Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1872-10-30

visors Of townships and cities shah
be died IN thsjakice athe clerk Of
b county cotft. y EPvlded o. IN
sec. 1sAarticl6 9th IF Ibis NJ, 18th
their f6attF ofquaHhenti6q sef an9
countysadpptihS this act, tn office
OF FORMER opunty coart justices shall
cease aud determine. NAn0s D GU
pervisors 80 elected and qualified,
from tho time OF filing of such GER
tificate By the respective TOWNSHIP?
clerks, shah become the members of,
and constitute the county court of
said colinty.- Eureka! here it is!
Yes, here is where the gcnficman's
pain is located, right i'll the XVI
article, and in see. l of said article
Yes, it the present county
court, that par excellence, dclecta BILE,
ne Dtus ultra quintescencc of justice
and goodness, ajudiciary from whose
decision there is 10 appeal ; q body
nucleus for bond rings and railroad
circles.
This question, fellow-citizeus, is
the test question Shall We abolish
the present county court system, and
adopt one more salutary aud more
economical, or shall we continue the
present corrupt and eX:ravagant sys-
TEN, under whose e~Xtfavagant aud
prodigal acts we have been grooming
for the past four years +; a system that
impoverishes the many to enrich 4
few! This is 4 very grave question,
4 question yer: serious iii its nature,
ii question thai involves the Interest
~ ..,;,, rr nfo,-atn ,o,,tv
1t is not my purpose here TO enter
into a minute detail OF the doings of
the county court: nor do | think that
this is necessary. This matter has
already been DISCUSSED through the
public press. Ii is enough for us to
know that We are burtilened with
debt ~alnncst io the very verge of
bankruptcy, and that the county has
already - mortgage on our real estate
that we. cur, children nor our chill
dren's children, will not be able to
liquidate.
Now. how WAS. this state of affairs
brought about ? Echo answers, how?
and what are the legitimate results ?
The answer is, every department Of
business has become stagnant, and
every III is crying out hard times"
There is not even any real estate
selling. No man is willing to buy
land with an irrcdeemable mortgage
OH it.
Now, fcllow-citizens. l do insist
! upon it, that We should change our
system of county government. BY
SO doing, We may better ourselves !:
it is impossible to make matters any
worse. Let us have a township or
ganiZatiou and thereby remove the
cause of IL present financial troub-
les. I have no doubt that if every
man was now in possession of the
money which he has paid out in the
va: Of taxes, which he would not
have paid uudcr an economical adj
ministralion of our county affairs,
but that he would be out of debt
and i'll 4 prosperous condition; but
This he never be under the
present system of county govern
mcnt : they will continue to 20 on
from bad to worse all the while.
Now, do think that If the people of
Lafayette county would take the
trouble to inform themselves OF The
township organization law, that
they would he in favor of the system.
| feel almost certain that every town.
ship i'll the county would, except
Lexington township, and she. OF
course, has her reasons for not being
in favor of the law. One party in
Lexington would be opposed TO it,
because it would put out of existence
a county court which is of the same
political persuasion of themselves,
and Keeping time in unison with them,
another party at lexington, COM
posed of n Heterogeneous c~onglomr"a-
ton of all sorts of society-thc party
familiarly known as THE ring"
There is also another party ut
Lexington known as the Democratic
party /: this party, too. will also be
opposed to tie organization, because
the voting strength of that party is
SO equally balanced by the Radical
party, TINT it would be u difficult
matter for them to elect their officers
without the assistance of the county
outside ofLcXiugton.
Lafayette has been workin. for the
interests Of Lexington TO the neglect
Of her W long enough, so let me
say to you. tcllow-citizens. come UP
to tie polls on the 9Th OF November
and east your votes for township
organization, and my word for it,
You will never regret it.
Bio SSI,