The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1867-01-10

citizen of Cedar county, and eminently
capable of taking care Of himself In any
controversy. He lives on the same side
of the river occupied by the above nam-
ed gentlemen, who have constantly ig-
nored the fact that there were other peo-
pie besides themselves to be accommo-
dated on that side of the river. Some OF
the people on both sides of the river are
foolish enough to think that perhaps al
the local interests Of Cedar county are
not concentrated in these four men,
Some people are ignorant enough to
suppose that the interests of the people
on the west side of the river do not de-
mand 4 bridge at Covers Ferry, and in
support of their superstition they bring
the following facts: There are three
whole townships besides small portion
of Cass on the other side Of the river. In
those three townships, at the last cleo
ton, the vote stood 10 for . bridge 1t
Covers Ferry, and $40 against such .
bridge. That portion of Cass township
west of the river would increase the vote
on that side to about SO in favor Of the
bridge. Now because we did not advo-
cate the local interests Of SO voters con-
trary to those Of $40 voters, these gentle
men have seen fit to withdraw their pat
ronage. Now, gentlemen, we have no
claims OH your patronage, and II you
only give that patronage on the condi-
ton that we devote ourselves entirely to
your if,t4reata. we don't -ar4-t yvar 1nts
ronaga Y The paper can probably get
along Us well without you as you can
without the paper. You have declared
that in the future you will be governed
by selfish motives. We hope we may
never be controlled by such motives. II
the paper can advance the interests OF
your locality without doing damage to
the public, interest, it will 10 so. Your
Supervisor has brought the bridge qucs-
ton before the Beard of Supervisors
again, and the columns of the paper will
be open to you as to others. Your course
need not influence ours. Besides we
have q number of subscribers in your
vicinity who look at the matter more
literally and who should not suffer from
your conduct.
> You say Tax Payers article Influenced
the election, and that said article con-
tanned errors but you only point to one
error, which is a typographical error,
and which any man capable Of under
standing the article would know to be
such, for It afterwards ellumerates the
appropriations showing that they
amounted to $500 instead of $75,OOO.-
The error was afterwards corrected. But
the great trouble seem s to tie that we did
not tell your Supervisor who Tax Payer
was. We are not in the habit of giving
the names Of our contributors unless
they authorize US to do SO. When your
Supervisor asked us for the name of Tax
Payer" 1--WE were charitable enough to
think his error in SO doing arose more
from want of thought than from want
Of mOdesty. ....-.........
Yourstatcmcnt about printing and dis;
tributing tickets is incorrect. The truth
is as follows: When the Republicans OF
Pioneer township sent in their township
ticket, they directed that the county
tickets sent to them should be printed
For q bridge at Covers Ferry BY a
mistake there were printed Of these
tickets $50 more than Were ordered
lhis surplus Of tickets iii favor Of the
bridge was sent to Cass and Linn town
ships. The remainder ofthe tickets were
printed "Bridge at Covers Ferry -
leaving the voters to insert "Forn or
Against So the only mistake made
was made il favor OF the bridge. The
vote of the county stood 7S9 for, and
l,SGG against the bridge.
We convinced year Supervisor that
the tickets, which you say were printed
! f,N,, nsx 4 - -
cts of 1865, when the question WAS taken
AS the names of both localities commence
ed with G, the tickets were properly print
ed. Your Supervisor acknowledged that
you were mistaken yet did not correct
the mistake though he had time to do So
Did he desire TO do SO?
We would like to see the evidence you
propose to introduce to show that we
have opposed your interest for so long as
you state. Such evidence might be in
teresting.
: We are in favor Of bridging the river,
SO are majority of the voters of the
county; but they want it bridged where
they have said they wantedit.
You talk about the bridge in connec-
ton with politics. We have nothing to
say about the Democratic tickets for we
had nothing to do with them. We sup
pose the Democrats voted against the
bridge because they wanted to do so.-
But why did your Supervisor in labor
ed speech, last Tuesday, before the Board,
state that fyour local interests were not
satisfied you would disregard political
ties? Does this account for Gass town.
ship going Democratic last fall? Is it 50
that his professions Of loyalty and pat
riotism have been mere pretense for
the purpose Of carrying your bridge on
the back of the Republican party? Have
we been mistaken in him? Will he
sacrifice principle for local interest:
Let us wait and see. Why did he make
unjust filings at the friends of tho Sol
diers' Monument" He did not do him.
self credit i'll his Tuesday, speech, and
some friend Of his ought to tell him SO
MARRIED.-On the Sth inst, by Rev.
James Challen, at his study, Charles G.
Scott and Miss Linde NJ Rumsey; all of
Davenport, Iowa.
1GG Ingman has resigned the Of