Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-02-21
"oReAN1zE IN T1ME.p e.
[From the sedalia Democrat


This in the head of an able-bodiedk
radical editorial in the. Globe-Demo-
crat, of the 12... 1t means, one NAV
very naturally suppose, some kind 81
an indefinite or hotch potch thing in
favor of Grantism. The usual amount
of ciphering is there. The little
word if is brought as of old promi.
nently to the front. If black should
suddenly become .white-ifs the devil
should get sick unawares he might
become q monk-if such and such
things are done the republicans. can
also do such and such things in the
way of vote. 1t is all if, if, If. SUB.
eradded TO the howl about .Eijfsff
Gates and the treasury steal, like the
VOLTS clone howl on Onalaska's
shore" aEy5 10 - y @ET
What's the use of any sensible re.
publican newspaper, wasting, time
over democratic Missouri. Missouri
Is democratic upon the principle that
blood is thicker. than water. Men
are democrats here because thew want
space, freedom, fresh air, and plenty
of pasture to Craze in. A little radi.
cal comes among the one suspender
fellows, dapper as Spitz dog and
as disputative as Darwin. He spells
nation with big N. He calls God
Aims ghty "Boss." He wants to req
ulate all the schools by patent
right. He puts Plymouth Rock down
in prairie and calls it "superior
civilization" Most generally, he
breaches when he does not preach
he prays. Speak to him aud he wants
to hug you; give him a homestead
and he will take county. Where he
can he proselytes; where he CAN'T he
slauders where he can do neither he
emigrates. Between the exodus aud
the carpet-bag there is q. liason. Both
60 to bed peripatetic, and when they
awake they are lousy. res. sa'l
Make gains in Missouri Grant.
ism make gains in Missouri why.
the only way to do this is to replace
the pioneers aud the offspring of the
pioneers with pigmies. Ali over this
state there are the graves Of those
precious and peerless ones who died
and were buried that democracy
might live. They are thick up this
way. They are thicker further west.
81. Louis, who can talk all day abotft
the color of yard of calico, aud. .bsb.
BILE by the hour of political evolution.
revolution, and convolution, wifi
fence in parterre as big as a flo wer
bed and call it Paradise. Let it. Let tbs
great religious daily take it's slate
and its pencil aud convince the blue
neckties that two and two make five:
but when the bugles blow, and tho
boys come out of the brush, and. the
old democratic yell is heard once
more i'll the uplands, then instead of
the dtlletGnte songs the long-haired
eunucns sing OF rout, aud ruin, and
disarray, the war-drpms will beat
and the war bugles will blow
'All the blue bonnets are over The berder.n
Seriously, however, Missouri has
tired radicalism. 1t dwarfed her. It
ate lato her like cancer. 1t stole
her revenues and wasted her resonr.
ces. Ii put her beggars on horseback.
1t LOOK her Lazarusses without fuml.
CATION or nitrate of silver and put
lnem at the shrines and the holy
places. 1t beget registrars and pro-
vost mnrshaIs. 1t stole all the rail.
roads. 1t kept grandfathers from
voting who have to-day ten livino
sons and as mang grandsons. 1t
taught all the young democrats to
cry out:
10 you, as 10 your sires or yore,
BelOng the target and claymOre -
lGlve you shelter in my breast, -a
oir own good blades must win the rest
Ient IN TINS fortress of the north,
- Ihlnk' st thou We will not sally forth
10 spoil the spOilcr we NAV
And from the robber rend the prey pr
missouri democracy means Gibral.
tar. 1t couldn't mean anything else.
because it has never known a clean
How can men fellow.
snip other men who break into their
smokehouses, land steal their chickens.
About few cities there have been
ana are to-day some clever. con-
liberal, fairminded, cos.
mopolltan republicans, but the great
country mass of them are garfish in
the stream where the fishers are fish.
ing for croppie and trout They eat.
ana eat and eat, and never get ten
aer ana tat. You must have respect
before you can commingle political.
~. Some sort of sun must shina
before the ice of the civil war can
melt or sink. Wolverines and wea-
seis are not thoroughbreds. When
Mlssourl radicalism means peace, pro-
gression and state rights, the Globe.
democrat can call its editor Elijah.
II III Will, or give him the name OF
any other prophet who never heard
OF Plymouth Rock, or left to Elisha
a bloody shirt instead of a mantle.
Robt Craig, first lieutenant 4th u. s.
A. 5. o.. writes from Wash.
nptOn fo all siUpol oEo. .,n