Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-11-27
SEDALIA, Mo Nov. IL, 1880.
Dear Sir IL am in receipt vi your

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which openly calls for a solid north.
aud openly declares that the south
is false in every declaration of loyalty
and every expression Of patriotism.
Your party first made the south SOHO
against you, by the thieviDg carpet
bag government which you Kept IN
existence by federal soldiers; ana
YOU now obtain power again by ap-
pealins to the sectional feeilng OF !ne
northern people for a solid north.
Your denial of bulidozing your III
pioyes, as you term it, Is OF course
to be expected. know all about the
system, and it's workings. During
the recent canvass, [ saw at Washing
ton City, printed notices posted On
tie doors of the public printing Of
flee, notifying employees TO pay their
assessments, provided that those who
went home 10 vote should not be re-
luired 10 ply. (Your civil service
reform president had left the capita!
SO as TO escs pc the humiiiatlng
spectacle). | have no doubt Mr.:
Defrees, the public printer. would
Indignantly deny, like yourself. The
charge of butidoZing, but every EN-
plove knew that To secure promotion,
If not To escape removal, he had bel
ter settle. Every oue OF your work
men knew That the read 10 Your
favor as through the radical party,
aud they took il. l don't blame them.
aud l au not quArreling with you.
| have only told the OF
Missouri to exercise their unques-
,iouable right of refusing 10 buy
wagons from All establishment which
takes their money 20 swell the cam-
psign fluid Of the radical party. aud
To advertise bets OH the radical candi-
dates for the benefit Of the poor.
1t a southern planter undertakes 10
make democratic votes by his per-
.onal influence with the labOrers he
| EMPLOYS, we Immediately hear the
cry OF Ku Klux, Rife Cubs, White
| League, etc., but with you it Is moral
suasiom, and the tariff question. In
the language of brother lngersoll,
SIT won't do" (By the way, lnger'
soil stole that from Senator Thur
man. Of Ohio.)
You are kind enough to mail me a
newspaper containing all article by
you on ihs tariff question, aud i'll
which you charge the democratic
party with attempting to ruin Ameri,
can manufactures by bring them into
competition with the products Of
paupsr labor III Europe, etc.
l do not believe there is q democrat
in congress who would vote for any
siil winch refused protection TO any
branch of American industry, whel
it was needed. One fifth Of oul
people are manufacturers, and all
are consumers. We are opposed to
the present tariff aud seek to change
it in many respects, because II put
, duty upon the raw material fO'
manufactures. aud upon the neces
ssries Of life, without giving protec
ton to auy American interest of any
kind. We oppose it, because 1t wa
made in the interest of New England
aud at q time when all immense rev
.uue was needed for war purposes
4 necessity which has ceased to exist
We want a tariff just alike to al
classes aud all sections. If salt
iuty free to the fisheries OF New
England let it be duty free to tn
people of Indiana aud Missouri. ]
any particular branch OF America
manufacture is in Its Infancy, ant
struggling for existence, let it b
tostered and protected; but when
ever protection is no longer needed
aud our manufacturers are compel
ing successfully even i'll Europe
With foreign manufactures, then lie
tue people buy were they can buy III
III apest goods.
L do not expect you to preach an
other doctrine than that of a hig
protective tariff. You are a nan
Lecturer, and the less .competitio
. you have the more you can charge
but there are other people in tn
country beside the manufacture"
and they propose TO be heard upo
: this question in the near future, ali
III ne Uncertain tones.
: Here in Missouri we have seen o,
ron interests languish aud die, o,
c foundrles deserted aud the fires
our furnaces extinguished, Will
u your present tariff was IN full tore
a Four great crops blessed the hu
j Bandmau !; the earth responded gene
d uusly to his toll, and the furnace al
l. foundry again glow with the II
NJ tongues that reach u for the mou
.ain's iron heart. The mel W!
n raised these crops, propose to ha
l. something to say i'll regard TO l.
Il tariff.
IL l fully appreciate what you 9
upon the subject of partisan lies, Pc
sonal abuse aud forged letters. +
myself, | have been very careful
the late canvass to cenfine myse
=, in all illusions 10 Mr.. Garfield.
quotations from republican authoi
ues, such az the report of the Pola
committee, the decision of Jua
Farwell on the De Golyer contra
and the editorials of Harper's Wet
~, the New York Tribune, the
dianapolis Journal, and other leadi
AZ republican papers published at 1
es time of these historic scandals.
at In speaking OF Mr.. Arthur l ha
g, confined myself to Mr.. John Sh
ed mans letter to the president. and
presidents message to the sena
t;in the latter of which documents
he believe, Mr.. Hayes assigned as Il +
a son tor removing Mr.. Arthur fr'
CHI the coilectorship Of New York, "t|
IT. the Office might be honestly adm
W. istered."
so You see that whatever OF
TO- democrats may have done l, at lei
lily Lave only quoted from the high
on authority in the republican pal
GU aud of this you surely cannot c.
his plain.
es' 1t seems to me, however, ii
nef will not consider the remark of
ere .ive, that the reform ysu sugges
to personal abuse, forged lett
hol ETC., comes with rather poor 81
we from the party TO which you belt
as In the attack make upon the
Us sonal character of Mr.. Tilden, and
,ue- wholesale abuse of Mr.. English, y
nii- party has not observed the rule wi
lsIy YOU invoke.
~ IfIam not mistaken, that emf
apostle of radicslism, Mr.. lnger
,ae, declared at Cincinnati, s'that Enc
was not fit to be vice-presideu
9TH h-l,;' and his orthodox andienc
rhe ceived the pious remark with sh
hu- of applause. Indeed, | am Of
h ! opinion that no part of MIR. 1ngcrs
.c. eloquent speech received such
m%endation as that in which he
r.' clared the democratic party &c
WHO composed of the yilest. NEST igno
and utterly deprayed elements II
hair country. This Invariably bro
zinc down the house.