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p or a ere |i belong to a party pledged to foster | OPPOSED TO THE SINGLE GoLp | Jy tce” situeecm end. to. she eater Fi democracy « f the Union,adopted the Pur en rYenv aS IVS ‘ 2 e_republican party im reapeoa te lated upon the p aiding: In the construction of trunk | 7; js also the occasion of real pride Mil the varicd Industries Of this, Ame Ot (Lene eee eeny (ena eereee eee ne | Chee ie Sell qorerninoney cee ere Pa ored guest, that dist f line railroads, Whenever one of the | to know that the democratic p rial sates, ‘The mn whe labors in | yet, Muay Fee wandanks under Whe | governs himsctt and also BOv Oy erat of MMlinois, who has se aided roads established to the satis-| jas not only effected the the mines, on the railways, Cut on the y F other man, that is more than self- : : Jeress, is detrimental to the best i ction of the governor that its stock- | con of the state debt, to whic is | farms, in the work-shops and m Porenei ai the SCA ebay mtten wetually expended a cer-| adverted, with a decreasing rate of fact i | , a ig rate of Hes me re of prosperity which eure rations of | tain amount for construction and] taxation, but it has enlarged and re at cities and elsewhere, shall so far | pave Coane ie Paareicl thie Aanenic ext vice- | author-| Luilt many of the state institutions as 1 can contribute to th result, : R : soe : ‘ i ults | Guring this administration is a vine president of Adlai | ized by Jaw, issued and delivered | ¢siat.ished others and increased the have the protection of laws which n of the quantative theory of E. Stevenson, | bonds to such road ta the amount of | endowment for the support of the plify the old demceratic | joney advocated by the democratic he money so expended, | j ubhc schools qual rights to all and i This contest will determine wheth- | one-half o! : ; “80 € : party. If the relatively meager in- er the Jeffersonian thec f wovorn- | the state retaining the first lien on all | sit to none.” I shall not} cease in the output of party and his country with conspic ous ability and fidelity, and who wil ernment liance is in the love of liberty which nl that is despotism. Our re es, upon the streets of our | holders had again preside over the deli has planted in us; our tipme the governor, a is in the spirit whieh prizes 1 the heritage of all men, in all everywhere.” shall exe doctrine of and of the state univer- It seems that these opinions of the special privil 1 due to | Sreat captain of the republican party ment, under which this young repub-| the property of the railroad compa- | ¥UMBER OF STATE INSTITUTIONS. essay the role of a den ue by Oe-| ine discovery of Hew ac Wwe to] should inspire that organization, and lic has grown to be the greatest and | nies including the lands granted by | In 170, when the liberal republican nouncing eorporatic eT TOY | Fiven ta mountie 6 dearee OF pros yet on the oceasion of the recent Ili- most powerful 1 of the earth congress. It is obvious, therefore, | administration of Gov. Brown drove thus gain power, end then betray the | Nority, how much #rcater. would {+ | BOIS state republican convention a res to be supplanted by the Hamiltonian | that no loss was possible except| tne radical republican party from people. Corporations of all kinds | je 'yeen had the mints of the United | ution of sympathy for the Roers theory. It will determine the mo-| through fraud, Eight of the trunk | power, our state institutions consist- shall have the same equality of eppor- was greeted with derisive hoots and tates keen opened to the free and un- limited coins tunity that other interests have. They are cntitled to this equality, nothing mentous issue, whether the great | lines of the state were thus bond-aid-| ed of: Lunatic Asylum No, 1 at Ful- xcept the Hanni-| ten, School for Deaf and Dumb at road, defaulted | Fulton, School for the Blind in St. in the payment of interest on the| Louis, State University at Columbia, the beginning or early in} Normal School No. 1 at Kirksville, jeers, And Mlinois is the state which ey of both gold and sil ver at the old ratio of 16 to 1, the gov ervr rines of republican | ed, and all of the 1} bal & St. Joseph r fundamental ave Lincoln to the Union, neath whose soil rests his ily nd be- SJ trious goverment are to be A more, nothing less at supplementing this output with the issue of legal tender notes rather than natio give place to go I desire tog In resting upon a distr ss men hes! Is it any wonder that Harrison, >| Hoar, Sehu and the business interests of the state Sherman, Henderson, ul bank curr, y of the people for overnment, | the civil war Normal School No. 2 at Warrensburg that the powers of the office of gov- |-fe currency legishuion of the last | Wellington, Edmunds, Boutwell, Hale, will determine whether we are to| No efforts were made by the state | Lincoln Insfitute (colored) at Jeffer- ernor shall be employed, within the | gcngress has still further enlarged and | Reed and others who have been great build up a stro: central national | during the war to collect the amounts | son City and the penitentiary at Jef- limitations of law, to secure the enaet- | ¢ortified the powers of the Money | leaders of the republican partyshould government csard of constitu: | due the state. These railroads cost | ferson City ment of just laws and te prevent the | prust, already a danscrous menace to] endeavor to ea halt in the mad tional limitation I thus | £47,402,000, and were amply sufficient | All of these institutions, except the passage of all laws bestowing special | 31) our interest race of the present leadership of that ly surrend t 1 to secure the payment of the indebt-| 10 normal schools and Lincoln insti- | favors. Any attempt to influence leg- a fe marty for world-wide empire? fairs heretofore exercised oy the}edness due the state, Indeed, Gov.| tute. were established by the demo-| islation by improper means, if such | MELITARISM | AND STANDING Poi aviniea of iio Baglen empire atate, It will determine whether the | Fletcher, in his inaugural address, in| cretie party before the republican there should be, will be disapproved ARMY e are slowly but surely crushing the ex- tment. No iue| 1.8m opposed to the spirit of mili : government of the British empire is| January, 1865, declared that they| purty secured control of our state by the exe utive depa piring South African republics. Lib preferable to the government of the | Were “ample security for the amounts | government. Since that time demo- terest hostile to the people shall be | tiem which dominates and controls | ¢. (here will soon exist as a memory Phe conflicting Hamilton-| advanced to them respectively.” cratic administrations have added the| ocratic control was only $100,553.68. | paid out of the treasury of this state | permitted to dominate the policy of | the republican party, and yet I admit} oiiy. phe war seems to be nearing Hsonian theories str. { In 1858, during the administration | following state institutions: Normal] The total cost of the last legislature | or any other funds under its mani the adiinistration, My congressional | Ut if we are to have a colonial em-| i+. close, and the tattered remnants navy under these great {of Gov. Fletcher, the republican leg-| School No. 3 at Cape Girardeau, | amounted to $3t , which is $12,-| ment except in pursuance of an appro: | record is the best guarantee I cin of- | pire It cam be maintained only by a] of tat heroic band of patriots must tine our eovernment{islature “sold” the state's liens on|®chool of Mines at Rolla, Lunatic | 616.71 less than th recost of the | priation by law.” fer that 1 will be faithful to. every | ! standing army end ao great ab-| oon seek homes eleewhere. Let this Thomas Jefferson was | the railroads, then amounting to $31,-| Asylum No, 2 at St. Joseph, Lunatie | four republican legislatures which as-| ‘The state treasurer, as commanded | trust, and that T will be the governor | ormal navy, But fellow-citizens, mil- | public extend a cordial handgrasp the very nation of faith in the {7%5810, to various republican politi-| ¢y'um No, 3 at Nevada, Reform | sembled prior to 1573 by the constitution, simply declined to | of all the people regardless of party | itavism fs a costly lesury, The five] ona welcome them to this old-time Integrity, eapacity and patriotism of| cians and promoters, and realized for | Sehc ol for Boys at Boonville, Indus- | STATEMENTS OF THE REPUBLIC AN | cash these “pay accounts,” although | afiliations. I pledge my word that | fen TOREEAOE Misi Be nt Britain! evium of aiberty, ‘he democratic the people, A! ‘hoe Hamsilttan ite: { the state but $6,131,196, a loss of $25, | trial Home for Girls at Chillicothe,| CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR. — | he says in his letter that “every meme | that the powers of the Chief Magistra- | (CTA, mines and the United | arty bids them welcome, but if they trusted the capac f the people | 604,44 to the tax payers, ‘The so-| Confederate Home at Higginsville and! In this connection I may say that | ber of the legislature and employee | cy shall be invoked to seenre honesty es approprinted durlig the inst eso omye, November will determine for self-overnment,and declared that | called “sales” of the railroads by the 1 Soldiers’ Home at $t.| the republican candidate for gover-| thereof knew that there was plenty | end economy in the administration of [CAL Your SHOThS0e ce to maintain) iy oe tneir jot shall be east in a “the British government forms the | republican legislature involved a very _ | nor, according to a dispatch to the St.| of money in the treasury with which | state affairs, and to promote all meas: | Naeeatee a Buin Y GI ITU Rte oe republic or in a colonial empire, best model the world ever produced." | simple process, Where the property _Jn addition to these new institu] Louis Globe-Democrat of the 26th of | to pay all demands ast the state, | ures which shall put our state ins eee ¢ RED en ee ou patterned after the mighty empire In that tremendous contest Jefferson | had already been “sold” by Gov.| tions. the state university at Colum-| July last, from Monett, stated atjand that warra 1u cover the | harmeny with the progressive spirit of | OW" tear ei Penge He BBERE i viioh haa just deprived tliom of home was the Victor, Our more than a een: | Fletcher's commissions to the lowest | Via bas been rebuilt; Lunatic Asylum | Jenkins, ry county, that the last | amounts due them woul ied as | this marvelous eentury now closing, | M8 t . o fA ; aes) Cae eT eeite . tury growth under the Inspiration of {and worst bidders, as was done in the| 8% 1 at Fulton has been refitted and | legislature cost the taxpayers nearly |soon as the appropriations were | and of the new century upon which we | Mer : anne ave ane entire out: |" PR esta ee te tMitillune ot declaration of| ease of the Iron Mountain and Cairo enlary 1; Lunatic asylum No. 4 at} $500,000,and in a speechat DelmarGar- | made.” The state treasurer simply | are about to enter, | i may i. s te i ne alae e he REPUBLICAN ATOR AL EXTRAY- independence, as crystallized in the Fulton roads, the purchasers | /"m‘ngton is now being constructed; | den, St. Louis, on the evening of July) obeyed the law. When members of IMPERIAL MISSOURT. a rea ata : iH anpeagils 1s - y Fete A 5 dependence, as erystalized in tne ee eleased from paying the pur | Me ccrner-stone of a splendid Fruit] 99, he also declared that the last legis- | the legistuture desire their pay the | Pejlow-citizons, to-day Missouri | Unie States has apprepriate’ $¢13,-| Mr. Chairman and fellow-citizens, BEE ee ern ey O(a aa caidites anal ailereto Ht ait Hxperimental Station located at] lature cost the taxpayers $3,300 daily. | uw pros methos by whieh i¢ | stands fifth In rank of population with | 500,288.70 to meet Spanish war thero is another issue raised by the t eval Y had been ade by commissions, the | Mratain Grove was recently laid; | In discussing state affairs at Monett | can be easily secured State Treasur- | hep sister states, but in many respeets |; ween to subjugate the Fil-] national democratic platform of com- most wonderful republic of all time. | rin held by the state were trans |e huillings for the care of the Fee-| on the night of July 14, he further as-|cr Pitts in this ease pursued the Biles ites, but many respects |ipinos and — to uphold the | manding interest to the people. ‘The A COUGH ASSO ALS HL eh areata rae enue aun use TIN telen NT eunder con-|gerted that a “number of the war- | course which should invite eommenda- | fe the veer of ony. iH tone republican colonial pclicy of conquest | denunciation of continued war taxes, Haile Salen Treo IDANEUSIOnG BONED | ee edte: tho laws, aaa tes obit, arin | Ties Aid conatmention, wad ths capi-| rants of the members of the general tion rather than carping critictem, Gust ince aencnee (EKGAN Siroughe | 22 “criminal aggression.” The actual | after the war has closed, and the lav- Ae the rommice of listory. Durie ee Cie tol buiiding at Jefferson City has] assembly went to protest,” and there| It may not be the occasion for sur 4 So | war expenditures during the last fiseal | ish appropriations of the republican our national life politieal parties | consideration of trifling sums of i embly went to | n out the Union, "Lo be a Missourian is ene SLITS fOr hel fous ee Saves I CLTGPh EAH RUPCRRELE GeO beer inj toved by the construction of | were 5S1 persons on the pay rolls of | prise that some republican eandidates | y Gistinetion for any man, wherever he Sir ge $118 dor @ash one /EToNr | chitrens aro exceedingly timely. TURE SEE UE, SAUBANU pullticn eta |. ahy Cameuge alaratisl sea (herent: fe, an r wings at a cost of about] the state doing clerieal work in both | for office should seem to Cvs auteas anion canny vealive el a renee ea ce: V | ae Be rene hed an enor. assed away, Differences upon pure-| lican administration released the lien |), ae houses. It may be true that the eler-| break down the safeguards of the | this so fully as one who has been ab-| ee as} ous total of federal appropriations Ie oaieRtle GNSAEBHWCTAY: Fae ed | on the Pacific road (now the Missouri | "*!ENDITURES FOR SCHOOL PUR- | {eal force of the last general assembly | treasury by the constitution, | ent from her borders and sojourned | FON, Ninel thie dinin stration amounting practically to the eontisea AU iateatevies peniai-at ave Wat Ih fic) tor $5,000,000, {he atate’s tien ros was in excess of the number reaily| but 1am sure that the taxpayers 0¢ | elsewhere, ‘The aspirations af Mise | £70M 25,000 to 100,000 men, and yet] tion of a large part of the earnings « i ir history. | Pacific , the state's ip Ares pape ano ae! renulved for the oconomlonl transac: lall partios will npplaud te cournpaot ‘ Hae the demand is for still further in-| the people. Year after year the re Questions of tinanee, taxation and | being $10,780,000, The lien of $6,960,000 | _ The state has expended $6,482,092,29 | red r 3 peed WADE seutians for continued state improve- | OM) oe mat accomplished soldier, | publ Meet bite other great issues have aligned ourlon the North Missouri (now the Wa-| for the support and maintenance of | tion of IMs neato, LEE AONE eb ie See OSL aaa a ment and developnent detract noth- | (01° 4 Saini lon ie Nae a ily ee ei ae | vie ae He Side ye Asoile tron Amortu (ine Anion Opel basli) then commlotedinorons tho abate! | CUP-elcomoaynury und educa tfanal ine | Momans howerer in ibe Abr uGne ] | siiiG Peoblayo wg fron thle devotion te he gorat| | Oa ciided an ie icltie Wares, Wet @ fall count be posing political standards, but from] was sold for $200,000 to certain per- | stitutions since the administration of | Which I have refetves haa exhibited) Cosy OF ‘NIB STATE PENIINN: | Republic, On the contrary, my fellow: | “OF, dont of our lines Bening the | ealied upon the ever increasing Koale the daps af Hamilton, until the pres \acus uamed in she tums, Goy. Woodson. In addition to this lib | aM inaccuracy wholly unwarranted by TIALS tivens the uplifting of the state will | 1 BEB AUB SUE VemU cn un BID CEtan ANGRCOA IE 200 us it 4 F ‘ mi eo. | tho: facts | le aera iventiaa ob Ake Geek “s P cnich | Filipinos, in far-away Luzon. Before] of national expenditures. ‘The warn ent Republican administration, no po-| phe Southwest branch of the Pa-[¢T@! expenditure it expended $2,-| ; yanay : des ae mié that giprions Union: of which iis intrepid. Koldier fell ups | {ag lias tus tar thllen upon dunt cnr iileal finely lise over neal 1 Propude'|iclite Cuore tte Heinen) witha taderhl| quoTme, durine the anit period: for) |The tor) cost ot therecant leu |tuspayers, to tli: & ‘ Aitoreul lark cone (tue party forsonel| ue eA a Utne yee ease RU raSrA Ue, aw colonial system fashioned after the }iand grant of 1,040,000 acres of land, | he construction and repairs of th ature ha t been given, and as) state at national greatness will grow and ex: [O" tHe Held of batts he left ar ! ee fon tees opp ae OF empire of Grent Britain, ‘hia ts thy} co Which the atate loll w itenvof ebe| te buildings to which 1 have re-4 heretofore stated, is less than WY | Hiean de Y 1 pad in exaet proportion to the great: |) ik ee i: ne Liat [al ANY hat ratin, ik until lane tendered iy Biwatlond Mekinleylcmren was miven away hea dhe rith en [erage cost of the republican I a | ny 1 Geunntiained iy eaeh atate Me ite aut 7 vers i a now the liabilities imposed by a single and the leaders of the Republican pa FN a ie ee tig:| The taxpayers can not be too free] tures prior to democratic r How= | MeCh ' tion,the penitens | Let the efforts of cur people, there- | 9 subjugate the Filipinos, It is sald | congress are ko stupendous as to be Gar aadewiiNBe WRtiey RROREMEA Elite ae ae Bee natth quently reminded that this commend-| ever the fact of 1 extrava-| 4 taxpayers $27,001.44 | fore, be united along the lines of prog- | that the war in the Ph lippine Archi- | almost beyond the power of computa (uniitent death TG A vel rere Mal Le at ay Hoult be | thle use of public money has been | sane both in st tional ad-| over i ¢ eu In Des} 4 Which shall still further develop | POeo bed practically ended, ‘hat is} tion, The SPErone Rien of the first oy thi the Ki inv HnbhOnHel tee ler Se cn borndary ot | Mule for these worthy institutions, | aninistratic sl not be ted on- | our resources,enlarge our enterprises, De , ui OTM, ode-| session of the last republican cor eaninied ue io lo die Mpamelie ee A ‘ ih yeaa ctigen the tne, | lithough the tax rate has been re--|as a pree¢ tent by deme It ers, ‘ prisoner I quicken the activities of business | CHF) an’ Yel My felow-cltinens, in) groaa, exchiding all the esti Suni tea ; anes the state, and so on ¢ ve Hines | duced one-half true that the V part ted | being D Lup to A elute arngnificent and mojeatic, | sence of that appalling danger | amounts necessary for the ar vn ja releases were made until every ae But, my fellow-citizens, this is not | the substan people when they | July | teeming with activity Gnd tireless en | (9 Our minister and our missionaries | nary growing out of the war wit iieariin) Veltele@anate ie RHMNGaMNE nie es bees lee jegnittec’ alt of the splendid financial record of | controlled tate t is also | from 1 f its ay the Intelltieanicl Vik S Pekin, with thousands of semi-bar-| Spain, reached the tn \ MR UTAee WAL gh HERS lave Tet he Ant ap ‘ aca « to] te Memoeratic party. On January 1) tre that its record in national af | y 1 wand 7 fof lak pentlicce riuns clamoring for their blood, the | of $57,903,707.56, Contract liabilities as Meas : oie |. ‘The official records are silent as to asia, the eash capital school fund of | fairs, as T shall preset ‘ q { the aia PARTE ATG WkRlOty: OF ment was ui to send only | amounting to $58,440,374 were also ade wi ttled ir he com: | the influences which secured the the state amounted to $2,570,100; on | record less proc but in ‘ ( ' U| her resources, her untold mineral and w thousand soldiers from Manila, | thorizedwhich must be met by a4 JOR Sean : Hie seman age and approval of the variou July 18 of the present year it aggre-| submitting the exhibit 1 1 not} t e i : e nsetiouteneal Mnetive: | because Gen, MacArthur insisted they | priations hereafter. It must be b tie ahaa es ei RE Miopeey released the liens upon the f sarod $3,158,000, ‘The interest upon | wander n the x did the | te i Panit he indus. | Coukl not be t, except at the peril] in mind that 1 t is app bed etal ' colonial) roads securing the indebtedness tol this handsome cash endowment fund, | gentleman name 1 ioe fi +} rages of American icy in the | priated to meet the ¢ ary ex] Lb y Will be powerless to une} the state, except as to the Missouri (jarger than any other similar fund of | fice of governor by the I =| be it und vill lor pro- }archipelago. only a little} of the government, and exeeeds 1 do that er nuainst Liberty, Eim-|Pacitie railroad, As a result of a] any state of the republic, ‘oes to edu | ty 1 loss to nd Ww Eressive cites and the extent of her | more than a week's voyage and travel | $51,6%5,146.00 the amount appropriated mere i . © never overs) proceeding in court it appeared that} cate our children, he I been so sta water-ways—truly we have a wonder. | from the 65,000 rican soldiers now | for the fiseal year of 1 SAPOWH exoey ’ Jagents of that corporation paid $192-) "phe seminary fund, the interest of | en the f It can} t t ful domain—a price heritage | in the Phil house of reprenentatives was last con In th t¢ between Jef | 178 to procure the passage of the lw | which is used to support the state uni-| not be char to a lack of op pore perth ‘ ex-| whose splendid possibilities and ulti- | heroic but trolled by the democrac ferson and I ton, the people were} which they exultantly boasted saved] versity, has also been increased from | tunity to acquaint himself with the | stood by thestat wrn= | mate achievements ean hardly re. | to resene ‘The increases are apparent in a triamphant, In tt cue erisis of | their stockholders nearly six millions | $205,700, as it was on the Ist of Janu-| affairs of the great stat finan: | j of the and | told, even with the gift of proph { there, these soldiers dared not go most ever © of expe our beloved « the God of} of dollars, In other words, certain / ary, 1573, to $1,235,80442 on the 18th] cial record he has maligne f the | up to the « y were $4 In this eonnection you will ‘ Phe presiden 1» manly, courage | The clamor ery department ba fathers be with \ ory, | ofticials were corruptly intluenced by] af July last. ‘The total amount of | party he I w the | 729 « nll the expr of | pardon a per reference. It was | ous Ameri h heart beat in| been for 1 more cater as He i y de yoand the use of this money, 1 the tax+(money raised by taxation from all| venom of dless p hip, wit the titut r ‘ ‘ my ple reasa representative of the | #ympathy with that ¢ t band of indubitat the saddle et people at the repub payers thus flagrantly outraged. sources to maintain the public school | out jv eat During the | aries ¢ c 1 t reat Third Missouri district in the | Americans besieged in China, I know t not ¢ ‘ le make th ve, in The liens of the state were extin- | system in 1871 was $1,687,575. The to-| last six year 1 office | ir r tal « last congress, to support a bill provid- | he sent every s er from M . tions of the 1 tariff! and Yo f Abrahain 1 that | guished on seven of the bond-aided | tal amount raised for this purpose in| holder at Jefferson ( where 1 ing for the construction of three great | that could safely go, but the ted re 1 t wit “the t of the people shall at a loss of principal and inter-| 1s99, under democratic rule, was $7,- | record ss, and e surplus ean be war vessels for our new navy. One of | number who have ed the] Ita A iipoxe aot net frow th © of the! Which will aggregate $45,043,082 | 078,021.34 gentle ve put himself in| by t era for th ahese sate? ea-going battiesbips of | real situation in the Philippis It | expenditur The earth when the bonds shall be finally paid] In 1869 and 1870, the last years of | posses before at ¢ of our state gove and the first class is now building, and is | is a condition of war, and the end of | « but the t the | ms of | with he Hert two years radical republican rule in this state, | tem to recite t or else main-| this extent rel taxpaye t equipped with t a nd | the war, no man ¢ r , t racy have been forn ed, our lead: | power by an indignant people | of public s¢ 4,714.87, an aver-| COST OF THE LEGISLATL AND] But, my fellow ens, I have not] armed with four twelve-Inch g vd | 4 t y of|t presented, Lt most heartily indorse | Joseph road. Unde administra-| supremacy, the state ributed for But what are the The legis: | rty while in power a Missouri at her mast head, and carry | than 200,000 men. Are the people Fello . 1 desire t th our party platfo and will briefly| tion of Gov. Crittenden the state's] the support of public schools $1,914, | lature was in sess: the national flag upon every sea and | ready to welcome this we of addi-| point to ca tention to the ap Feview some of the issues invelved in| lien upon this road was enforced with- | 429.57T—an average of 214.78 year-| total cost of § into every harbor of the world, andj tional taxation aud this menace to! palling extr ace of the MeKinley this campaign, out loss to the stat ly. The ber of teachers employed | daily expenses, inc nwke our state kpown to the inhabit- | republican instituttays? ation, which bas Leen ghpwa