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The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-02-21
WHAT THE GOVERNORS THINK.

Yesterday mornings Cincinnati En-
quirer publishes dispatches from demo-
cratic governors in response to tele-
graphic requests for their opinions of
ex-President Cleveland's stand on the
silver question.
Governor Campbell of Ohio says
ST commend the frankness and posi-
~tiveness with which Mr.. Cleveland ex-
presses himself"
Governor Eagles of Arkansas says
81 believe that Cleveland's position on
the silver question will defeat him for
the democratic nomination in 1892"
Governor Pennoyer of Oregon says:
"The great masses of the democratic
party in the United Stated favor the
free coinage of silver. Mr.. Cleveland
opposes It. Mahomet rufuses to come
to the mountain, and it is absolutely
certain that the mountain will not &c
to Mahomet."
Governor Fleming of West Virgins
says: "No fault a be found with
Cleveland's courage of conviction,
I do not think West Virginia Is with
him on the silver question"
Governor Peck of Wisconsin says
81 consider Mr. Cleveland's position
on the silver question sound"
Governor Boyd of Nebraska says
..It may cost him the presidency ii
1892, but 1 doubt it. I admire The
man because of his consistency. HI
has the courage Of his convictions"
Governor Winans of Michigan says
az consider Mr.. Cleveland's silvel
letter as equivalent to declining thu
democratic nomination for the presi
dency."
Governor Tilman Of South Caroline
says: .Mr. Cleveland's letter does ant
ought to take him out of the field as
democratic candidate for president
The alliance cannot and will not, il
my judgment, support Mr.. CLEVELAND
or any other man as long as his finan
cial policy is in sympathy with Wal
street and in the interest of eastern
capitalists and monopolists.n
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-02-21
AN EXPERTS VIEWS.

Mr.. W. p. st. John, the President
of the Mercantile National bank of New
York, a man who seems to have given
much study to the monetary situation,
has written a letter controvertiug the
arguments of the single standard
champions, when they claim that the
passage of the Vest free coinage bill
will result in flooding this country with
silver from Europe.
Mr.. st. John takes Mir. Windows
figures as II basis for his argument.
BY those he learns that the total
amount of silver bullion in Europe is
SI,IOO. 600. GOO, Sl2S,O 900, 600 of which
constitute a portion Of the reserves of
the great banks of that continent.
..Im contemplating Europo's silver
SAYS MIR. st. John, W. have not to
deal with bullion nor with market
'spricr. Excepting her production OF
.sabuut onc-half the amount her arts
.'consumc, Europe's only silver is her
s.silvcr money. Its relation to gold iii
.scoin is at 49, of silver a. equivalent
.'to / of gold, while Il equivalent is
ssIj-9SS to | that is, for her gold
s.cQuiyalcnt of our mint unit 1922
S.grainS gold, Europc's valuation of
"'silver appoints 559.91 grains. Com
''pared in price her coin valuation Of
"silyer is, therefore 1873 cents against
.sOur 1919 cents per fine ounce. That is,
sour standard silver dollar would
"recoin into 103.05 cents of her stand
card; and 100 cents of hers would
'srecoin into but $685. cents of our
''standard silver.
Hence Mr.. St. John concludes it
would cost the bankers of Europe
933, 0O0, 900, besides the expense OF
shipping, to send their silver to the
United States to have it recoined into
our standard silver dollars. The idea
that they would do so is simply pre-
posterous. Yet 1t has been through
the most arrogant preposterosities Gt
the term be admissible) that the pluto
Gratis of the east have held dominion
over the people of the west.
Let us hope that the rule of the
tyrant is nearing its end. Free silver
coinage will unrivet the shackles and
break the chains.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-02-21

The INTELLIGENCER favOrs the print
ing of the state laws, that is, the laws
to be made; but when that is done it
should be done at q minimum expense
and so rs to reach all the people. Not
w~ithstanding the bill now before the
state legislature is favored by many
people and many papers, and notwith-
standing the expense of publishing the
laws under the bill would not be one
tenth what it has been represented,
still the price fixed is too much. More
over, there should be no chance for
any commissioner or official to select
such papers as they might see fit as
mediums for the advertisement.
Such a law would soon result in
jobbery and corruption. If a bill to
publish the laws is passed the secretary
of state should be authorized to send
to each bonafide newspaper in the
state q copy of the laws with the privi-
lege OF publishing, at a fixed price not
to exceed an amount 10 per cent above
actual cost to publisher.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-02-21
SHERMAN.
General Sherman is dead. :"

General Sherman Is
Such was the message that vent
singing sadly along the quivering telc-
graph wires last Saturday, until every
hamlet, village and city in the union
rang with the cry:
General Sherman is dead"
There are people in this union who
hold the name of William Tecumseh
Sherman in the highest reverence.
There are others, who until the man
was better known held him in the bit
terest execration. But death has come
now and all that was bad in the soldier
is forgotten, and wen they who were
bruised and crushed and ruined by his
victorious legions, will yield a need of
praise for qualities of character that
were noble and brilliant.
If in war Sherman was Il thunder
bolt, and if his marches acrOss the
fair southland were marked by desolated
fields and burned towns and villages,
he was true to his convictions of right
and he became as illustrious rs n
private citizen as he had been relentless
and renowned in war.
There was this about Sherman:
With Grant he declared that the terms
of surrender by which the armies of
Lee, Johnston, Maurey and Smith laid
down their arms should be maintained
inviolate by the authorities at Washing
ton.
Stanton, all meanness, all cruelty,
all vindictiveness and with no soul,
desired to break the terms, but Grant
and Sherman said 'sNo?n and so long
as they remained at the head of the
volunteers armies, the politicians at
Washington dared not to oppose them.
The truth is, Grant and Sherman
knew the metal of the people they had
been fighting. Men of courage admire
brave adversaries, and those two could
not but hold in high esteem the ragged
veterans of the south, who with such
unparalleled valor had so long bafled
their skill and defeated their maturest
plans, only to surrender when reduced
to 81 mere handful of half-starved men.
Admiration for their bravery, and SYM
pathy fss their condition appealed to
their sense of justice, and liberal Terms
OF. surrender were granted.
The politician looked on in wonder
and amazement. They saw entire
armies surrendered one day, paroled
the next and in less than q week resum-
ing their places at the plow handle, at
the forge, at the bar, in their count
ing houses, and they were astounded.
..These people are dangerous" they
said. They are not humbled. Their
pride is not broken. They have been
let off too easy. We must harry them /;
we must bring them to their knees.
Then Grant and Sherman said ''No!
The terms we made, the promises we
gave shall be maintained inviolate.n
And that is one of the reasons why
even in Georgia, where the scars OF
.sSherman's march to the sea- are yet
to be seen, a sigh of sorrow and regret
went forth when the quivering tele'
graph wires sang:
ssGeneral Sherman is dead
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-02-21

Free silver coinage will surely come,
sooner or later. The battle for it has
been fought and won. 1t is true a
tyrannical speaker of the house and,
perhaps, q defiant president stand in
the way, and deny TO the people the
fruits of the victory; but, for all this, it
is true hat the battle has been fought
and won-and the fruits of it will come
in due time-if not under this adminis-
t%ration, then under the next. And the
fighters and winners of the battle have
been the democrats in congress. They
have stood as a campact and almost
unbrokcn body in favor of the measure,
while the republicans have stood as a
compact and almost unbroken body
against it. If this congress were
democratic, instead of republican, the
country would have free silver coinage
to-day-and the only reason why they
do not have it to-day is that the present
congress is republican and not demo
cratic.-St. Joseph Ballot.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-02-21
He Col One.

At one of the tin-typc galleries the
other day q gentleman who was in
waiting noticed u hoy about 10 years
old hanging around the door, and he
beckoned him in and asked what was
wanted.
could I get q picture here?" wills,
pered the lad.
"Why, yes"
GLOW muchn it COST"
"Only a quarter. You'll be next
'.But it isn't for me, sir; its q picture
of my brother jim"
"Oh, hat won't make any difference.
Bring him in any time
"~I-I-can't, sir!" gasped the boy
"Why?"
cause he's dead, sir; died thi.
morning."
Upon investigation the boy was founC
TO be possessed Of only II cents ant
after ascertaining that his statements
were true the gentleman paid tn,
expense of sending the artist up with
his camera and securing two full dozer
tln-types of the palc-faced dead lying
III q house where cold and hunger hello
places almost as members of the family
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-02-21
pie honor or truth; no moral stamina,

pln honor. or trufh. no moral stamina
- II '"Io ~ P''"i' 7"o" "e''''i '''"'''
W 20 '"l'"'A'"' 'l',' ''' Pi,,'l.
s1'i'' ''' ~ '''S"' una. " p'''''o''
$3.50
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"9 'i''"S" >'o"i''' ~ ,""'H' p'"''.''
-""H' ~ '''''E H'"'" VI VIZ ''''"'
sncceas il cyerythino and p~atriotic
motive m,atinao that il mot,ers mot bv.
what means sncccss is obtained so if is
reached? Is snch teaching safe? Then
~ sure rs q rotten core prasarrs
tbe dcotb of fine free. so surely is this
government doomed to an carly and a
violent death.
Corruption in politics is not new.
But what is our boosted civilization
worth if we cannot get away from it.
Why waste money to build churches,
why employ ministers of the gospel to
expound the laws of Moses, and the
principles taught by the divine Christ
if as soon as we leave the house of God
we begin schemcing to dishonesty
secure II political advantage over Il
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-02-21
HONESTY IN POLITICS,

1.-The publication of politics is an
iridescent dream" says one of the most
brainy and brilliant politicians of the
period.
Is it!
The writer, who has ever entertained
a conviction exactly to the reverse, is
not willing to accept such a declaration
as a truth. To do so is to lose one OF
the most cherished hopes that has been
an incentive to political labor.
A dream is but q vision of the fancy,
O baseless fabric created in the mint
when judgment is asleep and the
sober senses stepped in st%upefaction
An iridescent dream would only be
modification of the ordinary article
one with added colors, beautiful tc
behold, but as fragile, rs deceptive, a
unreal as the other.
Politics is the science of government
To say that honesty in this science is
only an irridescent dream, is to say
that in the politician there is 10 integri
ty; in the people no fidelity to princi'
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-02-21
SMITH Bros.
South side franklin Avenue
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
STATE OF MISSOURI,
COUNTY OF LAFAYETTE
In the Circuit Court of said county, In vaca.
ton, February 9th, A. D., 1891.
Helen Rowlett'
ps. Divorce.
John Rowiett,
NOW at ihis day, IN vacation, comes the said
~ plaintiff, Heirn Rowleft, b. her attorney,
and II ~ p' airing TO the said clerk that said
defendant has n6sconhed from h S usual place
III 'b0de, IL is ortei c / by The clerk oil this court
that pub'Ication he made ag .InsI said defendant.
John hewlett, as iollows, to-wit:
To the said deItndan John Rowlett.
You are hereby notified that said plaiDtiH'
has commenced u suit against you IN said Circuit
c"nrt by petition. the object and general
nature oil which Is to OF tain a divorce from ihp
you on the grounds oil hsbiIual drunkenness
and for the Care and custody of her two miami
children. Lester and Madeline
And you are further notified that unlpss YOU
be and appear Mt the next r. gular term OF
inc circuit court, of said county, to be begun
ma heid ut The courthouse, IN the city Of
Lexington, on the 0 b day OF April next, 1891,
and on or before the. third day thereof, If In.
term shall so long continue, and If not, ther
before the end OF said term, and answer said
petition, the same will be taken rs confessed
And it IS further ordered thai q copy hereof bs
published in the Lexington Weekly IntelIIgen.
Ger, Il newspaper printed in said county OF La.
fayette, for four weeks successive, ly. I'M
last insertion TO he atleast four weeks before mi
commencement ofthe uextterm of this court.
a true copy. Attest;
rv us,run,s G; L. EWING; clerk.
II. c. Wallace. Jr., attorney for pluiniia.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-02-21
InatiOn and not participants

This is the fifth week Of the soma
torial struggle in Illinois. There has
been no election yet, and may not be
for some time to colhe. 1t is in vain
the democrats have implored the F. NJ.
3. A. members to come out of the
woods and vote for Palmer, and just as
futile have been the trapsetting of the
republicans to so bring them in for
Oglesby. Despairing OF electing the
latter they dropped him and have had a
dozen candidates, but to n purpose.
The democrats wont break, the i. NJ.
B. AS wont come, and each ballot has
n very wearisome resemblance to the
proceeding one.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-02-21

The most regrettable thing that has
happonsd in the Newspaper work of late
is the failure of the st. Joe Ballot,
edited and owned by William Hyde.
Nj. Hyde deserved to succeed, for he
was making q good paper of the Ballot,
ast he Esas capable of doing. Mr.. Hyde
was for many years editor-in-chief of the
81. Loais Republican and no paper In
the wsst was more ably edited than ii
VS.. Dir. Hyde win probably feturr
to- st. Louis.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-02-21

The bill to confer upon women the
right to vote and hold Office received
only sixty-one votes in the Kansas
House Tuesday. This lacks two of
being a constitutional majority and
the bill was lost. 1t is perhaps well
that it was. While upon a mere ques-
ton of right, woman would be entitled
to the exercise of the privilege OF
franchise, it would not be best for
woman that she should exercise it,
Politics and Office seeking ought not to
De corrupting, but they are, and ii
should he our aim to keep Il mothers
wives and sisters free from the con.
tamination and not participants,
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-02-21
A Card.

The Lexington Ferry company and Pom
toon Bridge company having compromised
their differences, the citizens of Licking
ton and travelling public can now be as
sured OF certain connections with the
great Santa Fe route for all trains both for
passengers and freights. Remember this
is the only road that gives the city of Lex
ington four daily passenger trains, with
close connections for Chicago and the
east; also to Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado,
Utah, New Mexico and California. Cheap
est rates and tho best of train service.
For information on passenger or freight
rates call at city ticket office, corner 9th
and Main strests. JOHN TAUDMAN,
Agent
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-02-21

Henri Watterson was asked the
question the other day:-"NNho will
the democrats nominate for president
in 1922" He said:
Il do not see how we can get
away from Cleveland. He seems to
represent the logic of the situa-
ton. His anti-silvcr letter was not
opportune. The sentiment in favor of
free coinage in the south and west is so
strong that the view he has taken of the
matter may serve to imperil his chance
for the nomination, but that is only q
possibility. / believe he will be nomi.
mated. Certainly in default of that
letter there would have been no shadow
of doubt about it."
"And if Cleveland is nominated, to
whom do you look TO take the second
place on the ticket?''
81 should think either Gov. Gray o.
Indiana or Gov. Boics of Iowa"
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-02-21

Ths longest ocean cable in the world
II that of the Eastern Telegraph COM
pany, whose system extends from
EnglAnd to India and measures 81 900
Isiles, Africa is now completely en-
asrcled by submarine cables, which
make mp altogether a length of 1900
sliles, There are eleven cables across
as North Atlantic, though moi all of
them are at present in use. Five COM
raniss control the lines of Geographic
communication between this country
and Europe.-Kate Fields Washington.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-02-21

Capt. Jake Conner, who for years
ard years so well and faithfully served
the people of Lafayette county as
recorder Of deeds, is a candidate for
clerk of the state supreme court, a
position he is most eminently qualified
tY flls The INTELLIGENCE doesn 'tknow
who will be Capt. Conner's opponent
Id this race, but this it does know, the
supreme court cannot find in all the
state LII sounder democrat, a more
rourteous gentleman or a more faithful
iaborsr than he,
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-02-21

II Che q~uid-nuncs of the Missouri
press will just '.cheese their racket
about candidates for governor, the
IsTELtaaENcER promises to find them
a tna who will serve the dear people
fer nothing and save that SO, ooo
annusl salary. That is, it thinks II
can find the man. just now quite a
crop Of patriots, who are willing to
work Tor the state, free of charge, is
sprouting, and Of course any of these
would be willing to serve as governor
Oh the same terms.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-02-21

Col. Hatch, of the falmyra district,
Is spoken of as the coming man for
speaker of the lower house of the next
congress. And why not? Where in
thst body of able democrats will bt
found ono more worthy of the honor,
or better qualified to fill the proud
pcsstloa Of spsakerp By all means lei
Missouri have the speakership, and lei
Hatch ba the man.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-02-21

The New York World says that Cen
cfal Sherman was the last of the great
leaders Of the war. The World Ii
miataksn. Joe Johnston still lives, and
as CREST q leader a Sherman was
johnston was a greater, and proved his
superiority in more than n trial. Had
Johnston been in command Of IN army
equal lin equipment, numbers and re-
sources OF that Sherman led to Atlanta
Sherman would never have reached thu
EtowAh river.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-02-21

Tha: old reliable paper, the Lexing.
ton INTELLIGENcER, starts out well
under Its new management. A new
drass has been donned and the paper
Is tniics, improved in appearance. JAS.
E.SPayne, the new proprietor, is an
expsrienced newspaper man, and the
.IsTsLLIeENcER will keep up with the
march Of progress under his manage
ment.--Nevada Noticer.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-02-21

No man has fought free trade harder
than Jas. G.. Blaine. No party has OPP
posed free trade more bitterly than
the republican party, and yet in Mr..
Blalne's reciprocity scheme the country
has free trade pure and simple, and
the republican mob walks up to the
trough and drinks as obedientlyI as you
nlAkse s
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-02-21
Girls. is This SOP

A Motherly old soul named Mrs.
Gray is described in a recent number of
the Arena rs thus expressing herself
regarding Iovelorn damscls:
''Girls in love amt no use in the
whole blessed week. Sundays, in the
mornin', they're looking down the road,
cxpectin' he'll come. Sunday after
moons they can't think % nothin' else,
cause he's here. Monday they're
sleepy an kind o'drcamy and slimpsy
cause he's gone. Tuesday and We'd
nesday and Thursday they git absent
minded and begin TO look off towards
Sunday agin an NOPE arom' and let
the dishwater Git cold right under their
noses. Friday they break dishes an go
off in the best Don an SWIVEL, and look
out o the windcr. Saturday they have
queer spuTis of workin' like all p'scsscd
an spurts o f~rizzin' their hair. An
Sunday they begin it all over agin.''
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-02-21
AND SILVER.

Notwithstanding MI. Cleveland's let
ter to the New York Business Mems
Meeting was only the expression of a
private individual, it was at the same
time the ~utterance of a party leader,
M who is held by his followers in
almost worshipful reverence.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-02-21

Mr.. 5acox of Keokuk has been offered
a forty acre farm in Missouri, valued at
s4oe, for 81. He refused the offer.
This dollar in question was coined in
1856, anais n of the very first silver
dollars issued by the government. 1t is
worth more than the farm at q
nusnisnlatist's valuation.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-02-21

The Waverly Times is pushing the
establishment of q cannery at that place
with its characteristic pluck and vim.
Addressing its readers upon the subject
it says:-The cannery is the next en-
terprise under consideration and should
he pushed with Il vim. The farmers
should with one accord give their
united support to the opening of this
business. There is every incentive to
secure il. A market will be opened
for the sale of tomatoes, corn and fruit,
that viii bring ready money 10 them
and u number of girls, boys and %mcn
that will be employed in the fields and
cannery. There is no time to be lost,
if we are to have it, arrangements
should he made ut once for the plant,
and contracts made for vegetables, corn
and fruits. There are parties under
standing the business, thoroughly, who
are now figuring on a plant for this
city. Not fully understanding the
position, the Times over stated the
amoun necessary TO start in last weeks
issue. If the people want Il cannery
they can have it.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-02-21
Coming Attractions.

Manager Ryland, of Hagen's opera house,
has furnished the INTELLIaENcER with
the following bookings:
Andruss' hall circus, Feb. %, q and IS.
Casey's Troubles, March z.
George Peabody comedy company, March
10 and II.
Nashville Students, March %.
Carrie Anderson all this week.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-02-21

N, A. Jamison, in Norborne Jeffer-
sonisn 1.-THE Lexington rNrELLIGEN-
GER comes to us in a new dress this
week and Bro. Payne is as proud of it
rs a boy of a new coat.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-02-21

BY q union of Democrats and farm
er's alliance men in the South Dakotah.
A prohibltionist and preacher named
Kyle has been elected to succeed Moody
in the U, S. senate.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-02-21

Capt. Jas. L. Payne has put II new
dress ON his Lexington lNTELLIGENCER.
which has added much TO its already
neat appearance. The lNTELLIGENCER
always Il good paper, seems to
have lost nothing by its change
of managers. May it continue to
prosper.-Howard Co. Advertiser.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-02-21

The inain reason why Europe silver
would not food the United States in
case Of the free coinage of silver, is
because European nations need all the
silver they have for their own use.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-02-21

What profiteth humanity to repress
the liberties of the town goose, while
the less refined swine is permitted the
freedom of the cityp