Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-07-19
WHAT WILL THEY DO9

John Kelly and Gen. Butler were
both delegates to the democratic coh-
vention at Chicago, and helped noml-
nate a ticket for the democratic party
of the country to endorse. While we
were opposed to the admission OF eth
er of them, we had no voice i'll the mat
ter.
We objected to Butler because he
was the nominee of a so-called party
small, it is true, but anti democratic -
and had accepted. Our objection to
John Kelly is chronic. We object to
his being recognized as a democrat.
For sixteen years he has made demo-
cratic professions, and forced the party
into %disgraceful compromises, ana
even then he has been a malicious trail
tor. He sold New York to Garfield as
deliberately rs he would sell q horse,
and by low tricks he was enabled 10
deliver the goods. There is no use in
trying to conciliate him. If the demo-
Gratis should buy his good will, as they
often have done, he will pocket his fee
and sell himself back to the enemy.
Every democrat knows this, and in the
west there is a universal demand That
he be treated as an enemy. An open
enemy is not half so dangerous as a
t%reacherous friend.
We do not believe John Kelly can
carry any large portion of Tammany
into open revolt. Nearly all his power
comes from trickery. We believe that
most Tammanyites are, as one OF them
said he was. ga democrat first, and a
Tammanyite after" Believing thus,
and believing that he will always be a
traitor, be thinks this is a favorable
opportunity to force him to show his
colors. And above all, do not trust
him OH election day. We a get
along without his help, and he should
be made to know it.
While Butler was in the convention
he professed to be such all nnwavering
democrat that che would even support
Blaine if the party should be SO silly
as to nominate him." thereby implying
that he would support the nominee.
Since the nomination he has apparent
Iy been smitten with lockjaw. He and
Kelly had a long conference a few days
ago, but 10 one knows the motive nor
the result.
We expect the republicans to give
aid and comfort to every enemy of
democracy, and while d%enouncing Cur
tbs for deserving their ranks, will at
tempt to praise Kelly into deserving
the democracy, under the very same
conditions. Neither Kelly nor Butler
has yet announced what course he will
take, and it is likely they are both
awaiting for the spirit to move them.
Those who ought to know, predict
that war between France and China is
inevitable, but it must end in victory
for France, and perhaps a revolution in
China. France insists on the payment
OF an indemnity, and China will not
pay it, because the treasury is depleted.
In lieu France demands the island of
but this is q tender spot in
Chinese commerce, as thence ONE the
Oolong tea, the only variety of
Chinese tea used in America. The
workshops of China are busy day and
night, manufacturing war supplies.
But the troops + inferior, without
tactics, and are no match for a civilized
nation. They % slowly and have
no commissary. Triumph of a foreign
nation will opeu the interiorof China to
commerce, and important places will
be known which foreigners have lever
entered. There is little money in the
country. The poorer lasses cannot
get rich, for the mandarins will not
allow men to get beyond their caste.
If all humble citizen is acquiring
money too rapidly the mandarin
takes it away from him. None but
the meanest Chinese come to America.
When they return with money they al
ways divide it among their parents, or
conceal it to prevent its being seized.
These mandarins are the actual rulers
of China. They will not allow the dis
semination of knowledgeexcept among
those of the first caste. Hence SO
many dialects exist that a Chinaman
cannot understand one of another call
ton. The educated class speak Il court
language, which forms the literature of
the country.