Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-10-02
NIB. OONK.LING'S SPEECH.

LTrom the Evening Post, rep, Sept. 20
Ii Was throughout an in
sidious assault upon the best ch#r
acter, purposes and hopes of the rc-
publican party, aud under pre-
iense of VindicaliDg and defending
it put The arguments in such s shape
that the effect Of it must bc to repel
every man of generous feelings aud
honest logic by whom it is carefully
read. Its only object was TO reviv.
and reinforce that narrow, odiuus
and malignant sectienalism against
which all the better members OF the
party have been struggling for the
last ten years. 1t says in so many
words that the issue of the present
campaign is sectional aud only sec
tional !: and in order La prove that it
frames what Burke thought 10 be i'm
possible, "thc indictmcnt of q w!D,e
people," in The lowest spirit of the
carpet bagger and the demagogus.
The entire ,auimus of Mr..
Conkling's reasoning is that tne
president should be elected by the
machine, ami when elected be CO
troilcd by The machine. He is not TO
address himaelf 10 ali impartial all
miulstratlom OF the dulles Of his
office, according to certain fixed
political principles, but he is to b.
come tie instrument of predomiua5-
ing interests or of those parts of tie
uation were ''production, consump-
ton, building, tiled acreage, rail-
| way traffic, postal returns" g.,
happen to be in the ascendant. But
| that is not the spirit Of our cons'itu-
tion. The constitution fixes, with
| great mlnuteuess Of detail, the modes
| of our elections, and when all elec-
| tion is closed it regards the result as
the act Of the whole people. In or
| der to get all expression OF The mau-
hood OF the nation each vote counts
as one and is az good as any other
vate, aHd, As MIR. Conkling himself
says in the outset of his address,
'sthe supreme, the final, the only
peaceful arbitcr is the ballot box.
LII tina; urD should be gathered, and
| from i should be sacrcdly recorded
the conscience. the judgment, the in
trlligence of all" But no, argues
Mr.. Coukliu2 afterward, it is not
| The votes that ought TO be considered,
but the places that The votes come
from. 1t they are put in by III.
south, which is unfortunately I'M
poverished by II loug civil war and
many years of carpet bag aXtortion
aud riot, they are bad aud dangerous
votes but if they sre put in by the
nGrih, where commerce, industry and
manufactures thrive, aud large reve.
nues are paid, they are good and
Wholesome votes and entitled to rule
La ORDER TO justify his cold-b!ocded
sectioneiisn. and to carry the repub-
ican cause back TO the state III which
it was at the close oil Grani's admin
istralior, ignoring the noble aud ef-
ficieut services OF Mr.. II .y2s aud his
cabinet III healing old sores and
bringing abou' ki.ui aud couciiatory
feelings, Mr.. ConkIirg get, up tre-
mcnduus bugaUoo. l. would be u
frighttul hugaboo i! it were not of
, the kind which bites OFT It's own
head. HIS mode OF constructing the
scarec"ow, put iii logical shape,
: would be This: - Tne democratic
party, II 1t succeeds, would be con.
troled by the sou,h second, but the
: south is only Our-scventh OF the
, Union, and has but one-fOurteenth oil
tne producing, commcrciaI. indus.
trial, tax-paying and property inter.
est of the country and ergo, third
the whole vast business OF the coun