Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-07-05
TEE REPUBLICAN LEADERS IN CON-
GRESS.
Hazardous for the Country to Al.
low the Republican Leaders to
obtain a New Lease OF -
Powsr-The Duty OF
Every Patriot TO
Oppose Them.
JMr. Nordhonos Washington Dispatch to the
New York Herald.

IMr. Nordhoff's Washington Dispatch TO the
New York Herald.l
The course of the republican leaders
in the senate this week has been afro
cious. They have fought the army bill as
though they were the rump OF the Grant
movement fighting for the last chance
to secure an election or as though, as
is commonly conjectured. there were
some secret motive in their opposition:
The Importance of what they have said
has by no means justified their intensity
and desperation of purpose. They have
transcribed all regular and legitimate
opposition, and they have not SHOWN
pass. Their conduct has afforded curl
Gus spectacle of men who have been
TOO long in power for their own or coun.~
try's good-who have become intolerant
of opposition from any source. eltner
outside or within thoir party, and VINO
have forgotten how to submit to defeat.
and are capable of seizing on power by
auy means, however violent. The dis
play which they have made is of a spirit
entirely and dangerously evil. and no
thoughtful man can read the senate de-
bates of the last week and consider the
tone, the temper, the spirit and the wide
disparity between the subject and the
republican treatment of it without per-
ceiving that it would be we'll for the
country il these gentlemen could be for
awhile retired from power, and that it
would be an extremely hazardous thing
; to give them a new lease OF 1t, which
they seem determined at all hazards and
by any means to seize.
1t is the Grant movement which has
! displayed itself in the senate in these
DAYS, and has, with extraordinary arro-
3 gance and intolerance, insisted on troops
> at the polls. Ii nothing else justified the
3 democrats in insisting on their extremely
mild prohibition of the use of troops tor
: election purposes. the language and
spirit of the republican leaders in the
senate this week would give them abun-
. dant justification, and it IS not too much
to say that rather than trust these re-
N NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Conkling. blaine
l. and others-with troops at the polls, II
l. would be far better and safer to the
:. country to disband the army. In this
IL aspect the senate debate OF this week
~ may and ought to serve useful and
70 important purpose. The Grant move
. ment has its centre IN that senatorial
q. coterie which has aimed to control thu
10 house, has tried and is now trying to in
III timidate the president. whom it hates
and which with unerring instinct makes
,,y its desperate stand for troops at the poll
10 as the true ground for the Grant move
ln ment to maintain. The democratic de
m an termination to keep troops away iron
uo the polls has seemed hitherto to be IN
as s spired by foolish and ridiculous. fears
gu ' but the apparition Of the Grant move
ns s ment IN the senate justifies them an
Gu ought to secure for their aims the SUP
CT. port of all judicious voters The spir
~ of the republican leaders In the senat
", so shows that it is high time, for the 81
pe curity and peace OF the country, to hav
w. w. change OF parties. Like the democrat
.,' .ne party in 1860, these men have been te
Wy long in power. They are drunk VII
at an unpatriotic ambition. They sho
it plainly that they do not mean to let {
un- OF the government; that they regard Il
10 country as their possession and a poli
or cal defeat as a, personally wrong and ro
| |e' berry of themselves.
fed The impression which the debate h
made upon many thoughtful atsendar
upon it is that no party can be so dapge
Gus to the country as party led, l
spired and controlled by these men, a
the .La ,,.os;donf;.I canvass under tn
the ,o..dar.,;,, Sn :, ,vil, ha tho dntv Of eve
nus man who values the country's safety a
ney noaca to onnose il and them no mat
ans phi LII 10 ~, the other aide The reput
rec oon. ,,ttorod !. foolish crv of revointi
vice Ell, =, ,hs session and who has
lsly ta,lea r. exSose to Won the folly q
MIN ,,oaI.,oss of tho democrats has a,
any mo,h;nn nm rho democratic side wi
ern a ,ha ,vnrs+ eI.m.nt of that ma
un- which at all compares for wickedness
oses pt,,,tt ,ln oonrso Ind temner of the le
:, s,.o y, ing republican senators during the