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Show A RABID SPEECH. At the meeting of the Republican club Wednesday evening, an unwar-an unwar-an ted attack was made by Judge A. Saxey- on the President of the Democratic Demo-cratic club of Provo. With reference to the Democracy of the State of Missouri, Mis-souri, he made this absured statement: "Take the State that the great Gash came from, Missouri, where the Democratic Dem-ocratic party upheld and protected the James gang." We ask this gentlemen frankly if he supposed his audience were fools and that they would swallow such rot? Every ore knows that the James gang was the greatest bandit the world ever knew. They know i further that the Democratic governors of Missouri kept a standing reward re-ward (a reward heavier than any ever placed on any fugitive) for the bodies of the James brothers, either dead or alive. They also know that the Pinkerton detectives all turned up missing when they went after these men. and that it was certain death to effect an arrest. Tin people know also that every means was used by the Democratic party of Missouri to rid the State of such a band, but all to no avail. Then again, when Judge Saxey talks of Democratic administration m Missouri, let him think of the six years it spent under Republican rule, with Fletcher and McClurg as governorship gov-ernorship men who gave Missouri such infamous administrations (saddling a debt of thirty-three millions of dollars dol-lars on the State) that the people at' the polls turned them out, so that siuce 1872 there has not been a Republican Repub-lican State officer in her employ. The Democratic party of Missouri has given the people of that State good administration, and the debt of thirty-three thirty-three millions of dollars Is now reduced re-duced to below eight millions, and this, too, coupled with the fact that the government has reduced the people's peo-ple's taxes. Economy and nhonesty has been the watch word of every officer during the period since 1S72, excepting in the case of Treasurer Xolden, two years ago. Even then the State did not lose one dollar, for his bondsmen cime up with the money he was found to be deficient in, and the man was thrown out of his office and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. All of these facts. Judge Saxey knew. Judge Saxey never makes an utterance ut-terance on politics but what he fights the war over. On Wednesday night he said that "the issue between the People's party and Liberals was dead; let it rest with the bygones." Did he not remember that just one short year ago he advocated and petitioned for every Mormon to be disfranchised? To us the war issues are as near dead as any issue on earth, and no man having hav-ing a spark of manhood would try to make it a political issue. It was pure- ly sectional. But what are the facts? The war statistics show that the Democratic Dem-ocratic party furnished fifty-two of the seventy generals who fought the battles bat-tles of the North, while three-fifths of the entire army who enlisted for the first two years of that war were Democrats Demo-crats to the backbone. The same incentives that led Judge Saxey to make the thrust at A. D. Gasii and the State of Missouri, and to say that the war was a party fight, leads him now to say that disfranchisement disfranchise-ment "makes him sick," when less than a year ago he was advocating just that very thing. |
