Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-10-28

scendant demagoging for Negro votes,
as he did in the speech we write OF, he
would burst the cerements OF the grave
to chide him. and would be harder to
exercise than forty Ban quos.
He had the amazing impudence to say
that the governor called the legislature
together to redistrict the state for the
sole and express purpose of disarrang-
ing his personal plans and thwarting
his ambition. AS to how he would vote
for speaker he coolly said that he In
tended himself to be a candidate for the
place and tina in case the president and
Senator Davis should die he would be-
come the president. In answer to the
question as to how he would vote ii the
presidential election should be thrown
into the house of representatives he as
coolly assured his audience that he
would take the place himself. In other
words he ''played them'' Tor a parcel of
! fools, bu. he will wake up on the eighth
day of November to find out that that
kind of brazen effrontery is not popu-
lar with Lafayette county people. It is
pretty hard to tell what he did mean
about anything, but if he has promised
the republicans to vote with them in
case he is elected, his speech squarely
repudiated the pledge, for he distinctly
said that he expected to be elected by.
"Black-republican votes. Yes sir black
republican, I amt afraid to say 1t. If 1
said republican they might accuse me
OF softening 1t down. They will elect
me, and my manhood will be vindicated.
Then l can vote the democratic ticket,
and be a Democrat He stigmatlzed
~caucuses IS the towards refuge, and
said he would go into the democratic
caucus if it suited him, and if 1t did
not he wouldn't.
Altogether the speech was that of a
bitterly desperate ,disappoint-
ed man ; one who would sacrifice the
dearest friend he has on earth upon the
polluted altar of his distorted. inordi-
nate ambition; n who having denoun.
| ced q bolter as worse than q thief OR a
pickpocket is now himself a bolter
against the regularly and fairly nomi-
mated candidate of the party which has
twice honored him beyond his deserts
by making him its standard-bearer.
U~neducated, coarse. arrogant, egotis-
tical to q %iaughable degree, with no
more idea of craftsmanship than has a
grasshopper, revengeful as Cam. uu.
grateful to the men who have, despite
all his failings, been his best friends.
mallgning and upbraiding them, he
stands to-day like some euraged animal
at bay, striking and tearing with his
teeth and claws everything that opposes
him. HIS doom is already sealed. So
surely as the election day rolls round he
will be defeated and when he comes to
sum up the factors in his discontinue he
will find that he counted . without his
host when he reckoned on the vote Of
the 'old guard" CONSISTENT democrats,
and that he wat mistaken in the ability
o: the republican bosses to deliver the
voters of their party whom they bar
gained to him as so many chattels. And,
saddest OF all to him, will be the fact.
that this time in the bitterness of defeat
he will have no sympathy, and that he
has. by his t%reachery to his political
friends. forfeited the respect and esteem
of all men OF all parties.
A leud has for some time existed at
Knoxville, Tennessee, between Major
Thomas O'Connor, the wealthiest
man in that state, and General
Joseph A. Mabry. The difficulty was
renewed at the fairgrounds, We'd
nesday afternoon of last week, when
Mabry threatened TO kill O'Conner,
but walked away on learning that the
latter was not armed. Yesterday
morning O'Connor stood in the door
of the Mercfants' National bank. when
Mabry and a companion walked past
on the opposite side of the street.
O'Connor took a shot gun from the
bank and killed .Mabry at the first
fire. Just then Mabry's son came on
the scene, and he and O'Connor fired
at each other simultaneously, both
falling dead. In this connection il
will be remembered that last Christ
mas Don Lusby killed Will Mabry'
and that some weeks ago General
Mabry aud his son Joseph slaughter.
ed Don and Moses Lusby in the street
The more important claims flee
with the board designated by con
gress to audit the claims arising from
the illness aud death Of Presiden
Garfield are as follows: Dr.. D. w
!, Bliss, $25, 000; DIR. D. Hayes Agnew
$14. 700; DR.. Robert Reyburn, SIC, 800
DR.. d. S. Lamb. $1,000; Susan A
Edison, $4,000; Henry S. Little. re