Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-06-26
When, however, he was Il candidate
last winter for the senate it was

When, however, he was a candidate
last winter for the senate it was
plainly intimatcd to him that Ohio
would send no ore as her representa-
tive to the upper house except all
avewed prOtectiOnist. His member
ship of the Golden club then became
a reproach 10 him. For the position
he was seeking he forgot his manli-
ness, he surrendered his honor, and
he deliberately told an untruth when
he said he had always been a protec-
ZIONIST and that he did not know the
character of the Golden club when
he permitted himself to be made q
member of it. The name of the club
was not sufficient notice to him OF its
purposes. Last summer he voted for
the rider on the army bill, which is
now on the statute book, providing
that troops shall not be used as a police
force to keep the peace at the polls.
This winter he ran away TO Ohio to
escape voting oil q similar provision,
while all the followers whom last
year he had led to vote with him
voted the other way at the command
of Roscoe Conkliag and the other
stalwarts of the senate.
MIR. Garfield has given proof of his
%cowardice Whenever, following his
better thoughts, he he's stepped be-
You'd the lines OF party discipline.
The undetermined but tirmer-heart-
ed of the party can always
BRIGHTEN HIM BACK TO THE RANKS
This element would control his All
ministratiSn should he unfortunately
be elected president. Conkling and
the old Grant ring would revive. The
republican candidate has been with
them before, notably when he sold
his conscience to Shepherd for $4,000
to aid in laying the streets OF Wash
ington with the De Golyer pave
ment, and he will be with them again
whenever they demand it. lie may
know better, but his fears guide him.
He lacks character. He is of that
soft, flabby nature which spreads
ever men like q poultice and draws
the weak aud wicked 10 him. He is
like a great package of fluffy wool
which gathers to itself all the lH-
purities that are floating about in the
air.
Way down at the bottom he is a
bad man. He was II of the most
cunning of the republican visiting
statesmen at New Orleans. The local
~rascals found a more useful ally III
Garfield than in all the others COM
bined. He was as cunning as they,
and as constituencies. If the true
history of the days when the Louis.
lana conspiracy against free govern
ment was perfected should ever be
written it will be found that James
+, .lI -, &c acrnpsiG1n oc anN
one of the returning-board scoundrelf
for the disfranchisemsnt OF ten thou
sand citizens Of that state. 1t wa;
easy for him after the work i'll which
he engaged in New Orleans to tax.
part in the electoral commission which
completed the fraud.
The country knows of the disclosure
of his participation in the Credi'
Mobilier scandal. 1t knows, too, o.
his persistent efforts during the pres
ent session of congress as q membel
of the ways and cal committee t.
stifle all tariff legislation. He ha
acted as one of the agents of the pro
tected monopolies of the country. IL
has been the constant adviser Of tn
two pulp men, who came to congress
Z. to prevent the paper trade from Lav
, ing free pulp and lower paper. He j
not averse to lobbyists. :.
This is the kind of man the repub
; licans present to the people as thei
candidate for the presidency. If tn
I; people accept him it will be becaus
i they have become so debauched tina
they no longer admire character. an
because they care nothing for person
=. al integrity and purity. III. L. N.