Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-09-23
BLEDsOE AND CARMICHAEL.

In another column will be found a
card from these gentlemen, which places
the Sni-a-bar township matter in a very
different light from that in which it was
left by a card gotten up by DIR. Fulker
sons friends. 1t will be observed that
one of these gentlemen was secretary of
the meeting, and therefore better able
to Judge of what was done than any
other person on the grounds, as he kept
minutes of the proceedings. 1t will also
be observed that constructions" were
twice voted down. and that no resolu-
ton of instruction was adopted in the
meeting. 1t seems that the chairman.
instead of acting his part impartially,
was working the meeting in the interests
of DR.. Fulkerson, and that instead of
asking the convention to reconsider its
action or adopt a resolution of instruc-
tions, he, of his own volition. arbitrarily
declared that a vote should be taken,
though many persons had left the meet
ing with the understanding that its work
was done. He not only did this, but
attempted to take the counting of the
vote out of the hands of the tellers.
The simple. straightforward statement,
as made by the gentlemen whose names
head this article. plainly shows that
there was a determined effort on the
part of the chairman to wrest instruc-
lions for DR.. Fulkerson from the meet
ing. No one has denied that there was
a vote taken for candidates; but whether
or not it was fairly taken, and whether
or not any resolution OF instructions &C
companied it, this last statement very
clearly settles in the negative. 1t clearly
shows that other gentlemen who were
present at the meeting viewed it as they
did, and so state under Affirmation. In
regard to the character of the petition
printed in DIR. Fulkerson's interest. i'll
our paper of the 9th inst. it shows that
document to have been a fraud in yari-
Gus WAYS. First, as to its mlsstatements.
Second, in that two mems m were
forged to it. Third, in that four men,
who sign their names to a disclaimer.
say that they did not read the petition,
and do not endorse that portion which
accuses Messrs. Bledsoe and Carmichael
of fraud and dishonesty. Fourth, in
that nine men, who spoke as witnesses,
now say, over their own signatures,
that they were not present at the
meeting. Fifth, in that the mar
who wrote the petition and ther
signed it, stating facts as if he knew
them. was not at the primary meeting
Sixth, IN that eighteen men whose
names are not mentioned, but who can
be named, signed the statement as Mr.
McChesney did, knowing nothing Of the
meeting except by hearsay. Seventh
in that one man got thirty-one names
signed to it, by a (probably uninten'
tional) misrepresentation of its charac
ter. Eighth. IN that men signed as cit
lzens Of Sni-a-bar township, who do no
- within its borders. Ninth, in tina
thirteen m to the paper were re
p%ublicans, and other reasons as Sc
forth. The truth of the business is that
the Sni-a-bar affair was a family quar-
rel, which, we are informed from Other
sources than the statement alluded to
very nearly eliminated in a genera
melee, and the resultant dirty linel
should have been washed at home. N
democrat who loves his party woul'
have suffered it to make a schism in it:
ranks. The nominations once mad,
should nave been final, and every dem
ocrat should have gone cheerfully t
work for their election. As to the de
feated candidates, we can but common,
them to a careful perusal OF Col. Phil
ips' letter, published in this paper, a
an indication of what is the manly an
honorable course to pursue.
The SeIalia De T ocrat, without being recon
cIled entirely to the defeat of Col. Philips IL
denomination TO congress, endorses the nom
nation of Col. Crittenden, nevertheless, wit
more than common cordiality, and advises ii
disappointed friends of the former througho,
the district to accept the situation in the trr
democratic spirit and give the candidate the
hearty support. This is as 1t should be. By u
other course could the safety OF the party in Il
district or of our unbroken representation
Washington he assured. To express dissali
faction by opposition would serve no earth
good and he suicidal to the best interests OF Il
democracy OF Missouri.
But for Samuel j. Tllden's honest and earne
devotion to reform, the efforts to break up Il
Tweed ''I;ing'' would have been in vain. E
eryb0dy knows that Mr.. TIlden's Investigation
into Tweed's account with the Broadway bar
furnished the first, and for a long time, the on
judicial proof against the gang. That informs
ton established the fact against the "Ring,
and converted a strong suspicion Into u math