Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1878-10-05

SOuln 1Of tnc TcPup'1'.' P''''f anu
an elysium for carpet baggers, sup c
ported by negro votes. Ana IL an"rns q
me the most supreme pleasure TO re- |
mind my republican friends that the
poisoned Chalce has been handed 10 {
their own lips and the damnaole III
ventiou has returned to plague the
inventors. Negroes to-day give four
teen senators and forty ODD represen-
tatives to the democratic party.
Why should |, democrat of the
most pronounced type, why should
seek to take the right OF suffrage
away from negroes. They vote with
my party, was born with them,
reared with them, nursed by one OF
them; my earliest memories are OF the
docilitv and kindness of the negro
race with whom was raised. i'll
herlted them as property,tried to pro
tect the property that was 'eit
me by my forefathers. Why, fellow
citizens, | am tonight far better
friend to the colored race OF MI.
| Turner, than those howiers that are
going through the country screaming
| for negro suffrage. l am tonight AS
sociated with the memories OF the
past and possibilities for the future,
|
of the negro race that any Of these
gentlemen who are going through
the country proclaiming that the ne
urLes in the state of Missouri are
about to be disfranchised by George
Vest.
NV citizens, it is not the
negro question that is exercising the
sensitive souls of these patriotic
1 . -,
gro. 1t is not desire to protect the
negro ami it is not fear that any right
will be taken from the negro. 1t is
not the negro question, but the sena-
: torial question that affects these gen
tlemen that are going through the
f state declaring their great love tor
, the African race, AID their hatred to
. any man. who, they say, is about to
: reopen the negro question.
, NV fellow-citizens, having cleared
| away the debris any personal ques-
ton in this canvass. propose now
. briefly to discuss the great question
;. that ovcrshadows and overllcs all
: other political issues in this canvass.
n 1t is hardly necessary for me to say
T. that
S THE GREAT ABSORBING QUESTION
the question Of finance; money
\ money. Shakespeare, III one of those
e great plays of hs, which will &c
l. sounding down through the centu'
" rics until time shall be no more
Is when he gave that selfish advice tt
=; one of hi, characters, put money IL
l. thy purse struck the great hercan
4. tile question, the ;reat business ques
hn nj. n lao
ID the intellect of the numan race. Money
II il the blood of til, body poiltlc ant
corporate. 1t is Ike the blood tina
le pcrmeates and mllglcs and course
IL through the veins oi the body phys
1t ical. Whenever tIe money OF tn
~ country is not sufficient for the rur
- pose of homes, circulation, then yo'
e. have what to-day we have i'll thc-
III United States, financial cungestiv
ii chill. Laughter and applause. To
lie day the peo,le of tn ,t,',N , -'"t'
ce are suffering un4-r nome" eo"s
MS ,inr m. money of the couutr
or d,.s not course through the veins
r. tho bodv corporate i'll healthy an
,is ,nr,r,l cn nnli,ion. 1t has stopped l
3D.. .dii,.s--,. has ceased to circuia'
.,a a. ~ st.uid do, aud the result l. Il
in, dav, there is coldness at the extren
rd tiles. There is
lat FINANCIAL CONGESTION,
1t, and everywhere in the city, III II
ou country, III the crowded martS al
lie exchanges, and out on the dusty roa
AID of the country you hnd men stan
L a ing and asking each other The que
t." ton, what is the matter with I
the business of this country, and why
It'll. money so scarce, and why Is II IN
property is worth so little! W he
ever the money Of the country is Il
Oh in sufficient quantities to transact |
-, business of the country, property !
,,,y mediateiy falls to an abnormal con
o. ton, You Immediately find there
sod no price for property. on put pro
~ erly on themarket aud IL brings no
n a, ing you put personal property up
the highest bidder and it is wo
~, nothing the money of the coun
,,,a, not being i'll sufficient quantities,
,nr purchasing capacity becomes
n,t great, and the property of the co
,, try falls: and on the other hand w
the money of the country is i'll exc
of the demands of business, the pr
~, :, erty of the country goes up far ao
a,d its real mercantile value and
80 money of the country is correspe
anal ingly deprecated.
-o,,sa NV fellow-citiZens, every reflec
,toi,1 mind within the sound OF my V
!, ,nr1 Tonight knows that there Is
,ho,.i reason besides natural and lei
,;tad mate cause for the present final
=, od condition of this country. Provid
h.s has blest us with an Inheritance
nos most magnificent ever given to
choi. pcopIe on the face of the earth.
nnnn rains, the sunlight, the dews OF
,nyh. ven, have come in season with
fisheries of Maine, the golden s
-, of California, the SHOWS of Al
color, anu .i'e .,oPIo" ,oI. .;rors ~
servi- win mountains. iaNes,
r,l unsurpassed in their resources
u this great river that laves the ba
IVA o YOUR city, aud which coming
~, the SHOWS of the vertebrT o
country the great Rocky Noun
washes the soil of nineteen
RAGE, ereigu states, aud mingles at last
,o the tepid waters of the sun-lit Il
oet;om and all their resources in the p'
'st.,n : 's,a,o sion of 100000 of Anglo-S
VII Norman, Huguenot people, III
! an;s veins is the blood of Ionques
,;sn.d empire; who have stamped
sana laboratory aud upon the battle
, one and on every page OF history
ovnrv superiority of blood and lineng
,sta ~ race All these resources inherit
.d he. A 100000 of white people, All
- suu brains, Drawn, muscle and enc
this thrifty people all at wort
va no to-day
Broad "hAi 10 mr.
rectinp of this country? The land Is
,dmills .ramps. and cities are full of II
aye u, and distrust aud suspicion !
d kick To-day the people of the l
o,1cut. States stand and look at each
ost re- ayhast at their terrible tinanci
protest .iition. My fellow citizens,
for the here to-ask the question, who
f these sponsihle for this condition OF
.ttempt | am here to arraign the gull
in the ties aud to point out the RENE!
an who at the close of the war--and
aud | to it simply as all historical c
,erately for the war ended with me atAp
tox court house in Virginia
which never reopened it. (Chsers.
It of at here tonight, in this audienc
id then, who wore gallantly the IL
1t, as an of the federal army from the
d never ming to the close of hostillii'
se to the who, tonight, are my be
ave said warmesl friends; men betweei
not pup nartlcle q