The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-02-24

would be delightful state q affairs
Unfortunately, there will occasionally
appear on the surface of the political
cauldron evideSces of want of harmo-
ny, and proper degree of personal re-
spect for each other on the part of the
Reput lican leaders.
The little tha, has already been said,
relative to the next Republ can nina
ton for congress.in this district, has
developed an unexpected amount Ct
personnel rivalry jealousy aud hatred.
In Fact, it only needed stirring Of the
political elements to raise such stencil
that the leaders were glad to drop the
subject
While looking through our exchanses
the past week we took occasion to clip
the opinions which FIVE radical editors,
within radius of forty miles from
Plymouth, have Of each other These
opinions seem to be spontaneous efu
sions, and doubtless express the true
sentiments Of those by whom they are
entertained. The first is from the La
porte Herald, and in the extract from
the TJdette, may be found Bro. CUR
SEY's opinion of = Ye Gentle Ru be, of
the hdtanictn. The Herald says:
The Valparaiso Tidette. of the 10th
inst, under the unique caption Of ''Ye
Gentle Ru- be, RACES against Gen. Will
Jams in the following choice and pol
ishad English
1T seems that that singular compound
having too much brains for a monkey, and
too little decency for man, who presides
over ths columns of the Northern Iaitdnidn.
knowing that We did not receive his sheet,
INDUCES 10 the fullest extent, his passion
for dirty writing. directing the overfowing
streams Of bic filth toward the editor Of the
I-;9ette.''
We shall not stop to inquire whether
the above language is comcly i'll a
preacher Of righteousness, and col
lege president; but we submit that the
author is hardly in a condition to re-
buke others for blacKguardism" and
low personalities We begin to fear
that Bro. Quincy himself is +" singular
compound" of saint and sinner, and we
beseech him to strive, as much as in
him lies, to put aside tn strong and
growing filthlness Of the flesh.
There is no difficulty about under
standing this.
Next We give Bro. GURSEY's opin-
ion of the hired popinjay" of the Her
aid:
"LAcK OF W.T."
We took occasion many weeks ago.
20 announce our objections, general and
special, TO mass convention, and to
possible nominations to be made by such
convention. We made no personal al
iusions to any one any where Stree
that article, NJ issue of the Iaporte
HsraH has appeared which has not
contained personal attacks upon the ed
itor Of this paper. We have not men
toned the name Of Mr.. Powell, the ed
itor-in-chief Of that paper, for whom VIC
entertain the kindest feelings, except in
a complimentary manner nor have we
at any time alluded to the hired popin-
Jay, whose lack Of wit" to answer an
argument has forced him to the use of
the low personal filings which continual
y disgrace the columns over which he
presides.
REUB WILLIAMS opinion OF CUR
Me- Is so much ike GURNEY's opinion
Of REUB., that it is not necessary to in
clude it here.
Next is the opinion of the pigmy of
the Marshall County Republican of his
co-worker in the interests Of God
and morality" the Rochester Spy man
We omit such portions of the article as
haze no personal illusions:
The Spy continues: 1.-The rebuke
does not set well on the tongue Of an ed
itor who feared to speak Of the crime
un,il he was forced to his duty by the
Indignation of his readers" That would
sound better, coming from an editor who
lid not get his office and house rent free
Cor defending in his columns two assas-
sins who had attempted TO commit muir
der-and one OF them, aid the princi-
pal one, too, seducer himself--so sta
ted the attorney for the prosecution in
open court; and we must believe him,
- .te accused would sue for damage in
a SANDER suit A sweet-scented stink is
that Spy man to talk about duty to
others. We think the Spy is engaged
in deceitful and dirty business, in
abusing the REPUBLICAN and the
whole town of Plymouth. The article
would have more force if written by
some other editor, and one whose office
IL not overrun with drunken rabble
quite 80 much.
This is rather better than We supposed
the etfeminate young man capable OF.
But this kind of business is just to BILL
MATTINGLY' hand; and in the last
number of the SPY he sails into his adj
yersary in the following touching style:
The blacksmith" who run the Ply
mouth Republican, have had their bel
lows and forge employed all week in
getting up reply 10 our charge that
that sheet feared to speak of Wheel,r's
crime, until forced to do so by public
sentiment To break the force of the
statement they charge all manner of
meanness on us and even include our
associates in their trade. Ifthey know