The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1900-08-16
From Clarksvtlle Banner, Democratic.
ls Me-. Oockeey's Defeat Certaia?

From Clarksvtlle Banner, Democratic.
ls Me-. Dockesy's Defeat Certaia?
Clarksville, Pike Co., Mo-,
| April 20, 1900.
To the Editor Of the Banner:
| Mr.. Alexander Monroe Dockery
will be beaten by not less that 10000
votes if nominated for Governor of
Missouri
(D Because he is in favor Of . car
petbag government, supported by
military garrison in Porto Pico.
(2) Because he is in favor Of annexa-
tion of Cuba to the sugar trust by
vile pretense Of consent obtained
through such methods or the threat
of such methods as John Mcneil
represented at Palmyra, or as Kellog
stood for in Louisiana and Powell
Clayton in Arkansas.
(3) Because he is ~ much responsi.
BILE for the recent complete demone-
tization Of silver as Hanna himself.
He supported the seizure of Porto
Rico and its government by military
garrison against Bland in order to
create "new issues" aud as q result of
this dastardly treachery the House
and Senate were lost and tho "crime
of 1872 repeated.
He acquiesces in the use Of the
military to suppress newspapers in
Porto Rico. He has been Q silent
partner in McKinley's action in pull
ing down the flag in the Republic of
Cuba and keeping it down under the
feet of a venal and ruffian army Of
such professional jingoes as are daily
committing in the Philippines the
murder they threaten in Cuba
and Porto Rico. Never once dur
ing the past two years has his
voice been raised against the pulling
down of Cuba's flag! NEVER ONCE
Mr.. Dockery is as much response
BILE for this infamy as Mckinley him
self and his part in it is more disgrace
full than that of Mckinley for he join
ed the enemies of Democracy against
its fundamental principles of local
self-government and against the re-
cord he himself had made in Con-
gress on Hawaii.
He will never be governor Of Mis-
souri,. There is not money enough,
threats enough, treachery enough
to elect him.
The issue will be . spared issue
next November. There will be no
"pairing:' If John McNiel himself
were alive he would have a. good q
chance Of having his Palmyra policy
endorsed as Dockery has of getting
himself elected Governor Of Missouri
on the ground that if people have q
country thus long and so broad NEAR
our coast line," they are to have .
set Of scalawags and carpetbaggers
imposed ON them by military garrison
of the Palmyra brand, while the same
thing is being denounced as "imper-
ialism" for another spot on tho map.
Messrs. Dockery and Cook can nomi-
nate themselves and their gang Of
corporation agents and renegades.
There is no doubt about that. But
they have finish fight ahead ofthem.
No Democrat who knows them will
vote for their treason to everything
Democratic. The man who "paired"
with Hanna in tearing down the flag
of the Cuban Republic and in sup
pressing free speech by bayonet gags
in Porto Rico may easily control .
bank and railroad machine aud nomi-
nate themselves in packed corpora-
ton convention. But they will never
control the Democracy of Missouri
against local sovereignty and indi-
vidual NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.!
No Democrat who knows what they
stand for will ask quarter from them
or compromise with them.
SIXTEEN TO ONE
| Comment on the above is unneces-
sary. 1t simply means that Mr..
Dockery will havo to answer for his
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