The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-06-16

| Ell, mere was ulllt ~ hNef '"
on the night before, and saturday morning
lounl the ronds muddy and heavy black
clouds towering in the south, with %o"d pros
poets for more rain. Nevertheless many
persons went from here, some going III b"g-
gies and others by railroad. An inteiiIgeh-
Ger report er had the pleasure OF making the
trip with Mr.. X. A. Hick lin, in his buggy,
and had a fine opportunity 10 take Il look al
the growing crops on the road. To condense
"A long story, we will say that the corn looks
~ well as usual, all being clean and OF good
color. The wheat Is excellent, anu III the
vicinity of Odessa is ~ good ~ ever grew
anywhere. II is of uniform height, large
head, thick on the grouud. stands perfectly
and will harvest not less than 40 bushels per
acre. This il good enough, even for grand Old
Lafayette county.
We reached The picnic grounds, half a mile
north OF Odessa, at Il little after twelve
O'Clock, and began to look out for dinner, as
Mr.. IiickIin was hungry. The reporter Is
accustomed to missing one or two meals a
day, and was not suffering, though prepared
to accommodate IL liberal store of ratiOns II any
should be found. We had the good fortune
to fall IN with Capt. Newton Henry, and had
the honor to dine with his family, In compa-
ny with Coy. MOrehOuse and quite a compa-
ny of invited guests. To say that the dinner
was on elegant one il only telling the strict
truth. In addition to the customary picnic
good things, there was ice cream and u liberal
variety of most excellent cakes.
Dinner over. the people renewed old ac-
quaintances and formed many new ones; the
brass band played its choicest selections; the
guns doomed; the hre-cracker added Its
? vicious snap to the uprOar, while the "Flying
! Dutchmen" grOaned in their efforts TO amuse
the boys and girls who patrOniZed them.
Some of the boys pitched rings at knives,
aud others ierked their arms nearly out OF
Joint throwing II baseball at the 'nigger
babies.' Odessa is a temperance town, and
we saw but few persons who were under
the influence" but the 'milk shake" stand
and lemonade stand were well patrOnized.
The great event was the speeches, and at 9
o'clock Hon. Chas. L.. Ewing, chairman, in
troduced Hon. Edward Il. Taylor, of Kansas
City, u son of Samuel +. Taylor, formerly of
Freedom township, in this county. MIR. Tay-
lOr is a candidate for congress, and made o
speech three fourths of an hour in length, his
chief topic being the tariff issue, though he
touched ON all other important subjects. His
speech was very well delivered and well re-
ceived, and he de demonstrated that he is sound
in his views and unusually we'll posted on
the question. He promised to DO all in his
power to elect the nominee of the democratic
party for congress, whether he secured the
prize himself or not. He paid a handsome
tribute to Cleveland and Thurman.
After a selection by the band, Mr.. Ewing
introduced Gov. Morehouse, who stated that
he had been speaking from one to three times
II day for the past ten days, and had not had
a good nights rest in all that time: that his
voice was worn out, and he would only speak
briefly. He paid q tribute to Jefferson, the
greatest man OF his time, "a man raised up by
the Lord especially for that emergency" He
said that the platform of democracy to-day
was nearly the same as It was one hundred
years ago. He touched upon the tariff ques-
ton, and said that the railroad Question de-
manded investigation. He scored the cattle
pool and other pools; gave u blow at trusts
and Combines" aud put in heavy work on
the grain elevators. He said the grain of the
farmer WIS graded into the elevators as No.
3 AMI graded out rs No. 2, and the elevators
made millions in thus ''prOtecting'' the farm
er. He wanted II grain inspector appointed
by the state who would give the farmer u fair
show. He said that he would recommend to
the next legislature the passage of q law
sbolishing grain gambling or buying and sell
Ing what u man has not. He compared Mis-
souri,. under democratic rule, TO Illinois and
Iowa, under republican rule, and showed
that while Illinois lost in taxable wealth.
Missouri had gained rapidly; that It had II
better and more economical government THAI
either Iowa or Illinois. His speech lasted
three-fOurths of an hour, when he had to quit
on account OF failure of his voice.
The band interspersed lively music between
the speeches, and gave the people q chance
to relax their minds for a few minutes. Ii
was then announced that all the county can
didates would be allowed ten minutes each,
and many were present and availed them
selves of the opportunity to present their
claims. We cannot speak Of the merits OF
any of the speeches. but will say that, con
sidering the embarrassing situation of hav.
Ing such Il limited time, they all did well, and
some greatly surprised the crowd by the
vigor and eloquence displayed. The speak
ers were: r.. A. Hicklin, e. H.. Oliver,
Clarence Vivion, w. Is. Wilson, |. w. WHIT
sett, DIR. Chapman, Judge Harrison. Il. ID.
Bledsoe JIG. Worthington, Travis Buford
aud r. ID. Smith.
The crowd was u very attentive one, and
there were about $500 persons present. The
best Of order was maintained. and the whole
affair was n most successful aud pleasant one