The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-02-01

SLuOuuU pTOpOSCu anu TO c6DGnu II certain
sum OF money to repair the court building
down here has endangered the interests of
the people Mt Higsinsville ia getting tho
county seat down there. Higginsville
then undertakes to get up a remonstrance
and hold these people who are spending
that money, and IL tlpey do spend is the
show for getting the court hous sc ut HlgEins.
Vile is gone. And now the people All over
this county hear of these things and what IS
the results Why here one man tells you
hisiside of the story and the other man tells
you his .ide, AID they are conflicting
questions. and they make each side look as
fairly as they can and they bias the people
either for it or against it one or the other.
Then there is q bitterness that arises then
between the two factions. This is mans
nature and we are all in t.. And the people
get up in these meetings and remoDstrate
like they do here today and the first thiI z
we know some one is villifying ana abusing
somebody for something done I'm Lexington.
or for something done in Higginsville. This
is all wrong. gentleman. This is NIL wrong.
All OF the talk and all of these matters
ought to be from a reasonable stand point
but we are not very conservative when we
do wrong though. L want to say tkts. and 1
want it to be understood that 1 have never
tknCu Onc " klobc phDCIb vi oE dHuluSI Any
removal OF the county seat between Hig-
giusviile and Lexington. have been solely
o. the fence and acting and steering cleur of
all of that because 1 saw it was Il question
that effected not only H~igginsville and Lex
ington. but she tax payers all around over
this county, ,Ad the people don't take the
time to inform themselves about IL and are
drawn into n thing and give expression
about what they will do II the thing Is sub
mitted to them. This Is all wrong. l want
to say this. I want to be understood, these
people at Lexington down here have been
spending in the last year. and efforts have
been made in order that they may spend,
thousands and thousands of Collars to build
mp what? To build up Lexington ofcourse.
Why say they have. what ever builds up
builds up the whole county; we
ought 10 understand these things. Lexing-
ton hSs subscribed one hundred and nifty
iLousana dollars TO build a bridge across
the Missouri river. ana they have accom-
plished their purpose In so far as / dnder-
stand. and that matter Is AN assured thing.
In addition TO that she has secured her
lights. She has a fine system Of
waterworks, ana she Is building up costly
and has y fine opera house, and 1
understand that she school last year,-the
SOhCiuOCo anu ueIeF
mined TO spend fifty thousand dollars in
building ft up. We have u town We ought
to be proud of in Lexington as a people.
Now it issiust as natural right here. after
looking at that matter. it is just.as natural,
AZ It Is to take a drink OF water
when you are thirsty, for the people OF
Lexington to looR around them at the
county eonrt buildings and sec the condition
they are in. seeing that they have this spirit
OF Improvements I'm their midst. and building
up the town, and ft is necessary for them &c
look around about and see this court house
building here and that they are not In
harmony in their looks with she balance OF
their buildings in their county and the people
to see TO It. But you have pat in here u
certain amount of money over the county,
the actual assessment. you cant use the
current expense in the county, and you cant
transfer to any other fund. Therefore the
law says that we snaIl keep these buildings
in repair. and we propose now as the money
is here that we will expend this money in
repairing these court buildings. Now. geIc
tlemen. the court have offended Il great
many men by saying that we will spend the
full amount OF money that is on hand. Now
Is a question that 1 am not prepared to
express niyseif on. because l don't know
about what the amount of repairs TINT the
court house needs, but l hear, and this
Is the way that Il Is proposed in these
TO get up such An opposition
the action of the court, befo.e they
shall have q committee appointed to go
and get some explanation and inves.
t~igation, or wait until after the court ex-
perts have investigated the amount of or the
or the repnirs that the court room
needs. ana then LEI them speak. IL IL possf |
Die. ms I understand it. that the court Will
,ot spend more than twenty-five hundr.d
,ollars. and IL it fs necessary to spead more
han that I'm order .o keen I'll, builafn0 I'm a
proper G, nattion. why they would be com.
RELIED TO spend that amount of monev.
Iictivene.s being Gorsen mp over this mat
Let "a iook q. IL rom a reasonable anu
ensioie standpoint. n point out the JUS
Ice to these men. We hear a man that gets
p on the noor. and they will viliify and
buse the county judges. G~eptlsmen. it is a
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