The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1901-08-24
IN THE REALM OF POLITICS,

IN THE RBALM OF POLITICS.,
A good deal OF guess work is going
on just at present on the part Of sena.
torial aspiranis as to what the latest
political move at St. LOUIS means-a
move through which some jealous
friends of Senator Vest are seeking to
induce HIM to once more become a
candidate. Coming as it does on the
heels Of the recent Sweet Springs inter-
view many of the s'little uns' and some
of the "big uns" are growing ner-
vous for fear ''the thing is loaded"
From a standpoint of sound reasoning,
however, as we'll as from a standpoint
of adhering to promise previously
made, the logical conclusion is that
Senator Vest has laid aside for good
his senatorial toga and returned to
Missouri to pass the remainder of his
days among the people who love him
so well and have honored him so high
ly in the past. Many MissourIans re-
member the pathetic scene in the hall
of the lower house of the Missouri
Legislature when Mr.. Vest stood be-
fore that body in joint session and
declared that he would never ask an
other term. As be stood, gray haired
and aged before bis people and said
that like Saul of Tsrsus be had ''in-
ished his course and kept the faith"
tears we're shed by strong men who
had been at bis back IN every battle he
had waged for political preferment in
this grand old commonwealth. All
these men took Senator Vest 10 mean
just what be said and will be SLOW to
believe that he has changed his mind.
However, strange things sometimes
happen 10 politics and should Senator
Vest be sent again TO Washington :
Missouri will rect content in the know. j..
ledge that she il ably represented.
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Apropos OF the senatorial situation
Jackson county seems 90 far 70 have
furnished the only active candidate. :
True, Stones friends declare that be '
has been entered to win, bat the gov
ernor himself has renamed quiet. He
has been busy here OF late Kidding "
himself Of a severe attack of indiges- >
tion and doubtless finds solace in the "
thought that there Is yet plenty of
time. And then there Is DeArmond,
Clark and Francis who have their =,
special admirers and advocates, but >,
they are, to use a slang phrase, ''saw- y
ing wood and saying nothiDg"-just u
have their ears TO the rail lis
for the approach of the coming :
train. Not so with Mr.. Wallace. He =,
has climbed into the band wagon early =,
and started the music at the great
Lone Jack picnic last week BY for :,
mally launching his boom in a speech :,
several thousand words. 1t nov -
probable that when the entries >.
are all made in the senatorial race and a,
the runners all string u on the track, |,
such a 60 will be witnessed IS was
never before seen in Missouri. VINO =
will win did you ask? Why, some -
good Democrat, of course, il the party
don't turn fool and elect a Republican
legislature. And, by the way, Dir. :;
Wallace ought to do some good and +,
effective work IN Jackson county IN the -
way of getting the warning factions -,
and sending democrats to the =,
legislature who will help the state ont :.
the election OF a United States
Senator. I,
Ever since A. NJ. Dockery has been
n public life he has made it his bust ="
to nail Republican lies whenever ~
hey we're set aloat by scbemers with ~
'xes to grind and his latest effort IN W
his line shows that he has lost n me of o"
us force. In discussing presidential
a few days ago a Repub-
Iean editor in Chicago said that an
)ockery would not do for the reason on
in a speech at Centralia, H., dur wi
ng the last campaign he hurled epi. crI
of no gentle nature at Abraham 70,
Now comes Governor Dock ha
~ not only with the statement that ba
o had great respect for sIr. Lincoln, on