Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-10-23

From the above column no republican
estimator wlthdraws a single county,
while the democrats expect to be able
to add to that column mex month the
counties of Delaware, Erie, and Orange"
John Sherman IN a speech, the other
day, connected Wade Hampton with
the ku Klux. Hampton asked Sherman
to correct his statement. Sherman reit-
Grated his language, with the usual re-
publican lie that the negroes can
not vote as they please in the south.
Hampton promptly branded Sherman
as a liar, and gave him his address.
Sherman calls this barbarism, and
prints the correspondence exultingly.
This is the radical idea of honor. 1t
does one of them a deal of good for a
southern man to plaut his toe between
their coat tails. 1t is all right to tell a
lie, but it is horrid to be called a liar.
They seem to forget that the command
nent is Thou shalt not bear false wit
ness against thy neighbor." not "Thou
shalt no call a liar il liar"
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The little war between the Republi-
can and the Post Dispatch is unseemly
Both are democratic papers, or profess
to be. and their personal spleen had
better be buried. The editor who be-
Titles another editor may hurt his
enemy, but he at the same time wounds
himself, and detracts from the dignity
and influence of the press. The age is
too far advanced to care about the per-
sonnet of newspapers. The people
want facts and arguments. not quarrels
Without going into raptures owe either
OF our contemporaries, it is only fair tc
say that they are both newsy, both in
teresting, and both able. They are mo-
alike, and there is no reason why they
should be. They fill their respective
spheres we'll. More good might be sale
Of them, without f1attery.
In a speech in Cooper Institute, New
York, Wednesday evening. Mr.. Abram
S. Hewitt said of Garfeld's Chinese
cheap-labor letter:-"Some people ma,
be inclined to pronounce it a forgery
| nave seen it. 1 am familiar with Gen
Garield's signature. l have compared
it with his letters in my possession, ant
l have no doubt it is genuine. 1t it be
forgery it is the work OF a consummate
artist; but if 1 thought after examina
ton that there was the slightest doub
OF its authenticity, l should not refer t.
1T. But it acccrds with the course Gen
Garfield also took on questions affect
ing the interests of employers"
The census of Marion county, Indiana
in June last, was 1O2 80. The vote i
October was IS, 112-this according t
the Journal. Mr.. News paper. AS it i
difficult in most communities to iud on
male adult over 81 out of every five in
habllants, this may be said to be quite
'arge vote. Measured by this vote, tn
county of Marion should contain
population of 375. $50, and yet we hav
never heard OF any complaint that tb
enumerators only found Q 2,31O. Coul
anything be more patent than the frau
which was there practiced to give sue
cess to the republican party?
e The surplus revenues OF the govern
ment are about $3.50, 600, 900. Instea
OF using this money to pay off the N,
tienal debt, Mr.. Sherman permits muc
OF it to lie in favored national bank tn;
they may be enriched. In return for IL
millions that he thus enables them
make, they Loyalty cry out that dem,
= cratic success means the ruin OF bus
ness-their little game with MIR. She
man, yes-and they pony up like goo
- fellows to The republican campaign iun
"Money makes the mare co." an,
alas, it seems to make elections 90
tneV would not OtherWlSe.
e The terrible storms of Saturday al
: Sunday, which swept over the lake
wrecked a great many sailing craft ar
= the steamer Alpena, which had abo,
= 20 passengers. The only intelligen
OF her is that the corpse of Mrs. Bra
ley, of Grand Haven. and those of 9th
passengers, and the pals, fantail 'al
some OF the furniture OF the vessel ha,
been washed ashore, near Hollan
Mich.
Is The republicans are sharp there is
lie use in Disgusting that. They made
3 bloody shirt campaign with money tn
a protective tariff raid on manufactu
id ing districts, without broaching the su
Is ject in agricultural sections, and tn
It. made ome votes by it. They kne