Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-10-22
A DEs MONIES MAN IN MISSOURI.
Something about Garfield Sympa-
thy-The Negro Question
Train Robbers-Rail.
:. --. road Work.

ltrOm the DeS MONIES, iowa, Regl5ter.
EDITOR REGISTER :-Having just
returned from q four lnouths' sOjoufn
in Missouri, have some things TO say
to ali Iowa republican audience which
will interest them and do them good
TO know. Missouri gives about as
large majority on the democratic
side OF the political fence as Iowa
does Oh the republican side; hence
We would naturally expect them to
te each fair specimen of the kind
Of people which their different poll
tics ID calculated to produce. My
business in Missouri gave me occasion
to investigate critically the ways,
methods. laws, customs, ideas, habits
aud Industries of tho people, aud the
history of their religious aud social
organizations, their educational ir-
stitutions, their commercial, mana-
featuring and other Industrial enter
prises, The settlement and develop
ment of their lands and their cities,
together with whatever was worthy
Of note in their history as a COM
muDity from the earliest settlements
up TO thcspresent time. I mention this
to show that had both occasion and
opportunity to study the situation
there, and learn a great deal more in
four months than all ordinary travel
er or casual visitor would IN as many
years.
My sojourn was mostly in the old
and formerly epulent city of L,xing-
ton. My business duties were so
arduous and constantly pressing
while there that l could not get time
to write and now fulfill my depart.
ing promise to do so at the earliest
opportunity.
SYMPATHY FOR GARFIELD.
During the whole time Of Presidea1
Gariield's lingering aflliction the nios,
| tender and devout illusions were
made to it both from the pulpits ir
| public service and in the social reli
gious services or prayer meetings OF
| Wednesday evenings. Tue case coulC
not have been touched with NOR,
tervent sympathy for the stricken
president, OF more deep and lofty
| faith i'll the AliW4se ovcrruling Prov.
idence for ultimate good in nv owl
beloved home church at Des Moines
This was not confined to any on,
church, but was common to them all
| AoA uSSio IL AL u1ACI CIV CuurC0CS
and tho brotheriy regard for the MAJ
was as warm, earnest anu cordial q
If he had been the man OF their owl
choice for the prcsideLcy.
When the final event came, tn
memorial obscquies for the dead pres
ident were not observed with an,
more delicate decorum or ituess @
detail IN any republican city in tn,
land, than it was in this old slave
holding and secession city of Lexing
ton The courthouse, city hall, post
Office, and most of the stores an,
business places were draped iii mourn
ing. Flags were suspended across tn
streets, topped and drapcd q pro
cessiou was formed of the local mill
tia company, brass band. masons, od,
fellows, turner's, land league, thre
civic orders of negroes, etc. TIL
captain of the military, and also OH
OF the marshals ct the day, had bee
captains i'll the confederate army al
through the war. Memorial service
were held iii three churches aud a
tho opera house, with suitub!e ad
dresses by clergymea, college pcofct
sors and prominent lawyers. a
though. probably nii,o-tonths of thep
people haG voted against Garfield fo
president, they took him TO ..bej
hearts IA their president, and SINGER,
~ moilrned his death.
THE NEGRO QUESTION.
| Northern repubiiran4 ALWAYS a.,
40 hi.HH low the negroes are j.rst,