Mexico Missouri message., 1900-10-04
Monroe Ex-RepubIican.


ers of his party in Monroe county,
made public announcement of his
support of Bryan and Stevenson
i'll Il mastery speech before the
Democratic club at Paris Tuesday
night. Mr.. Robinson is brother
of Judge Walter Robinson, the
Republican member of the Supreme
Court of Missouri, and ranks a.
mong the brainicst men and ablest
lawyers Monroe county has ever
produced.
As was to be expected of such II
man he gave ample reasons for
the position he had taken. He re
viewed at length the longings of
men for freedom and liberty since
the creation and told of the prog
ress they had made to the day
when the hopes and aspirations of
the ages seemed all but realized in
the ratification by the American
people of constitution which
guaranteed to the individual his
God-givcn right to life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness--a consti-
tuition which Solcmnly declared
that governments derive their just
powers from the consent of the
governed.
He told how the enforcement of
these great principles had blessed
the cause of liberty in the nation $
of the world and how they filled
with hope the hearts of the op-
pressed until William Mckinley
had seen fit to violate them and
make the flag an emblem of OPP
preston instead of an emblem of
liberty. The people of the Philip
pine Islands, he asserted, were
+. lust aS much entitled to the God
. given right of liberty rs We're the
, Americans and CubanS, and it was
an outrage on the cause of free
. dom for the President of the L.
nitcd States to deny them this
right after they had fairly won il
from Spain by the force of arms.
f Worse still, the President used
: them aS allies to wrcSt from Spain
the city of Manila and then forced
Spain to sign Il treaty selling to
the United States the islands from
f which the oppressed patriots had
f driven her.
Naval Constructor Richard Pear
son IlobSon is back in this cOun.
try again. His old SdroV fair,
has not departed, nor has he re,
, turned from the Philippines a de.
crepit creature or Il married man
but, changed conditions, not /
girl can be found who will kiS,
him, as they once did, he has
= shaved off his mustachc.
: The editor of the Elsbelry Dem,
2 ocrat tells this on himself:
+ While calling on our best Cir
t the other night, she asked us how
y much land we owned. We told
;, her GO by 12O feet and Il little cot
t tagc house on it besides three doz
4 en- chickens. Well, that is very
>. nice, she remarked, but didn't you
S bring part Of your land along
with You tonight! No, not aS W,
know of, we answered. With !
look of surprise she smiled sweet,
e and reaching down she took TIM
t corner of her white apron, damp
5 ened it with her tongue and reach
) ed over and removed II chunk o
II dirt from our off year. This wa
y mortifying TO us and we mention
' it simply as warming to othe
: bachelors to use soap and waite
y before going to see their best girls
. Golden Rule Jones, of Toledo
: will run for Congress and vote 70
, Bryan. Some recent observation
of this distinguished Christian so
cialist are interesting. He says
FL think it is both misleading an
mischievous to refer to our elec
If tions as Political Battles, Grca
IF Fights and war-like terms lik
l. that. | regard the ballot as II sac
It rament rather than an implemen
D. of war, and when | enter the boot
,e to record my conscience in favo
ne of equality and against war, in ia
Dt vor of love and reason rather tina