The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1902-03-29
COUNTY JUDGE.
We are authorized TO announce
MEREDITH THOMAS
"Down Upon Your Knees

OO"u OpOh iVui hICCS.
Lafayette county politicians played
a queer game Of politics when they
turned their backs on Saline and took
a hand in defeating the best nan the
seventh district ever had in congress.
There will come a day Of reckoning
and if Lafayette don't get on her
knees and beg Saline for mercy Wen
miss our ss.-Saline County In
dex.
She Saline county editor who penn
ed the above paragraph has certainly
become intoxicated with that hated
imperialism which is being dished out
at Washington by President Roose-
welt S so-called republican ~administra-
tion. Accrediting to his county the
distinction Of inyincibleness he talks
with the sang froid of the car Of
Russia about sovereign democrats
of other counties getting down on
their knees to him.
Now, for the ~edifcation Of this ego
tistic newspaper writer and the die
tatorial county in which he resides
and for which he assumes to speak,
we humbly though with p%oSitiveness
assert that the Lafayette county de-
mocracy is not habituated to going
down on its knees. The democracy of
this county is sovereign unto itself
and will be loath to bow in humilia-
tion at the dictate of its foolishly an
gered neighbor. We may demand
justice, but we will never beg for it.
Do you understand, Mt. Index?
This ugly fling at the democracy of
Lafayette county comes in poor grace
from a newspaper in Saline. In SO
far as lies in the power Of Lafayette
to give, if Saline has not succeeded in
grabbing the earth, with a down-hill
pull, then we see Through glasses
dimly. Will the imperialistic editor
Of the Index inform us why it is that
he is not satisfied with that which has
been given unto him by Lafayette?
Will he point to us any favor that has
been extended to this county by Sa-
line? We are anxious to hear what
he may say on this subject.
Perhaps he will refer to the fact
that for a long time Lafayette was
the home of both the circuit and the
criminal Judge True. But Pettis
was in this circuit then, was it not?
Since Saline and Lafayette were
placed in a circuit to themselve s-one,
by the way, that many taxpayers
think decidedly too small for both a
circuit and a criminal court-Saline
has swallowed the whole thing with
out 50 much as "thank YOU Her
capacious NAV opened and took in at
one gulp judges, court stenographer
and all, and she has set herself about
the task Of finding more morsels Of
public o%ficialdom to gorge down her
rayenous throat. And to say nay is
to commit the objectionable sin.
"You have dared to disagree with us
and Wen make you go down on your
knees is the mandate Of the mailed
knight Of Saline's imperial democracy.
What sin has Lafayette committed
to bring down upon its head this
whitening, blighting wrath that will
know no softening until this county
''gets down upon it knees, - to its as
sumo lord and master? Had not
Lafayette county the right to cast its
vote in the Sedalia convention for G.
w. Hamlin? Is the Importance OF
Saline SO pronounced that it must
naturally o%yershadow the democracy
Of adjoining counties, and when they,
perchance, revolt at being thus shack
led do they become guilty Of t%reasonf
Would our ambitious neighbor deny
Lafayette county the right to speak
for itself in choosing a man to repre-,
sent this people in congress? Is the
autonomy Of the Lafayette county de.
mocracy to be destroyed and are~wC
TO become a part and parcel Of Sa
line, and governed Thereby, in tn,
matter Of naming public officials,
And if perchance this proposal-im
piled, at least--to absorb us graf,
harshly on the feelings Of the Lafay
cite county democracy is that bod
TO be made Ego down upon it's knees
TO this political Simon Lagree dow
IN Saline and the people for whom h
essays to speak. Our neighb0r sboul,
be careful lest his own wrath con
sume him. Verify, he talks NOR
like a spoiled child than a sensible
journalist.