Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-09-18

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seat. and he votes day after day contra
nv TO what he said in the house was the
law. No gentlemen, he will v be
pre- sident of the United States. A voice,
mo n~ever!"1 He is a man OF ability,
ant the more ability such a man pos.
sesses the worse it Is tor the office.
don't want him, because when l have a
president in Washington, whatever his
politics may be. / want to feel that he
is as much my president as yours, and
as much yours as he is mine and that as
president he is free from those preju-
dlces and passions which pervert the
judgment and opinion. Applause
Now, gentlemen l have occupied
your attention longer tonight than l ex.
pected to. Now 1 will repeat that
when 1 took my breakfast this morning
| had no thought of addressing you.
1t was not a part of the programme Of
the business OF the day at all. When
/ saw that the Journal said that if 1 did
not make this good, 1 was disgraced.
and il l did, then Garfield was disgraced
then, gentlemen, as soon as l saw
that, I longed to see you and speak to
You with more earnestness and feeling
than, aver 1 longed to do before. If
have failed in any one of the questions
presented by the Journal l know it not.
| have appealed TO no witnesses except
Garfield himself. and by Garfield is
Garfield disgraced. Applause. You
falr-minded republicans. you gentlemen
that love your country better than you
do the Journal. better than you love
Garfield, better than you love csmblna-
tons OF party. l appeal to you now, by
the shorthand reporter is not here for
the Journal l have a report of my speech
tonight, and l will furnish it to the
journal and ask that 1t appear, and IL
it does not appear tomorrow morning
then it is admitted, as though it was
written in the broadcast and brightes,
capitals. 1--WE can't stand upon the
issues that we made yesterday morning.
[Applause.] If they don't publish wha'
l have said to you tonight, not in any
inner room. but in this temple, then
you may know that they admit thai
Thomas A. Hendricks is not dis
graced, but that James A. Garfield ii
disgraced. [Applause.]
THE JOURNALS REPLY.
The Indianapolis Journal of the fol
lowing morning gave no report of the
speech, and made no editorial comment
upon it. In a briet account of the meet.
ing the following "a all that was
printed concerning Gov. Hendricks:
The wigwam vas about four-ffths
filled last evening, the programme
being speeches from Thomas A. Hen
bricks, a souvenir OF 1876, and j. W.
Shaw. a colored man and brother oil
New York city. The courtesies usually
extended to visiting orators were re-
yersed, the colored man taking his seat,
Mr.. Hendricks speaking first. A venge-
full fire CLEANED in Mr.. Hendricks
countenance, aud his bosom heaved, as
ii freighted with rage. With ever-rising
wrath he gave the audience to under
stand that the cause OF his Indignation
was an editorial in the Journal of that
morning. the article being entitled "a
Point Of Veracity." which reviewed GER
tain language In his Marion speech de-
at the opening of the campaign,
concerning Gen. Garfield, in which Mr..
had made a specific charge
OF corruption against Gen. Garfield in
with matters concerning the
returning board and the cleo
foral counts. Lashing himself into a
Mr.. Hendricks said that he pro-
posed to answer the journal, which had
said that if he could not substantiate
what he had said against Gen. Garfield
he would be disgraced, and read large
" from Gen. Garfield's testimony before
the congressional committee concerning
his visit to Louisiana. MIR. Hendricks
then said he called upon the Journal to
publish the speech he was making. and
which he would furnish, and ii the
Journal did moi publish the speech Jno.
c. New was neither q fair man nor a
good neighbor. If Mr.. Hendricks had a
to get his speech into the Journal
he certainly would not have scattered in
the way he did. The substance of his
speech, which he verbosely made to
drlvel through several columns, could
have been got into two-thirds OF
u column, and was mere mock thunder
to rouse the rabble. This it did, and
the atmosphere of the wigwam shrank
away before the foul breath it evoked.
MIR. Hendricks. with a co~untenancs like
IA par-boiled lobster, finally subsidized,
and the colored speaker. Mr.. Shaw,
toed the mark.