Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-25
TOO MANY DOCTORS.
[From the sedal;a Democro, I

ltrom the Scdaiia Democrat
There are too many lessons trying
to be taught about this Ohio election.
One newspaper attributes the result
to tie bloody shirt, another to the
solid south, another to fiat money,
another TO the killing of Chisolm and
Dixon, another to Ewing's Catholi-
cisLn, another 10 this thing and that;
but few there be which take the
broad ground that Ohio is n republic
can state, alway has been in reality a
republican siaic,and will in al! proba-
billiy continue TO be u republican
state until the democracy get the
government and make il 10 the in
trrcst OF the m"I Icrnary republican
leaders there to b"trny their party
organization and help TO break it
into pieces.
But above everything else this
eternal sectional cry-comiug as 1T
hoes from pr"tessed democrats and
protessed democratic newspape:s-is
the most cowardIv and contemplate.
1t is but an echo for Blaine, Zach.
Chandler, Brooklyn Beechcr and
! Canonchet Conkling. These men,
and all of their class who follow
them, make no political fights on any
other line. They never argue
proposition like statesmen. 1t is all
hate, dcnunciation. personal abuse,
and bloody shirt philosophy. With
them the war is still in lis fever
stage. Armies with banners are
marching and eountermarching.
Dead men are every where. The
smoke of the conflict comes up as of
old from the cotton and the cane
fields. Vicksbnrg is again besieged
and Richmond is again environcd. 1t
is still deadly strife by land and sea.
The sections hate one another. Re-
construction is once more put 10 the
, front as the only panacea. Crawling
, out OF the hideous night of debauche-
ry and obscurity come trooping the
3 old satraps and the old slush mongers
g of the Grant regime.
1 This is the feeling, the spirit, and
the discourse of the etern al baters.
r and the democrats who chime with
them are no better than they are.
e Let's take the bull by the horns.
r Whining never helped anything on
l this earth. For every man killed in any
1 one southern state, ten men arc killed
i in Ohio. If republican need was not
n SO great, and republican prospects
n were not so gloomy, the bloody shirt
would not wave an hour. Oue half
e missions, pcrlurbatlons. and eXpla-
10 matlons. Every time stalwart roars
out about southern homicide, fifty
n or sixty democrats get the aguc.
r Every body is giant 10 a man upon
4, his knees. Get up! Cry aloud and
}. say: Ah! there was a killing was
a. there. Thank God! Blood letting is
Of good occasionally. 1t teaches thieves
,e that they cannot steal with impu-
IS nifty, aud tamperers with negro la
r. borers that they must attend to their
n own business. This is free country.
" If a man wants to shoot another in
h Mississippi he has just the same right
Il, TO ito it as he would have in Ohio.
10 This is the way to talk to the bloody
~ shirters. Don't come on tip-toe,
,e with sheepish look of contrition on
every face. Don't apologize. The
* Angln-SaXon who apologies to .
ed mortal enemy should put on petit
coats. Above everything else don't
m weep and wall. Time is all ally past
IN all comparison. Never doubt its re-
in vemges and its retributions. The
H. virus III the veins of the republican
Va party will Kill it SO surely as the mad
Int dogs poison kills through hydro
at phobia. Victor in gigantic civil
q |
ho for fifty years, but its greed, its lus
; " y Of power, its plunderings, its viola
be tions ofevery holy or decent law, il
oh stealings, its putting on the backs o
MI beggars purple and fine linen. ii
he puritamical cant, it's God-and-morali
,,b ty livery fashioned solely to serve tn
to devil in, its rails upom states, 1T
w, rifling of ballot-boxes, it's seizure o
10 the presidency, and its infamous il,
40 auguration of the bogus president
~ made 1t soddcn and diseasetin ever,
for nerve and fibre in fourteen years
w. M Next year it will be buried with o
80, without Ohio. Nothing remains 70
w. the democrats, therefore, save to b
w as defiant as the republicans are, a
ha bold, as daring, rs scornful of crit
,n ,or cism, and as full of passionate eager
~ ness to meet them half way i'll ever,
~ combat and hew them to extinction