Mexico weekly ledger., 1903-09-24

"Train robbery In Jackson county
will never cease until the cause, Of
which masked bandits are the effect,
is e~radicated, or rendered harmless.
THE cause is the sympathy Of the
dyed-in-the-wool butternut Democracy
Of Jackson county with train robbery.
This element must be driven from Of.
flee. 1t must be taught that the days
of war and rapine are over. and that
Kansas City does not propose to have
the specter of Quantrell preside over
Its department of justice. The rea
son train robbers have not been pun
lshed is simply because the officials
have truckled to the element in Jack.
son county which still bears allegi.
ance to the late C~onfederacy.
These persons are still at war
with the United States and don't com.
prehend that robbing trains is not an
act of reprisal and war. To get into
power 1t has been the custom Of the
worst men of the city and county Dem.
ocracy to fraternize with this Guer.
rilla element, and elect to office its
bympathizers and hnsmen."
Nor are these ancient and dust GOV.
cred utterances. Nor yet have they
been confined to mi paper, They
have been the common stock In trade
of many OF the Republican papers, al
though the Star in this, rs In most
things Infamous, leads on the mob.
II was but on July 18th, last, that
tho Globe-D Democrat gave tongue again
TO the old villalny. In this ~insance,
however. the assault was not directed
against ex-Confederates alone, but was
a general ~broadside aimed indlscrlm.
inately at all Democrats who live in
the country districts. A preliminary
word. Edward Hickman was Secre.
tary OF Chief Of Police Hays Of Kansas
City; he was transferred to another
position by the Police Board, and John
Marens, formerly a Democratic editor
OF Hamilton. Missouri. was appointed
Secretary. Here now, is the infa-
nous article.
Hickman is distasteful to the rural
Democracy of Jackson county " > :
and its objection to him Is that he shot
and killed a train robber, who refused
to obey his summons to halt.
But the rural Democracy in Jackson
county, which idealizes and idolizes
fellows who hold up trains, have not
; been brought to a frame Of mind
where they a be either forgetful OF
! forgiving. The rural ring Of the party
! thinks It is r%etribution too long de
: layed, and not sufficiently severe. be
. cause he is not removed from the rolls
Altogether, and they will go after his
7 scalp with renewed vigor, regarding
! his removal from the Secretaryship
: as q waning of the powers behind
3 him."
; April 9th, 1865, the wal was ended
and children then unborn are now the
! ! heads of families and %counselors Of
: State. Another war has come, and
sons OF those who wore the Blue and
those who wore the Gray have died
!. together upon Santiago hills to give
! an added glory to their common flag
: T~hirty-eight years have passed, but
the surviving veterans of the Confed
eracy, who through them all have
been the best Of citizens, are still the
targets for an envenomed press.
Yet, again let us consider. These
are the same papers that, having fol
years cast the foulest of ISLANDERS upor
a the reputation of the State, suddenly
raised the cry, Stand up for Mis-
souri," but, even here. the force ol
long continued habit got the mastery
and SO they mingled such ~utterancel
a as Poor old Missouri" and Moss
, Back Missouri" with STAND up fol
Tissouri." 1t was a delightfully."-
udicrous though insulting paradox
o But the people of Missouri re
membered the day when the Re
publican party had not stood III
for Missouri" but had stood Missouri
. up" and robbed her of more thar
twenty millions of dollars, and they
b respectfully declined to repeat the ex
p~erience.
Once more let us reflect. These arr
the same papers that only last cam
paign asserted that the public moneys
had been pilfered, and the school
a fund looted. and that in the face Of
the indubitable facts continue to this
very day to insult the intelligence Of
he people of the State by insistent