Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-04
HURRY UP WITH YOUR NATURALI-
ZATION PAPERS.

While the attention of every IN is
drawn to political matters, we wish to
say a few words to foreigners who have
10 vote. Having no vote, they cannot,
OF course, aid either party at the polls
next Tuesday. and still that election may
greatly affect their future. What we
have to say. however, is for their in
%terest, not ours. We wish to urge upon
them the necessity OF taking out their
naturalization papers without delay.
If they wait, they may, should Hayes be
elected, find the door to citizenship
closed against them. In the present
election, we believe Tilden will be cleo
ted; still there is just a chance that he
may be defeated. If Tilden is elected,
foreigners will, of course, be natural
lied hereafter with the anne facility as
heretofore. But it Hayes is elected,
there seems little doubt that obstacles
will be thrown in their way. Hayes is
bound to oppose the naturalization OF
foreigners, because he s~ympathizes
with the principles of the order known
as Known things. 1t is more than
probable that he is IN oath-bound men,
Der of that order himself. We know
that he sympathizes with its objects from
a large amount of evidence. His letter
to Mr.. Lem. j. Tyler, secretary of the
American Alliance" returns thanks for
his election as a member of the order,
and expresses sympathy with its purpo-
ses OF excluding foreigners from the
rights of citizenship. Still, it is just
possible he may never have become a
full member. Hayes, at first. denied
writing this letter, but the original vas
produced, and is now at the Enquirer
Office. in Cincinnati. Hayes then tried
to get out of it by saying that his clerk
wrote it without his knowing anything
about it. This, too, has been proven,
yer and over again, false. He has tried
every way to keep the large foreign
vote from finding him out, but his du-
plicity and hostility have been laid bare
before them, and, in his own state, the
Germans oppose his election, and favor
Tilden.
Right here we will remark that the
old Known Nothing feeling has, by no
means, died out in the country. In this
very county we see indications of its
cropping out. Some who claim to be
democrats are not sound on this ques-
ton. We have heard of men election
eering for Fulkerson and opposing Le-
sueur because they said Lesueur was of
foreign parentage. These are not dem
ocratic principles, and we are surprised
that any. calling themselves democrats,
should hold them. 1t is a comfort,
though, to know that straight out dem
ocrats, who stick to their nominees. will
let it make no difference with them
whether a candidates parents, or the
candidate himself, was born in Europe
OF America. They only require him to
be an honest and a capable man, and
the nominee of his party.
But to proceed: Whether Hayes is or
is not now a member of the american
Alliance" there is no finding out, be-
the proceedings of that dark-lan.
tern order are kept secret as the grave.
If he is a Know-Nothing, as seems to be
the case, he is bound to actively oppose
the naturalization of any more foreign
ers after his term of office commences.
we say to foreigners who
want to be citizens, take out your pa
pers at the earliest possible moment.
Hayes expresses promises in his letter
to the chief secretary OF the Know
Nothing lodges, to give the order "such
assistance and cooperation, at the prop
er time. as may seem most advisable"
The proper time. they and he will natu-
think. will have come when he is