Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-09-27
LET US HAVE PEACE.

LET Us HAVE PEACE.
Had not the Advance better let up OH
its Graves Wallace fight7 If it pub
fishes all editorial every week such as
the one it prints this week, it will most
certainly defeat Mr.. Graves, despite all
that we and other conservative demo-
Gratis can do. The aspersions upon the
Intelligencer are reflections upon every
body who has agreed with it, and that
means half of the democracy of the dis
trict if not more and many of these DEM
ocrats are more sensitive than are we,
and not SO much attached to party Or
ganization.
1t is nonsense not to see that Mr..
Graves is in danger of defeat, and
w,rse than nonsense to fan the embers
of dissension within the party.
The Intelligencer cares nothing for
attacks made upon it by the Advance.
1t does not expect fair treatment at its
hands, or the concession that the Intel
gencer has the right, commonto others,
of expressing its own opinions; but
there is no longer . contest between
democrats for a nomination; it is not
worth while, even, for democrats TO stop
and ask if there is q democratic nomi-
nee for congress. There is a fact that
is incontrovertible and that is, that
there is only one democratic CAN
didate tor congress. There will be a
republican candidate. Then the
question-will be, can democrats afford
to endanger democratic supremacy in
the house of representatives because of
factional fights in this congressional
district?
Many democrats, some Of them Mr..
Graves' strong personal friends, think
that Nj. Wallace was twice outraged,
and they say that the only way to re-
buke such things is to vote against the
beneficiary thereof at the polls. Per-
sonally, as we'll as e%ditorially, we have
been endeavoring to change this feeling.
We do not palliate what has been done
in order to do this. 1t cannot be done
in that way. Mems minds are made up
on that point. We appeal to them to
adopt some other mode of displaying
their censure, and that is the only way
that we see to win over democrats who
still persist in saying that they will not
vote for Mr.. Graves.
Much of the feeling is against the
committee, particularly against Mr..
E. L. Martin. Gentlemen say that the
machine has squeezed them and that 1t
has perpetuated itself in order
to squeeze them again, and that
they cannot and will not by
their votes permit it to be
done, or seem to indorse it. We do
not suggest it; the gentlemen may
do just AZ they please SO far as
we are concerned; but we believe that
if the congressional committee
would resign it would bring hundreds
of votes to Mr.. Graves. 1t would
eliminate from the contest tho bitter
feeling against the committee, and the
party could very easily find means to
reorganize the committee two years
hence.
We endeavored, last week, to show
that bitter, partisan speeches now
could only do harm. This was illus
trated in our Office, last Saturday,
when an indiscreet Graves man said
that he would not have voted for MI.
Wallace if he had been nominated. A
gentleman who was sitting a asked
"Well, sir, how can you expect me to
vote for MI. Graves, when I believe
that Mr.. Wallace has been wronged?"
Both of these gentlemen live in Clay
township; they are good democrats;
and, no doubt, equally conscientious.
Now, the very best thing to do at this
time is to dismiss all harsh feeling to
quit contention; to endeavOr to bring
democrats together, rather than to
keep them apart. So far as the lntelli-
gencer is concerned as long as
its motives are pure and its efforts in
the direction of political morality it
can afford to bear adverse criticism;
and we should not suppose that there
was a single man who was a delegate
to Kansas City who is 30 narrow
minded, 30 bigoted, SO blinded by
partisan prejudice, that he would as
sumo for a moment because he held
certain views that it was incumbent
upon the Intelligencer to coincide with
him. We think better of them than
that. Indeed we know that most of
them have too much sense to either
talk or feel in that way. Let us have
done with quarreling, and go to
work to elect a democratic congress-