The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1891-01-31
WHAT THE EDITORS ARE SAYING
some Pertinent Points from the
missouri Pencil Pushers.

The Columbia Herald congresses a
great deal in small space when it
says:-
The law should be enforced without
unnecessary severity or harshness bnt
firmly, vigorously and persisteniIy.
No honest man will object to this
No dishonest man should be permitted
TO do so.
There is great deal OF practical fact
in the following from the SelaIia
GaZettc:--
The people don't care copper
whether the silver dollar is worth sew
enty cents or eighty cents as silver.
What they want Is the imprint OF the
eagle and "E pluribus unum" and
they'll take it at one hundred cents.
Notwithstanding the fact that Jay
Gould is said to be very religious, The
Stockton Journal makes this assault on
him.
IL is claimed that Jay Gould makes
81 800 a day, and yet he is not satisfied.
He doubtless wants the whole earth
and deed of trust on eternal life. 1t
is not astonishing that many American
people are on the point of starvation.
The Slater Rustler has this to say of
the two gentlemen who represent
Saline comfy IN the general assembly {:
The second district of Saline is
proud of the recognition of its yOnng
representative in the general assembly.
| He has been made chairman of the com
mitee on banks and banking, and also q
member of the committee on municipal
corporations. Hon. Abrsm Nefi of the
first district, has been placed ON the
committee TO look after benevolent ami
scientific institutions.
Editor Hyde, OF the st. Joseph Bal
lot, never fails to hit the nail on the
head when he goes for it. Speaking ol
the election of Gov. Hill, of New York
TO the United States senate, he says
The election of Gov. Hill to the
senate to succeed MIR. Evarts was not
unexpected. 1t is to be hoped that his
selection will put stop to any further
remarks by the republican press az tC
the rivalry of Cleveland and Hill fol
the presidency. New York Will now
present solid, unanimous and har.
monious Cleveland delegation, backeC
10y the same from Pennsylvania. New
,Iersey aud Connecticut,
Discussing a very delicate subject tot
st. Louis Post-Dispatch Sc ss:-
The defaulting treasurer of Arkansa
seems TO be the victim of bad method
prevailing in the politics OF his state
Instead of protiling by his loans o
state money and running away, a
Treasurer Burke, of Louisiana, did, will
the proceeds of theft or embeZzlement
he has impoverished himself and viii
probably be made to feel the severit,
of the law. A system which makes tn
illicit use of public money possible
object brings treasury rings into nomi
mating conventions and subjects
treasurer to machine pulls which eve'
honest men are not always strong
enough TO resist.
Ii is evident from the tone of tn
following from the Sedalia Gazette tha
some one has been making All effort t.
"collar its editor
} Politicians who think paper shoul
! stand by party managers regardless {
} their actions need not count Oh tn
Gazette. 1t Is built on different pal
tern. Democratic principles will liv
long after the present would be part
bosses have been forgotten snd th
Gazette has chronicled their retiremer
to private life aud then their leave
, taking of this mundane sphere. Br
while they do last, let them not thin
the Gazette indebted in the least to th
3 favOrs of men who are but servants {
. the people-not directors of method
= nor policies.