The tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1900-1902, 1902-01-02

A heyffe y going 70 cali precinct
and school district organization. III
tell you wha, I'm be- One or two
men IN every school district win be
set on to pry into the feelings and
Intentions Of every Democrat in the
neighborhood. They'll find out Il
he is woblin'. II he thinks that the
party that goes against the trusts In
It's platforms sln't honest IL Il takes
money from them trusts 70 run the
campaign, he'll be watched. They
will argue with him for awhile, and
Il he don't confess his SINS and ask
forgiveness Tor them they'll begin
TO tell ham that they reckon the
Drake constitution IS about the thing
he wants. II he says be can't hg-
ure !, out how it is making HIM any
richer TO tax him to raise
the money for the school fund that
used to come in from the govern
ment bonds without taxin' anybody,
they'll tell him that the bonds Of a
government run by the damned
abolitienists of the country were a
disgrace to the state, and that was
why the state sold 'em at way be-
low the market price, and threw in
the intercs THAT was due rather than
miss gettin' rid Of 'em. And il
that don't fetch him they'll up and
tell him that they guess him and his
family had better set over on the
abolition side of the house ut church
next Sunday. He'll know then that
him and his family's in fer it, and
il there's only one Of him, OF only
half a dozen Of him in a school dis.
,riet, he'll set up all one night Z
pravin' to the Lord to let him ses
how it is better for him to tax BIN.
self than 10 tax somebody else, anc
along about daylight a still, small
voice will whisper in his ear that !
is better to give than receive, ans
after breakfast he viii ride over tC
the squire's house and cay; Squire
I'm with you, because I've hgurec
it all out that after takin' out all tbs
school fund to pay debts, we've 60
it all left yet. and all we've got Z
do is to mend the constitution 80 WI
can find it. It's there, aud we ca;
all see it when we get the constitu
ton mended to show IL
"But 'sposin' there's more thai
half a dozen of that kind in 8 dis
trict, all of them with so man,
friends and relations that the socia
boycott wouldn't do the work, ans
the abolition side of the meetin
house would begin 10 look like /
majority, what theni Well, they''
know who's who, And they wouls
make out their lists and forwaT'
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them to the state committee, which
the first letter Of its name is Jim Sci
bert. And If, after heann' from al
the school districts in the state, jim
should find that the majority was Of
the abolition side of the church sur
enough, there would be another sid
meeting at the Southern hotel in ST
Louis before the election like III
one they had there two nights be
fore the election last November, an
which you can find described in tn
report Of the grand jury that met tn
next January. That was = mee.inI
of Democratic politicians and ID
officers Of the police eommissio
and the police force of ST. Louis
and the next day the police got OF
ders to see that deputy shsrffs wer
not allowed to do their duty nes
the polls. They'd have anolhe
meeting like that, but they'd have
earlier in the game, They'd hsv
il before TIE registration commence
in the election eommissio ners' Office
Seibert would read out the siEe q
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