Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-06-10

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Certainly this was not much of a dem,
ocratic victory. And now the court be-
ing composed of Ambrose and Chinn,
radicals, and Thomas, elected by them,
the acts commence Of which the people
complain, The first issue of bonds is of
the $500, 900 issue as it is called, being
an issue Of $487, 200 made by the county
court under = writ Of mandamus. Ga
voice, '.Dld not the democrats vote those
bonds before the wary Yes; the peo-
pie did, but before even the war COM
menced the road had been abandoned.
The people OF the county then were rich.
times prosperous, crops abundant, and
the people made living; but war came.
pestilence and famine followed, farms
ruined and houses burnt, and q county
that was once prosperous became ruined,i
once rich became bankrupt; the people
did not want the road, for they had
nothing with which to pay for it.; and If
built, had nothing to carry away OH it,
Hence, deprived Of their votes they pro-
tested against it, begged and besought
that this additional affiiction might not
be placed on top Of the load already too
heavy to be borne, and be it said that
the court. in 1868, refused to issue the
bonds to the blood-suckers who were
clamoring. for this large sized and to
them tempting bait. They then had
recourse to Judge Walker, of the Com
mon Pleas court, to issue the bonds. .
Now, my friends, did the democrats vote
the bonds before the war? Do you not
know that the road being abandoned
they unvoted, so to speak, the bonds by
their prayers, by their petitions, by their
by their devastated fields
and smouldering houses, whose ruined,
naked and gaunt skeletons pleaded pite-
ously their cause: and that they might
be spared this additional atfiiction-thus
only could they plead, being denied a
voice at the ballot box. And do you not
know that then it was the vote OF Judge
Walker, a radical, was cast, speaking g
louder than any of these things. If it
comes to votes, we still find it was a
radical vote that fastened this burthen
on the people. From this decision resort
was had to the higher court, which was
afterward Abandoned in charity, let US
from an abiding conviction that
little justice was to be expected from a
set of men placed in power by Tom.
Fletcher, with the aid of bayonets and
drunken soldiers, and who had already
decided that it was not lawful for q del
icate woman TO teach school, or tolera-
BILE for priest or minister, in q chris
tian age, TO preach the gospel of Christ,
without first swearing allegiance to the
devil through the channel of the Drake
constitution. The next issue of bonds,
and OF which more complaint is made
than all the others, is the issue of $24O,
600 on August 1st, 1870. What is the
hist Try Of that transaction? l give it as
disclosed by the records. Something has
been said about three-cornered agree
ment between the Schofeld county
court OF the first part, the Louisiana road
OF the second part, by Edward Winsor,
its agent. and the Lexington & St
Louis road of the third part, by l.Jos.
Davis its president. This agreement
has been held up by the leaders of the
radical party in this county, and you
have been asked what do you think ol
it? Are any Of these parties republicans?
it has been asked. Well, if the radical
party can get any comfort from this
matter, they are certainly entitled to it
What are the facts and what is the re.
sponsibility of both parties in the mat.
ter? The facts are intimately connected
with the. issue of the $240,OO0. Long
previous to this agreement the radical
party of this county, in addition to the
$500. 600 voted By the Common Pleas
court, to the Lexington & St. Louis
road, had voted 100000 more on the
people to the Louisiana road. Now,
charge that the. radical party voted this
on the people, tor they had disfranchiset
four-tifths of the people. and the poll
books now show that the radical part,
OF this county voted those bonds Nor,
than this, IN some OF the townships, a:
in Lexington, there was another set O
Judges and clerks appointed by the cour
who kept a separate and distinct list
and received the votes of all those demo
Gratis who had been disfranchised
The proposition to issue $500, 900 to tn,
Louisiana road was svoted down by them
The legally registered votes of which thu
radicals had q large majority, wree
cast for the subscription and the unreo
istered vote against it. Be it said to the
credit of Judge Schofield's court, it re
fused to Issue the bonds. What then
The radical party controlling the elec
tions in this county having voted tn,
subscription, the court having refused
to issue the bonds to pay the subscrip
ton, the Louisiana road commence
suit. Then we had bills and cross bills
suits and counter-suits, petitions, de
murrers. injunctions and what not, al
because the radical party, not satisfied
with voting $5OO.Oo0 through the Com
mon Pleas court on an impoverishet
people, had voted $500 600 more to an
other road. These suits were pending
and doubles, should have been pushe,
to the highest court. but we should her,
again remember that Tom Fletcher hat
captured the supreme court as we'll a
Lafayette county. Then it was that thi
three-cornered agreement was entered
counter-suits. And what was it? This
in consideration that the Louisiana roa,
lwould relinquish $4,000 of the $500,