North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-04-28
Clayton County Agricultural Society.

clayton County Agricultural Society.
Below will be found an article from the
Necs of April 18th, on NORMAN HAMrL.
TON, Esq, Secy. of the G. G. Ayr. Society
and also Mr.. Hamilton's reply. They are
published by request, and will be interesting
to our Clayton Co. readers. So far as the
TINES is referred to, in this or in any other
matter, we may say that the uniform
coarseness, falseness and righteousness OF
the News toward those connected with
this paper, and the universal social con.
tempt entertained for both editors of the
Necs, relieve us from the necessity Of
defense.
Trom the McGregor Ne,cs.
Norman Hamilton writes half a column
in the Times this week in which he makes
a special and successful effort to prove that
what we said Of his report, is true, riz,
that it is incorrect, and made up from
unreliable data. After all MIR. Hamilton
verbosity the fact remains that the Society
owes the Ne,cs Company $3.50, which
under the present management there ap-
pears to be disposition to wrong US out
Of. This sum is due US for advertising
and job work done last year, and for pre-
miums awarded ut the last Fair. Mr..
Hamilton only tells half the truth, when
he says, '"rompkins told him that the
News Company charged nothing for print
ing in the Necs the past year. Tompkins
told him the Neacs charged the Society
nothing for publishing premium lists and
premium awards the last year, which is
true. The Ne,cs will do the same thing
for the Society free, whenever it has q
gentleman for Secretary. The amount
which Norman speaks of as having sbeen
paid us last year, was due bill to Ham
ilton* and Tompkins for work done the
previous year; the Ne,cs Company has not
received cent far what it has done for
the Society last year, and under Mr..
Hamilton's management, don't expect to
receive anything.
Mr.. Hamilton charges the editor Of the
Neus with stabbing him in the dark. In
stead of stab in the dark, we made only
plain, open, simple statement Of a fact,
which fact he does not deny. Norman
Hamilton is the last man who should ac-
cuse Others, Of stabbing in the dark. Look
to your own ways Norman. The truth is,
Norman is one Of those petulant, egotisti-
cal .meddlesome, weak-mindc6 fellows who
thinks himself capable of running. not
only the Agricultural Society, but all tie
newspapers and all the farms in the coun-
ty. lie is one of those men we instinc-
lively avoid, and from whom we never
seek friendship, influence or patronage,
and what we have occasionally published
from his pen, we have published out OF
Difference to others, not because we desir-
ed his literary favors. The Copperhead
Times, which, during all the years Of its
reasonable course, was the recipient of
his favors and patronage, is the proper
receptacle of his fatulent nonsense, his
incoherent financial reports and the Pc
cuniary patronage he is able to give. The
Ners will neither publish or copy any
thing from his pen, nor do we have any
desire to participate in, or know anything
about the chickering's and quarrels he is
constantly fomenting between the friends
of the Agricultural Society. We have
done whatever we could to aid the Society,
and will do so still, but our impression is
that neither we nor anybody else can aid
it much while its chief business is handled
by Norman Hamilton. Certainly he has
no Influence with the respectable newspa
pers of the county.
Or. Hamilton, of McGregor, is a brother to Nor
MAN, and President of the News Co. We mention thi
to avoid confusion in names
NORMAN HAMILToN's REPLY.
Mr.. Tompkins has thus come
out, without just cause or provocation, anG
vented his infamous abuse upon one who
had no wish to do him harm. My owr
feelings would prompt me to pity the faller
man, and to urge upon him the danger Of
his present course of life to try and save
him from the punishment due his crimes
to forgive him, as we all hope to be for
given. But there lie time in the lives O
some men when hope ends-when forbear
ance ceases to be virtue, and justice de
mands her dues; when a long abused, Ion.
suffering public demand satisfaction for al
their wrong, and require those who woult
save them to vindicate themselves and thu
people they represent from the foul asper
sions thus cast upon them.
But now the Meas is closed against me
and also against the Agricultural Society
until they shall get gentleman" fol
Secretary. Whether the Society will try
in future to secure a man for tina. Office
that will fill Mr.. Tompkins' eye remains te
be seen. Who is this Agricultural Society
to whom the Ne,rs man thus dictates terms.
l answer: that it is, in good degree
composed of the very men who have sus-
tanned the Neus, as subscribers and adver.
tisers, aud who take and read it for the
purpose of learning about many matters
of local interest to them in the county, in
Guiding just such "reports, replies and
correspondence as r. +. now declares
they shall not see in the Ne,cs till they
come to his terms
1t may be that the Agricultural Society
has more vitality left yet than Mr.. Temp
kins imagines. They may question the
right Of this man of the quill to tyrannize
over them, and prescribe what they shall
read and what they shall not, and wha,
qualifications their officers shall possess il
they would get favors of him. A revolu-
ton or two more of the wheel OF time may
convince Mr.. Tompkins that the Society ii
as strong, healthy, vigorous and indepen
dent as the Ne,cs company, and quite al
able to dictate terms rs even "Old. Nasty
now thinks himself to be.
But Mr.. Tompkius is not, after all, thu
real man the Agricultural Society has Il