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

Dy tuo 4uOleu ny INC liihCS,
and, es oon as we saw no better action
could be taken, dropped tho matter.
At Kansas City Judge Philips was
nominated by the entire convention,
thus precluding n question as to
Lafayette's delegates. Every word we
wrote was in vindication of the right
of the people to govern themselves.
| Mr.. Chiles, the chairman of the Il
ty committee, and every lawyer with
whom we c~onversed, agreed with us.
The convention only elected the dele
gates as q matter of convenience. MIR.
Ewing, who favored that course,
acknowledged that it would not do as a
precedent. Messrs. Ewing and Chilesare
now the congressional committeeman,
and we know they will never recon-
mend that course in future. No harm
was done by the discussion, as the
Times pretends. How could there be,
if, according to the Times own state
ment, no one agreed with the Intelli =
gencer's view2 AS to "Jeffersonian
Democrat" he did not stay in the
woods. One of the strongest speeches
for Philips that we heard in the can
vass was the one he delivered at the
| courthouse here the night before the
election. How many speeches did DR..
Munford make for Philips2 1t was
more incumbent upon him to support
Philips than upon any other man.
Good faith demanded it; party tealty
demanded it; honorable usage de-
handed it; and yet, instead, he sup
ported Major Warner.
1t IS asserted that the motive
which actuated US in discussing the
election of the congressional delegates
was because we could not use them in
our interest for secretary of state. No;
no mi could "negotiate" them. They
are not that kind of men, and the dis
trict is to be congratulated that they
are not. But suppose they had been,
what could they have done for US a
year in advance? Stuff and nonsense!
But who were these men? Messrs.
Ewing, Steele, Asbury, Isaac Neale,
Plattenburg, Roberts, Hall, Light
ner, Ryland. Cook, r. w. Neale
and Wilson. Among these gen.
tlemen are some of the best friends we
have in the world, and if there Is n
enemy we do not know it. They did
not go to Kansas City to make states
or bargains for other elections; neither
would any other delegation that might
have been chosen. After all, this ac-
cusation that the Intelligencer has been
used by its editor for his personal
political ends may prove to come from
people who have failed to use it for
their personal political ends.
The innuendo in the Times against
our personal integrity is a foul SANDER,
beneath contempt.
The Times reproaches US for having
cut down the majority for congressman
In Lafayette county. The only reply
necessary to offer to this is, to ask it
what it has done with the democratic
majority in Kansas City; and how
much it did, during the recent CAN
vass, to aid the Intelligencer in its
fight for Philips, to increase his ma
iority in Lafayette county? We have
never in all our life scratched a demo-
cratic ticket. Can the Times people cay
as much? When we were in the cd
eleventh or the old seventh district We
had NJ trouble; We got along very
we'll. 1t is only since we have been
joined 10 Kansas City that the trouble
began and the press and the democra.
cy seem to attribute the last disaster
more to the Machiavelian tactics OF the
Times than to any and all other causes.
If its influence is at all commensurate
with its assumptions, had it remained
true to the party Judge Philips could
have been elected. AS it was, he was
without the support OF a daily news
paper in Kansas City.
The Times threatens the editor OF this
paper with its wrath should he become
a candidate for secretary OF state. Let
1t crack its whip. We care nothing for
its slime and vituperation. Its article
has brought US more friendly letters
from Jackson county than we ever be-
fore received in our life. The iron has
entered its soul, and in its desperation
it blindly strikes out to wound. 1t
thinks by beating tom toms to distract
attention from the peridy of it's action
in the recent election, but it cannot
succeed-neither can it bulldoze any
body; the day for that has passed in
Missouri; and if it undertakes to ira
duce every democratic editor and pub
lie man who condemns its course
it will have on Its hands the biggest
contract it ever undertook.
In the recent canvass we did our full
by Judge Philips. No newspaper
in the district fought for him more
zealously, and while he would not
make %invidious comparisons between
friends we know that he will ever and
bear grateful testimony to the
fact, as becomes a big hearted, noble
such as he is.
Odessa Democrat I've print the
following extract from an article In the
Kansas City Times of Dec. 9th, IN re-
gard to the late contest for congress in
district. We will remark in the
outset that the Democrat does not wish
to mix up with the personal controver-
sy between DR.. Munford aud Capt.
Lesueur, but we do desire t vindicate
the truth. W. assert without hesita-
ton that the mode OF selecting dele
gates to the congressional convention
from Lafayette county had no bearing
on the vote received by Judge Philips,
in this county. While there was a con
trovery betw cen the lntelligencer and
its correspondent 'Jeffersonian Demo-
craft and the editor of this paper, the
was ended after the nomi-
nation of Judge Philips. The Intelli-