Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-10-30
The New York Herald, in the issue of

The New York Herald, IN the issue of
last Sunday, in its leading editorial, en-
titled, The City Canvass says
"What do we see? A canvass of in
comprehensive stupidity on the part of
Gen. Arthur. 1t is said OF the campaigns
OF the Confederate General Hood in the
west that he served the union cause as
effectively by his blunders as If he had
taken orders from Thomas or Sherman.
1t used to be said OF Banks in the valley
OF Virginia that he was quartermaster
and commissary to Stonewall Jackson.
On the assurance that Gen. Arthur is an
honorable man, and acting in good faith
toward his party, he shows himself a
political commander OF the grade of
Hood and Banks. With victory before
him-a victory as sure and brilliant as
AusterlitZ-he gives the battle to his OPP
ponents. When Kelly's ticket was
named everybody said hat it was the cll-
max o! political folly. When Arthur's
came it was so much worse that people
Said 1t was intended to max kolly's re-
spectacle by contrast. We look down
the list and fail to SEQ a name that will
win Il single vote or awaken the least
enthusiasm" The Herald has thrown
Its independence to the dogs in this can
vass, and sold itself, body, boots and
breeches, to tho republican party. 1t
has done what 1t could to blacken MIR.
English, to scare business men to annoy
with the ialsehoods of It's Indianapolis
| correspondent the democrats in that
state, and now it ls bringing religion
into politics and making a k~now-nothing
war or Mr.. Grace, the democratic NOM
inee tor mayor OF New York, the next
place, in Importance, to president of the
United States. Even in spite of all this,
it damns Mr.. Arthur and his weak tick
ct, and comedies that it is doomed to
defeat. Net only this, but it goes so far
as to aver:-..We look down the list
and fail to see a name that will win a
single vote or awaken the least enthusi-
asm." Thanks. o, enemy!
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9Th. We demand the repeal of the law where
by farmers are taxed on their crops, the object
plainly being TO raise money to replace the
amount taken by the defaulting state treas urer.
-ltepublican county platform.
The little fellow that wrote that plank
was n clumsy hand. He knew that the
latter part was a f%alsehood, but why
| did he predicate it on another falsehood ?
Where is the law whereby farmers
are taxed on their crops?" There is
no such law. The other idiot who
wrote the same plank for the state plat
form fixed it this way
5th. We arraign them for their unjust and I'M
authorized construction of the revenue laws,
whereby our farmers are for the first time dOub-
ly taxed; first ON their growing crops and
again on their crops after they are harvested.
! This n says tho farmers are taxed
twice on their crops, first while they
are growing, and then when they are
severed from the soil. Somebody
ought to find out who he is and pouI-
| tice his head. The fact IS that the tax
alton of crops is only done by the audi
tors construction of the constitution as
it effects the revenue law, and that the
revenue thinkers, with I'VE tive hundred
amendments. just such asses as wrote
these w resolutions, prevented the
amendment OF the evil in the 30th gen.
erel assembly, though 1t passed both
houses. The democratic party is OPP
posed to the measure. The question is,
which can the farmers best trust to con-
strue the law in their favor, JohnWalker,
the democratic farmer candidate for
auditor. or l.. A. Thompson, the repub-
lican candidate for the place, a man
whom nobody knows?