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ployes who have been democrats hereto
fore are going to fall over each other in
rushing to the polls to vote the republic
can ticket.
Never was there more flimsey ground
upon which to build hope, and never
was disappointment more certain!
The railroad employees of Missouri are
intelligent men. They must be in order
to perform the arduous and often hazar-
dous duties required of them, being in
telligent men, they act from reason and
not from mere class prejudice.
They are democrats, republicans, pop
ulists or prohibitionists. They have
their clearly defined political convictions,
and, like the lawyers, the physicians,
the carpenters, the farmers and men of
other avocations, they go to the polls
and vote as their Judgment dictates.
Nobody carries the railroad vote of
Missouri in his vest pocket!
Then, unless some good reason for
doing SO can be assigned, there is no
ground upon which to believe that demo-
Gratis among railroad men are going to
vote for the republican nominee for
governor, and to assume that they will
so vote is to insult them.
No such reason has been assigned.
In all the speeches made and articles
published in advocacy of Flory, the
democrat has seen no effort even to show
that Flory has ever done anything to
earn the gratitude or friendship of rail-
road men.
To be sure, he was himself railroad
employe years ago, and quit his employ
ment to go into politics. But this is no
reason why railroad men should vote for
him unless he has done something to
show an especial friendship for them.
Dockery was once practicing physi-
clan, and Sam Cook is a newspaper man,
but nobody assumes that the physicians
and newspaper men are going to vote the
democratic ticket merely because these
two names are upon 1t.
But, while there has been no proof
offered that Flory ever did anything to
merit the especial esteem of railroad men,
there is abundant evidence of Dockery's
labors in their behalf, and evidence too,
that the railroad men appreciate these
efforts.
In proof of both of these propositions
the democrat submits the following letter
which is self-explanatory:
E. E. Clark, M. Clancy,
Grand Chief Conduc- Grand Secre-
tor. tary.
ORDER OF RAILWAY CONDUCTORS OF
AMERICA.
Cedar Rapids, To-, May 81, 1893.
Hon. A. M. Dockery, House of Repre-
sentatives, Washington, D. G.
Dear Sir-I have noted with pleasure
the efforts you put forth in connection
with the recent passage by the house of
representatives of the bill commonly
known as the "Arbitration Bill" in
which we have been deeply interested,
and assure you that your work is ap-
preciated by myself and those whom l
represent. Yours truly,
E. E. Clark.
G. G. G.
Here, then, Is the democratic nominee,
man of especial ability, broadminded,
liberal, safe, conservative with a public
record upon which there is neither spot
nor blemish and who has given proof of
his regard for and interest in railroad
employees and other classes of laboring
men.
Is it reasonable that all this is to be
offset and overbalanced by the mere ac-
cident that his opponent was once
railroad man and quit it for other pur-
suits?
Those who argue stampede to Flory
have not taken the measure of the rail-
road men of Missouri and do not under
stand their sturdy manhood, good sense,
patriotism and devotion to principle.