Boone County Democrat from Rocheport, Missouri • 1

cppo teats it is the political upon' Yq OR THE CAMPAIGN ROCHEPORT 10 MONDAY OCT 16 1876 I nil IT I2 Young Sprouts says there is no lon ger any excuse for putting your own spoon into the sugar or disregarding the butter knife from the various We a doubt but that pne thousand women and twiqe or three times that number of men could just as well be dispensed with It is a well known fact that for a number of years past many of the Radical members of Con gress have been in the habit of de manding that favorites be given clerk ships when their services' were not at all needed and this is khe way that so many vc'ibecn allowed to draw big salaried moot of the hard wrung taxes of lire 'yeomen of the land We hope to see at the' next meeting of congress the noble and fearless demo cratic members i thereof take another pull at them and clean out the sine cures by voting still less of the pco toynVe and immediately LUttouehoiifthe Atlan A them made a noise which hpftrH imm river citips that Rocheport was the best trading point its to be jj ERAZEE PisMislier farm house discovcted a fine of birds ook aim and tired off a uoidr wnivn 'Yi' neara imm? to usurp the control" of oun iroverh ment leaving fnejieople no voice the conducfof affairs Itis the office holders who constitute and manage al Republican nominating conventions: it is the cilice holders who dictate tm policy ol the administration ofiice hokk who conduct canvasses and are relied manipulate and if necessary election return Mr Mayes sition to the old Democratic of rotation in office which has alwavs been held to be the only effectual bar ner to the creation ol an othcc holding aristocracy proposes to give lifq tenure to these men and thus render them entirely independent of public opinion This will account foy the enthusiasm they manifest lor his eicc tion All of thpse office holders on the occasion of every important elec tion arc compelled to contribute mon ey for political purposes and thus enormous corruption funds are raised to use against the people who vish to reform the government Our two great Tobacco Warehouses bought and shipped to Scotland and England last year upwards of two mill ion pounds of the weed Both of these establishments are owned by Col Robert A Caskie late of Richmond Va We also learn that 'he proposes to purchase a still larger amount next season About one hundred Hands now find employment the larger part of the year and the amount of money paid out per week for this labor will to the producer some thing Were our farmers to give more acres and atten tion to the planting of tobacco in this portion of our State there is no telling what the advantages might lie to our town and trie country around iis well as to the produevrs TERMS (ME CREATZNQ AN OTHCAEC'ETd OlCE When the multiplied evidences rascality pre so as to become an every day matter of record amir 3 the Republican Party how much more it behoove? every true me 11 of thq Democratic faith to uc his influence 'th in pijr County State and Nation al canvass to elect tried honest ancj competent men to fi li tiro places noy occupied by the incompetent satellite who under the smiles of their master Grant as did their protoy types of yore under Mero the irst" We find the following in an exchange and if it does not teach us to what extrava? gant and unlawful acts for pa(tycndsG Mr Grant Has lowered himself there is nothing which can A Vrhen President Graut'entered office in 1869 the office holders on the civi list of the United States numbered 5m 267 In 1S75 they aggregated 9 1 10 being an increase of about forty thou sand in six years only of ad ministration Mpny of these render no sei vice to the country but are mere ly political pensioners on the trenmrvyhQr iu mmn foyjnoncy they drawf lhre fciypeded' to worhffor the pc rpetuatioi owe he corrun Accidents Thanks toCol wilder of the for copies of his admirably ponducted paper in advance of our is sue The Col knows the value to us' 1 us now of the act and which his kind ly heart has prompted him to do We made a short visit to Columbia the seat of our county courts last week for the first time arid was reminded of he clean pe so ofte ZlOCZZEOEE It will be expected of us to say some Hthjqg concerning the town Aye have chosen to set upour press and printing types in We remember some eight ten years ago it was said in pie up denpes distinguished ciffiAms of OTr State we lor a newspaper is for every fellow found in this part of our state but af ter a while the Athens of the (our county ceat) began tp put on airs and its intpllectual giants prevailed upon the ovyners of the Mo tp run a to Columbia This it seems captivated several of the busi ness men here and they? removed to the central town of the county True the little of the River lost a few by this but it recovered in time its former number in business men so that qow we can claimtobe fully up to times when our town vM4 a power in the land Situa ted in a cove or bay on the banks of the Missouri river and rising gradual ly from the brink of the great stream and laid out at right angles it forms a beautiful town site for both business and rcsidencauw Thcreare tuovft five dry goods store ores? 1 1 flfi 4 1 nree grocery stores two drug and book stores one saddle and harness one jeweller and watch repairing shop two bopt and shoe shops two or three milliners and dress makers three or four good schools five churches odd fellows masons and good tem plars two flouring mills two tobacco packing hou es one saw mill one pottery one carding machine two plow and wagon manufacturing es tablishments three blackisirji th shops two hotels two confectionery and res taurants two dental offices one batik one lawyer ijve physicians and sur geons fiye boarding houses four warehouses two npeat markets two coffin manufacturing shops two paint ers and grainers two carpenter shops one livery and feed stable two ba keries two barber shops one news paper and job printing office four stage and hack lines one ferry boat one steam packet fop river trade one tannery ifcc Among other manufacturing estab lishments we can boast of a good and well conducted Saw Mill located in our village where cotton wood and other kinds of lumber is sawed to any dimensions wanted Rocheport buys and handles more Tobacco as it comes from the produ cer than any other town of double her population in Missouri BOUNTY JJEMOCRAT Hi i 1 1 Ye have good cause to flmke an apoI ggy for size of this the first of the Egg County at to reasons beyond the control of the propi ietor our large printingpress may pef reach us for a short tipje to come I and as 7re were anxious to have a sav I ps to the duties of the men of our old i pne venerated party before the close of fne canvass we concluded to get out asjarge a sheet as cprlittlejcb presclwill pyint This is opr apology and we ione it is siffficiept'to sapEfyall the friends of ihe i The publisher of this paper will lake I if as a eyrcai favor if any person gen tieman or lady who knows of an item' of news that would be proper to in sert in the columns of the Democrat jdovyn the principle points anq send tnem to us The simplest way to get a good to walk into the printing office order his name put down as a subscriber and pay one year in advance VVq do not propose to fill up the columns of this paperwith hand bills I The readers of the 'Democrat we 1 think will prefer that the space be de voted to a more rational method of ad vertising thus a ffiorrlmg the publisher a chance to give to its patrons a belter I and reater looking paper SHOT 1IIS HAND Mr rederick Gross a steady and hard working young juanofour town went out into the country a short dis tance on Mondayafternoon last to shoot quails and while near Mr Jr rnes and who vyentkimmediatery in search of the cause "of the alarm andwhen he came up with Mr Gros s' found him bleeding profusely and suffering from a torn and shattered hand that I had just been blown to fragments bv I the bursting of his gun barrel The wounded man was immediately con veyed to his home in Rocheport and I Dis Elliott and Wooldridge called in who after an examination proceeded to amputate the hand at the wrist At this writing Thursday we learn that i Mr Gioss is getting along very well 7 hat sonic of the Radical sheets sav eacls of the Congressional reduction in the expenses of the Government bureaus in Washington may be gathered ffom the lament which Mr A Leach of the Sedalia Z'iiros puts fourth in a late issue of that paper The reverend Leach ought to now that it is the people who demand ictienchmcnt and reform when he publishes that The text and hundred women hye been dismissed 1 iL'themoit were Jed Te ality of pit repeated saying that Columbia was lhe of tliu Editors arid Printers for some Unac countable cause are very poor go to mcetirig but on the evening of jast Sunday we ventured to attend the Protestant Methodist Episcopal church to 'listen to a discourse by Mr 1 White remarks were based uponx passage found fo Matthew's history of vnrisi ana ms apostles wmen rea its follows if any man vjyulcf bc iu' disciple let hiir fedlovj incV is need jess tp remark that the' rev gentleman made a decided hit and convinced his listeners that to be good and consistent Christians thyHzwx followthe t'each ings and be governed by those rules of every day action which experience and common sense dictate sermon were also a convincing and overwhelming argument in favor of putting the known and beneficial prac tices of the great and patriotic demo cratic party into every day for unless ve dcr we have no light io be accounted as honest and consistent men and our acts will be the prooj for certain condemnation Let the honest man be not led astray by the wiles of the tricky and greedy office seeker whose promptings are evil and whose career if placed in positions of public trust would hasten the day of a great and noble par destruction and from whose ashes would spring up Hie dir i I I A 1 esi calamities 10 curse ana destroy tms y' ttr'e h'vp ndent people i pie's money for similar abuse '1 BOONE COUNTY DEMOCRAT i wmm 1 jiihh i 7 CYVx I I vl I I 1 Xv I 7 's I xi IT t4 Mr 1 Hf H' 1 1 1 fl 'JH rrnfrTi i'J'i i TIK e'ran A 4y A A.