The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1902-10-09
BEGGING DEMOCRATIC VOTES.

t Democrats IN erase the name of L.
/ X. l.iSi-. tha Democratic candidate,
and secure his election.
The argument he and his Republi-
can friends use il that the Butler
rim. AMI clique and office. seekers
mus IT, r,.nuked, and that he is an
WSopai>,i'aIed farmer and very
much aver>e 10 office and Just io,crd
Ito run
What are tie facts? Nix is about
- wears 81 ?, =. tui rns been voting
3o wears in Bates county. Did he
ever rdteh lii tirket aud support n
Democrat from constable to presi-
teu'H Il 50. ,h,u AMI whom? Has
t NOT there lN.-'Au Democrat numinat.
II it 30 v~ar> N Bates county guud
|enonch for Wlx IN support? lie
claims L. Lav" taken all and each
Republican chosen. good, had and
indjti-r i'r 81 years and all We're
sooi enough AMI not one too had
ior hiu.. TINS : is own record.
With What prorrietycan he or any
such man with such political adher-
ence To party and prejudice ask his
ueighbor Democrat to vote for him
in plac" 81 l..s.r
In l>9> Judge W. W. Graves was
nominated fnr circuit Judge aud the
Republicans and Populists combined
and run Atk->on awhile as their can.
didate. and run him down, and then
held a midnight caucus OF 3 or /
Populisrs and Republicans in Sc
cret and secluded place in some part
of the judicial district just a few days
prior 20 the election and substituted
| {. \ Denton az the candidate for
both parties.
Without disparagement to Mr..
Denton il is no oiicnse in the least to
say what e; "a andevery Republican,
Democrat and Populist in Bates
county will readily concede, that
Judge Graves as an attorney and
possessor of legal knowledge was far
superior Many Republicans voted
ior Gcayes in Bates. St Clair. Ben
ton AID Henry counties. Graves
had old Republican clients and per-
sonal friends and intimate Republi-
can lawyers who voted for him and
placed the judiciary uhoveparty.
NiX has. with Other republicans in
Bates, always considered this po.
litical crime and offeI.se for which
there is no forgiveness and has relent-
lessly pursued ull such voters with
venom and malice in political con-
ventons Now he asks Democrats
to scratch Lisle for him.
How can any narocr1+ d. so IF
the face OF the political prejudice OF
Wix. He requests Democrats to do
what he never did and denominated
crime for Republican to do 1t is
really amusing to Democrats to lis
ten to Wix's begging for votes.
When he asks YOU Democrats to
vote for him. you say "Wix, did YOU
ever vote for a Democrat? Why did
you abuse Republicansfor voting for
their Democratic friends?"
As to the office seeking cry of Wix,
he has been seeking office ever since
he was eligible, from Justice office to
representative for 80 years. He ran
for County Judge. for Representative
now for Recorder, and in Deep Water
township he was a standing candi-
date for member OF township board
and has often sought nominations
for state offices such as railroad COM
missioner. Besides he has been seek
ing federal office and actually left his
farm, so great was bis appetite for
office, and through Denton, Kellogg
and dispensers ofthe Federal patron
age in Bates since 1896 got and ac-
cepted the great position of Risky
Guager''-an elder in the church
standing around whisky distillery,
guaging a barrel of whisky, from
Lone Jack to Rich Hill This office
he held onto until he got the nominal
ton Tor Recorder on the Republican
ticket. and has, and does now reside
| in Butler and has ever since he secur-
ed the whisky guager office at So per
day-this is how much OF farmer
he now is. This is how be stands as
to office seeking. As to "rings and
cliques," if ever closer political,
perfect self-acting- automatic ma
chine existed in Butler and Bates