Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-08-27
r[From the Chicago Times. ]

IN sClncinna0 i0r $I,UUO.a northern
capital has begun to tiudaitsawayi into
Georgia. aGen. aCeok believes that
more money has been invested by
speOpie i'll his state than in
auy other southern state since the
war.oThe2coufidence in the resources
of the state ais encouraged by the sue.
cess ofinvestments already made, and
the c0rdiai' 'receptionlgfvelrt to north.
ern men seeking to establish business
relations III the state. As Gen. Cock
says: eve 'don't care d-n what a
inal's politics is who. comes to- our
state with capital anxious to estab-
lish himself We meyer ask. what is
his politics or his. religion, but give
him the right hand from the star ts' d
I'VE AREA PLAIN, BLUNT PEOPLE, 4
III the end to be@a scoundrel, we do
MIN accordingly" =, - :, ''''- nset
m;gpsnyys ipo yog J, &c! any OF the foreign i'm
.:No, not yet. The cock and lbuii
stories that have been 80, long circu-
lated in the north by politicians have
had the effect Of soaring them off"
"What is the real fact, general,
about the situation III your state Do
you mean to say. thnt in all parts of
your state northern republicans of
respectable character will be msde'
welcome, and treated wellso long as
they continue to deserve such treat
ment ~ a...- a8 .l,asg4g.. tad
''Uuquestiouably. There can be no
doubt about this. The kind of men
who come down from the north and
arerenot treated. we'll ares men who
would not be treated well cini any
Community. Men without any stand
ing at ihomeawhoe come among us for
the sole purpose Of mixing with our
lowest and worst iciasses,s to secure
lssome Office, are certainly not men
who should be recognized as gentle.
men anywhere. These men have no
Interest In the state, and simply use
| the negroes to gain their own bad
Iends. The negroes are no. gailiers
through the SUCCESS, of these men,
while the property-owners of the
state are certainly the losers. You
can talk what you please about social
equality, tho rights of the negro, aud
the like, the fact still remains that
the property.owners Of state must,
for the sake of the best interest of the
state have the control OF its affairs.
No northern community would sub
init to have its taxes regulated aud
its laws administered by a class OF
people who had no stake or property
interest in the community where
they reside. Now, in Georgia, just
as soon as the negroes become prop.
| IsfU n NJ hov oot cr1Sf hn hnr
cratic party simply for the reason that
the guardian of property rights.
venture the statement, Which Z d.
not think can be contradicted, tina,
no" class of white laporers in any
northern community have accu-
mulated as. much property, in pro.
portioDate degree, as the negroes ol
Georgia. They paid taxes last year
Oh over Sc, ,000, 900 of real estate. Dc
you thlpk for moment that if these
men were lll-used they would inves
that .amount in the property of Oul
state ?" .l. s.
"Do you think that all of the mer
connected with the republican party
i'll the south are disreputable Tha
the party In that section is made uI
|
afford to associate?"
"By no manner of means do mean
to convey that impression. What
do mean to say is this, however: Tb,
party as differed and organized il
disreputable through the character o
its leaders. in our section. This il
!; mainly owing to the @
FAULT OF THE NORTHERN PARTY
+ LEADERS,
, Who do not take pains to find ou
who are the really worthy mel
among the republicans in the south
Gen. Garfield certainly has it in hi
power to make the republican partl
j. At tie south respectable. do no
mean that he can gain any convert
through few officers, or that he Cal
change the character of the vote q
: the south by changing the character
of the federal appointments. l woul,
be the last man TO ask OR to expec
that he would app int democrats t,
; Office. Nobody wants him to d,
J that. But there are plenty of south
ern people who have been republl
cans ever siuce the party was organ
lied, who were born and bred anon!
ours, aad whose respectability"i un
questioned. Now, if all the fedora
appointments were selected from thi
class. Of men, they in time woult
make tue party respectable. Through
7 out the length and breadth Of ou
state, under the last administration
only two appointments were mad
from the respectable resident class
= | ho
: Atlanta aud Macon. Glover, tn
postmaster. at Macon, Is au expe
rienced lawyer, was whig befor
: the war, a Union man during tn,
8 war, aud has steadily acted with tn
/, republican party since the war. IL
is native of South Carolina, bu
game to Georgia early in life. H.
belongs to one of tine best families il
; the south, and is united by marriag
g to leading Georgia family. Yet
y see that he was put out the other da,
, and man from Maine appointed t
= his place. just reverse the medal,
you please, and imagine the uproar
D the commotiOn,h man from Georgi
+ were to be suddenly transplauted t,
Maine and appointed postmaster il
> some one of its leading cities, with
pun any speclal 4uailucatlOn Tor hi
e place beyond the fact that he ha
been striker to some influential OF
:, fetal at Washington. There is n
question about the fact that the ad
ministration should make it's selet
tion for federal offices in the ,sout
from the old and respectable republi
can residents"
"PRESIDENTIAL Inability
y Ex-senator Mcdonald, while in tn
IS senate, was regarded as a special al
d thority on all subjects relating to tn
II cnusi ituIiou of the IInited Stotoa