The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-10-26

amount of stock subscribed to start a
paper to be known by the honorable
name of The .Stan,oood Eygress. The
paper met with the full support OF the
enterprising citizens of our town: and
to-day, if it could have had man of
ordinary honesty and ability at the
head of it, it would be the pet paper Of
this part of old Cedar county.
The former "Chief'' came to us rep
resenting himself as a man of almost
unlimited experience, having travelled
from the Atlantic to the Pacific; as
having been one of Gen. Fremont's
most intimate friends and companions
in his perilous trips to California, shar-
ing with that intrepid soldier the deli
cacy of picking mule bones; as having
seen great deal of the Mexican war,
not as a soldier, true, but as pet of
some of the notable officers of that
army. Not only this, but as the con-
fidcntial friend of great number of
eastern capitalists, and representing
some capital himself in western lands.
We, of course, felt encouraged to have
a man of So large and extensive expe-
rience, usefulness, and means, at the
head of our paper. We felt that a
graduate of Cooper's Institute must
most certainly be capable to make a
success of our paper.
We felt assured that man who had
taken such leading and prominent
part in the construction of the Ogdens
burgh and Watertown r. r. would
cause a centerii,g of some great Il. r.
enterprise at the town in which he 10
Gated
Everything run smoothly for about
the period of three months as stated in
"Tp Clarence" But about that time
we found to our sorrow and regret that
our man of such unprecedented expert
ence must be the man who run every
thing, and his opinion near the Omnip-
otent, and not to be questioned, or we
should feel the consequence of his great
Indignation. His first thrust was at
our grain dealers (and why should it not
have been, had ne not been a member OF
| three Boards of Trade p The next
place we were made to feel his wrath
was on the location for the School
House "a Coopers Institute graduate
ought to be informed in such matters
also y but dropping these and forebear
ing to mention more, las we might, let
US notice for moment the final ques-
ton which overturns the full cup of his
wrath upon our unrepentant heads :
viz, our unbelief in the great Chicago
Northwestern r.. r.. plug to Upton.
And because we did not believe it TO be
1.-The best thing in the books for us"
and because we felt it was better for us
to have competition at home, rather
than pay for it in Upton. we have since
that time been denounced as ring
No wonder his feelings are so wrought
upon, for did he not almost lose his life
while out as an engineer upon that
Grand Trunk line from Stanwood tn
Upton by that which he wrote SO much
about, " Prairie Sun Stroke? %
But in regard to the ring allow us tc
say land the poll books bear us out in
our assertion) ever, body in tEi. vicin
ity and town, but thirteen, are members
Of it.
Allow US to say in conclusion that in
stead of having for the editor of oul
paper a man of wealth, diplomas, anC
the personal and intimate friend o
Barnum, Cooley, Gen. Fremont, anc
many others we might mention, W.
only had (if not by birth by adoption a
least) very ordinary CANUCK.
MANY CITIZENS.