Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-10-09

County Grange, Higginsville, October IL.
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County Grange Higginsville, October II.
QuaIls may lawfully be shot on Friday next.
They have a rousing democratic club at
Odessa.
Read the new ad. of the Ahrens Dry
Goods Bazaar.
The government boat. Alert, passed down
Yesterday noon, and took on 900 bushels OF
coal.
Mrs. W.. B. Hamlet, who had the bones in
her right hand broken, last week, by the fall
of a window, Is getting along nicely. She is
comparatively tree from pain and hopes not
to lose the use of the hand.
Read Mrs. Standish's ad. She says it has
done her a great deal of good, and as it rams
out to-day she wants all of our readers to see
it. Read it, and give her a call if you need a
machine. You will never regret it,
MIR. w. B. Bolton took Mr.. Jno. Lancas-
ter's name for the democratic club, thinking
that he did so with his acquiescence.
The club assures Mr.. Lancaster that it does
not WOO him rs an unwilling lover. 1t has
expunged his name from the record. No one
faith 10 the matter.
Messrs. VIM. B. Hamlet, Wm. j. Morri-
son, Frank Trigg, Alex. A. Lesueur. Jr., and
the writer. spent a few days last week most
delightfully."- on the head waters of the Gas
conade river. Though the stream was rather
too muddy from recent rains to afford good
fishing more bass were caught than the party
could use, and some coarser fish that were
given away. Enough ducks and squirrels
EilIaj yuithont 1oouinn tho hnafS fn
supply the larder, the scenery was simply
exquisite, the new moon lent its radiance TO
most beautiful nights, and all that was need
ed to render the trip one full to overlooking
of poetry and song was the presence of a few
.ender-eyed. sweet members Of the gentler
sex, for whom some of the party occasionally
sighed. We have been asked so many ques-
tons about the Gasconade that we SHALL en-
deavor, soon, to write an account of the en-
tire trip; but just now politics is to the fore,
and We have neither time nor space for
rhapsodies on the small nouthed black bass
or the bold, cedar clad cliffs of as pretty Il
river as one need ever even dream of.
Mr.. KIst very unnecessarily excites himself.
II is q matter of Of very little consequence
whether he was or was not a candidate for
constable. He permitted himself to be placed
place, which in most peoples eyes would
constitute a candidacy, not necessarily a can
vass for the place as he seems to understand
the word, but q candidacy. He is notthe first
gentleman who "was not q candidate" after
he WAS defeated. As to the alleged threat
made by the I~ntelligencer, that Is simply u
misrepresentation. The Intelligencer on the
occasion in question only recorded the threats
of certain democrats who felt aggrieved at the
exclusion of democratic speakers from a hall
at Concordia, and the almost solid republican
vote cast by Germans against them. after
they had looked to the democratic party to
protect them from sumptuary legislation.
But all that is of the past. The living present
Is what we nave to do with-the attitude of
parties to-day; and that shows the republican
party of Missouri standing upon a submission
platform, not only if submission is asked for
by a majority of the people, but even if only
a respectable humble" of people petition for
it. The HIgginsville Post Is straight out for
submission and at heart is prohibitionist.
We have never written a line or sp Oxen a
word in favor of prohibition, and we never
expect to. We do not believe in it. We are
opposed to submission because we are OPP
posed to prohibition. OF course if q majority
Of the people desired submission 1t would be
the duty of The legislator to vote for 1t, but
we do not believe that a majority of th e peo-
pie of this county desire a state prOhibitOry
law, which they know would be inope rative
in the large cities. High license and local
option offer every chance for s~alutary reform.
As Mr.. Kist stands upon a submission state
platform he can hardly with safety cast stones
at us in regard to prohibition; or does he re-
pudIate the republican state platform? We
shall be very happy to discuss with Mr.. Kist
the position of the two parties upon the sub
Ject of prohibition.