Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1883-01-27
III. ps,,,ter o, this city, following in the

MI WeeA CoutolAo bbAS .
NV. ,dv,se ALI CRIMINALS IN this judicial dis
riot. who can prove they are democrats "
anna IN this county and stand their TRIAL. bu'
Z thew are republicans 1t would save cos" !"
o,ead guilty, Greene escaped the psnipshliafJ'
not because he did not deserve the punishment s
nut for the reason that he WAS a hightonso aeh-
,crat of thisvish ways" Whether the ao"' !
ia partisan spleen run mad Or something sven
worse 1t is hard to say. Ihree-toutt"S y -.
white adults of Lafa yette county are oemocia''
The wealth, education, learned prefessions'
and church memberships, are demo-
cratic in even greater proportion tnan luis ~"
vet here is q deliberate statement put into type'
saying that u criminal Will y
shielded by these people from the consequence
of his crime If only he agrees with them in pol
;,ics The falsity of the statement is apparent 10
all rejecting people, but u great many people 10
M, reflect. A newspaper in the hands OF per-
sons who will utter such malignant sianae "
like dynamite in the hands of u child-tncre IL
nc telling what damage it may DO. It's COM
ulaints that many republicans do not sustain =
need look no further Tor a cause than In such se-
ser,ions al this. There ID not q democrat IN LIZ
fuyette county whose esteem Ia worthy Oh con-
alteration who does not support TINS paper VI"
his patronage or friendship, but they "ou'u N.Y.
do 70 if we should impugn the personal ihtesf'-
ty OF our Il How citizens who exercise thsi' ILL
,ion,,.d ~nol,tic.l rights in being republicans.
II the Register possesses any influence " si'anu
that it does we will not deny, for the most pas
sionate and careless stat, ments will DE recei'eo
by many, what is the fruit of its persisteat ~
saults upon the administration OF justice In shiS
county? No democrat on u jury can Ds ifee ia
his Judgment OF q case for fear OF attack iio'n
that paper, either that he has failed to convict
l-l ~ nn~nsn a rnlnhtlCAn.
Justice is thereby not Tree, it is not untempered
with extranenus influences a 1t should Dc.
| This Is especially true where negroes are con-
cerned. ia our contemporary invariably. or very
| nearly 40, thinks or processes to think they are
| tho victims of persecution when convicted OF
crime. In this it undertakes the virtue and In
tsIlieence of our colored population. as the
attorney receives great encourage
ment in the prosecution of vicious blacks from
resnectuble colored people. who do not desire
their race dragged down by its criminal meiA-
hers 4 We venture 10 say that there Is no county
in spy state, not emily in Missouri but IN any
state. where the criminal laws are peter eA-
ecuted, more impartially and fearlessly' tnsn
they are in Lafayette county. Judge hyiAno
ia we'll versed IN the law, intelligent, palms.
taking and incorruptible. Our prosecuting
attorney. Jno. s. Blackwell, Esq. ID =
gentleman OF ability and energy who
. knows neither friend or foe in the
i. discharge of his duty. Our sheriff. ooi.
Elliott, Ia q man of personal bravery bsyohe
question, and OF integrity of purpose above as
sault. In nearly every trial jury assaiisd D'
our contemporary. from time 10 tI"e' '"ei'
Q have been from one to six republicans VIII
r agreed with their colleagues. We did not hea
( all the evidence In the Green case, and henc
Q cannot Judge whether or not he is guilty; Meth
= ar did our contemporary, yet he assaults ths
4 part OF the Jury which was opposed to convlc
p. ton. He places them as democrats. who pei
mitted Green to escape the penltentiary. not bt
cause he did not deserve punishment, Dut 10
Q the reason that he was q high toned democrat
U thisyish ways" Let ms see who tho Tour PEI
10 sops we're who are thus accused OF per)urin
81 themselves as jurors. They were, Messrs. koo
III Hill, Travis Butord. Thomas Austin anu *
re ward Meyers. The drst two are democrats d
Austin we suppose is not, having done al IN u
power against the democratic ORGANIZATION
this county last fall. MIR. Meyers is . republical
They are all gentlemen from whom the char
of deliberate perjury can only recoll upon
Ito author. They are all reliable business men al
NJ honorable gentlemen. They swore to hnd
yerilc according to the law and the eSioenc
w and they did 80 according to their convictlon
ct II political prejudice could influence them
mt such q case, which We do not believe, Two
them would have leaned toward the defendal
but two Of them would have leaned the ott
-. way. OF the eight men on the jury who VI
no for conviction Messrs. Nichols. Mitchell, Pes
nu NIarshall. Morrison ami Young. ale democra
and Messrs. Cowie and John are republican
y. We believe that these gentlemen were just
ID. conscientious as the others id their verdi
pulI,c opiniun WAS ss much divided On