended for publication, is the first
reference to the bloody shirt" we
have heard in a long time. And
then, again, as an evidence that
Democrats may change they do not
at present, by their silence, recog,
niZe az just the old theory