The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1910-06-02

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meeting last Saturday, Hon. Geo. w
Micheal, candidate for the Democratic
nomination for Congress, repaired tt
the court house yard where he spoke
to a few people who gathered around
him. He spoke for an hour and hal
in fearless manner telling of condi
tions as he found them. His speech
in part was as follows.
| On my arrival here found ring al
the head of the Democratic party oi
Taney county similar to several have
found in other counties in the district.
The politics of the ring here are so
rotten that they are stencil to decent
mems nostrils.
If it is Democratic for such men as
Francis and Russell to buy up from
three to five leaders in each county at
a price from $400 to $1,000, you may
call me Democratic insurgent, but it
is not Democracy.
True Democrats are opposed to
USURPATION. RING RULE and DIRTY
CAUCUSING. They want the doors
opened and bright light. Your cum
ming ring tried to buck and gag' me;
they decoyed me to their caucus
and told me I could address the meet
ing if would promise not to speak
against Francis and Russell. I told
them that I believed in free speech
and that I allowed no man or set of
men to dictate to me what I shall say
in my talk in speech or otherwise.
It was humiliating to me for men
who possess about three original ideas
above an oyster to try to trick me from
talking to the Democrats of Taney
county. Their trick was to continue
their sham nominations until it was too
late for me to be heard and then ex-
tort from more worthy Democrats a
compliment for their great and won
derful skill in organizing. There is
but one cheerful thought to be cher
ished in this and that is that the rank
and file of Democracy abhors cunning
knavery as was plainly seen by them
wher the trick was revealed to them.
The object of the primary law was
to thwart caucusing and sham and
tricky conventions. The convention
today was under the guise of love
FEAST" but instead of serving to the
unsophisticated, true blue Democrats
Jeffersonian pie, sweetmeats, love,
truth and Cody principles, they served
to them, on Francis and Russell gold
plates, trusts, tyrany, sophistry, hypo-
cracy and intrigue.
Democrats of Taney county, mean
the true Democrats and I know there
are many of them in every county in
this district-put men at the head of
your party organization who are above
taking such sums of money to help
mislead the rank andfile of the
party.
David R. Francis is a multiple mil
lionaire and J. j. Russell is very rich.
It is enough to say that our govern
ment is cursed by filing our Congress
with men who have nothing but money
and constitution on the brain and lack
ing all love of liberty for common
people, corporation lawyers like the
Hon. ]. ]. Russell who has volumes OF
law and not scruple of conscience.
Is Congressman friend to you
who will make speeches to you for
twenty years about the system OF trust |
robbery as Mr.. Russell did and then
go to Congress and sit there and look
wise and let the same system OF rob-
berry that he abused continue to rob
you without making an effort to stop
it7 The facts are plain and simple,
the two men, Francis and Russell, are
not your friends, they are classified
with the modern politician, ANYTHING
TO BEAT.
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