The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-09-09

eWWe have received from Mr.. s.
N. CAN'T the following note, with the
request to publish. 1t is in answer to
an article which appeared in this paper
last week, noticing the publication by
the Jackson Patriot of an article writ
ten by S. N. CAN'T for the National
Democrat, and signed Jefferson" <
To the Editors Of the Cass County Republican:
GENrs-1n your last issue you say I avow daily
in the streets that am true blue locofoco -
Who told you so ? Do you not assert false
hood think you do. No party has any claims
times for John Doe and then for Richard Roe, and
l am generally cheated in both: so don't think
have any confidence in party. But if you have, il
is none OF my business; and think it is none o.
your business what my views are on any subject
Sept. 9th, 1858. 80 - sic SIS ef'i q
BY reference to the above, it will be
seen that the writer does not deny the
authorship. of the article in question
which is equivalent to an admission
that he did write it. But he does take
exception to being called a "true blue
locofoco," and puts the interrogation Of
"who told you SOP" We unhesitat
ingly answer, S. N. CAN'T. If he has
not said in SO many words that he was
locofoco, in spirit and in deed, he has
intimated it time and again. He also
published Card last spring, stating
over his own signature that he was q
Douglas Democrat. We know nc
difference between Douglas democrats
and those of any other stripe. But
perhaps, after all, We were mistaken.
1t may be that Mr.. Gantt's attempt to
defeat the Republican candidates last
spring meant nothing; that his attempt
to form new party in this county,
assisted by Geo. B. Turner, Joel III.
Smith, and D. Blackman, editor of the
National Democrat, and others we
could name, having for its object the
overthrow of the Republican party this
fall, meant nothing; and such express
sions as, 81 am sorry Wisner is nomi.
nated-sce would rather have had
Wells" (meaning by "ace" the Demo-
cratic party;) SAGE will lay om the
County ticket this fall y "who shall
ere run against Waldron;" =" zee admire
Douglas, not because he took ground
with the Republicans on the Kansas
matter, but because ace believe the prin-
ciple of Popular Sovereignty to be
right, and zee desire to see it carried
into effect" &c, DC. We do not know
as such expressions have any meaning.
but we rather think it shows plainly
that Mr.. CAN'T has stronger affinity
for locofocoism than for any other
creed of politics. es -
But he says: "No party has any
claims on me-" and, II have been cheat
ed by BOTH In this belief we have
no doubt he is honest, for we have
somewhere heard that, although the
Democrats valued his services highly
enough to give him an office, yet il
somehow "came up among the miss
ing" and he concluded to leave the
"party for the party's goods" and
though he has been " waiting an6
Watching" and watching and wait
ing" for some office-no matter what
ever since he joined the Republican
ranks, yet it appears they neyerfappre
ciated his talents in the least. When
he says T" he has no confidence in par.
ty," we believe it comes from his heart
But Mr.. CAN'T must remember that Re.
publics are ungrateful." The closing
sentence of the note we think decidedly
rich. Why, Mr.. CAN'T, we never init
mated that "your views" were any OF
our business. 1t is something we be-
lieve no man has any right to interfere
or NEEDLE with. But when a political
aspirant publishes false statement in
regard to the Republican party-a
statement which every honest man
knows to be false in every particular,
and which has been nailed as false
hood time and again-at the same
time protesting to be a Republican, we
shall ever deem it our privilege, and
consider it our bounden duty to lay be-
fore our readers the facts in the case,
to the best of our ability, no matter
upon whose toes we may happen to
tread. - i. f.'--.-...r - ,e-.-
With these few remarks we drop the
subject, begging our readers pardon
for introducing it into our columns,
believing that our friends have suffi=
cient confidence in us to know that we
never should have done so, but for the
fact that the article was being copied
into Locofoco papers throughout the
State-for political capital-they claim
ing that it was written by Republican
of Cass county. 81 hiss ".v7Ell
Republicans Attend! 81 s
We would call attention of the Re-