The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1866-01-11

teered by the editor of the Telegroga, to
that class of citizen. be styles =" whisky
men, We rather CUES. this great moral
reformer had better take his own pre-
own pepper. and then he can the more
readily perform q like surgical operation
on his neighbors. To class all the sup
porters of Mr.. FIsLEz with those who
are in favor of whisky selling and wills
Ky drinking, is simply false. Not less
than $50 as good temperance men as we
have in the city, voted for the old Mayor
other reasons governed them i'm their
choice-the question Of whisky and anti
whisky was not thought of by them-it
was the attempt by clique to throw out
Of office an old and faithful public SER
want, that prompted them to support him
nothing more nor less. ana the editor
of the Telegram is entirely too fast to
heap approbrium upon them for exer-
cising the right Of suffrage as they
thought best, without first consulting
him 1,
According to the Ieiegrorn's own show
ing, when trying to prove there was a
regular organized whisky movement or
foot at the last election, in the case Of
Mr.. KIRS, the vote received by his op-
ponent, would indicate the whisky
strength in the city, which is 3s7 be
cause he AYERS that when Mr. X refused
to sign the pledge the whisky men
wanted him to, they put the name of
another candidate en- their tickets and
tried hard to elect him, but rdiled " The
vote, therefore, that Mr.. KIRS received,
must, by the same mode Of reasoning,
which is 57l Viewing it thus, the
bloody war announced by our neishbor,
that he has determined tie wage, has only
an imaginary existence-the battle has
already been fought and won, according
to the editors own showing We only
regret that the champion of our city's
morals. should not have had an opr,or
tunity to lead the onslaught against the
whisky men, in this instance; but
the temperance host OF Richmond were
not aware that they had SO yalorous
leader-they voted for PETER p kIRN,
just as they did for john FINLEY, from
a sense of duty and gratitude, and if any
" whisky meR were persuaded to do
so, too, it shows that they have done an
act worthy of praise, and in the name.
of Mcssrs. FINLEY and KIRN, we thank
them for their humanity and Kindness
But, hereafter, we have the promise Of
witnessing feats of unparalleled valor in
the person OF the editor of the Telegram.
We can imagine we see the redoubtable
editor, armed like his illust1ious prede-
cessor, Don Quixotte, with a dinner pot
on his head for 4 helmet, and n huge
cheese knife in his hand, for lance.
charging the whisky men, ;" and shout
ing his slogan: War to the knife and
the knife TO the hilt " We opine that
the devil himself couldn't stand tilt
like unto this, especially when be com
bines with his hostile demonstration the
threatened abors of the mi ssionary. and /
make the whisky men aforesaid, real |
lie the fact that there is still God in |
Israel How our neighbor can do this !
latter thing, when he himself has never |
been brought to that " realization. " will !
be wonder. The spirit of Sampson
may assist him. We trust he'll come |
out more than conqueror in the fight
particularly In the missionary work, and |
that, in converting the heafhen he may |
experience change himself of heart and |