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Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-10-25
HELLO! PATRICK FORD.
You Have Sold Out to the Repub.
lean Party. But You Ca ms
DeliS or any Irish
Goods.

fScathing Letter to the Irish Wold.l
RUsHvILLE, IND, September 2S-Dear
Sir:-You have seen fit to send us copies Of
your paper, no doubt by the request Of the
republican party,to whom you have sold out,
expecting to have an effect on our votes this
fall. Let US, sir, at once undeceive you.
While we %sympathize with our down-trod-
den and oppressed brothers in Ireland, and
would hail with gladness their birth of free
dom, still we fail to see how the object can
be obtained by the use of dynamite or by
supporting the republican party; a party
which has for the last sixteen years be en- leg
islating for the benefit of capital and at the
expense Of labor; and especially do we fail
to see how the Irishmen of either Ireland or
America can be benefited by the elect ion of
James g. Blaine to the presidency. A man
who has never-in his twenty years of pub
lie life introduced into congress or advoca-
ted before the people q measure looking to
the relief Of the oppressed laborer or oppress-
ed freshman, whom he now 30 dearly loves.
You speak of his aggressive policy In foreign
affairs; shall we not Judge of the future by
the past? II SO what are we to Judge of the
Insolvency. case which came up under the
administration of James G.. Blaine as secre-
tary Of state? Is that a specimen of his ag-
g~ressive foreign policy? If there has ever
been an aggressive foreign policy 1t has been
under democratic and not republican rule,
Compare Blaine with Marcy and Cass as
secretaries of state, il you will. We, as
members of the democratic party, as Irish
men who have sworn allegiance to this coun-
try, as Hoosier Irishmen, beg leave to say to
you that no effort Of yours, through the Irish
World, can cause US to falter in our fealty to
that party which stands as a living barrier
between q government of the people, for the
people, and by the people, and the fast tend
ing of the republican party to, as they term
it, a strong government, but meaning moth
ing more OF less than a monarchy.
Yours respectfully,
THOs. MCCORMICK, JOHN MCCAaE,
Pat. CAvANAUGH, MAT CAVANAUGH,
Con McCABE,. PAT GARRATY,
JOHN GRIMES, THOMAS GARRAyY.
JAMES CRANES, ST., Ed. CAvANAUGH,
JAMES CRANES, Jr., OWEN GARRATY.
THOMAS CRANES, PAT McCABE,
A lame back is q torment. 1t Is usually
ascribed either to q strain or to rheumatism.
Nine times out of ten it is kidney disease.
Be wise in time, take Hunts kidney and
liverl remedy for your anne back and avoid
the dangers of which 1t Is q warning. 1t
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-10-25
GOV. o%R1TTENDEN.

After the Governors able and patri-
otto speech at the courthouse, last Sat-
urday, the writer offered the following
resolution, which had been written by
Capt. j. D. Connor:-
Resolved, That the thanks of the
citizens of Lafayette county here as
sembled are due and are cheerfully
accorded to Gov. T. T. Crittenden
for his able and instructive address
and for his manly defense of our
grand old commonwe alth, the state of
Missouri.
The resolution vas heartily and unan-
imously adopted. After which ]. d.
Shewalter, ESQ.,, the chairman of the
meeting, eloquently assured the speak
er of the affection and esteem in
which he was held in the community,
where he 80 long resided, and wished
him every happiness at the close of his
honestly and we'll administered trust
as governor.
Gov. Crittenden was almost moved
to tears; he fl elingly returned his
thanks for the unexpected demonstra-
ton at the close of his speech, and
by invoking the Divine
blessing upon all present, whether DEM
ocrats or republicans.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-10-25

Washington Star, Ind. :-s'The re-
publicans can't figure themselves out of
their setback in Ohio by trying to
change the basis of comparison. Mr..
Blaine hit it before the election when
he said: Anything less than 10000
majority will be of no use to us else
wherc.'o
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-10-25

Mr.. John Kelly's friendly visitto Gov.
Cleveland has given the, republicans
a bad case of political gripes. Their
squirms over it are amusing. Never
mind, friend republicans, it only means
after all your coquetting for Tammany
influence, that you must concede the
state of New York to Grover Cleveland,
the honest man and political reformer.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-10-25

Chicago Times, Ind.:-"After spend
ing a million of dollars. After colon
izing three or four thousand fraudu-
lent voters. After hiring 1900 cut
Threats and thugs to drive reputable
people from the polls, the republicans
have only a bare plurality in Ohio. One
more such victory. and Blaine is Dust
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-10-25

Chicago Herald, Ind.:-''If it is a
great republican victory for a republic
can state to 60 republican by a reduced
majority, why is it not a great demo-
cratic victory for a democratic state to
go democratic by an increased ma
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-10-25
THE OHIO ELECTION.

Well, what of it? The republicans
have carried Ohio by a reduced ma
from the vote of 1880. Ohio is
a republican state. Without its vote
last week the election would have been
virtually decided against Mr.. Blaine
then. With it he is still defeated, as
with New York and Indiana, which
are certain for Cleveland, the demo-
Gratis will elect their president. Not
only that, but the chances are they will
carry New Jersey, California and Con-
necticut; and Wisconsin has always
been considered by us as far more like
ly to vote for Cleveland than Ohio.
Evenfor the vote of so rock-ribbed
a republican state as Michigan the re-
publicans must make a life and death
struggle, sending their presidential
nominee to stump it almost by coun-
ties. Ohio, even, is not certain to the
republicans in November. The demo-
Gratis have made a splendid fight there,
against an army of venal United States
marshals; against a million dollar cor
ruption fund; against legions of federal
o~ficeholders scattered at all the poll
ing places; against the pension Office
used as a standing bride; against negro
colonization from Missouri, Indiana,
kentucky and other states; against the
entire power of the general govern
ment, expended in a desperate, bold,
INSCRIPTIONS effort to retain power in
the country at every hazard and at
every cost. Still, with all this, and
with Mr.. Blaine's two stamping tours
OF the state, and with the shameless
purchase of the votes of men impover-
ished, aye, beggared in the mines and
workshops, the gallant democrats of
Ohio have reduced the republican
plurality from IL, zoos in October, 1880,
to 10000, in 1884, and wiped out the ma
jority entirely. Beside this, it must be
remembered that the personnel of the
state ticket was unexceptionable, and
that there are thousands of republicans
in Ohio who have determined to vote
the republican ticket, except for presi-
dent. These are men who have not
changed their fealty to the republican
party and its policies, but who
think it better, for the party itself, to-
defeat an unworthy and corrupt
candidate rather than to elect him.
The republicans had to carry Ohio.
1t was "a ground-ho case with them.
there they were absolutely
and irretrievably defeated in the coun
try at large. 1t is not SO with the dem
ocrats, for they do not need Ohio in
order to win. We have always con-
coded that state to the republicans. But
when they come to tackle New York,
New Jersey, Indiana, Connecticut and
there will he another tale to
tell. New York is as safe for Cleve-
land as is Georgia. There are a hun
dred anti Blaine elements in the state ;
the bitterest of them, powerful and in
fiuential ones, being republican. The
press, almost entire; the pulpit, the COL
lege; the capitalist, the laborer, the
mercantile bodies, are overwhelmingly
for Cleveland. The real battle is now
to be fought, and no amount of money,
or sophistry can keep the
country In November from rebuking
The man who huckstered the influence
Of the third place in the government
when he held it-who made merchan-
disc Of his power as speaker.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-10-25

1t won't do, gentlemen. Mr.. Blaine
has testified over and over to the high
character of both Mulligan and Fisher.
You can't blacken their names without
%impeaching James G. Blaine.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-10-25
MORE EDIGfs.

The following telegram explains itself:
KANSAS CITY, October "a: VIM. B.
Steele, ESQ.,, county clerk: The court orders
attachment against county judges. Can you
have them here tomorrow morning? An
swer. j. H. MCGEE,
TT 9 MarsbaI
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-10-25

Hon. Jno. F. Williams, state insur-
ance commissioner, and all able sneak
Ell, will address the people of Lexington
and vicinity. at the courthouse, in this
city, on next Wednesday, October 90,
at 2 o'clock, p. m, on the political
issues of the day. Turn out and give
him a hearing.
Martlsnd's Art Gallery Is only on the sec.
ond floor, easy flight of stairs. Has the finest
sky-lights in the state. Call and see him op-
posite the postofice. ocr25m1
"Jay Eye Sec writes from Waterloo:-
'Farmers still planting wheat -. After a
week of nice weather we had another rain H..
Apples are selling for 25c a bushel. .. Mr..
Hoffman is loading a car with wheat.
sportsmen are unloading their guns at ducks.
w. 5. Crutsinger spent two days this week
at Lexington cOurting. go. Your correspond
ent from Wellington, last week told us about
q large walnut %'shirl." lately shipped from
here. We pause for Il definition of the word
"snirp Jack Frost peeps forth o. nights.
Now thrash your apples. Shake the potatoes,
Dig the pumpkins. Pick the cabbage. Also
be 'igilant in doing all fall work, for YOU do
not know when winter will be here....W s.
Downs, republican candidate for sheriff,
made flying trip through here-says he is
hopeful etc., etc. Tia ia, Mr.. Downs.n
We thought our local republican contem-
porary was a little out of the way when 1t
attributed Juniors" letter in the Higgins
vile Post to a democrat. We felt satisfied
the editor Of that paper would not have lent
himself to a fraud such as that would have
been upon his readers. The Post sets the
matter at rest this week by saying, editorial
lv:-"The article in last weeks Post, en-.
titled, The republican party and the colored
vote,' was not written by Il democrat, as the
Lexington Register seems to think. On the
contrary. the article is from the pen of one
of the best and soundest republicans In the
county" AS the Post does not dissent from
the positions taken by its correspondent we
suppose it agrees with him. Indeed it
vouches for the s%Oundness Of his republican
ism; and, in the publication of his sentiments
without adverse comment, has done all in its
power to sustain the views expressed by
Junior"
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-10-25

Blaine is bitter against the south
since West Virginia. Before, he was
so sweet. Blaine Is a monumental
fraud as well as a "Continental@"
ahem! one of those things.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-10-25
Springfield, Mass, Republican, Rep.

Springfield, Mass, Republican, Rep:
%"Plurality in Vermont cut down 10
per cent. ;plurality in Ohio cut down so
per cent from the electionin 1880 (from
$4,000 to about 100000 : restoration of
Maine to the republican column. These
are the results of the elections to date.
If the republicans find them comfort
ing they must have regarded their
chances from the first as very desper-
ate. They boosted their ability to
sweep the west, and yet their losses in
the west are greater than in the east,
where the doubtful states have not yet
begun to vote. They have applauded
over an exaggerated success, which,
when cut down to its true proportion,
ceases to be a cause even for congratu-
latiOn."
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-10-25
THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY AND THE
COLORED VOTE.

We have been requested by a prominent color
ed man Of this city to reprint the following ar
ticle about which there seems to tie much feel
ing
For the POST
In the Intelligencer's report of the late repui,-
lican county convention. I find that the celored
delegates from Lexington township relieved
themselves of sereral Zig wAines about the
ingrati,n lie OF republicans to the cololed people.
At every convention the color.d preachers and
such who have or think they have the gift of
Milton Turner's oratory, demand to be selected
AS delegates to the county, congressional or
state conventions and alter they are selected
they demand the white republicans to purchase
their tickets and pay their expenses. l make the
assertion that not one of the colored delegates
that has attended any republican convention
within the past year paid his expenses.
The average colored man has no right nor
business to be a delegate to a convention, be-
cause he is not 1T. When he proves his fitness,
he is usually recognized. Before he proves his
fitness, OF Course. he Is ignored. The chatter
about voting always for republican nominees, is
nonsense. We venture to say that the expert
ence OF republican campaign committees will
show that a great deal of money is paid out for
coiored gratitude. Fully one-half OF the black
vote ID purchasable.
The colored people might vote for the re-
publican ticket from now until the day of re-
surrectlon and they could not fully repay the
republican party for what il has done for them.
1t lifted them from slavery. 1t gave them u
citizenship, which a great many of them have
disgraced.
1t agltated and 1t fought for their cause. For
every black man that was freed one white
martyr went down to the grave. To put in u
claim for services now to be paid in a place on
thu ticket or rs a delegate to a convention. is q
small estimate of what the sacrifices of the war
We're worth. To demand pay for q days work
at the polls. or bride money rs a guide to a course
at the polls. makes one wonder if it would not
be better to have all our dead alive again, and
turn back the hands on the clock. JR.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-10-25

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Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-10-25

The republican managers at Wash
ington are greatly disconnected by the
fact that Mr.. E. w. Oyster, president
of the federation of labor unions, and
formerly president of the Pennsylvania
republican association, of Washington,
in a speech Saturday night to the labor
ing men, stigmatized Mr.. Blaine as the
enemy of the working class, and an
nounced his determination to support
the democratic presidential ticket. Mr..
Oyster left the next morning for Chica-
go, to attend a national gathering of
Workingmen.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-10-25

BostonTraveller Rep.:-"We believe
that Blaine is beaten for one reason,
and for that reason he justly deserves
to be beaten. He has been heard in
Maine, in New York, in Pennsylvania,
in nearly every chief center of Ohio,
in West Virginia and in Michigan, and
he has yet to utter the first word in
favor of honest government, of re-
duced taxation, of repeating the hun
dred millions of surplus, and of restor-
ing the national authority to public i'll
teurlty and &c onomy.0
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-10-25
Weeklg gntelligenfm.
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER.

New York Herald, Ind: "The
Ohio election was a victory for the
democrats. Look at it in any light you
choose, and it was a victory for the
democrats"
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-10-25

Sedalia Democrats-"We understand
that Mr.. James C. Thompson has no.
titled the state committee that he can
not accept the fusion nomination for
state treasurer, alleging as a reason that
the demands of business will not per-
NIT him to make the race. This action
of Mr.. Thompson takes from the
mongrel ticket the only element of
strength it had, and leaves a vacancy
which the committee will meet In st.
Louis tomorrow to FILL"
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-10-25
FOR SALE.

E>ItTf ACRES OF LAND, living
= three-quarters OF u mile { ast oistle 6ES
courthouse. on the Dover road belong. id
ing 10 Robert 4. Hicklin. all in cult ul
Vauon and under good fence: 40 acres IN ilnoibv
ana clover, and 10 acres In orchard and arden.
s,naL' mouse with three rooms One OF the finest
on'iu'hs sItes In tue county; large and c,mn,u-
uIous Darn; three large %cisterns; a living .priup
ana penI on the place SAID farm is Admiralty
al,p."u lot market garden, fruit or u dairy.
nrh's isauily ior $500 cash per year All UNDER
a"t E. WiSSOR l. SON,
oSs'Ms Real kstste Agents,
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-10-25
CITY TAXES.

NOTICE is hereby given that the NNEWl
IN Tax Books of the City of Lex
ington. Missouri, Tor the year 1854, IE&8SH
have been turned over to me for col -
lection. can BE- found at my Office, ON Laurel
street. during business hours. and until s O'Clock
p In., from this date until January LIST, AT winch
time all unpaid taxes Will be returned delin-
quent and the penalty added,
JOSEPH +. OWEN.
OctllH City Collector. :
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-10-25

In his Fl. Wayne and Terra Haute
speeches Mr.. Blaine repudiated the
good words for the south uttered in his
letter of acceptance, and waved the
bloody shirt in as unpatriotic, bigoted
and Bourbon a style as could be done
by any little cross roads politician in
the land. In ONO ueritds. The wine
of excited disappointment has turned
the head of the Knight of the white
,e.ther.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-10-25

Higginsville Post :-"Why doesn't
the Intelligencer publish one of the
magnetic speeches with which Gen.
eral Marmaduke is firing the
loyal heart in North Missouri.
1t would be more interesting than its
dreary essays on reform Give the
executive man a chance" The Intel.
ligencer is kept busy of late reporting
republican conventions, which no re-
publican paper in the county has the
enterprise, afterward, even to steal
correctly. AS for the "~executiye"
man, when he is governor the laws of
the state will be fearlessly and honest
ly enforced, and no corrupt influences
can ever get nea him. He is not, and
does not claim to be, an orator, but he
is an honest man, and unlike the noun
tebank, Ford, he loves Missouri. Had
he every sin that is attributed to him
by his political opponents this one vir-
tue would, for us, like a mantle, cover
them all.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-10-25

The proposed American Exhibition
in London will illustrate many novel
features. There will be an artisans
ball, in which, in addition to white
workmen of many crafts, there will be
live Indians, Chinese and negroes ply
ing the vacations to which they are ac-
customed in America. There will be
an exhibition Of characteristic Ameri-
can amusements and sports, including
theaters, concerts and balls. Eminent
American dramatic artists will attend,
and there will be displays of American
painting, sculpture, drawing and en-
craving. Many novel phases of Amer
lean life will be shown by tableaux and
interiors. These will include a brokers'
office in Wall street, a campfire in
Nevada, a San Francisco wineshop, a
Florida fruit store, Indian canoe max
ers, arriving and dispatching office for
ca~blegrams,' and reproductions of ele-
waited and electrical railways. These
attractions may be unique in London,
but the great Worlds Exposition that
is to be opened in New Orleans in De-
cember will have thousands of features
far more attractive and illustrative of
the manners and customs of all nations.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-10-25

The Intelligencer said, September
27:-"The democrats are not counting
on Ohio in October. Why should
they? They have never carried itin a
presidential year, since 1856. Beside,
they do not need it to win; the repub-
licans do. Still, it will take a hard
fight for the republicans to keep the
state in their column" And so it has
turned out. They had a very hard
fight for it, and came very near being
downed.
On May % last the Globe-D Democrat
said of Mr.. Blaine:-"He is an I'M
clean man, and the people will not
have him. He stands self convicted of
prostituting the high offices he has held
TO build up a private fortune, of CO.
habiting with corruption for dishonest
money. His record would damn him."
Well, it will. t.has given him his first
backset in a reduced majority in Ohio
and an increased democratic majority
in West Virginia.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-10-25

A lame back is q torment. 1t Is usually
ascribed either to a strain or to rheumatism.
Nine times out of ten it is kidney disease.
Be wise in time, take Hunts kidney and
liverl remedy for your lame back and avoid
the dangers of which it Is q warning, 1t
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-10-25

We have been requested by a prominent color
ed man Of this city to reprint the following ar
ticle about which there seems to tie much feel
ing
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-07-19

"My! how hot it ISL exclaimed a
feshy lady as, entering the car, her
ewes fell upon the stove. What an
idea, A fire such day rs this. What
in the world are you thinking of?'
And she shoves up the window ana
fans herself like all possessed.
An elderly gentleman next enters.
He sits down to read his newspaper,
first glancing at the open window in
an offended sort of way. As his eyes
move around from the open window to
his paper, they fall upon the stove.
Great Scottn he mutters. "Do
they want to roast q fellow alive?'
And up goes his window.
Each new conner sits down quietly,
looks at the stove and then cries,
How hot it isr' 'What an awful
fire they've gotN Isn't it ridicul-
ousw or something of the kind; and
each opens window, one gentleman
going so far as to open all the yenti-
lators, while another opens both
doors.
Conductor" cry dozen voices, rs
that official makes his appearance, and
dozen foreingers point to the stove.
The conductor looks at the cause of
all the commotion, its mica window
glowing like a furnace seven times
hotter than it is wont to be heated.
He takes Off his hat and mops his
brow. Then he takes y long poker,
and, standing as far away from the
stove as possible, throws open the
door. He falls back to avoid the
heat, then steps forward, looks into
the empty cylinder, and remarks, with
n laugh:
Sold by mighty! That boys gone
and painted them winders red"
Instantly the doors are closed, every
window comes down with bang, and
little man in the end seat asks the
conductor if he won't please shut the
yentilators. boston Transcript
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-07-19

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