Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-08-28

away to Jail, but as in the past so in
the future we are satisfied that they
and the county clerk, Mr.. Steele, will
stand firm in refusing to make any
other terms than those agreed upon by
the people.
Persistent rumOrs are current in
every European capital to the effect
that Austria is about to proclaim the
annexation of Herzegovina and Bos-
MIA.
Mr.. Grevy talks of resigning the
French presidency.
THE REPUBLICAN COUNTY OONVEN-
TON.
The republican county convention
mel at H~igginsvilie last Monday; Or at
least We suppose it met, for it was in
session in the afternoon, at which time
the guard was removed from the door
of the grange hall and all Intelligencer
reporter vas admitted to the sacred
precincts of this now famous retreat.
wheret the honest granger is accustomed
to retire to cOgitate upon the unhappy
lot of the bone and sinew of the
try, and to seek for a remedy to relieve
ii from the grasping m%onopolies which
have it now so surely within its grasp.
The following are all the proceedings
which were permitted to be made pub
lie up to the time the delegates had be-
come go hungry, thirsty, tired or DIS
gusted with their wrestling with the
mighty schemes before them that they
were perforce compelled to take a re-
cess of a couple OF hours to recuperate
the inner nal and allow their intellects
to once more resume their normal state
of quietude after listening TO the windy
effusions emanating from their many
gifted orators and the long-winded pro-
position of a would-be boss of the
democratic party that the position up
on their tricket of representative in the
next legislature be left without being
filled by one of their OWL number, so
he could poll the republican votes OF
the county for himself as an %indepen-
dent, sorehead democrat.
But to the said proceedings allowed
to be made public from this semi star
chamber ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS : lantern
pull-the- hole-in -after-you-great nation
al republican-go-as-y you please party :
Mr.. Henry Thieman was elected tenn
porary chairman and Henry Schwartz
secretary, after which the following
committees were appointed: On Gre
dentials, Messrs. W. NJ. Ream, c. G
CASTOR, T. j. Powell, F. G. Cook, A.
HBffer, H. Knipmeyer, II. F.. Klein
schmidt and David Gray. On per-
manent organization, Messrs. H. H.
Woestemeyer, P. E. Hammond, A. B.
Matthews, H.. G. Schwartz, j. W. End
ley, Ed. Downs, W. w. Northcut and
U. G. Phetzing On rules and order of
business, Messrs. j. Stanield, G.. D.
Satterield, J. B. Jones, W. +. Mcclure,
E. F. Keyton. H. Neiderjohn and j
NJ. Clayton. On resolutions, Messrs.
H. Boese, G. D. Satterfleld, A. B.
Hatch, VIM. Evers, F. Erdman, H.
Wissler, j. NJ Clayton and j. w. Sum-
mers. Then came the Adjournment I'M
til II o'clock.
AFTERNOON SESSION..
The committee on credentials report
ed, which report vas adopted. The
committee Oh organization and order
of business then reported as follows;
For permanent president, II. Thomp.
sOn; for permanent secretary. q. q.
Observation-Disclosures for the county
ticket to be in the order named, repre-
sentative, sheriff, collector, treasurer,
prosecuting attorney, assessor, county
clerk, circuit clerk, recorder, probate
judge, coroner, presiding judge OF
county court, associate Justice for west
err district associate justice for eastern
district; nine delegates to state COLI
Yention, one from each township and
one at large; nine delegates to c0p-
gressiOnal convention, one from each
township and one at large; county cen.
trail committee.
Mr.. Phetzing objected to the report
claiming that the committee had ex-
cseded its authority and infringed up
on that of the committee on rules and
order OF business. Mr.. Hammond
moved to adopt. Mr.. Branch supported
the views Of Mr.. Phetzing. The chair.
man doubted the authority OF the COM
mittee, but the report was finally
adopted and Mr.. Thompson was escort.
ed to the chair. He thanked the con-
v%ention tor the honor conferred, said
he had been a republican for 80 years,
had voted for the first republican pres
ident and every republican president
from that time until 1884, at which
time the great republican party had
been defeated in electing their candi-
date by a slip hut wherein that slip con
sisted, except from a lack of votes, he
did not inform his hearers. He pre-.
dicted, how ever, success in 1888, at
which time the party would rise from
Its ashes (Or its grave) and once more
march on to victory. His audience
evidently did not like this allusion to
The day of resurrection and began to
look somewhat scaisd, noticing which
the speaker branctied out in another
direction and left the resurrected saints
with several of their feet in the grave
lie said that Washington City at pres.
ent was an asylum fer rebels, forget.
ting at the time, we presume, that the
republican O~ttice-holders had not YET
all received their walking papers, But
let him possess his soul with patience
1t will no.. be long before the last OF
them will disappear and the places
which now know them will know them
no forever. lie said there was
too much patriotism III the American
people to allow this state of things to
long continue, forgetting we suppose
in the enthusiasm OF the moment, that
it was the spOils, and not patriotism, OF
which the republican party now stood
greatly i'll need. He said that the acts
of the last lower house Of congress
were simply atrocious; that he repub
lean senate had passed numerous i'm.
portant measures which had been
stranglaG by the house, notably the
Blair educational till which proposed
to take out OF the public ireaaury $50,
100000 within the next few years, say
Ing that the quota of Lafayette county
you'd have been somewhere in the
ncightorhooa CT $1,000, 600, but he
was here corrected by Mi. Fhettine
who said the amount would have been
GHla ahont $4,000, 900 for the entire
state, The olairnian accepted the
amendment Of Mr.. Fhetzing, bit not
without a look of disappointment at the
small amount which would have fallen
iG our lot. He also said that Dakota
was kept ont of the Union simply be-