The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-07-25
THE REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET.

Editor of the Intelligencer.
The following editorial Endorsement of
the republican county ticket appeared in
the Advance of July II.
1.-The ticket is regarded as an unusually
strong one. 1t will command the respect
OF every voter in the county"
1t is possible that the republican ticket
twill command the respect of all who
personally know them, but how many of
the voters know them, Mr.. James, Mr..
Powell and Mr.. Downs excepted? Even
the gentlemen named are but little known
TO the mass of the voters of the county.
The republican party has men who have
a somewhat intimate acquaintance with
the people by their repeated defeat. But
these sly Observation-Disclosures, Scott,
Downs, ct al.-unloaded the honors of
coming defeat upon the unsuspecting
Teutons, some of whom, if elected, would
not know what to do with the elephant.
The Advance has been clamoring for a
"change" in the county officials for many
years. Well, Mr.. Kleinschmidt and his
Advance will see a change this time,
"sure pop" The following will be the
change:
DIR. Bates will succeed MIR. Catron for
collector. Joe CrIsty will succeed MIR.
Ferguson for representative. John FuIk-
erson will succeed Zach Wright for
sheriff. Glenn Bledsoe will succeed Lee
billiard for treasurer. Clarence Vivion
will succeed Mr.. Aull for prosecuting
attorney. DR.. Mann will be coroner. In
the matter of county judges there will be
no change. 1 am sorry to inform Mr..
Kleinschmidt hat Judge McCausland,
the county clerk, the circuit clerk,
the probate Judge and recorder hold over
for some two years yet. The two asso.
ciate judges of the county court, MIR.
Chamblin and Mr.. Chinn, will succeed
themselves.
So it will be seen that the G. o. p. stands
no show for the pie counter in Lafayette
county in this day of grace, 1896.
But suppose, for arguments sake, that
the republican party should be again en-
trusted with the government of his
county and state. What good could the
people of the county and state expect to
accrue to them. Did not the republican
party rule this state and county for seven
or eight years with the rod OF tyranny
and oppression? Did they not squnder
thc pEOPcIty u InS SItIe ana Gne county,
right and left-so much so as to cause the
state to become a hiss and a by-word with
all men who had any regard for decency
and honesty? Has not the republican
party, nationally, "pressed down upon
the brow of labor" for the last thirty
years a crown" of trusts, high tariff,
railroad thefts, public land steals, whisky
rings, "Credit Mobilers," by the aid of
it's bedraggled and corrupted politicians.
And now comes the browning infamy,
the sum of all villainies of the closing
years of the nineteenth century,. In their
platform at st. Louis they now propose
to "crucify mankind upon a crown of
gold"
Are the people of Lafayette county, the
people of the state, the people of the
United States, ready to uphold the candi-
dates OF the republican party anywhere,
at any time, or at any place, with their
votes? If they do they deserve to have
"Pressed down upon their brows a crown
of thorns," and to be "crucified" by the
jeers and taunts of mankind.
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