The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-07-31

The following communication was
written TO the Mechanicsville Press.
We are thankful we saw it in time.
for believing that discretion is the
better part of valor, we shall be able
to expunge from this and all subse-
quent issues of the ADVERTISER ev-
erything at all likely to put those No.
lis in motion. We are not cowardly :;
oh no. But we wouldn't for anything
put champion" to any trouble, or
again disturb the peace that no doubt
usually possesses his manly bosom.
for this is the way he talks when he
gets little rolled:
Mr.. Editor Of the Press =
I'm mad. I'm mad, know I'm mad.
Now Tom or John behold me
I'm mad, I'm sure I'm past all cure
And Bedlam scarce can hold me-,
And who wouldn't be mad when
lot Of big bullying dogs pitch pell
nell upon little Whispering spaniel,
who has neither the courage or pow.
er to make successful defence. So
when see correspondent of the
Post, and long Charley of the 1drer-
tiser, and finally the editor of the
Press all pitch into my friend Jesse,
l feel that if the whole squad were
before me now somebody would
stand right smart chance to get
hurt. What business of yours is it if
Jesse feels like making a catapult Of
himself and butt his head against
a stone wall. What hurt does it do
you? There is no law against it.
Let him pound away. 1t hurts no one
but himself. He cannot displace a
single rock: and 1t will amuse him as
it did the rat as he saw the chips he
made and thought they came from the
file he was gnawing. Suppose he
does insinuate all manner of evil
against men whose reputation stands
upon foundation as immovable as
the hills. Don't you know that when
a hammer strikes the anvil that it is
the hammer that gets the worst of it:
that the blow reacts fatally upon the
lesser body. il you do not know
this you had better rub up your phi
losophy little. Suppose Jesse did
state some things and insinuate 9TH
ers that had no foundation in truth.
Who expects to find truth in purely
political paper: Don't you know that
it is a part Of their trade to besmear
and besmut anyone and everyone that
is likely to take the wind out of their
sails. What if my friend did, and
does, secretly favor the new party
movement, and aspire to become the
leader and organ of this disorganizing
clan, in connexion with old line Dem
ocrats and sore-headed Republicans
who last fall made such desperate
charge upon the Republican phalanx;
and who now having recruited their
ranks in the county by twenty or
more from the Changers, propose to
re-enact the farce of 1872? Has he
not high authority for his course Of
action? Didn't somebody else once
choose to rule in pandemonium rath-
er than serve in paradise? OF course
he did! And he accepted the situa-
ton. And SO will my friend jesse.
Does he not endorse the Republican
nominees in his paper Of the 9th, thus
keeping on good terms with both
parties; ard in the same paper reiter-
ate the charges and insinuations in
his former article, that almost every
body in the county understood to be
directed against the man who is des-
tined 70 be renominated and elected
to the Office of Sheriff by an over
whelming majority! And does he
not say that he did not intend to be
understood as charging any one in
particular with any wrong doings.
OF course he does, and what more do
You want.