North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-15
Correspondence.
CoRoNER's OrrcE,
ELKADER, Sept. llth, 1869.

| ELKADER, Sept. 18th, 1869.
| FRIEND ToMPKIN's: 81 have been wait
ing very impatiently several weeks for yo
to fulfil your promise Of "raisjng the tai
of the Republican Ticket suppose
that you and had fair undcrstandin,
on that point and that you were to hav
the patronage Of the Coroner's Office
Had you done so it would have enable,
us candidates to 60 before the people an,
challenge the Democrats and Labor Unior
folks to conduct the canvass on principle
and to go for measures" and not fo
'men," we could then say, "Our cat ha.
the longest tail"
Surprising you would do as you agreed
| issued challenge to my opponent fo1
Coroner, John p. Kriebs, to stump the
County but what do you suppose the
odious cuss did He demanded my ere.
dentials and wanted to know what evil
dence could furnish that was the Re-
publican Candidate for Coroner. | refer
red hin. to the late Republican Conven>
ton, but he said she could not see it -
'that our organ had not hoisted my
name" was astonished at this informa-
ton and at once sent "the Mcndicant'' to
McGregor with orders to bring me, at the
risk of his life, a copy of the "Nacs.
On his return l Immediately employed
Ss'the Elkadcr Post Office Committee to
look up the ticket, but they got into Pete
Young's back Office and tried to find it in
denijohn; of course they failed. l
then summoned Coroner's Jury, three
good and lawful men, to sit on the paper
and bring in their verdict, which was as
follows: "We, the ~Coroner's Jury, do
solemnly find that so far as supporting the
Republican Ticket is concerned, that the
Editor Of the "MeGregor Ne.cs" is dead
and ought to be inferred and thus rcstor-
cd to his natural element.
Witness cur -.
Now my old friend, according to our
agreement. land as this is one Of the
emolaments of my ofiee), you are entitled
to publish this verdict and charge it to the
said Coroner's Jury and s'the Mendicant"
will collect i. for You, at keeps"
Mr., Editor, would like to have seen
my opponent preside over such Coro-
ner's Jury, if he coull. In the language
of the Poet be would hare "nade an ass
Of himself" ls sit on an Editor! Ne
sir 1t would take bigger ass than my
TO sit on the Editor of the Me-
Oregon Sc,rs. know that the ambitious
rascal aspires to this distiction. But Mr..
Editor, if you vii fulfil your promise and
raise 'the tail, of our ticket Ill beat the
fellow out of sight.
| expect the other Candidates will envy
NE when they see my name up and theirs
left out in the cold.
Well, they ought to have known better
han to have got into Resolution No. -
L kicks up higher than Dan Rice's train
d Mule. They can't ride i, nohow.
let them turn tail to: let them re-
,udiate; let them substitute. Mr.. Editor.
ant you let them down easy? their
of conscience are awful. l /
leard one of them soliloquizing the other
light, qnotins that well-known line out
f Caesar, 81 saw il" 81 hoped on to
IT, ''and here am.' lie referred, of
course, to Resolution No. .: The strain
IN these fellows is awful, and unless you t
ct them up there will be another Coro-
er's jury, and more cmoluments of this
flee for you to gobble up. Well,
,abblc away old fellow; it's high time
hese ''Mendicants'' and all these other
elbows with the hard names you call them,
'crc taught their p's and as. They will
uin the party if they try to palm off
heir resolutions on Republican Conyen,
ions.
send youths by "Grape Vine Tele-
,raph," so that it woat get into the pa
crs, for see that you and Mr.. Allison
re leaking out your secrets, and unless
ou dry up, it will be my painful duty, as
'oroncr, to sitsrh that leak.
Yours,
CoRoNERICALLY.
p. S. shall watch and so will all
our friends, to see if next weeks Nc
'regor Nems has got the tail "raised ut it's
ead.'