Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-02-12
WYE LA HUMBUG.

name. Ii the repuDllCahs 'hihn 'i"'
the people are fools, that kind OF talk
may do, otherwise, it is the merest
chaff. Whilst the long-haired, kid
gloved swell-headed successor of
Horace Greedy, a man, is doing Jay
Gould's bidding, the people OF the
country, the patient hewers of wood
and drawers of water, are look
ing over the heads of the waivers
of bloody shirts and RECRUITERS OF
hatched up outrages in the South.
And what do they seer A president
whose private secretary is indicted
for felonv-a president who outra-
ges all decency by making his first
appearance i'll society for the winter,
a visit to a notorious plunderer,
Boss Shepherd president who
has intimated that should the necessi-
tv arise he would be a candidate for
a third term, and whose willing tools
have declared that that necessity has
arisen. They see this oman of des-
tiny" quietly smoking his cigar, and
winking at whisky rings formed to re-
elect him. They see extravaganza
and corruption surrounding him.
without a protest. They see the
vampires who suck the life-blOod of
the nation, like Oliver Twist, crying
for more. They see an army of re-
tanners at the command of the secre-
tary of the treasury. They see an
other army at the command OF the
secretary of the interior. Another
army under the orders of the secre-
tary of state. Still another at the
behesti of the encouragement. An
other under the control of the secre-
tary of the navy. J Another, with
arms in its hands, under the secretary
of war, aud last, but not by any
means. least, a grand army at the dis
lposal of the postmaster-general.
Each one of these hosts is thoroughly
drilled. Every member knows bet
ter than to rebel. Every member
contributes his quota of the "sinews
of war" to keepnup the party OF
"God and morality ?" They all bear
: allegiance to their several heads, and
their heads bear llegiance to-Grant'
Let all honest man arise in the halls
of congress and try to stem the tide
of extravaganza, and a "giant of in
J, ~tellect" arises and frantically cries
Davis was a traitor, he murdered ou'
, soldiers at Andersonville "Dowi
, with Davis pr Another 'sbrave anC
Intelligent" tribune weeps for hi
country because a Mr.. Hambleton
, somewhere, christened his boy John
Wilkes, and his neighbors dubbet
him Booth. When Thomas Jeffer
|, son warned the country Of the dan
ger of an ambitious mans perpetua
ting his presidency he did not dream
of the augmentation of executiv
power which exists to-day. Th
people may regard the warning CT
first raised by the New York Heral
as an idle one, but they may awak
some morning to fluid that thei
Caesar has declared himself. Willis
:, the laborers of Pennsylvania ar
crying for bread, whilst the factor
hands of New England + idle all
vagrant, whilst the merchants Of Ne,
e York and the country are failing
o whilst the farmers of the west, wit
g all irugality, are getting worse o.
every day, are they to be fed on rem
q %iniseuces of. jeff Davis and the wal
IS and Oh ragouts of negro outrage:
IL cooked up by carpet baggers to IL
II exclusion of the fact that the repul
n lican party wrung from them la
Il year $2S4,O20,7 40 in taxes? When +
publican editors tear their hair OF
over that poor tJohn Wilkes" thu
can't be expected to remember tn
the net ordinary expenses of tt
:: government during the last SIX yea
- were 1000 per cent. greater than Fl
the eight years of Jefferson's admi
= istratloD, and that the most &c
: nomical year under Grant has CO
: the country $3O.617 900 more than t
entire eight years of Jackson's a
ministration. They can'!, of cours
:. recall that their national bank 8,
~ tenn costs the people about $3.50
600 per annum that could be dispel
-. ed with would it not ut the san
time dispense with an army of {
I'D Tenders of the "grand republic
nd party" which saved the union a
m then robbed it to the verge of ban
bt ruptcy. But then, "Davis starv
he our prisoners! Well, he starv
in his own soldiers to the same exte
he and they never growled; besides,
private confidential secretary "
never indicted for felony, and he "
never accused of receiving gifts or
en- nepotism, nor- of having whis
on rings formed to re-elcct him. A
50. though he was an officer in the f
II. eral army, a senator of the Uni
a States, secretary of war of the q
ND ted States, president of the Conf
crate States, and of an insura
he company, he never stole a dollar,
on is 10Y poor. 1t The old fogy
of made money maybe he would be |
,.l ter thought of. We understand I
nd the chairman of the House CT
mittee III military affairs states t
80 we have II commissioned officer
M, every six enlisted men. Now
I'd suggest to the heart-broken patri
tba who weep indignant tears over 81
cod Wilkes" that they turn their att
,E ton TO the amelioration of the
nc dition of those poor over-wcr
.,.I army officers, as we are satisfied Il
Tod constitutions can not long bear
strain of the aPduous duties impO
re- upon them ; and as We haven't M
need of enlisted men anyhow II
ha;. might be reduced to about two
each officer, and he could then K
an eye oil them by perching him
upon a lhree-legged stool and
lrch ploying one in backing hay