Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-09-13

menG TOT Ine put poso vi
voters in nay own distrlct-a place
as peaceful then as now and as quiet
! and orderly as this assemblage. But
that district, true to the RECORD whlGh
eytends from the period of my early
| manhood, stood unwaverlhg still ana
showed its fidelity by an increased
majority.
* democratic congress found a
system in the choice of jurymen by
which men utterly incompetent We're
Questions of property and life, II a
| democrat seldom gained admission
into the iury-box. But in the fight
to remedy this abuse the congress
gained a signal victory, and good
men instead of the ignorant and de-
draved, can be got to take mems
causes into their hands. Hayes has
signed the bill, and we have decided
not to give one dollar for the employ
nent Of partisan marshals; and, SO
help me God, [ hope we shall remain
steadfsst to the II d
ECONOMY IN GOVERNMENT.
Another issue that you will more
readily understand is the economical
administration of the government,
which Is Just as necessary to the we'll
being of a community as well-dlrect-
ed industry is to the private citizen.
The citizen who squanders his w
money, however, has only himself to
blame, but the public officer who has
the spending of your money and
mine should have all his acts most
carefully s%crutinized. Such scrutiny
has been badly needed over the re-
publican party, for its tendency has
been in tine direction of extravaganza.
Imay again refer to the Declar a-
ton of Independence, pointing out
the passage which says that the king
had sent hordes of oficeholders to
prey upon the people: How truly
may the same be said now, when
there are a hundred thousand Office
holders under the federal govern
ment. Igive you my word. from my
experience at Washington, that if any
good business mai among you were
conducting the same affairs, he could
do the work thoroughly with half of
that number.
1t is the proud boast of the repub-
lican party that the marked signs of
returning prosperity in the country
are due to the resumption of specie
payments, which that party claim to
have been instrumental i'll bringing
about. We claim that the revival
now SO perceptlble is not at all due
to the resumption, but rather that
resumption is the natural conse
quence of a start on the return to
prosperity. Let me tell you what has
caused this start, and is now keeping
the ball rolling. First, the economy
of the forty-fourth congress. During
the four years that the democrats have
had control Of the lower house they
effected q saying of $S4,000,0 900 in
comparison with the total of appro-
priations made during the previous
years of republican control.
But / may give as the main u
Of this returning prosperity the fact
that for some time the value of our
exports has been growing larger and
larger in excess of the value of our
imports. The excess for the last four
years amounts to about 500, DOC, 900,
and l statethis without consideration
of any of the coin shipments to and
fro. Judging from the condition of
the crops abroad and of those at
, home, we may expect this state of
things to continue. We are advised
that the yield of the grain-growing
countries of Europe is far behind the
average this year. In this country,
: thank God, we have plenty, and so
much to spare that there is every
; prospect of our growing richer and
} richer. A nation that exports more
than it imports gradually becomes
prosperous, and this has been the road
to the equalization of the paper money
to the coin of the country. The re-
sumption, against which we democrats
voted, has had nothing to do with
! bringing about the present state of
things. 1t would have been Just as
wise a thing for congress to legislate
that water should run up hill as to
: legislate resumption. History proves
what 1 say.
CIVIL SERVICE AND THE RIOT BILL.
We are advised that the republican
party is in favor of civil service reform.
. 1 believe such reform to be essential
to good administration. Mr.. Hayes
in various ways has declared that he
would adhere to the civil-service
rules adopted by congress. And how
has he done it Would you believe it !?
-fifty-six men are holding prominent
public positions under the govern
ment who were either directly or in
directly implicated in the frauds per-
pstrated in South Carolina and Louis
lana, by which a president was folst-
ed into the white house although
never electedl
l cannot dwell too strongly upon
the issues of the coming election.
You are all aware of tho doings of
the last legislature. You are familiar
with the character of the riot bill,
which proposed to take $4,000, 900 Of
your money to reimburse certain citi-
zens Of this commonwealth for prop
erty destroyed in the riots OF July,
1877. Now, if I am correctly inform
ed, two millions, OR at most two and
a half nillions, would be quite ade-
quate to meet that loss, and yet you
|, citizens of Montgomery county have
been called upon not only to pay
damages for which you are nowise
, responsible, but to pay double the
T amount Of al equitable claim. II the
people of this commonwealth shall
by their votes declare themselves in
favor of a democratic ticket they will
never again hear of such claims as
: this, but if they once more allow the
success Of those who for twenty years
have controlled the treasury and al
| most confiscated the state property
they will have no one but themselves
to blame. The only way to prevent
O continuance of the existing evils ls
, to select the candidates of tho party
which by its platform is pledged to
: an economical administration.
l did not intend to take up so much
; Of the time of this preliminary or
ganizing meeting. 1 believe in Or
: ~ganization. l remember when Mont
gomery gave decided democratic ma.
jorities. knew this county to roll
: up her 1000 majority, and l believe
you can approach that again. Last
year you were unfortunate, but |
I trust you will return to the work OF
old times, especially when tho great
. issue of 1880 comes up-when fraud
shall b. made odious and justice shall
l. be done, and when no longer a man
shall hold the white house in viola.
S ton of justice, to the disgrace of the
American name, aud, l may say, to
s the disgrace of the world.
: sWINDLING BROKERS.
A liva1v husiuaso 10 hoipr dana -,