Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-10-11
At Concordia, last Tuesday after


noon, after Major Warner got through
speaking, the crowd called for "Bald-
VIM" and Mr.. Roderick Baldwin, OF
Warrensbnrg, stepped on the stage.
He is the republican elector for the
fifth district, and the same man who in
sisted on having a prohibition plank
doye-tailed into the republican plat
form. Mr.. Baldwin forgot to talk pro-
hibition to the people at C~oncordia.
They are strictly not that kind of a cat,
and perhaps he forgot it on purpose.
The speech was a hum-drum, monoto-
nous repetition of old sayings, not even
remarkable for its distortions. One
remark is worthy of preserving. He
said: "The democrats want a tariff for
revenue. To have this we a not tax
anything that we car produce, such as
iron and steel, but will have to tax on
" such articles as we can not produce"
That is worthy OF Baldwin; i'll fact is
strictly a enthusiastically Of a pat
ent. He also said: "The United States
does not want any over-production OF
/ wheat, corn and agricultural products,
to ship to England, to come into COM
petition with the pauper labor of Rus
STA and India"
DR.. Willis P. King, of Scdalia, upon
| the invitation of the Young Mems
Cleveland and Hendricks club, made a
splendid speech at. the courthouse last
Thursday night. 1t was replete with
sharp and incisive points, and gittered
| with gems of wit. The doctor held
his large audience (every seat was oc-
cupied and the aisle packed with per-
sons standing) for an hour and a half,
| entertained and instructed every mo-
ment of the time, and 1t would gladly
have listened for another hour. One
enthusiastic Irishman exclaimed after
the doctor ceased speaking, 81 wish he
had gone on. I could listen to that
man talk for a week." The club pass
ed a resolution thanking the doctor for
his illogical. humorous and entertain
ing Speech" and we hope that this will
not be the last time a Lexington audi
ence has the opportunity to hear him.
Maj. VIM. Warner spoke in this
city, last Tuesday night, to a large au-
dience, many of them being democrats.
He made 3 conservative, pleasant
speech, with some wit, but with much
of the old republican fustian that we
have had for some years. He did not
talk about @Bourbon democrats" or
| vilify Missouri. He had read last
weeks Intelligencer, and did not like
being called a bitter partisan, because
just now "taffy" is his game, as he
wants and must have democratic votes
to elect him. But Major Warner
should have restrained himself ooner
A man who denominates the progress
| sive, active, wide-awake democrat of
Missouri q Bourbon, simply because he
differs from him in politics, is either a
fool or prejudiced by strong partisan
feeling. We do not believe Major War.
ner to be q fool.
We print elsewhere an article writ
ten by Col. Jno. Reid on the water
works well, which deserves careful
reading and consideration. Circum-
stances have prevented us from giving
this matter the personal attention
which it merits, and which it will re-
ceive in due time at our hands. 1t II
a subject of the most momentous i'm
-.-~~ odd the, mayor and council
will do we'll to make haste stow1lGy" ree.
garding it. The Intelligencer has nc
prejudices for OF against the company,
and will treat the subject judicially
when it considers 1t. In the mean
time citizens and officers will do well
to learn all they a regarding it, and
our columns arc open to discussion Of
it in proper terms.