Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-12-11
A TERRIBLE INDICTMENT.

The Kansas City Times prctends to
think that the Intelligencer, in what it
has had to say as to its course in the
| congressional election, misrepresented
. it. We have carefully looked oveT
| what we have written, and a see
nothing therein that is not openly, and
very generally avowed, by democrats
in Kansas City. We talk pretty plain
" sometimes, but we are not in the
habit of Intentionally disappearing
anyone, not even our worse enemy.
The article which appears below we
refrained from printing because we did
not know its allegations to be true.
Our attack upon the Times was purely
a political one How m it, then,
that its wrath has passed over its
neighbor, ten miles away, to fall upon
us, for allegations which are az milk
to the vitriol of these?
The Independence Sentinel, of Nov.
10, printed the following editorial srti-
cle:-
What surprises the Sentinel beyond
measure is that any n should be sur
prised at the course the Kansas City
Times has pursued during the past
campaign.
The Sentinel has watched this con-
Germ so closely for the past ten years
that it has long since ceased to expect
any good to come out of it. When it
purrs we look for its claws. When it
fawns we know it is preparing to show
its teeth. When il crouches we know
it is getting ready to spring, and we
look to see what it has marked for its
prey.
Why, look at the record it has made.
Follow it through the sinuous course
of its existence. See the trail of slime,
filth aud corruption that marks its
pathway, and tell us if anything bet
ter could logically have been expected.
That the democratic party has not
long since kicked it out of the way is
where the surprise ought 10 come in.
The party's tolerance of such a
paper, proclaiming itself the leading
organ of the party, has even led to the
suspicion that the party, knowing its
ways, endorsed them because it liked
such ways.
A sudden burst OF indignation Just
because the Times refused to support
the party nominees, is no credit to the
party. 1t means this: elf you support
and help elect u nominees, you may
be ever 80 mean, selfish, foul, criminal,
corrupt and damnable, we'll stand by
YOU"
Now let the party put on sack-cloth
aud bestrew its own head with the
ashes of repentance; repentance that it
has not had the manhood to renounce
q thing it could not help knowing was
the synonym of all that is and was vile,
corrupt and devllish.
The Ire of the paper for fifteen
years has been such as to have justi-
fed, at any time, al outraged people
i'll spurning it from their doors.
Ii has reeked with sensations nOt fit
to be read in the home circle.
1t has rejoiced in the publication of
the most pruricnt and obscene litera-
ture.
In 1874 its editor and proprietor was
found guilty of accepting u bride Of
$4,000 in a scheme of fobbery, cor
TupLlOH duu lTauu.
In 1879 it defrauded thousands of its
patrons through a notorious and ille-
gal lottery swindle.
Later, it sold its influence to the
Oklahoma Land Syndicate, and then de.
frauded the syndicate put of the extra
copies of papers it had been paid to
furnish.
In 1884 it blackmailed Alex. Graves,
the democratic nominee tor congress-,
compelling him to give it half his sala-
ry as congressman in order to have its
support.
Later, it tried to blackmail Father
Jardine, and failing, begun a SANDER
Gus persecution of him that drove him
to his grave. To do this it went down
in the dens and p~urlieus of shame and
crime, and hired prostitutes to go into
court aud swear falsely against the
victim of its hate.
Thus, within fifteen years this thing
has acted in the triple character Of
bribe-taker, blackmailer and murderer.
1t has slandered men and women to
compel them to buy its silence. 1t has
refused its support to the party nomi-
nees In order to compel them to divide
with it their salaries.
Nor has its partisanism been of q
commendable order. 1t fought Tilden
in 1876. 1t betrayed both Seymour
and Tilden in 1880. 1t fought and
traduced Cleveland up to the hour he
was nominated In 1884. 1t has always,
as a partisan, been selfish, d~ictatorial
and unfair. Before the day of Philips its
embrace had become that Of death, and
instead of denouncing it for not sup
porting that gentleman, it should be
thanked for getting out OF the way 80
that decent people could vote for him.
just getting mad at the Times! Just
finding it Outl
Our establishment bankrupts ex-
preston.
Not in fifteen years has this concern
changed its tactics, or whitened it's
character. With age it has grown
stronger, but the spots Of the leopard
are unchanged, no brighter, no darker.
Its course for years has been a re-
proach to Journalism, a shame to its
party. 1t has ~often-nearly every day
been guilty of acts go perfidious that
had 1t been a lawyer it would have
been disbarred; if a merchant, driven
from the board of trade in disgrace.
We do not vouch for these indict-
ments, as we have not Investigated
them, but as we understand it the Sem
tinel is a respectable aud responsible
newspaper, published in Jackson coun-
ty, at the source Of information.
Until the Times can answer these
charges, not by abuse and v%illification,
but by a fair and plausible presentation
OF facts, decent people need consider
but very little anything 1t may say
about them.
Holden Enterprise:-"The despised
and ignorant country press will be too
much for the blatant doctor. The
Times has lost its grip"
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