Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-05-06
THE REPUBLICAN, COUNTY
CONVENTION.
A Farce as Was a Farce.

A Farce as Was a Farce.
1t strikes US that the Register, in all
ding to the democratic city %coventio
denominated it a farce. That Econve
ten was composed of over a hundred
the best citizens of Lexington, represer
ing every industry and business in Il
city; but now comes an august coun'
. convention, held by the republicans,
assist in nominating candidates for pre-
:, ident and vice president, and only thrt
. . townships in the county are represented
We q imagine the editor of the Re-
lister, who INDUCES in a political laugl
whether it is in season or out of season
stretching his mouth from ear to ear
q democratic convention, such as tn
meeting Of %corporal's guard of reput
. licans, held by himself and friends, Sal
urday. What a cry would go up {
fraud, unfair representation, Sc, &c
without end. Now, we have no dispe
sition to indulge in any such politics
clap-traps. The convention was fairl
called, and the bad weather p~reventc
q large attendance. but that did not pre-
vent the whole thing from being a mos
ridiculous farce. When we entered, W
counted noses, and found. in the north
east corner of the room, fifteen colore
brethren. ready to vote aye or nay a
might be indicated to them. In the south
west corne of the room, as far ron
their colored followers as the wall
would permit them to get, sat thirteel
white men, who listened, with mouth
agape, to the burning e%loquence OF tn
radical apostle of this section of country
while he told them that the principles o
the republican party must be preserved
and that for that reason he should favor
the nomination of candidates for every
place in the gift of the people. from fence
viewer down to president. He said down
to president by a slip of the tongue but
in view of passing events, down 10 Gran,
is about as low as it is necessary to get
At the proper time the house gave birth
to a mountain in the nomination of twen-
ty-four delegates to the state convention,
and the chair, MI. John B. Jones, put
the question on the whole batch at once,
not imagining for q moment that objec-
ton could be raised to any particular
name. We give them below: James
Clay. Otto W~alkenhorst, B. H. Wilson,
Jno. Shoody, John Hammonds. c. G. Lud-
wigs. John B. Jones, M. X. Lillard, Nor
gan Welch, H. W. Thieman, Z. F. Ninas,
]. A. Wakeman, Peter Thoma, Gideon
Mayne, Mark L. Denote, Daniel Jen-
kins, Robert Taubman, J. T. Clayton,
Lafayette johnson, Jerry Smith. Lewis
Johnson, Thomas Price, j. F. Roberts,
and Albert Walker.
An executive committee was then ap-
pointed as follows: From Lexington
township, Marx L. Denote, C. G. Lud-
wig. Robert Taubman, Daniel Jenkins.
Freedom township, John b. Jones, H.
W. Thisman. Davis township. w. C..
Liilard. Clay township, ]. F. Roberts.
Sni-a-Bar township, G. D. Satterfield.
Dover township, Peter Thoma. Middle
ton township, John Shoody. Washing
ton township, ]. A. Wakeman. 1t will
be observed that five of the townships
had rs much to do with the selection oil
their committeeman as the man in the
moon.
Col. Denote asked to be excused
the committee, on the plea of long
service, adding that, though
would prefer to be relieved, still, like
some Of his democratic friends, he was
ready to offer himself up as a willing
He was accordingly sacrificed.
Three-fourths of the participants in this
were from Lexington, and
The whole thing was engineered by two
three men, a clear case ofthe tail wag-
sing the dog. Some of our democratic
conventions are noisy and turbulent.
out we would much rather they should
so, than to have our people like a lot
IT dumb driven cattle at the beck and
all of one Or two masters.
The stock sale last Monday was very
'oorly patronized. owing to the ex-
bad weather.
Read Conkling q Beeding's double
advertisement. They are
laughtering dry goods.
The week has been one Of rainy and
gloomy weather, setting the farmers
'ack at least ten days in their work.
The San Antonio Herald says that the
ising generation have nearly gotthrough
Nth the measles and are now threaten
d with the spring picnics. i
Mayhem Grange meets to-day at the |
sual hour. Members are urged to be t
resent promptly, as business of unusu- t