The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-12-14

in Missouri. There is no need OF
defeat II democrats will get
together and fight the party's battles.
1t is high time to lay aside all our per.
sonal animosities and 60 to work and
fight the party's battles. We a dis
cuss the issues and we can criticise the
actions of our leaders, if 1t be done in
the right motive and the right way, but
we deceive ourselves il we think for u
minute that we a carry Missouri
without thorough party organization
and active individual work.
A Card From Attorney Wallace on
Back Tax Sales.
Editor Intelllgencer:
The editor of>fhe News, not content
with enjoying a federel office, secured
to him through the influence Of local
party support IN building up his paper,
seems to imagine that he has the pre-
rogative Of debating the patronage Of
county officers also. Possessed OF an
organ for news or abuse, ct his own
pleasure, like q weak aud timid man
who carries . concealed weapon, he
Is prone to use it,as . medium Of vitn-
peration without just cause or provoca.
ton. Upon what meat has this our
Caesar fed that he has grown 90 great
as to forget his own small beginnings
and need of friends IN building up his
paper and business.
Starting out with the false assumption
that he and his paper are not only en-
titled to . part Of the advertisements Of
tax suits and of tax sales under exeeu-
ton, but that he has the additional
right Of debating the share and pro-
portion thereof which he Is to have, IN
his paper Of the 2Sth Of November,
conscious of his inability alone to CON-
mand q respectable hearing in his
unjust and gratuitous charges Of par
TALLY and favoritism against the
officers who gave out these advertise
ments for publication, he cunningly
attempts to secure the influence of the
Odessa Moon, Odessa Democrat, Hig-
gipsville Acme, Wellington Qui Vive
and Wsverly Times In his puerile
insinuations and impotent denuncia-
ton Of these officers. And then, after
his gratuitous statements, misrepre-
sentations Of facts aud false assertions
were denied. - authorized through the
columns Of the INrELLIoENCER, this
delectable editor, filled with wrath and
jealousy against the INrELLlaENcER on
account Of It's growing popularity and
prosperity, and the waning influence Of
his own paper, and maIiciously con-
and intending to injure and
defame the tax attorney, while curry
ing favor with Sheriff Wright and Col
Catron, in his so-called s'second
chapter Of the 9th instant, after fol-
and whining around Collector
Catron for days, putting up N pitiable
mouth and begging him for q large
share Of these advertisements, IN
sstalks' on the streets drew out OF him
detached aud disconnected remarks,
deeming himself armed and equipped
for the accomplishment of his unworthy
purpose, he then in betrayal OF the can-
hdenoe Rlwsys supposed to be implied
in private conversations among gentle
mon, rushes into the columns Of his
organ again, and in a long, rambling
and senseless communication, prints
these conversations with Judge Catron,
his own coloring thereto, to
accomplish his evident purpose Of try
ing to produce an alienation between
Collector Catron and the tax attorney,
and thereby SECURE, II possible, his
removal, 20 a. to get someone else in
the position whom he could contrel in
awarding these advertisements. Some
Of these alleged statements purporting
to eminate from Judge Catron, notably
the statement that he (Catron) had
said to this editor, III will take the
book and mark them and pick you
good anss,,' and the purf orted state.
ment that Judge OatrOn said, "Of the
sixteen sales you have, only one Of
those I selected for you, and all but
two of them are worthless; they hWt
been changed, for I gave you good
paying ones," Judge Catron denies
that he ever made to said editor.
In this contemplate article, or SO
called sssecond chapter" in the New
af the 9th instant, it, editor also falsel!
asserts that the advertisements seleete(
for the News had been gone over AMI
changed. Prior to. the awarding o
these advertisements of sales the Ia,
attorney called OF the list for adver
tisement, and Judge Catron at tn
same time designated the paper II
which. the adVeFtissment was to h
published, and the tax attorney marke'
the name of the paper thus designated
on the margin Of the docket OF tn
judgment for taxes which had beef
then unpaid; and the clerk Of tn
court in issuing executions on thes
judgments, according to custom. wa
10 and did mark on the executions tn
nome of the paper to which eacl
Advertisement was thus awardedI an
the editor Of the News after beinI
notified by the tax attorney that the,
we're there for him, went to the clerk
0face and got them; and all those thu
designated and intended for the News
10 far as the tag attorney ~ aware
we're gwen and delivered TO its editor
The assertion that changes wer
made ia the marking OF THOSE adyeI
tiscments designated aud intended b
Judge CatrOn for the News is absC
lutely untrue and false.
The editor of the News in said secon
chapter says that ..Four of these shov
that the News has been scratched OF
and INrELLIeEECEB written, and ca
be plainly seen and made out. Will
several Of those. printed by tha INrEI
LIGENcER the word 'News' vas M
even scratched opt.n This designin
and malicious editor does not. exec!
by ignoble apd despicable %insinpatiOn'
say who made these alleged changes
So far AZ these statements or M
others contained In either of his 81
called chapters do or are intended
cast any imputation or reflection O
my private or official honesty or fide
ltS, Hepogpce them to be infamous
false and p~nwarrSnt09. The editor
the News has shown himself capable
assassinating character for his Oy
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
.Who steais ny purse steals trash
But he that 9Iches iroi8 me my good nam
Robs me ofthat which not epricbes bin
And makes ms poor indeeq.N
This whole business on the part
the editor of tbs Hswg is but apoths
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