Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1873-01-29

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beasort ofwhale among small Goldfish.
He has voice Ike q two-year old
bull, and who, he roars the darkies
prick up their Q ,rs. But he has not
the influence with them hc once had,
neither has any other white man.
They have learned enough Of "parlia-
mentary iawo 70 know they can sell
out on their own responsibility and
without consulting broker White
more. They don't. need any proxy.
l remained iu the House until ii
adjourned, Or took a recess as tEey'
styled 1t, until the 7th of lspuaffe
This recess is for turkey catfn1fp,sf-
poses. Your South Carolida lcsi.la-
tor would rather sink tho Eeus,itu-
tien than miss the ChristInas frolic.
They dissolved In very good
hu:nor. At o'c,3ck member
moved that Eve do n.sw have fifteca
I,isautcs to SMOKE an e1haye good
FfiYsye sss ssss1saz sssss;ss
Speaker-You mean that wo have
some smoking aud social cnjoymeEtf I
Member-That's nay move.
Speakcr-Ail those i'll favor oc ::
fftrcn minutes smoke sas aye.
The tolume of ayes was trcmcnd-
Gus. In few moments nearly every
member had cigar in bis mouth.
The room rapidly filled with smoke.
Moving about in the cloud were the
legislators, slakim" hands, shouting
and laughing. and conducting them
selves much I, negroes do at revival
| meetings.
TO the r. >, and rather to them
selves were Il bakers dozen or go of
DEMOCRATS.
fine, intelligent looking men, whose
basinr - in the miserable body is to
try and stem the tide of reckless ex-
pendilnre and corruption which
threatens I" swamp the State. They
do not smoke or laugh. They arc
not. jolly. There is nothing funny
i'll the proceeding TO ttrc!!I. ! hey
behold the downfall ami degradation
of their State with thoughts tina, axe
not uttered. Some of !hciu were IL
the Legislature twenty years ago, and
q comparison makes them heart-sick.
After the House adjourned wemt
into the Scna,c. That was on the
roiut of adjourning also. White
mere was on the floor with u coiC-
rui,tce report, which lie wanted
adopted.
Negro-I object!
Whittcmore-Fo Gods sake don't:
il has been before Us for two years
Scsro-l enter my object.
Whlttemere-You don't under
stand the case. Do let ,hc thin. go
through. This amt the Chester
case.
Ncgro-IIit amt? Then / take
blc& my objection. though, j. vas.
Whi,temorc-Ies, you got things
mixed.
Negro-Sah
Whittemore-No matter; it's all
right.
The thing passed. whatever it was.
and the slim mulatto Lieutenant
Governor declared the Senate al
jonrncd until the 9TH OF JANUARY.
Then the two dcns of corraptionists
came out of their chambers and mill
glcd together in the corridors.
In calling the South Carolina Leg
islature a den of corruptioni.ts.
speak advisedly, and have nothing to
take back. They are even more con-
tempiib!e and ven&l than their pre-
Gece-sors. whose conduct would make
The very cheek of midnight blush.
| la all the history of all the States, i'll
the history Of Europe, Asia. Africa
and Australia, there is no record OF
LAW makers as now disgrace The
capitol OF South Carolina. With
money enough you can put through
amy bill or be elected to amy office
within their gift. The mass OF them
are for sale iiac>hccp III the shamblcs.
with the exception that they scii
themselves.
PATTERSON BUYS TuE..
Eor proof have no occasion TO go
far back. john J. Patterson brl.l,i
his late election TO toe Senate. Er.h-
out money he would uof !.,v. =; =.
vote, not one. BY. expt:.,r.ls g.
tween sixty and seycnty-fiye tho"S-
and dollars he bought ni.ety votes
bought them rs you would buy so
MANY bushels of potatoes. There is
10 earthly doubt of this. His agent.
Werthingtou, was seen to paw two
negro Legislators twenty minutes be-
fore the vote WAS taken. One man
in tie Senate got thir,y-five hundred
dollars. The vote WAS taken in the
Senate first, ami there is where he
paid the heaviest, as he wanted tie
moral effect Of 4 handsome vote OH
the first ballot. lie got it. He PAID
for it. lie Is aSenator, bat he bough,
the place. He knows he bought it:
the members ofthc Legislature know
he bought it: Governor Scott knows
he bought it: everybody knows il
here, and l shaii do what can to let
other people into the light.
The night after the 'eIeciion' he
WAS arrested for bribery and taken TO
jail, but released Oh 8 writ Of habcaS
corpus from Judge Mackey. without
petition or prayer as required by the
State Constitution. Bat the thing is
not through with yet. There are
some nice developments ahead.
This mau Patterson is Pennsylva-
MIA sharper,wh no has been running the
Legislature here for some time. lie
buys them when he wants them. II
is to be hoped, for the good Of the
country. if not for the honor q OF
the Republican party, that this is his
last purchase toc sulne time yet.
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