Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-10-16
WELL. WHAT OF IT2

democratic by one thousand majority
last Tuesday, Hancock would virtual
have been elected. The republicans ha
to have Indiana in October. Without
they were lost. The democracy ma.
succeed without it; the republican
could not. They knew this. They as
sessed their officeholders over two mil
lions of dollars. They assessed the pro
tected manufacturers who take from tn
people yearly five hundred millions o
dollars for absolutely no equivalent
millions more. They assessed the banl
syndicates, which make millions every
| year by favoritism of the government
other millions. Politics, with the re
publicans, now means money. Tall
about $3.50, 900 sent to Indiana! If thu
truth could be ascertalned, there ha:
been nearer five million dollars spent
there by the republican managers. Who
knows? Maybe twice as much. What
difference does 1t make? Are there
not protection and bank syndicates tc
make it back ten times over? And II
the congress could be gained by money,
would not a chairman on the committee
of appropriations, as accommodating as
Mr.. Garfield. cover the amount with the
extra price of p%avements? 1t Is a sad
day in American politics-a day when
money is freely talked of as a potent
factor in elections. But so it is.
Democrats, however, need not fee
discouraged. Ohio is naturally repub-
lican. and has not materially, if at all,
increased its majority over that of Gov.
Foster. West Virginia, in which great
efforts were mado and much money
spent by republicans. has probably CIV
en- an increased democratic majority.
Indiana has been bought, and her ma
jority has been imported. Landers,
who is illiterate, and vas an unpopular
candidate, was a great weight to the
ticket, his opponent being a n,an of in
telligence. Landers was especially
weak in having been mixed up with To-
cal quarrels, while Judge Porter was alb
Sent at Washington City away from the
chickering's in the state. We said a week
ago:-'Next Tuesday will tell us how
Indiana will vote for 0overnor," and
Hancock is stronger than any state
ticket, On any side, in New York, Indi
ana, Connecticut. California and Color
ado," and so no is. Indiana has never
given a clean democratic majority since
the war-only plurallties-and her pres,
small plurality in a vote OF over four
hundred thousand may easily be over
come by a very slight popular feeling.
Landers was unpopular; Hancock is
popular. The Germans would not vote
Tor Landers because OF his greenback
proclivlties, and the greenbackers would
not vote for him because they said he
had betrayed them. The Germans will
vote against Garfield because OF
his smirched record, aud the greenback-
ers a certainly have no love for him.
Indiana is good fighting ground still.
In 1874 Pennsylvania went whig in
August, n the wings were wild with
Joy in November it voted for James X.
Polk. and Polk was elected. The
Hoosier state may have the same sort OF
L 81 surprise in store for the republicans
next month.
But what are the chances without
Indiana? Good. The south will give
Hancock 1873 electoral votes. He will
need II more to be elected. New York
and New Jersey will furnish A of these.
Three only are lacking. To get these
remains Maine, Connecticut, Cal
fornia and Colorado. New York and
New Jersey are democratic. Maine is
longer republican. Connecticut vo-
I'd for Tilden; and in California and
Colorado there have been large aces
lions to democracy since 1876. There
IS no telling but that a Hancock electo-
al vote, ven larger than is needed
night startle the country from one or
other states which have been Wig
canvassed. The green repub-
lean cannoneer who thinks because his
piece has gone off with a very loud bang
hat everything has gone down before
It, may wake up ere long to a realiza-
lion that a battle is never won until it is
out.
There are not many weakened dem
ocrats in this climate, but if there are
any such among our readers we say to
hem: Don't be afraid. Democracy
has lived long in adversely. 1t lives
for purity OF administration, economy
Of public expenditure, home rule, and
opposition to monopoly and a%rlstocracy.
1t will live long after this battle, go
IS it may, and its sturdy members will
be found shoulder to shoulder IN 1854
lighting Grantism, as it is practically
doing In this canvass, ostensibly led on
republican side by Mr.. Garfield.
The fight of 1880 is not yet ended. and
The prospect, despite the reverses this
week, is that the next president will
be the pure, the gallant Hancock.
While many other cities we're taken
up with partisan political professions,
Baltimore was the scene Of a
of a more harmonious
and generally pleasant kind. The cell
ebration Of the one hundred and fittieth
anniversary of the city's existence com
menced with a procession many miles
in length and containing several thou
sand men. Nearly all branches OF bust
ness were well represented.
Spotted Tails Indians have raised
1923 so with which to retain a LAWYER
for the defense of the SIX young men
to the tribe who were some
tim ago sent to Omaha to be tried for
misdemeanors. The old chief writes to
Secretary Schurz inclosing this sum-,
and urging that the youths be speedily
punished if guilty, or liberated if inno-
The election, Tuesday may be sum-
med up in a few words. Ohio usual repub-