Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-08-30
WALLACE AND V
From the St. Louis Post Dispatch.

From the St. Louis Post Dispatch.l
The old reliable democratic organ of MIR.
Graves own city and county, the Lexington
Intelligencer, agrees with the POst-Dispatch
I'm the conclusion that neither Graves uor
Wallace is the nominee of the democratic
party for congress in the fifth district, and
that the proper, faircst and most practical
solution of the difficulty would be reached,
as Mr.. Wallace proposes, by referring the
nomination to the democrats of the district
at a primary election. After a thorough, fair
and elaborate review of all the proceedings,
the Intelligencer concludes rs follows:
We conclude, therefore, that neither body
| was u lawfully constituted and lawfully con-
| Quoted congressional convention worthy OF
the respect and support of the democrats OF Tue
fifth congressional district. We regard the
present situation, with two candidates i'll the
field, as intolerable and ~ a concession OF the
| district TO the republicans, At such q tint
as this, when democratic discussions threat
on to land back the house OF representatives
to the republican party, the great pody OF the
people, who are more Interested in the sue
cess of the party than in the ambition of men,
should rise in their might and take the man.
agement into their own hands. The faction
al proceedings of this week should be ignored
and partisan committees should be asked to
1 SlEc n uS IN . QuCoDtpi WI -, eSh"o
Gratis OF tho district to settle. There IL ample
time to do IL by II primary election in the en-
tire district. Settled by the voice of the dem
Ocratic voters, 1t will he settled indeed. Ar
ranged In any other way. there will still be
room for cnrping and dissensiOns. Let the
democrats of the district vote on it. and to
their voice every true man will say amen.
The Kansas City Times, however. insists
that the RUM convention, which was con-
| at;t,,tol la, a ,ntnnrttp rnprnS aptipp nn1y La
fayette and johnson counties, was regular
and that "Mr. Graves has been nominated
regularly, and by all precedents and party
usages and parliamentary rulings is entitled
; to the support of the democrats of the dis
trict."
II this Is true, it is true only because it il
an expression of the fact that no fairly con
stituted democratic convention, or one Who's
nomination r. Elected any fair expression o
the peoples choice, has been permitted il
that district since 1876, If before. The who'll
cause of the present trouble is to be souSh
in tho long continued efforts of Jmrkson conn
ty factions and Juggling committees to con
v troll congressional nominations regardless O
G the preferences of the majority of Democrat
e voters. The men who were engaged in tina
/. work are the men who now oppose IA primar
o election and insist on running Graves Ms tn
nominee Of u rump convention organized b
- "a minority of the accredited delegates ugains
Wallace, who was nominated by II majorit
If of the regularly accaedited delegates. but II
an irregular convention.
The Times asserts that Graves can beat III
is republican candidate with Wallace in III
IL field, although Wallace carried jackson coul
e ty and Kansas City by Il majority of sS7 an
e received 4,G71 votes, 1000 more than an
IS competitor, at the primaries in Lafayette IN
jackson counties. This Is the same song thi
If was sung by the democratic minority whlc
= supported Crisp against Allen and thereh
l. elected Van Horn in 1850. With the demo
y cratic organ of his own county denying TIN
l. he Is the democratic nominee. Mr.. Grave
should recall his letter rejecting Wallace
FL proposition and join him in Il reference
of the nomination to "A free for all primary cle'
ton by the democratic voters of the entil
district.