Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-08-14
GREENBACKERS AND THE BLOODY
SHIRT.

back paper, conducted in the usual style
Of very reckless statement in which that
party INDUCES. In its issue OF last week
we find this editorial paragraph: h:-"1i
the greenback party had no recommen-
dation above the two old parties other
than that it buries the bloody shirt and
bushes sectional strife, it would be still
worthy OF the support of every one who
would make a wise choice for himself.'
Now, this is very pretty sentiment.
SO far as burying the bloody shirt is
concerned. we are with it, as is the en-
tire national democratic party in every
township in the United States, but so IS
not the presidential nominee of the
greenback party. The associated press
under date of Wheeling,W. Va, August
l. said:-"Gen. James B. Weaver,
greenback candidate for president, spoke
last night to a large audience. The
general has just returned from an cleo
tioneering tour in Alabama. In an in-
terview with an Intelligencer reporter
to-day he said in the stories of bull-doz-
ing and frauds in elections in the south
the half has not been told. He says that
Gov. West, of Mississippi, told him at
Selma that it Hancock were elected such
an impetus would be given to the spirit
OF hatred and intolerance tor republicans
in the south, he (West) did not believe
he could live in Mississippi day. Gen.
Weaver is hopeful OF carrying Alabama
at the election, tomorrow for the green
back ticket. He claims that the repub-
licans are joining the greenback party
in large numbers in the hope that they
will thus be freed from the ostracism
under which they live. A week before
he spoke at Montgomery a republican
meeting had been broken up by a mob,
and after the speakers. one of whom was
Gen. Burk, collector of customs at Mo-
bile. had been driven from the stand,
the democratic solicitor of Montgomery
mounted it and shouted, They can out
vote US, but we will count them out ev-
cry time This information Gen. w eaver
had from unimpeachable authority"
Call you this burying the bloody shirt,
Mr.. Reflex Why, ii is the very incar-
nation of the bloody shirt. Gen. Weaver
told an Intelligencer reporter, that Gov.
West told him, that if Hancock were
elected, he (WesD could not live in Mis-
sissippi. Stuff and nonsense. General
Weaver had better discuss finance, the
only idea OF his party, than to rehash the
baggers who are sore because their op-
pOrtunities to issue and steal southern
state bonds have been taken away from
them. If he has not got rid OF his old
Iowa ladIcalism sufficiently tor this. he
will h.rdly gain friends among respec-
table southern people. The Reflex, IN
another paragraph. says:-"Let the
bloody shirt be gracefully folded around
the two old parties that soiled it, and be
hidden away with the relics OF the past.
When anything has outlived ITS useful
ness it ought to either be buried or put
out OF the way OF the progress OF the
living. 1t is time TO lay the twin rolics
aside" We very respectfully suggest,
as Gen. Weaver has been smelling at the
tail OF the garment, that that part. .soiled
though it be, be wrapped around him. The
way in which Gen. Weaver carried Ala.
bama suggests, too, that il there is q
moribund party in the United States i,
Is, probably, the party which that gen.
tleman leads. As samples of how green,
back papers are burying the bloody shirt
we print, Tor the benefit OF our friend
the Reflex, the following extracts iron
the Holmes County, Miss, Times -
"Greenbackers. clean up your shot Gun:
and Winchester rifles, for the irrepressi
BILE conflict is approaching"
"Greenbackers, organize companies anc
drill them well. Teach them how tc
hit the bulls eye whenever they pul
the trigger. Expert marksmen NAV b,
in demand next iall.' We are incline,
to think there is about as much sense il
these vaporings as there is utility il
having a greenback party; and they
with other things, suggest that the Re
tlex should be very wary OF the blood
shirt.
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