Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-10-21
READER, WHAT IS YOUR OPINION 2

1uo EcpuDiiCdu C~OuFcHLlOu Is ~ ldS
come and gone. and the talked-of co.
alition between Doctor Fulkerson's
party and the radicals is now accom-.
plished if there ever was anything in it
As to whether there was anything in it
we are not prepared to state with any
degree of po%sitiveness. We are not ir
the confidence of either Doctor Fulker.
son or the republican managers. Oul
province is only to note facts and record
them for the benefit of our readers.
Whether there is anything in the CO.
alition or not. n thing is certain, and
that is that Tuesdays convention show
ed that there are men in the republican
party who can think and act for them
selves, and do not require aid or in
struction in such matters from any one.
They hold their own judgment good
enough to guide them in a choice be-
tween candidates, neither of whom be-
longs to the republican party. There
had been ~whisperings on the street for
days before the convention met, tn at
Fulkerson men and the radicals were ON
a trade. They were seen constantly
button-holing each other around corners,
and the terms were said to be that the
Fulkerson men were to vote for two of
the republican nominees, and, in ex-
change, the republicans were pledged
to vote for Fulkerson for collector. To
prove that such a bargain and sale did
take place, we can only point to the pro-.
ceedings of Tuesdays convention, as
published in the Register /; we claim to
have no other evidence. The offer to
nominate Taubman was, it seems to us,
a transparent trick; got up by wire
workers to throw sand in the eyes of
honest people, for he had previously
distinctly and repeatedly announced
that he would not accept the nomination,
if rendered him. 1t appears to us that
it was well understood beforehand that
Fulkerson was to be their man for that
office, and when the resolution was Of
fe: ed to allow republicans to take their
choice between candidates it was prompt
ly voted down.
Will the honest men OF Lafayette
county. of either party allow themselves
to be sold and delivered over on such a
trade; a trade, if we interpret that
meeting Alright, entered into between
would-be leaders of the republican party
and the bolter from the democratic par
ty; the bolter who bases his action on
the alleged grounds that it was by cor
rupt trading in the democratic conven-
ton that he lost his nomination? We
do not believe the people will submit to
be thus sold out and handed over. Every
instinct of manhood revolts against it.
And as to Doctor Fulkerson. What of
him? From our p~re-conceived estimate
OF the mans character, we should Judge
that. even if he succeeds, he will hardly
feel that the possession of a petty county
office has paid him for the sacrifice OF
plighted faith, followed by bargain and
sale with the traditional enemy, and the
creation of what promises to be a per-
manent split in the democratic party of
Lafayette, and this, when democracy
everywhere else is closing up, shoulder
to shoulder, and marching on to victory.
When a man possessed of the E,cultv
Of discriminating between right and
wrong especially if that mar be endowed
by Nature. as Doctor Fulkerson is, with
a high sense Of honor, leaves the plain
paths of rectitude and seeks to gain the
coveted fruit of ambition or avarice.
through the crooked ways OF intrigue
and deception. he finds that the ripe
fruit, when plucked INT pressed to his
lips, turns. like the apples of Sodom, to
smoke and ashes.