Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-11
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TIT COUNTY ELECTION,

The vote at last Tuesdays election
was the largest eve polled in IL coun-
tv. there having been 1920 votes cast,
The result for county offices was the
success of the ticket nominated by the
democratic convention with the excep-
ton of collector. DR.. Fulkerson having
beaten Capt. Lesueur by a majority OF
$50 votes. During the pendency OF the
canvass we. is in duty bound, opposed
DR.. F. with all our strength and intlu-
ence. The reason of our opposition to
hun we gave ut the time, and need no,
be repeated here. We have no desire
to speak one word against the Doctor
or any OF his supporters. Our whole
aim has been to keep up the organiza'
ton OF the party and to maintain its
discipline, and we deprecate the use
Of any expression, or the commission Of
INV act. by members of the democratic
party, on either side of the question
that lately divided it, in the least calcu-
lated to intensity or keep up the feeling
that has been rampant for several
months past.
But, while the pa%rtisans OF Doctor
Fulkerson are rejoicing over their VIC,
try. we may be allowed TO say a few
words in behalf OF the worthy gentle
man who alone of those who were nom
mated by the convention has been de-
feated. We assert that the defeat OF
Capt. Lesueur has rejoiced the souls oil
the real leaders of the ultra radicals in
oar county more than would the defeat
OF II two others of the county candi-
dates. They are good judges of the
man most dangerous to them. The cleo
ton has proven what we have always
claimed, that Capt. Lesueur was the
choice OF the majority of the democratic
party. The mum Der of republican votes
cast at the election was 1,734; of these.
after Il careful scrutiny OF the votes OF
the various townships, we are convinced
that Capt. Lesueur did not get 500. DIR.
Fulkerson must have received over 100
majority of the republican votes. He
received go majority of the total vote.
From all, it appears, without a doubt,
that Capt. Lesueur's majority AMONG
DEMOCRATS could not have been less
than 500.
OF course, after the republican con-
yention declined to make any nomina-
ton for collector, it was apparent to
everybody that the race between the two
candidates, both claiming to be demo-
Gratis, would be decided by the republic
can vote. How the great mass of that
party would vote, no well-iniormed
man doubted.
The only hope for Lesueur was that,
with the few least radical of h repub-
lican voters, who would vote for him on
account of personal preference and
known business proficiency, he was
bound to secure a large majority of the
democratic vote, and that the two to-
eether would elect. He did receive a
majority of the democratic votes, but not
enough TO overcome the large republi-
can vote given to Fulkerson. During
the canvass, the Register ''played pos
sum-" pretending not to be taking any
part in the contest, though well-inform-
ed men could easily discover how it was
working. 1t well knew that edito-
rial championing OF any man by that
paper would do him mOr damage
among democrats in this community
than its most determined opposition
could help him with republicans. There
can be no doubt but that those men who
manage the republican party, and work
most of its members like SO many pup
pets, and absolutely control two-thirds
OF its vote, worked heart and sonl for
Fulkerson. Not that they loved Full
kerson, but that they hated Lesueur; be-
cause they knew that by 5 o doing they
were working. so far as their action
could AVE any effect, to disorganize
the democratic party. 1t needs no evil
dence to prove this to be so; but, for
the benefit of some who may pretend to
doubt that the leaders of the radical
party were working in the traces with
the doctors friends, let them remember
that his name was printed on the regu-
lar republican ticket.
When Capt. Lesueur, knowing that
some republicans wished to vote for him,
tried to get the Register to print some
of the regular republican tickets with a
blank space for the collectors name, for
which he was to pay, Denote at first
agreed to do it, but shortly afterward
sent the following note to him:
CAPT. LEsUEuR:-I have consulted the BUSH
ness part Of the Register, and must fake back
what l said. We decline to print the tickets.
Denote.
AS we have said, the Register laid low
until about the day of election, when the
whole corps turned out. Denote went
to Concordia, while the Turner's, calling
Pharez Hammond to their aid, marshaled
their host, and wen to work for Full
kerson's reform in the democratic
party Who can doubt that atleasttwo-
thirds of the republican voters, under
such leadership, voted against Lesueur?
Laugh, gentlemen, and let your radi-
cal friends share your rejoicing; but re-
member, in your jollification, that you
have, with the help of the worst elements
of the radical party, defeated an honest,
upright, sincere, working democrat,
whom the polled vote of your county
proves to have been the choice of the
democracy of Lafayette. Meanwhile,
let us remember that the party is worth
more than any man. and hereafter lei
not Incorporate zeal for a personal frienG
ever carry us so far IN his behalf tina
we cannot honorably recede, eveI
though the good of the party absolutel,
requires it.
The Register took no part in the matter. 1t
editor did. He had some wandering chicken
he wanted to send home to roost. The firm @
Ouirk, CANNON, Snap Y Co, seemed to thin.
il a legitimate mode OF carrying on n politics
campaign to make an assault upoa us. The
ward irresponsible declaimers, and gave circu