Show 3 THE DEMOCRACY The Mirror of St Louis has under the heading Fees of the Octopus the following Tho four delegates at large from Mis fiourl will be prominent pwHonugea In the Kansu City conxuntlon which h 1 to ful minnie prodigiously tigalnat truts Col v v II Plidps Is I an open and notorious lobbyist Col Piutlps say i > Gov Sumo Is a lobbyist tot They both SULR users but Stone hldrs the shells Gov Stephens denounced IniHts all 8Igni I a bill creat t1JllS II1f1 II lug the St Louis suet railway trust lie nlso digued a bill that stoppid 1 the manufacture man-ufacture of iMfOOwu pounds ot baking powder per year In MiHourl i In the Interest In-terest ot the buldnt powder trust The fourth delegate Jt large hay done not h ng for tniBts probably because hu never had a chance Missouri hi a groat Slate No wonder Us inhabitants arcs called puke The politicians arc calml cause cructatlvo naudia But look at New Yorks big four all of them In the leo trust Democracy Is 1 consistency a pIgs eye I 1 There will be plenty more there besides be-sides the Missourians and the Jsew Yorkers of the same class They will cry their eyes out over the governing of some cutthroats In Luzon without the consent of the governed but not a tear will they have for the Republicans 75000 in tho majority in Kentucky who are ns good as disfranchised They will grieve over the cruelty of compelling some cutthroats in Luzon to stop their deviltry but they will look on In St Louis arid see a villainous mob beat sick I men on the way to the hospital and see I wojnen denuded In the ri fr Bie cars dynumited and still insist that only the I most serious conditions will Justify the calling put of the militia They grieve nvnr tho TmrnlB < that planned the ex termination of all tlc whites in Manila grieve that they aro not permitted to govern themselves but Indorse tho disfranchisement dis-franchisement of the colored Americans in half a dozen States They will deplore de-plore a little poslonice steal In Cuba but will afllliate with the chlefest stockholders stock-holders in tho ico trust of New York Suppose too they could win what l could they promise t the people of the United States That they would teardown I tear-down the nag that Del raised In the Philippines and turn the Islands over to anarchy That they would again fix the tariff so that the mills and factories of the country would be closed and all the I Government warehouses be stuffed to I bursting with foreign goods That they would drive the mon y of the capitalists into hiding and renew the depression that wrapped this country round like a shrowd during the last four years that the people trusted them with power I pow-er That they would llx things so that in case of violence the refuge of the I courts would bu denied the people In the hope of gaining power they aro holding out tin implied promise that if they succeed the murderous elements like those in northern Idaho In St Louis and in Kentucky shall have full swing They are appealing to the baser passions of mon who are employed now but who when they were last In power were eating free soup to help them lest the laboring mans liberties shall be taken from them They are shouting for Jefferson and Jackson and condemning the Republican part for doing what JofTcison did in Louisiana what Jackson did In Florida They are appealing to miners to vote for them that they may take the tariff from lead for the stockmen and woolmen to vote for them that they may take the tariff from WOOl from live stock and from sugar What can the Democratic part urge as an excuse for being alive |