Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-09-30
OHIO AND INDIANA.

airy consideration. The farmer mas
left his pillow in the furrow, the saw and
hammer of the carpenter lie idle on the
bench, the shop-keeper has Abandoned
his shop, and they are all away listening
to the giant speakers of our country ar
rayed against each other there. There
some of the greatest political talent OF
the age may be found. Both sides have
brought toward their champions, and at
every meeting thousands of excited wit
nesses are present while they discuss
national affairs.
A month ago the democratic party
scarcely hoped to carry Indiana, and un-
hesitatingly conceded Ohio to the repub-
licans. But in that thirty days the war
that has been waged has been more
potent tor good than many revolutions
have been, where hecatombs of human
victims were sacrificed for country. In
that time the republican leaders have
neglected no lee to hold their own.
They have fought the wal with the des-
peration of despair; knowing that once
out of power. and the sun of their glory
has set for ever. They have neglected
no strategy, fair Or foul. They have
coined and circulated many most SIAN
derous lies against the democratic can
didate for president and against every
prominent democrat who is now press
ing them so hard before the people.
They have managed to secure the aid OF
such leading, Independent journals as
the New York Herald and the Cincin-
natl Commercial-how, we know net.
They have succeeded in soothing and
satisfying the self-love of many whom
Grant had insulted into opposition.
Even Bristow they have brought to the
front, and secured from him such
speeches as passing honest men may
make who know that the party whose
claims they advocate is worse than a
putrid mass of rottenness-that some of
its leaders, for intamy and treacherous
duplicity, might aspire to rival the devil
himself.
Hence, Bristow and Schurz are like
paralyzed giants :they are like athletes in
the arena. with the limbs on one side Of
their bodies securely bound up. Their
weapons, like tho boomerang, have but
returned to wound the unskilled throw
er. Still they are there. They are show
ing Il willing spirit and doing what they
may for another lease of power.
The republican party has been we'll
handled. Morton, its great chieftain,
has more than sustained his reputation
during this campaign. But it will not
all do. There is too much against them.
The fight has been an unequal one. On
the n side corruption and treachery,
equal to what procured the expulsion
of Lucifer by an outraged God, to be
defended. or apologized for. And no
guarantee is possible for amendment
in the future :,for the party is, in homes
ty, FOR than bankrupt. Dependence
more can not be placed in its promises.
Amid the thickest of its masses stand
Belknap and Grant and Babcock with
the two Camerons, and Morton, and De-
lano and his son John, and Ben Butler,
and Schenck, and Blaine, and Landaulet
Williams, and Colfax, with many more
such az they: so many signs placed high.
that all may see, on whose brazen fore
heads is branded. ''who enteres here
leaves hope behind" In short, on the
one side is all that is to be ashamed of
in u country's history, and, on the
other, all that we are proud of in this the
centennial of our national existence.
The inequality of the contest can not
be better appreciated than by observing
the two great German leaders. While
Schurz has been obliged to abandon the
real point at issue, and take refuge in
the intricacies of a financial question,
Brockmeyer, like Jove with his thunder
bolts, stands boldly out and hurls into
the ranks OF the enemy charges of
bribery, corruption, ~gift-taking, pension
ing of relations on the treasury. jobbery,
attempted kidnapping. San Domingo job,
Black Friday, violations of the constitu-
ton, usurping state government, Dis
trict of Columbia ring, Frecdman's
Bank, whisky ring, Sioux war, increased
taxation, ruined navy, creating an oil
garchy ofoffice holders, reconstruction
outrages, and other destructive missiles
such as these.
1t is well known that a defensive war
is a losing war; and for this reason the
republican leaders made mighty efforts,
by Haunting the bloody shirt. to divert
popular attention from their own crimes.
But the American people can not be thus
dealt with, and the real issues thrust
themselves forward or were brought
forward by the people. Then it was
that democracy began to gain. The
republicans speakers were called ON by
vast assemblys of people to exp ain
why it is. that, in this, a republican
government, in the comparatively short
period of twelve years. and in q condi-
ton of profound peace, so many out
RACES have been committed by the adj
ministration, and in the name of law.
They want to know why it was that an
innocent president of the United States
was prosecuted by the reckless partisan
ship OF a United States senate, in VIOLA
ton of law and constitution and but
the other day, why a guilty secretary
OF war was whitewashed by that same
body. equally In violation ofboth? They
want to know why a helpless section of
the union. crushed down by war, was
given up to public plumber? Why
laws and constitution have been tram
pied upon. and why crime and corrup
ton have been allowed to flourish in the
land? Why high officers of our govern.
menL are tainted with more than a
suspicion of felony? Why the president
makes intimates of thieves, and places
them in high official position, SO that,
even now n of his chosen associates
is undergoing trial tor safe burglary