North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-08-18

/ mas received uispatcu Ny ohArh VINE
TELEGRAPH" which he wishes published.
| WILLIAM, the subsidizer, probably did
not write it, hut the curiosities summed
up in the 'dispatch," run along so much
! in accordance with statements furnished
the public within the last few weeks, that
the missile has sound closely resembling
actual facts. This Allison fight is not ours,
but our columns arc open to those who wish
space to repel the slang which the Con-
| cressmen's servants are scattering so
freely on the characters of respectable
people:
~ have just read the particulars of the
Clayton County Republican Convention
and learned the situation there. To say
that am surprised, mortified, disappointed
and grieved is but family to express my
feelings. What can the trouble be? Last
year old Clayton County led off with an
overwhelming vote for my nomination.
| What has transpired since then to produce
such an entire change? Where are those
friends that then so nobly stood by me?
Not one of them has asked me for any APP
pointment and Of course have not
refused them. Is it possible that in your
appoint lies the secret that have so
| outraged the common sentiment of propr
ETY. that the entire people rise up with one
| voice to set their seal of condem nation to
the act? 1t is in vain you write me that
it is not the voice of the people.
I learn every town was represented in
| the convention by full delegation. Had
no friends there? Even if they had
! been drawn by lot from the mass of the
people, / should have had some Of them
/ if respectable sprinkling of the people
had been with me. Why, Mr.. Tompkins,
were you not there? It is in vain for you
to try longer to deceived me. You and
Major Drummond represented to me that
your appointment was what the people re-
CURED. The people have spoken and spo-
I ken too plain to be misunderstood. Your
assumption that they were deceived and
did not know what they were doing is too
ridiculous. Am / reduced so low in
Clayton Co. that l have no friends but
such dolts and laggards as will allow "a
strolling beggar, worthless lar to man.
! ipulate and manage coWention that is
largely in my favor. as you say :? that one
was so influential as to have il so entirely
against me? If so, may Heaven deliver
me from my friends.
No, Mr.. Tompkins as Notifying as
the fact is must admit it. You and your
friends have deceived me. You have as
sured me that your appointment was de-
sired by the citizens; that you and your
paper would be, to me, tower Of
strength; that in your County you were a
host; willed its destinies and would lay
yourself and them at my feet for the Post
| Office Appointment. have been looking
in vain for some evidence Of this, only to
see WORTHLESS Mendicant" calmly laying
me on the shelf while you are foaming in
useless rage. Have you, withyour paper,
no influence? I see you did nothing for
me till you had your appointment sure,
and then you gave me couple of tame
and silly editorials, doing me more harm
than good. In one of them you say ''the
nominations will turn entirely on the sen
atorial question: and in your letter to me-
! of the 10th, you say that they had nothing
to do with it. What produced so suddens
change? Your indiscreton is continually
making matters worse. Had you supper.
ted the candidates and approved the &C.
ton of the convention, which, by the by,
ace know to be right and just, the matter
would have, befors this time, died nat.
ural death, but you, in your frothy rage
must so manage as to keep it constantly
before the people. In one thing / must
give you credit: if you must spout, you do
well in not having any thing to say of thu
merits of the resolution the least sale
!, about that the better for US. Just throw
your filth at the delegates to the conven-
, ton. You may deceive some one into the
= belief that your personal abuse has some
E thing to do. with the question. AT leas
!, that course will do us less harm than d
, fair discussion would. So keep on throw
q ins dirt. You seem to be at home at that
and know not if you ever tried any thin;
). else. But you must exercise some discre
q ton. Recollect that when you get oul
y successful competitor too low zoe must sinl
: with him. Never bemean successful
: rival. But, in closing, charge it HON
. on you that you deceived me. You an
4 Major Drammond represented to me tina
+. your appointment would be acceptable t
the people of McGregor. From presen
), appearances it seems to me you must hay
: known better. You promised me eficien
t aid from your paper. This l have no
n received, and you are now CONSTANT.
4 doing me more harm than all my opel
. enemies. Your frothy denunciation 20
Il the convention Of your own County
your impotent rage and childish petu
n lance; your entire lack of manliness
. shows 80 plain that the thrust was, to you
n a home-thrust, and if to you, also to M
p that all future efforts will be futile t
! satisfy sensible community that the &C
ton of the convention was not just.
. Now ask you to publish one, good
!, sensible article. Take the only true an
q honest position. Say that you and a fe,
Others have deceived me, and that tn
- corrupt use of the patronage left at m
a disposal is the cause Of the political reve