The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1871-12-15
CRHsco Dec. IL, 1871.

the last Issue OF TIE Howard COunty
Tfmss an early settler in this county
came into Mr.. Wright's Office and
took up the Times and read tho edi-
torial on "A New Paper" and quiz
city laid it down and said, "No man
is fit to edit newspaper who allows
his father to repose in an unmarked
grave" Mr.. Editor that is solid
and humane remark to all candid
men understanding the force of the
reference. Mr.. Editor let it be now
and here said once for oil, that that
editorial starts off by uttering an
absolute and unmitigated falsebood
having no foundation in truth or in
fact outside Of the low. vile, and
senseless brain Of the editor of the
Times.
When the editor of the Times talks
about enemies it is we'll known that
he has in fact only one enemy on
earth and that man is W. N. Bur-
dick.
The only shadow of a pretenso for
that editorial was a conversation At
Mr.. Wright's Office few days ago,
between several gentlemen on the
subject of the general business inter-
ests Of the county when some one
remarked that the business interests
of the county and Of the Republican
party would be promoted by the es-
Enlistment of a Republican news
paper under the control Of an able
man like Mix. or Clyde of the Mitch
ell county News. To that remark
Mr.. Davies said Il will give $lOO,
and Mr.. A. D. Wright said be would
give 800. The Cresco elevator did
not come in. The north side I Of
Market street manages its own af-
fairs and wisely allows the south side
to do the same thing and kind rela-
tions and good neighborhood exists
on both sides of that street, and that
Mr.. Wright or any member Of bis
household arc interfering or attempt
ing to interfere with the business or
patronage of the Times, are only the
product Of editorial jealousy and
folly. Mr.. Wright controls his own
newspaper patronage and allows
other people to do SO. On the sub.
ject of interfering with other peoples
business l have only to say, when
Mr.. Wright and the members of his
family have not business enough Of
their own to attend to and commence
to interfere with other peoples bust
ness, "God have mercy on thsm,"
and if the editor of the Times would
attend to his own business at home
and not traverse the country the
year round as q dead Beat" he
would not be constantly whining for
want of patronage. The editor of
the Times says he will fight a new
paper until he spends his last cent.
1.-THE records of the county, and
common rumor speak truly. it will
not be long road to travel without
a fight with anybody. No two men
in Howard county would be more
gratified to see the Howard County
Times an able, sensible and we'll
conducted sheet than A. D. Wright
and Isaac A. Gates; but while its
editorials are of the kind which dis
missed the Rev. j. W. Windsor.
promulgating the in6delity Of it's
editor, and an open cold insult not
only to Mr.. Windsor religious faith,
but also to tho religious faith of the
Baptist, Methodist, Episcopalian,
Catholic, and Congregational church
es Of Cresco. Again it is proper to
refer to the insult offered to the tax
p ayers protest by the editorial ofthe
editor of the Howard County Times,
prefacing its publication. and ask
that professed friend of the farmers.
what response proposed reforms, re-
reducing expenses. and reducing the
number Of county officers, and re-
storing the business now done at the
county seats. to the towns, and to
allow the taxes to be collected in the
towns. have received from him and
his Times. -......e. :.
The columns of the Times on these
subjects, vital to the interests of the
taxpayers, are derogatory to human.
ity and disgrac cful to the last degree,
but not less 80 than bis editorials
during his "dead beat" journeyings,
and after his return home, which
wers and stillare demoralizing, and
wholly unfit for publication, being an
account of dead beat" dissipation;
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