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

ana more potent tuau all,cdulc hoouau,
and the good Lord deliver us from any
democratic victory so-called, that could
run through such gauntlet. But the
discreet individuals on one occasion were
not as discreet as they might have been,
that is, their mathematical ability to
count correctly had been overestlmated,
an too many democrats, allowed to
register. But they had cheap, ,econom-
lcal and simple way Of treating this
matter. They just wrote on the poll
book "judges and clerks disloyal," and
threw the thing out. The simplicity OF
republican government is truly refresh
ing. 1t was sometimes found necessary
to call in outside aid as the following
will show. The Caucasian and Express,
Oct. Path, 1868. says: ''In this town.
ship the following names were written
off in the hand writing of Mark l.. De-
Motto, so said. and stuck up behind the
door at the clerks office on Wednesday
last, j. H. Norfolk, j. d. Williams,
Martin Lillis, Patrick Radeke, N. r.
Ediin, r. H. Norfolk, George Keith, j.
P. Hall. Peter Gill, II. j. Armstrong,
Joseph Wolf, E. Easter, I. NJ. McGirk,
James NJ. Callahan and A. G., Young"
with names of forty others which are
given in that paper. Think of il, Major A.
G. Young, ,one of the Oldest and best citi-
zens OF the county, who came here when
this country was wilderness, is stricken
from the list of voters by an intruder -
a stranger, a man who had not been
here long enough to brush the dirt OF
Indiana from his rump. Now is it not
absurd to talk of democrats being in
power when registrars sat with pistols
lae, nh I
and gray haired men. @ ~ Fl. s'. -
That the democratic party has reduc-
ed the state taxes and state debt is
the democracy have reduced the
contemplate charge is made that
though a vast Improvement on the radi-
cal party, yet they might have done
better and therefore you are asked to
support the party that did worse. What
do they charge? That before the war,
Mr.. McFadden received $1,000, year,
and though, the, salary paid Hixon
was over eight Thousand dollars per
annum, yet because Mr.. Steele re-
ceived two thousand, therefore support
Hixon's party and not Mr.. Steele's,
because the latter. has not reduced
the amount to, what was received by
McFadden? !? What does it amount t.?
This; a robber robs a man of one thou
sand dollars, and the sheriff by industry
RECEIVERS back tour-fifths Of it {; now, you,
the party that has committed the wrong
say do not support the party electing
the sheriff, because he did not get it all.
This county is willing to pay reasona-
BILE salary for work properly done, as it
now is in this county. Besides, Mr..
Steele is the first clerk Who has for
years paid dollar into the county treas
ury. Now what did the radical officials
receive when they were in power. The
radical party made the laws under which
they got their pay, and the radical party
is therefore responsible for the matter
If that party made laws giving men
enormous fees, that party must be made
to shoulder the. blame. For 1869 and
1870 Mr.. Fleming received, as sheriff
and collector, ,$20, ,484 81; Mr.. Taubman,
for 1871 and 1872, received 34,376 90;
DR.. Gordon, In 1873, being elected collec-
tor, and the Office, ofcollector and sheriff
being divided, received for 1873 and 1874
1.-The sum of So, ,357. while Mr.. Young, as
sheriff, received 2,489 SO; both together
making only $1O,S46 65, or $9, ,53S less
than Mr.. Fleming got for like
period, and $23, $50 less than Mr.. Taub-
man got for like time. MIR. Scott, treas
urer received for 1870, $6,825 80; Mr..
Marshall, treasurer, received for 1871
and 1S72S6,773 Is; while Mr.. Ireland.
democrat, received for 1873 and 1874
but $3,373 92, and for 1875 but $1,732.
Il claim that since the ascendancy of the
democratic party in the state and coun-
ty, the public burthens have been re-
duced, taxes lessened and economy in
troduced into every branch of the pub
lie SERVICE" says Mr.. Steele. speaking
for the democratic party. "a plea en-
tered to the above and call for proof"
says Col. DeMotte. And now where is
there an escape? Which is the party OF
reform? l want the citizens of this
county to rely on these figures with
absolute verify, for while am indebted
to Mr.. Steele for them, he got them from
the record, and they can be verified by
the record any day that any citizen may
call at the clerks office to make an ex-
animation. But this is not all Mr.
Chambers, as road commissioner, re-
ceived for 1869 $758 so; 1870 81, ,552
for 1871 lap 55; for 1872 81 ,06O &c
for 1873 5000 80. Mr.. Lockhart, dem
ocrat, received for 1874 $135 81, and
Messrs. Masterson and Williamson, for
1875, received $258 80. ...r.-.
For keeping the poor the county paid,
leA............ .......-........ $s. 4I6 VI
op0S1 oS
100. .....-.-........ 9'Z4 "a
| loI4.....-- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 0sIl2 IL
More than would have kept them al
the Southern Hotel, dressed them in
broad cloth and thrown cock tails in
every day. While in 1875, under dem.
ocratic rule, and notwithstanding the
calamity that fell upon this community
from the grasshoppers and the conse.
quept heavy and Unprecedented call fol
aid, the county paid $5,3l6 "a. Nor i.
this all yet. have left the foulest stencil
for the last. Mr.. Hixon as clerk of the
county court received the folloWine