Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-11-08
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In five OF these, Maryland, Massacnu-
sets. Minnesota, New York and Wis
cousin state officers were voted for.
No political changes were expected in
Maryland, Minnesota or Wisconsin.
Massachusetts was looked to with some
interest, because of the Butler fight.
The focal point was in New York, where
the figures of the returns would proba-
bly, indicate how That great state. with
her thirty-frve electoral votes, would 60
next tall.
MARYLAND, of course, went democrat
ic: Minnesota, Massachusetts and Wis
consin. as naturally, went republican.
In New York the democratic party
was rent in twain by a bolt, and two
candidates we're in the field-Lucius
Robinson, the regular nominee, and
John Kelly, the boiling Tammany can
didate. The latest news indicates Thai
the entire democratic state ticket Is
elected with the exception of governor
Cornell, the republican candidate, be-
ing elected by a plurality over Robinson,
but by a minority vote. 1t is lmPossi-
BILE yet to give the exact votes. as the
returns from the rural districts come in
quite slowly.
The result simply shows that New
York, despite all dissension and strife,
is democratic, and may be relied on for
any respectable candidate the democrat
ic party may name in 1880.
With Bayard, Hancock, Seymour or
any other of the great leaders. the en-
pire state is sure for democracy.
The one hundred and t~hirty-eight
electoral votes of the south need but the
addition of fortY-seven votes to elect q
president. With the sixteen votes of
Indiana and the thirty-five votes OF
New York there are four votes to spare,
and it is as certain as til 1t election day
will come, that, with the right kind OF q
the democrats can carry Con-
necticut, New Jersey and Oregon in ad-
ditlon to the votes which they will need.
United States Senator Zachariah
Chandler was found dead in his bed at
the Grand Pacific Hotel, in Chicago. last
Saturday morning. He had made a
speech at McCormick's Hall, in that
the previous night, which was re-
plete with his usual bitter invectlve
the south. A successful mer-
chant and Spectator for many years, In
Detroit, Mich, Mr.. Chandler amassed a
fortune. He was a man of great en-
.rgy and honest IN the business affairs
of life. His administration of the inte-
rior department, as the predecessor OF
tIr. Schurz was clean. He was possessed
Of a certain kind of ability, and his
bluntness OF speech and extreme views
won for him the p%laudits OF the little men
Of his party. those people who better ap-
oreciated his. bludgeon blows than they
the keen rapier thrusts of a Sum-
Ter, a Hoar, an Edmunds or a Conkling.
That he was a statesman in the broad
of the term, few will claim.
With a yea! for party he never knew the
meaning of love for his country. He
vas narrow and sectional in his p0litica!
aud while he was held to be a
good husband and a kind father, he
had in his heart a charitable feeling |
or " political opponent. Twenty years
, senator there cannot be found one ct
ais speeches in which a broad spirit OF
breathed. An intense partisan
he republicans owe 1t to him as chair
nan of their national committee that they |
we're enabled to commit the rape of the
ard to his last moment the
ceilings were paramount IN his heart
which made all political sins virtues that
to the welfare of the republic
party. Among his last utterances
the sentiment that more southern
men should have been hanged at tho
lad OF the war. that Treason might there
" nave been made odious. Mr.. Chand-
er's death is a great loss to the republi-
an machine it is a strong spoke cut OF
he Grant wheel, but it is no national ca
amity. No one will rejoice that the man
S dead, though many undoubtedly think
hat 1t would have been better ii he, and
,ther extremists like him of whatever
party, had never been born. May the
wills which he wished to others not
lave followed him beyond the other
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