Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-10-25
aov oRITTENDEN's SPEECH IN LEX
INGTON.
FACTS AND FIGURES.
Bow Missouri has Grown and Pros
pered Under Democratic
Rule.
Substantial Upbuilding; Increase
Wealth and Population.
Honest Administration Redeem
ing the state from the EVIL
Effects Of the Repub.
ltcan Regime.

Honest Administration Redeem
ing the state from the Evil
Effects of the Repub-
ltcan Regime.
Governor Crittenden, on last Satur-
dav, at the courthouse spoke as fol-
lows:
The October canvass in Ohio has
ended, and the republican party mas
only obtained plurality OF 10000 over
the democratic INK ~ AFTER the most ex-
travaoant. ey.r slve and desperate
campaign ever made by any party.
Never before in the history OF this
country has such campaign been
made bv dominant party to sustain
it's supremacy in one Of its safest states;
one OF its strongest bulwarks, in which
it has been fortified by legislation at
home and the power OF the general
government of the last twenty years.
The desperation of the fight; its can
didates for the presidency and vice.
presidency have been paraded from
comfy to county, like township candi-
dates, appearing to the people as polit-
ical mountebanks and mock auction
eels for support, else the "grand old
party" with all its power, its federal
mel cenarics and the incalculable pow
er of the pension bureau, would be de-
teated. Whoever before heard OF such
a presidential campaign? For one, l
rejoice that Grover Cleveland scorns
| and refuses to make such a campaign,
Eapplausel leaving
/ ,,xx, ANn HUMILIATION
of such work to the only man on earth
who would engage in it. The demo-
cratic party comedies that honor to
James &. Blaine [applause] the most
corrupt and unconscionable man ever
presented before the American people
for the presidency. Such candidate
and such a canvass are tit associates,
and to nv mind mark the rapid deca-
dence of public virtue and the extreme
j desperation of the Dorseys, the Bradys,
the Elkinses and the Kelloggs as lead
ers of the republican party. Ohio has
never given democratic majority in
presidential year since 1856. Call
the roll of elections since 1856 and hear
. the state answer republican without
a break for twenty-eight years.
In 1856 Fremont had 16 ,623 majority
in 1860 Lincoln had 32,973 majority; il
1864 Lincoln had 1856 majority; ii
1868, Grant had 4l,428 majority; il
3 1872 Grant had 81 ,531 majority i'll 1877
!, Hayes, who was fraud, had $40
majority, and in 1880 Garfield hat
"a, ,227 majority.
f Murat Halstead said: awe will carry
: Ohio by 25, 600 majority" The ma
n jority over the democrats is only 10,
= 600, and over all, the democrats, pro
hibitionists and greenbackers, will b.
q nothing at all. "What fall my coun
|. trymen," when we consider that
is took the treasury of the government
20 the whole force of the pOstofice de
% artment, the head of the pension
% bureau, together with the 600 pension
d agents scattered all over the state
r. threatening and intimidating voters
n carload after carload OF clerks tror
= Washington City, and an army G
y United States marshals-the lazzaron
of the earth surrounding the polls
overawing honest democratic voters
n shooting down in cold blood some an
:. arresting others, merely for bein
II democrats. And in the face of all thi
Y, the republicans shouted of a great vic
m tory and assured success i'll November
ut After one of Napoleon battles til
:, details of the bloody conflict wei
q heralded as great victory. A veteran
n who knew the price at which the Ell
ut gagement was won, on being told th'
le It was victory, said a few more sue
a victories would result in the annihilt
~ ton of the French army. A few mo-
III such triumphs as this one i'll Ohio wi
L. terminate that party.
10 But am here to speak for Nilsson
i'm answer to the vituperation heal
ed upon it without rhyme, reason I
fact, by the late republican, convention
III and after l shall have spoken i'll wOr'
p. of soberness and TRUTH am willing fl
ne them to "mope on" and let the peop
be Judge between the" truth and the lie
need not say one word in my OW
IL defense? Iscorn the word. do IL
he expect to make any defense of this a
of ministration; it speaks for itse
mt Loud cheering]. l say here-and
Shall challenge contradiction, for Il
records will bear me out-that mi
has been one of the most economic
crs administrations that has ever CONTROL
Ir the affairs of the state of Missouri.
say that the laws have been more flu
." executed within the last four years
ld- our state than ever before. l say Il
IS there are to-day more criminals in
,ey penitentiary of the state than ever
-. FORE say it is the first administl
-, '" ton in the history of the state wi
ltle every branch and department of it
paying and have paid their own C
rent legitimate expenses-the very Fl
we one. say furthermore, to the peo
.,.; of the state of Missouri, that wit
the 115 counties OF the state and
anu great city of st. Louis, there is not
'Os- single solitary dollar that has been
eri- to the peopc of the state in the
t four years, i'll any county, or i'll
part of the state. l say its taxes h
CT been more economically and m
closely collected than ever before.
think the amount of taxes colle'
ON. will reach 95 per cent. of all the ts
assessed in the state. say we
orh redeemed, paid off and retired
rnor | will prove it to you before
lhey through-a larger amount of your
I ha debtedness than was ever paid
=. - by any other administration, almos
" two to one. And still they say til
nom have ruined the state of MissC
60" Still our republican friends will
"Poor old Missouri" Missouri
sun- day, my friends, is the grandest :
s..n within the Mississippi valley, and
i"'i sesses the elements to make her
need gem, not only of all the states ol
nor's Mississippi valley, but of all the 81
ions hood of states. There are non
them that surpass Missouri in all
enters into material grandeur, we
Ills intelligence, virtue dpride of cit
ship, in any of the other states.
to you as the poet has said:
..Flowers in the vale. splendor in the
Health in the gale and freshness IN the sire
Jaime WHO PROTECTED TIE BANDIrTl
very NV friends, one of the charges
crleo by the republican party is that we
ra'h. protected banditti in this state.
'!!can thot co.. ask onv candid hc
lame- IA republican within this audieno
u LOT that so? I will state here, that if
cor is gentleman in this house, OF
mere lady, or any man, white or black
desires to PROFOUND to me any
ton upon any point that has con
i within the last four years of tn
ministration, that will answer it {,
ly as possible, and certainly will
with as great politeness and cal
cams ness as possible. Have we prot
s-say the barditti in the state? That
TX but insinuation against the party
lllant, against this administration. The