Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-12-17


Blaine as he steps out Of the state de-
partment, not with a kindly word, but
with a vigorous kick. 1t begins BY
saying:-"It will be generally admitted
that a Rupert of debate' is not exactly
the kind of a man to make the best
secretary OF state for q nation which
takes a particular pride in beirg at
peace with the rest OF the world. JET
ferson gave voice in his inaugural ad-
dress to what has since become a stand
ard American sentiment. It is: Peace,
commerce and honest friendship with
all nations ntanghng alliances with
none.' The Monroe doctrine was not
construed so as to any way interfere
with this programme until Mr.. Blaine
became a cabinet minister. Mr.. Blaine
is entirely too vigorous and sparkling
for q safe administrator Of foreign
affairs" After celebrating this idea it
adds:-"Nobody will deny Mr.. Blaine's
great abilities. He is a very smart
man. Perhaps ii he were not quite so
smart he would be an undeniablY great
man. The political blaze he has kept
up for a number OF years has been most
toe bright, and there Is some reason to
believe that 1t will be a long TINA before
he is heard from in q prominent public
position again. 1t seems almost a pity
that this should be tho case. but such is
the prospect" Alas! Prince Rupert,
that thou should'st fall so low as to
excite the pity ofthine enemy ! Almost
a pity that he has burned out, and that
it will be a long time before he is heard
from in 3 prominent public position
again7' But is this true The Gin
clnnati Commercial just before the
nomination of Garfield at Chicago aver
red that the most n%onsenslcal chatter OF
the occasion vas the talk about Garfield,
he did not have a record to run on !;
still he was nominated. aud the Com
merclal became reconciled to his rec
ord The Globs-D Democrat during the
canvass for nomination yilified and
made light of the opponents of Grant,
but Grant vas defeated, and it forgot
its sarcasms and innuendoes until alter
the election, when it was IS glib in its
Credit NJ obilier, DeGolyer pavement.
and Mulligan letters illusions as any
paper in the land-a little
more 10. By the aid of MI. Guiteau's
pistol it has q stalwart in the White
and it is its day to crow, but in
1884 the ''Man From Maine," the
rupert OF Deba!e' will be there, and
the Globe Democrat, should he be nom.
despite the merciless use OF the
machine against him, will toss up its
hat for the man whom 1t now thinks
anything but great.
Mr.. George William Curtis IN last
weeks Harper's Weekly. says in an ed
ltorial article on 1.-THE star route robber-
that 'if there is not the clearest
evidence that the success of the prose.
is desired. and they should fail,
the effect upon the administration and
The republican party would be like that
Of the event of the whisky ring prose.
in 1875 6. The extraordinary
performances OF that prosecution and
the result went far to persuade the
that it was about time to
the party control of the govern
ment, and ii the influences that were
gratified by the failure OF some OF those
prosecutions had not been defeated at
ia the nomination of presi-
dent. the republican party would have
been overthrown." Mr.. Curtis fine
constrains us to exclalm with
the noble Dane. "Words. words.
When did he ever resort t
more than words to correct tho evils of
his party's COURSE Never. He
breaches against the machine, and votes
for the candidates 1t chooses; he depre-
Gates corruption In the republican party,
but at the ballot box indorses it. There
Is but n way to check the
of the whisky ring
and star route robberles, who
control the republican party.
and THAT Is to overthrow the party, but
no help need be looked for at Mr..
hands. 1t is as certain as that
Grant was president, and Arthur is
president, that the s'star route rob-
bers," as MI. Curtis calls them, will 60
UNPUBLISHED; and yet what more will
have tron Mr.. Curtis than words,
words, words?" Still it is some graf.
.iication to have SO eminent a republic
can bear witness to the fact that his
party is guilty OF indorsing a mass of
which Is only second to such
steals as the whisky ring
and the Credit Mobilier.
A gentleman said to us q few days
ago that Blaine was very strong with
the Germans. and that this fact would
60 a long way toward securing him tho
nomination in 1884. '.Why,
look at his course toward the German
visitors Al the Yorktown celebration"
said he, land Baron Won Steuben has
named his baby boy, Blaine Steuben!'"
Yes, that Is all true, but still the Germans
will not be considered in making the
nomination for president
They are expected to vote for whoever
named as q matter of course-Blaine
II it Is Blaine; but Grant II it is Grant. No
American statesman ever did 81 much
for Germans at did Mr.. Washburue.
His record as q congressman and as
q diplomat exhibits constant effort In
behalf OF the people, and is in every way
above reproach. 1t is so good as to be
unlike that OF most eminent republicans
being no smlrches on it from
Credit Mob,lier, whisky ring, Null.
ligan letters, star-route robberles or any
thing of that kind; nevertheless his
name was SCARCELY considered at Chica-