Mexico weekly ledger., 1900-10-18


nished its readers this year. One Of
the leading local Republicans. who.
asks that his name be withheld, told
your correspondent that he has known
Harlow wei since the war, and never
knew him to talk or act anything else
but a Republican in that time. AS to.
his flaming indignation regarding the
school fund, those who know him best
laugh the heartiest His shattered
confidence and blasted pride in the
party he has loved 50 long are indeed
pathetic. II he ever voted a Demo
cratic ticket In his life he kept the
secret to himself. The dispatch to the
Globe Denoer0 is all wrong.
The Democratic vote in this section
win be the largest oyer polled here,
and nothing has contributed more to
1t than the desperate and misguided
efforts Of the Glebe-D cmocrat TO inn
peach the Democratic administration
Of State affairs. The farmers Of this
county have made a study Of the
charge in regard TO the looting Of the
school fund and have found IL ground
less. AS a result they are aroused and
will turn out to a mana a reports from
every school district indicate. If
there ever was any apathy in this
county, the Gebe-D Democrat has de-
stroyed it and II the other CONVEX
sions reported by them are similar to
that Of Harlow the whole list win not
increase the Republican strength a
single vote.
Monroe county viii give $500 Dem
ocratic majority, and Dockery will
run ahead OF the ticket The stand
taken by T. B. Robinson, Of this place;
has won over many OF the most sub
stantial Republicans in this county.
HEY, "RUBE.1
Reuben Harlow Is a Monroe county
man and the Paris Mercury, being
thoroughly acquainted with him, UNI
der the above head, discusses Reuben
as follows:
GAS an instance Of how hard up the
Republicans are for political thunder,
the Globe Democrat of last Friday de-
voted the entire first column Of its
front page to a dispatch from Mexico
telling OF the sudden and miraculous
conversion to Republicanism Of one,
Mr.. Reuben Harlow, described by
meters and bounds as a lifelong Dem
ocrat' and one Of the most prosper
our and intelligent farmers in Au-
drain county, This is the choicest
bit of humor with which the Globe
Democrat has RECALLED its readers dur
ing this campaign, and that is saying
a good deal. Here in Paris Reuben's
im~personation was greeted as the most
uproariously funny thing that has
happened since the elephant with the
show attempted to dance a two-stepor
Pat Cullen tried to below like the
bull buffalo calf. The mind of men
those who have known Reuben since
the paleozoic period-runs not back
to the time when he was not a Repub-
lican-and a very black one at that.
Old citizens even recall the most lus-
trous Of all Of Reuben's glorious days
when he wa a member of a local
militia company at Paris and was the
most staggering swashbuckler of
them all. Some have gone 50 far as
to relate the tender manner in which
he was elected, boots, spurs and all,
from the back door Of a certain bust
ness house, and local Republicans have
Joined in the reyel OF "reminiscences,
enjoying the Joke more, II possible,
than the Democrats. As a political
Chic C~hilonidese, Mr.. Harlow
Rube,' for SHORTS incompatible.
His recantation brings mingled emo
tions OF JOY and sorrow. Imagine the
pleasant surprise he has been prepar'
ing for US through the years, voting
the old ticket straight from top Il
bottom but not letting rs know 1t,
Think what an abiding JOY the happy
secret must have been to him, and
what an effort it must have cost him
to refrain from exclaiming with the
poet, Blush it from east to west, from
west to east, until east is west And
then conceive the agony it caused
him to disappoint us at the last
moment; TO announce that after
swallowing Bryan and the POpulistiC
heresy of l6 to l, after voting fol
years, without protest, against bis
own best judgment, he must finally
abandon the party he had loved sc
long. Read the pathos in his state
ment that his implicit and ehild-like
confidence in Democratic administra'
ton Of State affairs had been cruelty
shattered and his party pride humil'
lated; that a looted school fund bids
him vote for Flory-a school fund in
vested in guilt-edged Missouri certif-
Gates, which, under Democratic ring
rule, have become worth as much as
United States bonds. Pitifull PitifuIl
Indeed, knowing MI. Harlow and
looking at the moving classes behind
his apostasy, the Mercury is moved to
let flow the crystal fountain Of its
tears. Another conversion or two OF
lifelong Democrats like Rube will
h~opelessly disrupt that party in this
State"
MR.. BAILEY WILL NOT COME.
Famous Texan Cancels All of His
Speaking Dates in Missouri.