The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-10-11

warmest cloik Of winter that heath
the ice and frost of death retains its
color OF Imperlshable green and keeps
aglow the spark of life within the
bosom of the frozen earth.
bluegrass that lifts the borders Of
winters snowy shroud and prophesies
that vernal suns again will shine.
Bluegrass which through summer
morns, innumerable cattle stand and
shake their shining sides, whilst
countless hocks Of sheep drink from
its tender blades the drops Of jeweled
dew.
"IIilisides, gorgeous with the glow
Of purple crimson in tine
brighter blush of growing apples
rosy with the mingling cream and
pink of rlpening peaches shaded
with the delicate russell and green Of
pears that bend the trees on whicl
they grow. Broad valleys, filed with
endless fields Of wheat that bow aud
sway and swell before the summers
breeze, like waves upon a shoreless
yellow sea. Corn lands that stretch to
the horizons brim, where kindly
skies bend down to kiss the tasseled
heads.
"Beneath this surface of panoplied
splendor, mother Earth has garnered
the sunshine of the ages, and stored
1t in vast banks OF coal, enough to
warm the nearJns OF ali tue shadowy
hosts that yet shall come to fill the
world. And the great chemist, nature,
has laid away measureless beds of lead
and zinc and lron-iuexhauslible-
sufficient for the wants Of all mankind
throug centuries of time. And over
all, skies painted as if by magic's
matchless brush with woudrous
changing shades of softest blue,
through which the flood OF yellow
sunlight falls like drifting waves Of
powdered gold. And field aud forest
mountain tops and plain, swept by
Invisible spirits Of the air, bearing
upon their scented lips the breath o.
countless flowers. \ \
"In such a land, living beneath
such skies, reared amid such in
fuences, their veins swelling with tn,
blood Of such an ancestry, the son
OF Missouri could not be less thar
brave nor fall short of the full meas
} ure of patriots-a bravery which ha
won laurels on many crimson fields
patriotism which is unchallenge
! aud unsurpassed.
Loyal In all Things, MISSOURI has
above all else, been loyal to the teach
: iugs of the illustrious Jefferson. l
) him she sees the statesman who's
mind compassed the entire pbilosoph
U Of government; the Iconoclast of po
tics who shattered all the idols {
t the past, and from the temple Of tn
e mind drove the foul bats Of ignoranC
J. and fear"
4 After speaking Of the base couspl
IS acy of interests which are seeking
e defeat Mr.. Stone for the United STATE
II senate he SAID:
Il "But there is still one further an
e final reason. This is a great agricu
: tural c mmonwcalth. u las CT
n stantly and at an timrs been tie
/, tim OF these pol teal macGinatiou
n which have resulted In the creation
lie great trusts aud aggregationS Of cap
,e tai that have always laid their despoi
IS lug hand upon our people Th
menace TO our commercial progres
ig to the very independence Of the pc
p pie, ought not by the people OF Mi
S. souri, be increased by the election
1t the high Office OF senator Of a mi
Gs whose every instinct and whose fna
Of cial Interests will force him to becon
= in the halls Of our national legislatu
h a public conspirator against the pc
le pies rights. where now he is priva
Ks marauder
ly Years ago the republican par
S. began bedding with the trusts; todi
ID IL finds itself seryilcly doing The
IS, bidding in response to their demanc
g; 1t now seeks to elect their specl
r.; representative and champion to L
d; United States senate from Nilsson