The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-01-18

very active fiEhtsr, but in this case, ]
will tell You what + nm, 1 am in with this
people of HigginsvIlle and the people
along this road body breaches and bank
account, (cheers) especially bank account
because there is no cashier of a bank tina
can tell you that it is in the red
(Cheers) I have every reason to believ,
that 1T is best for this town and best fol
this people aud best for Lexington thst
this thing should be settled now anC
finally. (Cheers.) Practically it is tbs
sentiment that hangs about every propo.
sition that disqualifies the people for th,
time being from attending to theil
necessary avocations. 1t is the reason
why every poor year the excitement con
nected with the presidential election
makes the dull times. makes uniformly
times dull the country over. h has go
to be fought to- a finish, and now is tn,
best time, because after the thing IL
finished we will settle down and know
what else to do and what to attend to
Now If the people of Higginsville car
raise sixty thousand dollars, which
doubt without a great deal of help
because we are not the richest people In
the world. Most of us came here a few
years G and we have had opposition
continuously, and we ave been laughed
at and told we did not mount to any
thing n that we lever could grow and
that we never could prosper, we were toe
close to Lexington. (Cries.-Who says it.
don't know, but we have not got rich
very fast; some of us have invested in
thin0a that Qra mt uarU nrOafaIIa
whether 1t has been business, carpet.
bagging or speculation. (How about
raising onions.) And business has not
been very fair, and we are hoping to GET
to the place where God Almighty intend
ed for the capital to be, the best county in
b state, and for that reason the county
seat was intended to be at HigginsvilIe,
(Cheers) That court house will keep
floating around n falling about and
never know where to settle until it gets
here. (Cheers.) Now il the people OF
this town will get one here with heavy
corners and paving stone the devils from
the internal regions could not move 1t,
and 1t will stay here for a year and q day
where the people are prosperous and
happy. 1 said nee In an grafton at the
commencement at college to a large class
of young men, l said young men, every
mans fate has to be hammered on the
hard anvil of adversely, keep you heads
clear and your arms strong and hammer,
hammer, hammer unceasing, hammer to
the end of your days II you would prosper
and be happy. Well, the same thing
applies to and the city of Higgins
vile. If ever built it has got to be done
on the streets of Higginsville and with
your help; and II this town prospers and
MAKE a town that we are proud of and
that you are proud of we have got to
hammer her fate out on the anvil OF
adversely. We have got to keep our arms
strong and our heads DOL and clear, and
hammer, hammer, hammer to the end of
time, to hammer out our destiny that old
Missouri may be proud of from center to
circumference. (Cheers.) We have got
the confederate home here; 1 am not
thirty years g / did not do much for
the confederates; but we got it here
because we had the grit to buy and pay
for 1t, and we paid more thar anybody
else in the state; and we told them we
had as healthful a place as anybody
else in the state, and because we worked
for 1t and paid for it. IfHigginsville gets
the court house or takes the county seat
we will shape things up. and we move
things right we do-it will be because We
paid for 1t; that is the reason we will get
it. Now II we do ever buy it and get it, If
we are fortunate enough 9 70 that we will
make up the amount of that sixty
Thousand dollars, to get your court house,
you all can all be proud of her.
And for making it convenient we wanted
this branch court here. 1t has been made
profitable, and it has been much more
for you people in this part of
the county to come here than up there to
Now, in reference to this APP
I want to say just a word. 1
don't believe that the court had the right
to do what they did, and ! believe that
the citizens have a right, to some extent,
1t any rate, to be incensed by hat affair.
It does look to me almost like the county
court has the right and the power, and IL
hey don't they used to do 1t, to keep every
building belonging to the county in
proper repair, and l have no doubt that the
court house needs repairs-I am sure IL
SO badly as 1t did ten or twelve
Years ago, when ! did go'there, when they
not Ike the eight by ten glass yet
Tut of the windows. l am confident IL is
too large, and / am confident that
he furniture is none too expensive, be-
cause l agreed to bet one Thousand and
dollars one night at the opera house
n Odessa, that o might take every bit
u furniture out OF that court room, not
wen excepting the little table they keep
he witness in by, against that wall, and
I It was all put outside on ths public
Iquare, and put up at auction, it would
lot bring ten dollars. No doubt they
iced proper repairs, and all that kind of
hing, but l don't believe that this people
8 ready aud have made up their minds to
% taxed to build q new court house, ga
100 worth at q time. And il we begin and
make additions and build new "L's" and
tut in steam aud lights and heat a all
II these kinds q Fittings, there Is no tell
% this court house. l don't think they
would stop as long as they have room in
hat court house square,, and / am not
ure but that they would take the old bat
lie grounds over there, thet they are so
n 1rSna Of G' ;h aaG uH %tSs s g ses. q. ana I Ss aiDs anna
rope to build Que taere that would cost
he same amount OF money or more money
han that they had over in McCoupin, ILL.,,
hat cost about two and q half millions of
lOlldIb anu Lhab OAoA0 bho county, duQ IL |
las been broke ever since. Therefore,
gain, and II l get too much Ia earnest
bout this thing, and supporting 1t and
to it and about moving this
curt house, 1t is my fault and not any
lay and pay all ] subscribe. / don't know,
nd I may subscribe to what they lack, /
know; l don't subscribe yet; I may
lave to take a new head, because his
resolution is sixty thousand dollars.
think our committee set their idea
,retty high; / think forty thousand dol
ars would have built a better court house
han they have over there. / am ia favor
the resolution. / thank you for your
given me In mRking these i'm
'erfect remarks when brought up here.
thought when you called for me up here,
thought IL was a job, and did not expect
ghen ! came up here to have to maxi a
peech, and If l had l would not have
any more preparation n 1 had, and
don't expect I would make any better
peech than ] have II i had made prepare
Ions, because the boys say that l can
ways talk some kind Of fool talk, any
ow, whenever they call ON me. aud SOY !
hat l am always loaded. {Cheers-l /
now me. In 1BS2afteen years ago-how
ing has 10 baen since 1880? [Cries-hfteen
eafs.l When fist came here, in 1880, !
hey called me . Yankee and q carpet ,
ana q great many ugly names, and
ohm blackwell has not quit doing 1t yet, )
nd | don't reckon he ever will; but then, {
ohm and l are good friends. he is a :
obie fellow, but he gets wise. He is wise; :
g Is wise as wise can be; good fellow, :