Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-06-10
A Voice from Washington Town
ship.

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EpIroR REG1srER:-Wf you accommodate. a
democrat who does not take your paper, by
publishing a small slip asking the Intelligencer
few questions? Some two weeks ago we demo-
OF our feelings to the intelligence for pubiica-
ton, in response to calls from several town
ships, Tor Capt. W. A. Thornton, of FresdOm,
who is q cadidate for the nomination, before the
convention for county collector. The commu-
niSation from here was endorsing the many
the reason that the piece was not published was
because the editor Of the Intelligencer Is q can.
give space to calls in his paper. from the peo-
Pile, that are calculated to advance his compel
itors. therefore compelling the people to take
sueur. for that Office or any other he may aspire
TO-. We do not intend to be choked of or gag
ged by such misplaced confidence. snd have our
sQuibs rushed into the scrap. basket without any
notice somewhere: We are in favor-of Capt:
Thornton. Of Freedom township, the farmers
srains. ali competltors as yet spoken Of. We
thought the Intelligencer was the democratic
organ, and claimed it to be the big gun OF the
party, and that the party cot Id be heard through
its columns at any time. Go it. MIR. Editor, If
you intend to pillow yourself into office in that
way, you can't propei your pillow with our is.
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP.
1 premise the remarks which l have to
make upon the above Communication, by
saying that 1 am satisfied that Capt. Thorn
ton did not authorize any one to make such
an attack upon me. Captain Thornton is n
gentleman whom ( highly esteem, and he
should not be held responsible for the indis-
cretions of his friends. The charge that 1
have used my position as editor Of this paper
to further my aspirations for Office is simply
absurd. 1 ask the people of Lafayette county
to point me to . single editor in Lexington,
since the war, who has 30 persistently kept
his name out of his paper as 1 have done !;
and while 1 have published several 'commu-
nfcations and PASSING notices, BY correspon-
dents, Of other candidates for collector, 1
have invariably drawn my pencil through
favorable mention Of my " name, by the
correspondents Of the paper, AMI while 9TH
ers have been advertised to the people
through its columns, my name has not once
been mentioned. I should . said nothing
about my candidacy in the paper had l not
been attacked, and 1 have several times
shielded other gentlemen from attsck by re.
framing from publishing adverse notices OF
them. 1t il well understood that correspon-
dents, especially anonymous ones, do not
always represent the people for whom they
assume to speak; for this reason, and to
protect u columns from overfio wing with
such communications, the business manager
Of this paper determined to continue the old
rule of the paper. charging one-half regular
advertising rates for all calls and commune
catipns advocating the claims Of gentlemen
for county Offices, but at my request this
was modified to one call or communication
Of reasonable length, free. and subsequent
ones to'be psid'f for. This gave every one q
chance. and protected the paper. In our is
sue Of the Goth ult., 1 published q long COM