Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-08-02
A GARD FROM NIB. sHEwALTBR.

sire to call your attention TO the recOfu VI
Alex. Graves in congress, and to his true
character Us shown by his mode and methods.
He asks an endorsement at your hands, anu
such an endorsement means On approval on
your purt of the following votes and measures:
First--He voted for Cox and against Car
Isle for speaker-The democracy ofthe coun-
ty was a unit for Carlisle. Mr.. Graves knew
it, vet deliberately voted against your wishes.
The issue presented was the greatest ever be-
fore a democratic caucus since the war; Inc
issue was clear and distinct-the farmers ana
producers on one side monopoly on the other.
Mr.. Graves shirked-he cast a half vote Tor
Randall and monopoly and against you and
your interest, and, as 1 believe. knew it to be
such at the time and so intended it to be- 1or
Cox was not in the race. The Cox movement
was q blind.
Under the lead of Mr.. Burnes of st. Joe.
Mr.. Graves betrayed the trust placed in his
hands, set up his judgment against yours ana
represented his own private views, and lgnor-
ed yours. Are the intelligent voters, the
farmers and producers of this district mere
serfs with, no right 10 an opinion, that mgr
toned representative is bound to respect:
The question whether you are entitled to an
opinion and your representative Is bound 10
respect it, is presented by MIR. Graves candi-
dacy. Vote for him and you vote to reward
and applaud the vote that betrayed you. Vote
for him, and having thus voted to reward his
failure to represent you, predict he Will vote
again to violate his trust, in n still more I'M
portant matter, when occasion presents and
professional politicians demand il. II you
are betrayed once it is your misfortune; If
BETRAYED d second time 1t Is your fault.
Second-Mr. Graves voted for the three
months pension bill. That is u bill not giving
a pension to the widows and orphans of three
months men, or those actually wounded, but
TO all three months men who (now after the
lapse of twenty ycars) there is simply good
reason to BELIEVE had contracted disease In
the service. A bill so outrageous rs to be
opposed by the New York Herald and almost
the entire respectable press of the north and
the meritorious and real soldiers. This bill
it has been estimated would cost the country
fifty millions annually.
Alex. Graves voted to impose this tax on
you and now asks you to vote for him. This
vote alone defeated COsgrOve for re-nOmina-
ton, and I claim, should defeat any man who
gave such a vote, if you value your ballot,
the interest of youself and of your children
Third-He voted for the bonded whisky
bill, a bill dictated and pressed by the Dis
tlllers' Union of the United States. You must
pay your taxes promptly. Alex. Graves
voted to give the d~istillers two years in which
to pay theirs, and in the meantime the money
l ~ooooaor, IN ,,ou tho avnoncoo nf tho nnvorn.
ment must come from your pockets. Are you
willing to return such a representative, to be-
come still further the agent and representa-
tive of such measures and such combinations
and associations.
Fourth-When the m%onopolists and tariff
reformers (your true representatives, Joined
forces in caucus, Alex. Graves dOdged-he
was not Internationally he gave the moral
support of his absence 10 your enemies and
cut down by his absence the vote for the
measure. In this great question your voice
was silent. Had others remained absent, as
did Graves, the measure would have been
defeated; as it was. the light vote in caucus
was used, and used with force, in the house
against the measure. To this we contributed
through our representative.
Here again he was false to your interests,
and he asks you to endorse this also.
Fifth-He has been repeatedly absent, at
one time almost one month, several times af-
terward for a week or more each time, at
tending to private business, but still drawing
his salary. "Absenteeism,' the bane of
Grants administration, is before you for en-
dorsement.
In a word the public record of Alex.
Graves is the very worst Of which I have
any knowledge. 1 do not believe it would
be possible to find in our whole history a
case in which q representative has more per-
sistently misrepresented his people and dis
regarded their opinions. He belongs to the
class Of politicians who must go to the rear,
if the democratic party expects to gain con-
Reform and economy! His very record Is a
burlesque on the word.
l do not herein ask your vote for myself,
but in the name of democracy. representa-
tive government and the right of the people
to be heard, vote for some one who will re-
spect your will, represent you and be q credit
to the district. But 1 do say. that if 1 were
in congress and n hundred respectable
democrats should declare l had not repre-
scented my people, instead of asking ~re-elec-
tlcn, 1 should step down and out.
Mr.. Graves announced to numerous per-
sons he would not become a candidate. Hear
ing this I determined to enter the field and
did SO. I went to Jackson county and made
a canvass of the first district. A few days be-
fore the primaries the friends of one candi-
date came to me in a body, and l was also
making accesions from another, which added
to the vote 1 already had and in fact received,
would have given me the district, with ten
votes in the congressional convention. In
proof Of this 1 cite the headlines from the In
dependence Sentinel.
"Franklin's throat cut. His late blowers
desert him almost in a body and go over to
his Lafayette county opponent Then it
was Mr.. Graves who had not the manliness
to come out and make Il manly fight in Jack
son himself, consents on receiving notice Of
my success in Jackson to become q figure
head and telegraphs that he Is in the field
his bogus dispatches published that he will
carry Lafayette, &c. I had no paper to coun-
teract such influences, and hence after max
ing a hard fight in Jackson 1 found the fruits
of my labor stolen away by such d%isreputable
means by a man who had not the moral
courage to make the contest in Jakson HIM
self. After the announcement 1 still received
a respectable vote. Alex. Graves received but
four votes in the county, and 1 am now in re-
ceipt of letters from Jackson, from influential
citizens, that if 1 get the vote of Lafayette
county 1 am in a fair way to get the nominal
ton, adding that while the feeling Is very bit
ter between Wallace and Franklin, that their
friends feel friendly toward me. Had it not
been for the very ~discreditable action of Mr..
Graves believe the choice would have fallen
to Lafayette. j. ID. SHEwALTER.
RESPONSE OF JUDGE HALE.
To Ferd ID. Smith, NJ. Adams, Barnett
Landlord and oihers-Gents: Your call upon
me to become a candidate for associate Judge
Of the county court for the western district,
published In the Intelligencer of the 26th of
July, has been considered. To many who