Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-06-19

the New York Herald regarding
Mr.. Samuel j. Randall. W hich is almost
a reproductions, in sentiment, OF what
was said in these columns some months
ago. 1t seems that it is becoming quite
seriously to be questioned hat Mr..
Randall is a democrat at all. On the
other hand the enemy is chucking him
under the chin, as affectionately
as would a fast Young man a handsome
and willing courtezan. For instance,
the Globe-Democrat says:-"Mr. Ran
dali declares that if Mr.. Morrison and
the free traders spring the tariff-reduc-
ton bill in congress this session, he
and the forty-two other democratic
protectionists will join the republicans
and kill it. Randall did a like service
tor the country two years ago. In
fact, Randall, if he could be induced to
declare a truce in his war on the civil
service law, would make a first rate
republican," or course there is more
or less hypocrisy in the Globes para
graph. Mr.. Morrison is not a free
trader; neither are his democratic COL
leagues who wish to reduce war taxes
in times of peace; and the Globe, ex-
cept insofar as it keeps republicans in
office, has as much use for civil service
reform as it has for a last years birds
nest. Still its honeyed phrases for Mr..
Randall, if they show nothing more,
indicate that it thinks he is doing work
for the republican party. We think SO
too.
The owners of the st. Joseph u st.
Louis railroad will finally take possess
sion of their property, to operate it in
de%pendently ,on next Monday. Mr.. Har-
ris who has had provisional charge for
some week, will be the general mana
ger. The road will be run in connec-
ton with the St. Joseph e Grand
Island Railroad through Nebraska. 1t
is to be put in first class condition, and
is to be so conducted as to benefit itseli
and the communities through which il
passes. Its western connection is a
very valuable one ,traversing the north.
ern part of Kansas and the southern
portion of Nebraska, having its west
ern termini at Cheyenne and at Den
YER, Grand Island, from which part O.
the name is derived, is a point on the
Platte river in western Nebraska. The
road passes through a grand country tc
supply with coal, and the two rOads
could do nothing that would so mucf
benefit them as to get into Lexington
and that speedily. We hope Messrs
Nesbit and Benedict, the respectiv,
presidents, will give this matter theil
earnest and prompt attention. Though
the movements ofthe St Joseph road ar,
conservative, still we have to congrat
ulate ourselves that it is every day get
ting to be more and more in a position
to aid in what Lexington is most inter
ested in, the building of a bridge acros
the Missouri river.
The editorial article entitled eth,
Primary" from the Odessa Democrat
printed in this issue, should be read b,
all persons who are inclined to be
little %disgruntled because of the selec
tons made by the democracy of tn
county, at the polls, on June 5. TIL
writer of that article was himself
candidate; he was defeated; and We
instead of whining about this thing O
that; instead of looking around for
peg upon which to hang objections, h
cheertully accepts the situation him
self, and advises all other democrat
against the folly of d%issension an
division. There are democrats all
democrats. A democrat who loves h
party more than he does his own per
sonal interests is easy to discern-h
is one who under all circumstance
subordinates self to the welfare of tt
party. Such a democrat deserves we
OF the organization with which he
connected.