Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-07-03

Our amusing republican contempora
nv asks, "Who is English anyway
. We will let the Springfield, Mass, Re
publican, which IL the ablest indepen
| dent republican newspaper IN the coun
try, answer. 1t says:-"Mr. English
of Indiana, has been out OF politics evel
since the beginning OF the civil war. blu
he decidedly %outweighs the republican
candidate for ic e-president as a states
man. Mr.. Arthur has done nothing tt
justify expectation of any service in thai
direction. English, on the contrary,
did a great deal during his COMPRESSION.
al career, and his course IN regard tC
the Kansas troubles was, for a demo.
crat. highly creditable. The W men
are very nearly OF an age. and English's
years of retirement are better capita
than Arthur's work as a Conkling
henchman."
For six years a member of the house
committee on ways and means, Senator
Beck recently said: 81 saw all the great
monopoliss and protected interests OF
the country struggling there to perpet-
uate their privileges. 1 have seen the
ablest lawyers argue their cases for pay
day by day-some for salt, blankets,
IRON, cotton, and tor everything that is
protected. But l never saw II human
being come here to argue for a reduc-
ton OF taxation In the interests OF the
producers and taxpayers of this coun-
try" That is what congressman are
elected for. Why don't they do their
duty?
The candidates for the presidency now
before the country are as follows DEM
%ocratic, Winfield S. Hancock, of Penn
sylvania, for president, William IL.
English, of Indiana, for vlce-president;
republican, James A. Garfield, of Ohio.
for president, Chester A. Arthur, of New
York, for vice-president greenback,
James A. Weaver, OF Iowa, for presi-
dent, E. J. Chambers, of Texas. for
vice-president; prohibition, Neal Dow.
of Maine, for president, A. M. Thomp-
son, Of Ohio. for vice-presldent.
On the s1st of January, 1879, Hon.
John Sherman, secretary OF the treas
ury, wrote to Mr.. Chester Allen Arthur:
-''Gross abuses of administration have
continued and increased during your in
cumbency," and that '.bribes and gra-
tuities have been received by your SUBJ
ordinates in several branches OF the Gus
%tom-house, and you have in no case sup
ported the effort to correct those abuses.'
This is the same Arthur that the repub-
lican party has nominated for v%ice-pres.
ldent OF the United States.
New York World 1.-THE Tribune
likens the t~ricolor shamrock of the
second army corps to the three balls OF
a pawnbroker's shop. Well, it was in
the nature OF a pledge. 1t pledged the
lives and honor of brave men to the sal
walton of the Union. And the pledge
will be redeemed in full IN November
next by a complete reunion of co-equal
states under the sovereign law which
Hancock saluted with his sword as
supreme In Louisiana. Probably that
is just the thing which stlrs the bile of
The Tribune"
Our unreliable republican contem-
porary says:-"English formerly resid-
ed in Connecticut. Probably he is the
man who made wooden hams and nut
megs." The latter part Of this sentence
is an unkind sheer at the Yankees. The
first part is untrue. Hon. VIM. II. Eng
llsh, the democratic nominee for vice.
president, was born in Indiana, IN 1922
and has always resided in that state. |
There is another popularity about him
he never goes after anything without
getting it.
Chicago lnter-Ocean, the morning of
Gartield's nomination AL talk of
dark horses is irrelevant. Garfield may |
spring INTO m%omentary vision-the gal
leries may cheer as they behold the lizz
of the tupenny rockets that indicate his
%yearnings. but his record would be lead.
and his spinal weakness a discourage
ment TO the Republican party" Yes.
his record is lead. and his spinal weak
ness seems to have had a bad effect on
the bosses.
The American Bankers ASSOCIATION
will begin its annual meeting on Au-
gust IL. at Saratoga. The president,
Alexander Mitchell. of Milwaukee,, will
read a paper on the development OF
western banking. George S. Coe, OF
New York. will speak on the silver
question, and Mr.. Theodore NJ. Pomeroy
will probably give a sketch of changes
in the banking business produced by
the improvements of the past twenty
five years. Other papers will also be
read.
Garfield voted for an er post tiacto
law to raise his salary over iour thou
sand dollars. The people scared the
money out of his pockets after he had
taken it, and now his friends exclaim,
Look, how virtuous he is. He return
ed his back pay" He should never
have taken it unless he believed it to b.
right, and believing it to be right it was
cowardly TO return 1t. John Logan is
correct when he calls HIM the Western
Reserve %hypocrite.
On the 31st OF January, 1879, Presi-
dent Hayes wrote to Mr.. Arthur:-"I
regard it as my plain duty to suspend
you in order that the office may be hon
eSHy administered" And this ia the
man whom the republicans propose shall
be vice-president OF the United States,
an office held in the past by such men
as John Adams, Thomas Jefferson,
George Clinton, Elbridge Gerry, John
G. Calhoun, John G. Breckenridge and
Henry Wilson.
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