The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-10-11
MAYOR J. A. REEDS SPLENDID SPEECH
Extracts from His Address to the Citizens of Lexington
on October a.
HIS ELOOUENT TRIBUTE TO BELOVED MISSOURI
Missouri Has, Above All Else Been True to the Teachings
of the IlIustriouS Jefferson"

Those who failed to hear Mayor
Reeds speech at the court house last |
Saturday missed one Of the most
eloquent aud forceful political argu-
ments ever made in Lafayette county.
He divided his time between oational
and state issues He said that this
country has made more progress to-
ward imperialism In the last six years
than Rome made in any two hundred
years of her existence. He traced
the history of the republican party,
once devoted to high moral and eco
nomic ideas, down to the present time
when it has become the agent and in
strument Of the trusts. lie showed
that with Roosevelt's capitulation at
the Oyster Bay conference, the result
of which was announced in his Gin
cinnatl speech, the last hope Of relief
from that party vanished. He showed
that the conflict was on and the bat
tie joined between the people on the
the one hand and the vast aggrega-
tions of capital on the other seeking
through protective legislation and re-
strictions Of trade, through monopoli-
zaJlon OF our carrier systems, and the
prevention of competition, to con-
centrate the wealth Of the country in
the hands Of an oligarchy as unscrup-
ulous in politics as it is unprincipled
in business,
On the state issues he dwelt with
whitening scorn upon the hypocrltical
impudence with which the republican
party, the record Of which in state
and municipal government is black
with every infamy, essays to crlticlst
the management Of state affairs by
the democrats. He paid his respects
in unmeasured terms to the party
which dominated elections by soldier,
at the polls as long as it could, which
sold the railroad securities of the STATE
worth $4,000, 900 for $1,000, 900, no
tc the highest but to the lowest bid
ders, which robbed the school funC
aud refused to distribute school none,
to some democratic counties whil
they granted three or four or tiv
times as much to some republican a
tn some democratic counties with tn
same or greater population. Th
record Of the republican party in st
| Louis, now being investigated, show
, that it is the same old party of spoils
: Doodle and corruption. He spoke G
t the Globe Democrat and Kansas Cit
: Star, which have for years mallgne
+, the state, its people, its government
: its business enterprises, and all fc
=, base political effect. He paid a trit
! ute to the state he loved which wa
! such a gem Of rhetoric and sentimer
7 that the liberty is taken Of quoting
y below:
"Her territory greater than thf
island, England, which broke I'll
scepter Of the mighty power of Nap
n leon; one-third as large as that
l. Germany, whose marshaled hos
4 shake Europe as they march; mo
) than one-third as large as that
o France, which sold her for drink
=, absyBthe. Sixty-fve thousand squa
/, miles Of terrltory--a kingly domain
is vast splendid, imperial. Within h
l. borders the Missouri and Mississippi
Ie mother end father Of rivers, meet
m marriage aud mingle the SHOWS Of T.
ID Rockies with the waters Of Lal
lie Itaska. Hundreds OF l,sscr strear
rush from her bosom.
"Ihousands Of creeks runni'
across her plains murmur songs of la
- piness mid grassy banks Countle
! rivulets whisper the music OF conte
\ in woody dells, and all her vale
shake with the liquid laughter
,,s myriad springs Tremendous forests
q eudless-boundless-- where grows ca
q tree from graceful pioes that trent
!, y at the fantest breeze, 10 giant on
- that aud like sentiuels, grim
defylng the Wild wrath Of storm
Wonderful EXPENSES Of pair c yer
knee deepwith bluegrass Blnesra
w bridal costume OF the blushi'g sprir
d' richest robe Of gorgeous SUNNI
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