Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-01-29

The statement is made that while :
the population of the United States
has increased but forty per cent. since
1860, the expenses Of running the
government machinery has Increased
three hundred and fifty per cent. AND
still the party of "God and Morali-
with %lachrymose eyes sheos
hvpocritical tears because h demo-
crazy has no principles, M Kisses
the feet of Jay Gould's stool pigeon,
who has called 1t all the opprobrlous
names in the language, for making
the discovery. Radicalism means
spend the peoples money, but keep
within the pale of technical iegailty
IF YOU are not sent to the penlten-
tiary you are all right.
The House refused, last week, to
suspend the rules on MIR. Hoimans
motion to adopt a resolution declar-
inc in favor of the repeal ofthe act TO
provide for the resumption OF specie
payments in 1879. The vote shows
that the Missouri delegationivoted III
the affirmative with the exception OF
Messrs. Wells and Kehr of st. Louis.
Some republican papers have the i'm
rudence to charge the democratic
party with inconsistency on this
question. The democratic party has
ALWAYS been in favor of hard none y,
per Sc but has never denied the
right of congress to issue a treasury
note. 1t has denied the constitution
atty of making the g%reenback a legal
tender, but the republican party no'
only is responsible to the country for
the greenback, but is responsible for
declaring it a legal tender. Now IN
the midst of almost unparalleled
financial distress, the republican
party cries Out against a majority Of
the democrats IN the lower
house for voting to repeal the bill for
the resumption of specie payments,
which the republicans Intentionally
passed in such a shape as to make 1t
imperative. The republican party
question as Is tie demiocrafic, and
while it clamors loudly for specie pay
ments now that it is in a minority i'll
the house, it took no practical steps to
carry out such an idea when it was
in the majority, for fear, probably, OF
making a record which the green
back republicans would not swallow.
The democracy has well grounded
principles on this as on every other
question, but when hampered with
the past plumbers of the republican
party, and with bankruptcy staring
states. counties, cities, towns and in
dividuals in the face, it desires to act
cautiously, and to do nothingi which
shall jeopardize the welfare of the
people ; and neither papers subsi
died by bondholders, o extrava'
CANT infiationists will be able to die
tate its policy !: and we would re
specially suggest to them that theil
going off half cooked, will not con
duce to the accuracy of their aim
which the people can easily see is no
for the good of the country, but fol
the defeat of the democratic party.
The trial of VIM. Mckee, senio
proprietor of the st. Louis Globe
Democrat, the leading republican
paper of the state, for completely il
the whisky frauds, has been in pro
gress for something ove a week. w
have refrained from expressing an.
opinion as to the guilt or innocenc
of this man until we should see wha
the testimony in his particular cas-
might be, though there had almos
enough evidence been elected in tn
trial of other persons to convict him
: The evidence now is SO conclusiv
that there is no room to doubt hi
guilt. The counsel for the defens
seem to have appreciated what
would be as they have from the b.
ginning, taken advantage of ever
tect1aicafity which they could la
hold Of. Before the case was above
to go to the jury, they withdre
their plea of not guilty, and filed
demurrer to the charge, praying tt
judge to quash the Indictment on tt
ground that the law contemplat
persons engaged in defrauding Il
government at the time charge
whereas the Indictment charges
conspiracy to defraud on whisky
be made III the future, and 10 thu
in existence. The court overrui,
this plea and ordered the case to
on. During the trial the defense h
i%uterposed objections to testimol
whenever there was the shadow
an excuse for it until Judge KruI
mitted to convict, made a long arg
ment, lasting over part of two da.
against the legality of testimony
~accompliees in a crime, thereby i;
knowiedglnS as Tar as the world
concerned, that his client is gull
for the charge is that of compile
III the frauds, and when he adm
that his client was an accomplish
these men, he admits all. Ju(
Dillon, however, decided that
case must go on, saying that at
proper time he should instruct
jury that the testimony OF accC
p!ices was not evidence of a h
character. The testimony is SO
rect, and there is so much of it, t
after n careful perusal of it there
be little doubt of his guilt. The C
was closed last Thursday evening
far as testimony was concerned, {
the argument was begun yesterd
1t is doubtful whether or not it '