The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-05-09

EDITORIAL CONTENT.
Eleven patriotic democratic states
men are scrambling for one poor little
Office down in Saline county.
1t will now be In order for the Jtal-
ian premier to stand on his hind legs
and spin around on his ear again.
Having exonerated the men who
killed the Mafiaists, the New Orleans
grand jury has indicted seven of the
jurymen for bribery.
Some of Missouri's Shylocks are
kicking at the new 8 per cent interest
law. This is Il sign that the law is n
good and ought to have been
passed.
The iNTELLIGENCER just wants to
say this to the state supreme court
You cannot, gentlemen, appoint q man
who will make you a better clerk than
Capt. Jake Conner.
1t is to be hoped that the county
court will do all il can to foster and
promote the cause of good roads in the
county. This is an issue over which
there should be no division.
In time of peace prepare for a
The democratic party does not need
any leagues now, but they will come
in mighty handy next year, and it's
time to be calling the boys in.
A blighting freeze whizzed over Con-
necticut Monday night killing many
small fruits. The wooden nutmeg
crop, however, was not injured. Effect
on shoe-peg oats not reported.
Barbarians have no use for good
roads, but as people become more civ
ilized the more they feel the want of
first-class thoroughfares. Good roads
and civilization go hand in hand.
Our treaty stipulations with Italy
guarantee the same rights to American
lied Italians that are enjoyed by native
born citizens, and one of these is to be
promptly suppressed unless he behaves
himself.
The supreme court, of Nebraska, has
decided that Governor-elect Boyd was
not a citizen of the state, therefore not
elegihle to Office, and the governor re-
tires from the position he had earned
without a murmur.
At last the state has brought En-
treasurer holland to trial. Possibly
this means that the men who aided
holland in his stealings have at last
gotten their tracks sufficiently cOver
ed to defy detection.
The republicans carried Hannibal
the other day and are very jubilant over
their success. In the condition the re-
publican party finds itself in Missouri,
it would jubilate over the carrying of
an ordinary crossroads grocery store.
Cleveland and Francis as the democratic
presidential ticket is fast becoming more
and more popular all over the Bnited
States. How could this ticket be strength
ened.-Mexico Ledger.
Simply by having Cleveland declare
for the free coinage of silver.
Just wait until all debts are payable
in gold or national bank notes, and
the latter are largely drawn in, that
the purchasing power of the dollar
may be increased still another so per
cent, and then you will see hard times.
1t will be seen by reference to the
annual tax levy that the county court
has reduced the levy for county pur-
poses from so to 40 cents, on the
800 valuation. These little items
look small but they help amazingly
when tax paying time m around.
1.-The report of the grand-jury~ investi-
lting the New Orleans lynching,'' says
g St. Louis Post Dispatch, "contains
Iborate indictments of all persons in
lived in the case except the lynch
o.s." Which was doubtless the correct
position to take.
There is q death struggle in the
democratic party in Ohio between the
Campbell and anti Campbell factions.
Why will men make fools of them
selves, when, ever with the party united
and enthusiastic, the question of carry
ing the state is i'm serious doubtp
You can buy the INTELLIGENCER and
the Kansas City Weekly Star one year
for one dollar and seventy-five (S1.75)
cents. This is a great bargain. Every
man in Lafayette county knows what
the INTELLIGENCER is; and though the
Star is Independent in politics, it is as
a ginger snap hot from the oven, and
an all round good take.
The two eyes in the United States
which are e~ndeavoring to look furthest
into the dense political future which
%confronts them are those of Jas. G.
Blaine. What do they seeP-Jefferson
City Tribune.
Possibly the figure of Mrs. Blaine
preparing to retire, with a big red petit
coat tied around her head to keep off
la grippe.
A lively state campaign is in pros
pect in New York. Many laws and
reforms asked for by Gov. Hill and the
people and advocated by the democrat
ic members of the general assembly
have been successfully opposed by the
republicans, and the democrats will
stand upon the record they have made,
and hold the opposition to theirs. After
the results of New York's great battle
are known will be a good time to be-
gin ~forecasting the campaign of 1892.
The INTELLIGENCER. under It's new
management, has no feuds, no quarrels,
no settlements TO make. 1t is bound
to nobody, its mission is not to down
somebody. Between the people of
Lafayette county it knows no distinc-
ton. 1t desires to subserve the inter-
ests of all, and promote rs well as it
can the material welfare of the county.
If there are any factional quarrels here
between the friends of different men it
is supremely happy to be out of all
such, and shall be very careful to not
get in. 1t has no enemies to punish.
1t has no special friends to reward. 1t
is neither given to toadyism nor dispos-
ed to carping criticism.
The New Orleans grand-jury, which
for the part six weeks, has been inves-
tigating the lynching of the Mafiaists on
the 18th of March, made its report
Tuesday. The report was q most
elaborate one, the jury seeming to have
sifted the matter through and through.
AS was to have been expected the re-
mort faila IN indict any of thp ayacu.