St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-10-25
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4 friend has Just handed us a lettcl
which he picked up in the street, ncal
the postoflicc ; and, it being unsealcd
we venture to give it Il place in oul
colnmns-copying it rsrbatim, spelto'
tim, ac.-ED. lSrELLrGEScER.
St. Charles sitty October 81.
Deer Pect--T'vc ben thinking bou,
riting to you and now hav some news
tn rite. Ycw now our lection is com
in off fore long and we have sum co
and town o~fiscrs tn be lcctcd. ! take
CRATE interest in politicks and thar is
some 4 or 5 more SIGH. Wall we 60,
together some time ago and talked
matters over and made up our minds
who we wanted for co clerk and 9th
or offisers and when the corkus wus
held we wus rcddy with our men and
gut all the delegates. We cum nifty
ny loosiug wun ov the best ov 'cm by
thing with wun we didn't want and
WINS afraid we should loose him for he
ti-id agin-but we FINELY lectcd him.
I'll tell yew how we managed in the
rest ov the county-wc sent wun NV
our best men CHATS mc) into sum nv
the towns, and he see 2 or 4 Nv his
trends and gut them tcw hav a corkus
and make such delegates as we want
ed, and hav wun cast the hui vote il
the rest want thar, and we see sun
NV our trends in other towns and
had them git up a corkus and<bc APP
pintcd delegates, and we gut it all
fixed rite except over west among the
Rocks where thar was Is who didn't
want our man-but had more'n tcw
thurds and beet 'cm tu-day. and we
think we did fust rate
Then last mite we had n nuthcr cor
kus to nominate town ofliscrs, and we
ment tcw manage it rite agin, but
tilay found us ont and we lost some
men we wanted lcctcd aud thay gut
some we didn't waut-but we're goin
tew manage the thing rite next year.
we are going TO lect Linkon yew
no, and wan nv lie will have the post
oihS-and we mean tcw try tew git
wun NV us appiutcd united States mar
shul, and then thar is n lot nv state
and County ~oifiscrs to be lccted next
year and we mean tcw begin in see
sun, and we will try tcw have wun NV
the smartcst Ov us nominated for rep
.rcscntativ tcw dcMoin and we will
all the state and County oftiscs
SO that we can manage en-. we think
our co. Clerk can manage the Board
supervisors sets on and if tina don't
dew about rite we'll help him tip 'em
Otf-and our town Clerk will manage
the trustees and schulz ~ofliscrs
gut the co. Cummitty as we
want 'enr, all away from this place,
ycw must know that the west
side is the strongest and the saint
Charles foxes are not st many as the
west side nv the co. and if we can
keep rite with them we'll make it
work rite smart. thar want q vote
II the convention for a saint Charles
nan and thay haint gut none Nv the
committy-and we've gut a
strong committy cause we mado tew
III wuns and added um tcw the old
:ommitty who war lectcd fur life
ycw mussunt say a word about
his Poet because thar is only a few
" us in the scckrit and eff it gut out
we manage I'm fraid the people
try tcw manage it themselves
IS some ov EN- did last mite and then
We shouldn't git to congress or deMoin
tell yew Poet the corkus sistem
S sum-thats SO =! nuns the wurd,
good hy-lm in a hurry tew go
way this from your deer trend
JACK