The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-01-18
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year ago read a book
man by 4i.s name of
o is the head OF the
hristian Union of the
!. He says in that, and
all properly, There has
reform; there must be a
that reform musv proceed
pie" Now, L read that book
ow said, like a Trojon, and had
and got it and read 1T with
a few days after that / read a
oade by the celebrated Thomas
lie delivered a speech in Philadel-
nd his sentiments agreed with
fMr. Straughn. Now, Reed says,
must be a change, and there must
re a REFORM" and he said it must proceed
from the people. Well, now, when wea arr
called On 10 move the county seat and thu
stato capitol, from our past experience WI
say xhart Is the trip in that? Have we
got toi1av .sorne more7 By the by, is ther'
some aft1r.tiaps about it, as we have beer
told tfne and again the same sort o.
things. Now, cne time there was a gen
tIemunH czr14 and labored with me a half
day or 8 q. get me to vote for thu
bonds on the 11au for the old Gulf rail
road. rxat62ts6-l protested, but nov
he saws: n[hu parties will have very
little to t4Ft vi are going to do tn
most" Nor l1eIe was only argumen'
that moved si& Il wanted the railroad
badly, and sftfl 5<t rot to the voting pIac'
1 pulled nv v,,94 and held it in my hand
and l called The zttsntion of every one il
the house and says, "Here, gentlemen,
am going to vote this ticket against my
better judgment, hoping that we Will gel
the Gulf railroad, but l don't believe W
will" Now, every since;then l have beef
told, "You done 1t, you done it." Now
sir, hole that whom a man tells me GER
tain results shall follow if you do certain
things, If 1 do the certain things thai
ought to be done, they ought to follow
Have we the fortitude to listen to lying
continuously, and Misrepresentation, to
get our fellow-citizens to sanction things
we never intend to carry out. l don't
know anything about the gentleman thai
was at work with me to get me to vote.
says maybe you are and doubtless you are
honest, and l says, "No, sir; that is no
the question; you are simply engaging in
something you don't know anything
about" Now, / nave lived In the county
where we have voted on bonds and got
burnt, and / knew better than to do 1t,
and 2 told him 1 did at the time. But now
IL we could be assured that we could
escape all of the ills-now, mind you, II
we were assured we could escape all the
ills we were subjected to in Lexington by
moving the court house here, 1t would be
wisdom to do it. But il we move it here,
IL / be allowed to use the expression, ''all
of them devils would follow right down
here. tCheers.)
can't think OF anything else, We will
not put it that way; they are much worse
than devils. But / don't mean to say there
is not just as good people in Lexington as
anywhere, but here, gentlemen, they have
a territory and chance, but l don't
know but what / would be just like them,
IL / were in their place and got a chance
tn be and be protected. But l am pro-
tected and consequently / am poor and of
no account. And when / a. talked or
tried to say something for Lexington,
why they just set right down on me. And
when we had paid, / think three years
taxes on that Gulf railroad taxes, and /
was In the committee and one of the COM
mittee, that was sent in TO request the
county court to hold that money. Now
this was township money, the bonds OF
Lexington, Washington and Sni-a-bar,
and we requested them to hold that
money until they were told what to do
with it, aud they said they would do It,,
and a while after that from what ! seen, l
thought that money was getting in a
Stacking condition, and just as
the celebrated gentleman was taking his
want to kind of whip the devil
the stump in saying this-I said:
will you be SO good as to tell US what has
OF that money collected on the old
Gulf railroad bonds? Oh, no sir, ! know
nothing about that, the judge says, says
ne, 1 can't tell you, and he jumped up and
Men are all of the time running in
,ere and asking impertinent questions
lbout those bonds of that railroad. Now
] am taxed on Gulf railroads, l now
Iay, ] think / have q right to ask about 1t.
there was some gentleman
around and started to ask him about
t and l said you need not do il 1 have my
.enses; that money is gone; that money is
rome. And it was gone. and we, the people,
lever knew where it went to. Now, gen.
I expect I ain wearing your
~,atience out, but / will quit now in just a
ew minutes. Now, here is what 1 want
nd 1 hin it will give general satisfsc-
ion to every body. If you will assure us
we would have a better state OF
fairs, by The removal of the county seat
rom there to here, n that We would
ever have to pay anything extra, and
hen II you would want and respect the
interests OF the people, and not go to
things for individuals.
Mr.. JOHN aLADIsH TALKS.
Mr.. John Gladdish was called for and
10 said:
81 think | can be heard just as well here
n what little / have to tell, and it does
Iot matter where 1 speak from. the house
} full. 1 had not expected 1 would be
BILE TO be here today and 1 did not come
o make a speech, and l did not expect to
e called on either. As 1 have been
pouting and talked out there l will be
cry brief il it. l don't really know
the object of the meeting is.
Of course 1t Is in connection with
his county seat war which is upon Us,
nd think of course IL is q thing very
,uch to be regretted; but at the same
line I don't see how HigginsVIlle is TO do
nything else except accept the issue for
said to a friend a few days g that said,
Yes, sir; il Lexington has gone to work
a the quiet and raised twelve or fifteen
dollars to repair its court house
nd put 1t In good trim that Higginsville
,ould have been out, and they ought to
aue agreed to that" In tact { don't
mink the country people were ready to
this proposition npon them, or
lat any of the people OF the county are
ready or in a hurry te spring this
roposition upon the county at this time,
or would it have been done il it had not
cen put in action by those Interested in
10 county court in this renovating and
as it is understood to be, in
IA new court hous in Lexington.
0 far as that is, what 1 have to say i say,
,at Lexington. whatever else they may
", peapla who are opposed TO this moge
can't = say that H~igginsville
.arted this move or precipitated this
eht, Ali we have to do is to accept The 8