Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-12-11
THE KANSAS CITY TIMES.

ington l~ntelllgencers c IL was
in no manner an ans.oer to anything
whatsoever that this paper, with many
other democratic Journals OF the state,
has recently had to say in regard to the
recreancy of the Times in the late con-
g~resslonal campaign, but was, instead,
a personal onslaught upon the editor OF
this paper, and an attempt to make II
appear that the Intelligencer was untrue
to the party TWO years ago. and again
in this campaign, aud that, consequent
ly, its utterances upon this question are
i%nsincere, hypocritical and Of no &C
| count.
WHY the Times directed the poisoned
arrows of its malice at this paper In
| stead of at others which have been
much more severe in their structures up
on it, may be accounted for by two facts;
first, 1t thought we were possibly q
| candidate for office, and, therefore,
susceptible to injury in that direction,
and, second, it was apparently furnish
| ed, either with the article which il
printed entire, or with the data it used
by a personal and political enemy here
The matter fitting in with Its mood it
| USED it, utterly reckless of its truth or
| Justice. We do not know who this
person or persons are, and can, conse-
quently only conjecture, but the people
of this county who have read the stric'
ture will find little difficulty in making
a close guess as to the identity. We
are no novice in journalism, and we
have gwen and are prepared to receive
hard blows. We knew when, in the
pursuit Of our duty, and in violence to
the self seeking character painted OF
US, we criticized the Times, that we
were laying ourselves open to its
m%alevolent system of warfare, but this
attack is particularly covert and under
handed in that, If the men who, we be-
ileve, really made it had signed thereto
their names, these alone would be its
complete refutation. IT it is as we con.
lecture, and the character of the pro-
duction seems to indicate it beyond q
doubt, we have just this to say, that
the Intelligencer has SO far thrived up
on their enmity, and is likely to con-
tinue to do so. All that we ask Of
them is, that they sign their names to
their allegations. They will need no
other answer, to the democrats of La
fayette county.
Two years ago the congressional con-
v%ention at Kansas City was conducted
throughout in most utter confusion. 1t
ended by both candidates claiming a
nomination. The friends OF each were
loud in their denunciation of the other.
There was elimination and e-crimina-
ton. The assertion that the Intelli-
gencer COINED the congressional boil
tiers" is false. By these is meant the
friends of Mr.. Wallace. They claimed
that their man was the nominee. We
did not agree with them. The InteIli-
gencer, calmly, impartially, and with
no other purpose than to bring accord
out of a chaos which promised certain
defeat to democracy reviewed at length
the acts of the convention, reached tho
conclusion that neither gentleman was
lawfully and properly nominated, and
recommended a %peaceable settlement
of the difficulty that would insure the
election of a democratic congressman.
We gave to all q hearing in our COL
umns. We printed what both candidates
wrote. We impugned no mans mo-
tives, and deprecated its being done by
others Though, to use the simile of
the Times, the In%tslligencer was the
gnat while it was the OK, the position
OF this paper was sustained by the
party, and a primary election was Or
dered to settle the difficulty. Before
it was held we gave in our adhesion to
its nominee, and urged democrats to
lay aside, in the interest of the party,
their animosities, not engendered by
US, but in spite of our efforts to pour
oil upon the troubled waters. Had our
advice obtained in the beginning the
district might have been saved, bat
there was revolt and passion in the air.
and it would not be stayed. Once
nominated, we supported Mi. Graves
with voice and pen We urged tho
disaffected to put all grievances behind
them. and we not only gave the nomi-
nee a loyal support in the paper, but in
cheerful compliance with the request of
the county committee we ~canvsssed the
county from one end to the other in his
behalf, making for him the strongest
pleas of which we were capable. How
many pleas did the whited sepulcher in
Kansas City make for John F. Philips?
The Times has put new boots upon
a campaign lie two years old, and
it again upon its travels, to the
effect that the writer took the action he
did at that time because of a trade
with the Wallace men for support for
secretary of state in the state c~onven-
How? Where? With whom?
The whole thing is the malignant
coinage of a diseased brain. Judge
Slower was the chairman of the Jack
sol county delegation. We appeal to
him to say, if votes were bartered in
any such way. Beside, the delegates
from this county were selected, by Mr..
Graves himself, before the state conven-
ton. How could we trade them of?
What stuff it all isl
AS to the action of the Intelligencer
in this v 1t would be funny,
were it not for the devilish malice
lurking behind the sacrilegious use of
holy writ III the Times jeremiade, to
think that 1t should have the monu-
mental impudence to arraign anyone
for doing things inimical to the inter-
ests of John F. Philips. The Intelli.
gencer desired above all things, peace
aud harmony. 1t recommended the
separation of the congressional matter
from other things to secur these. The
committee saw fit not to heed the adj
vice. For this we should have cared