Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1875-08-04


st. Louis n New York gets up a
banquet, proceshes with brass
bands, makes speeches, n fills COL
yums of newspapers with sicken-
ing self-congratulations over their
enterprise.
When l had the first side with
my editorial worked off, l got a
note from Tom Kennady sayin',
"Hold back progressive article. -
Thin ks /, whats up now p but as
twas too late then / didn't bother.
Airly the next day Kennady came
back, pulls off his coat, turns to
me n says:
"We've a heap to do, Writ. It's
time the first side was off,"
"There it is," said I.
"The devil you say! Not with
your progressive article in!"
"Your note came about an hour
too late"
1.-TWO dollars and a half thrown
away. Well have to turn off an
other lot. Darsent use one of them
not for wrapping paper"
"What's the trouble !" says I.
"In the first place, Gineral Dick
Crounse can't afford to lose a sim
gle vote on the South Side. He
dassent vote for bridge, because
he's gone and made speeches op-
posin' all manner of extravaganza
an new projects till the town gets
out of debt. Once the bridge idea
gets out Judge Kepler II take it up
and make capital out of it."
"But it will help property over
there"
"At the expense of the property
here. That'd be robbing Peter to
pay Paul."
"But the railway company-1've
give them a lift in lowerin' the
canal"
"Yes, but Crounse is fighting
the company now, n its our policy
to fight it"
"Well, then, how about our ideas
of progress ?"
progress be blowed! I'm rum
ming this paper to make money!
I've got 5000 in my pocket that
belonged to Crounse yesterday, n
I'm going for Dick the balance of
this campaign"
He went back after more paper.
Dreclly he came in again, saying
"We're in a fine fix, Luttredge.
There's only six quires left, and it
takes two days to get it out from
M'Kinzie's. I'll have to print an
other editorial on the other side"
"One side making faces at the
other"
"S'posen one side does laugh at
the other-the last laugh wins"
He sat down, n heeled off an ed
itorial off hand, 'thout ever stop
pin, made up the forms, put II on
the press, n we two worked it of.
This is what he said, or about the
gist of it:
Business of an important nature
he meant making votes forCrounse)
called as away, we left the Flag in
charge of one whose experience led
us to believe that the tone of the
journal would not be affected In
our absence. 1t seems that we
we're mistaken. The gentleman
entrusted with the voice Of the
Flag unaccountably conceived that
the Flag was the exponent of the
schemes set afloat by idle
ireaifiers. A perusal Of his arti-
Gle miscalled Progress" warrants
the belief that he can stir out more
new ideas in day than a regiment
Of sapheads and miners could work
mp In thousand years. To pre-
vent any misapprehension cotcern-
Ing the views Of the True Flag on
The subjects treated, we have only
to say that our well-known opin-
ions have undergone no change
II some malevolen spirit should at
any time prompt us to give space
10 the impracticable and extrava-
want views Of idle dreamers, we
trust we may be able at least to ses
ect the longest route to the poor
house. Appropos to this subject,
We take the opportunity to endorse
he views promulgated by Dick
Cruunse in his recent remarkable
speech delivered at Huckleberry
Flats. /