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Missouri State Radical Ticket

NEWS OF 150 YEARS AGO

May and June 1864

From The Missouri Democrat, Monday, May 30, 1864.

MISSOURI
STATE RADICAL TICKET.

FOR GOVERNOR:
Col. THOS. C. FLETCHER.

FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR:
GEORGE SMITH.

FOR SECRETARY OF STATE:
F. RODMAN.

FOR AUDITOR:
ALONZO THOMPSON.

FOR TREASURER:
WILLIAM BISHOP.

FOR REGISTER PUBLIC LANDS:
J. E. SMITH.

FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL:
ROBERT F. WINGATE.

ILLINOIS STATE TICKET.

FOR GOVERNOR:
RICHARD D. OGLESBY,
of Macon county.

FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR:
WILLIAM BROSS,
of Cook county.

FOR SECRETARY OF STATE:
SHARON TYNDALE,<
of St. Clair county.

FOR AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS:
O. H. MINOR,
of Sangamon county

FOR STATE TREASURER:
JAMES H. BEVERIDGE,
of DeKalb county.

FOR SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION:
NEWTON BATEMAN,
of Sangamon county.

FOR CONGRESS FROM THE STATE AT LARGE:
SAMUEL W. MOULTON,
of Shelby county.

OUR TICKET.

Some time in the year 1858 or 1859 the effort was first made to thoroughly organize a State freedom party in Missouri.  There had existed previous to that time, in some localities, and chiefly in St. Louis, a party favorable to emancipation, but it had no organization, and but little sympathy, in by far the larger portion of the State. To introduce the freedom movement into such localities as it had not reached, and to raise the Free Soil party of Missouri into a State party, the effort to which we allude was made. To this end a committee of conference and correspondence was formed in St. Louis, which performed a large amount of labor. Of that committee, Colonel Thomas C. Fletcher, now the Radical candidate for Governor of Missouri, and then a resident of this city, was a member.

This fact serves to fix the status of Colonel Fletcher upon the slavery question years ago, and from the position he then occupied he has never swerved, except to advance to more Radical grounds as the freedom movement has progressed, and the same fact will answer as the best guarantee to the friends of free soil throughout Missouri, that in selecting Colonel Fletcher as their candidate for Governor, they have secured a man into whose hands they can safely entrust the interests of their cause.

Colonel Fletcher, however, has not merely been a Radical by profession. He has given a better guarantee of his soundness by his acts. From the day and hour that slavery’s rebellion against the Union developed itself, in Missouri, he has been actively laboring for the overthrow of both the result and the cause, and today he is in the front rank of the Union Army in Georgia, vindicating his claims to the confidence of all Radical men at the peril of his life. In favor of such a man it is unnecessary to multiply words with the Radicals of Missouri.

George Smith, of Caldwell county, Radical candidate for Lieutenant Governor, is perhaps better known to the people of this State generally then our candidate for governor. He has made a most honorable record in the Legislature of this State. Politically his course has been such as must command the confidence of all friends of the freedom movement in Missouri. As a member of the old Benton guard it was most natural that he should be found among the first to enlist under the banner of radical freedom when raised in this State, and among the most efficient to help fight its battles. Such has been the case, and the progress which radical principles have made Northwestern Missouri is greatly owing to his efforts in their behalf. George Smith will make an efficient officer, both in the position for which he has been nominated, and the one which his election may, in a contingency, devolve upon him. The balance of the ticket put in nomination at Jefferson City is all that the people will ask, being made up of true, earnest and able men and sound Radicals.  Messrs. Rodman, Thompson, Bishop, Smith of Greene, and Wingate, are known to the Union and anti-slavery men of Missouri only to be respected and trusted.