Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-03-06
DAMRAsOALLY-"BUT NO MATTER ],

DAMRAsOALLY-"BUT NO MATTER. ,
From the Louisville Courier Journal
"We thank thee, Deacon,
For giving us that word.''
-[Merchant of Venice.
The Cincinnati Gazette-with charac
teristic duplicity-having Joined in /.
promise that, should Cincinnati b
chosen as tho place for holding the mex
National Democratic Convention, al
candidates should receive fair treatmen
from the local press-no sooner learn!
that its pledge has been accepted, thar
it turns upon Mr.. Tilden, and declare!
that the selection OF Cincinnati is a de
feat OF him and his friends.
While We are sorry to see any journal
possessing claim however slight to re
spectability, so violate its plighted faith
we are glad to note the Gazette, rs one
having little or no character to lose
take this course, and We hope it viii
stick to 1t. 1t furnishes direct and co
gent answer to those democrats whose
idiocy is composed in equal parts of ig.
norance and malice, who pretend t.
think: and dare to say, that the republi
cans want Mr.. Tilden nominated.
The Gazette's ready malevolence is O
a piece with the policy pursued by the
republican leaders and newspapers fol
years. Mr.. Tilden is the one man, the
only man, they fear. He out of the way
they think the track is clear for repub.
lican walk over. He is the lion IN theil
path. the boo in their bonnet, the beam
in their eye, the fly in their siatment
With the guilty Macbeth. the republican
party-ever since it thought to hide the
bloody corpse Of the murdered sover-
eighty OF the people behind the fancisd
security Of a packed electoral tribunal
has turned no angle in the road, has
paused never in the night time, but its
eyes have glarsd and Its teeth chartered.
net by the apparition, but tho bodily
presence OF the grim old statesman Of
Grammsrcy Park. Many and many a
time it has cried: .'Avaunt and quit my
sight" Many and many a time, trying
to conceive Its Nemesis an s.unreal
mecksry," has it exclaimed: "Thy
bones are marrowless, thy blsod is cold.' u
But still there was and is good deal OF
'spsculation in those eyes," as they
look it steadily in the face and defy it.
and its organized body Of calumniators.
backed BY treachersus friends and open,
shameless, gracsless renegades and
traitors. And now, ~ il to clinch, as
well as conclude the illustration from all
along the radical line, comes the hiss:
Approach thou like the rugged A. G. Thur
man,
The armed Bay.rd, or the Hossier Hendricks
Take any shape but Tlldsn's;''
and, not to put too fine point upon 1t,
tits all right. and the republican mana
gers. happy in having named the demo-
cratic ticket, will proceed to dsmelish it,
as children build and tear down houses
Of blocks and mud.
The truth is that questions Of cenven-
lsnce, not snaided by pretty. pleasing g
superstition, settled tho contest for the
in faver of Cincinnati.
Hon. II. D. McHenry, the member of
the National Democratic Committee tor
Kentucky, a consistent and firm friend
Of MIR. Tilden. who voted for Cincinnati,
telegraphsd the editor of the Courier
Journal. "Tilden's friends generally
voted for Cincinnati" Assuredly the
Courier-Journal 10 no doubtful authority
on this point, and, but that there is
a GOODNESS just now between Louisville
and Cincinnati, we declare that we
should have csms out for Cincinnati
long ago. Our understanding is and
has been, that there is the basis for As
large Tilden boom in Cincinnati as
anywhere. When George Hoadly pro-
nounced the name of the Old Chief net
a great while since. in the presence of
3 monster mass meeting of Cincinnati
democrats. its effect was magical. Be-
hind all this, however, there is in our
simple nature = sweet, childliks faith
that our excellent Uncle Samuel is able
10 travel and hold his own anywhere;
and BY consequence Of this sublime, Sc
rene and unsoPhistocatea confidence, we
haven't cared so much as a pewter six
pence at what point the convention
should be called to assemble. Truly
IS Mr.. Halstead. NJ, once reminded US
IN an occasion when there was war be-
ween US, Cincinnati is s'most accessl-
ole." There are no. wild floods nor
desert wastes between anywhere and
Cincinnati. When the corn-tops r1peu
md the hill-teps are in their bloom and
he birds make music on both sides of
he Rhine, and the blossoms likewise
ire fragrant about the brewsries, Cln-
;innatl is not bad place to go to-that
8, one may 60 farther and fare worse
for conventional convenieces being
contiguous, the beer is both cheap and
'lenty.
In enc word Cincinnati got the CEN
'ention because, to tell the straight
ruth, Cincinnati is the best place for it
md barring old scores, here's good luck
o her and may she enjoy it!