The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-06-15
TENNIE SPEAKS AGAIN.
And Lo! His Words are Music.

Poor TENNIE When last I wrote
you, little did apprehend the crash of
eloquence that would flood the beautiful
columns of your last issue of the Pilot.
l thought our little matter of difference
adjusted. Alas, it was not so. Your
last statement of facts agrees precisely
with your first, it is fair average of
one side of the affair with slight discrep-
ancies as to dates, etc. I will merely cor
rect you in one and let the remainder
pass for whatever value your readers
may attach to them. The Journal made
no mention of the affair until six or eight
weeks had passed after my calling your
attention to it. Now a question. Were
you not out to see the said guardian
few days after L spoke to you? I do
not insist you were, but am creditably
informed that man of considerable
person, wearing plug hat and driving
span of ponies enquired his way at a
neighbours to the residence of the guar
dian. Say yes or no, I'll take your word
for It. From the manner in which you
state facts, I am inclined to rate your
memory rather defective. This ought
to surprise no one, the fact being known
that you are in the habit of partaking
rather free at times of the circean cup,
which Homer says, turns men into
swine. You are apt to be muddled, you
know, and in consequence, not always
reliable i'll what you say or do. BY the
bye, you could have added more sub
stance to your Chesterfeldian effort in
writing up your last judicial exploit, 4. e.
tell your readers how it happened you
became innebriated two week ago, lost
some money, caused the arrest of IN in
nocent young man for theft, furnished
his reputation, and then shifted the ex-
pcnses of your ''iolly time" on the tax
payers of this county. That would have
afforded you most excellent opportun-
ity for applying some of the pretty
names you have passed over to me to
your own exquisite person and character.
Tennie, you are nice, decent, bright
and precious good fellow, but your letter
looks like what Shakespear meant when
he wrote lines such as these:
A tale
Told by an IDIOT wild an i furiously,
Simplifying nothing.
Again I caution you keep cool. If
your last is to be your bugle call for a
second term of judicial inbecility you
are ON the right track for permanent
seat. But don't waste your powder in
the skirmish. 1t is summer now, beau
tiful summer at times unpleasantly hot
with the day of battle still long way in
the future. Don't rant like Tennessee
Colonel it makes me tremble like an
aspen, and in my dreams, drifting back
to scenes of bloody strife, seeing you
charge in and hash up rebels 1 cry out
in mortal anguish for fear you may turn
in upon me and leave nothing but pair
of boot-heels to tell the woeful end of
the Journals editor. 1t is of no practi-
cal benefit to call me names. They are
poor material at best to bolster up q
weak side, and can only revert to the
damage of their author. Whatever val
ne you may attach to that sort of war
fare, rest assured will not resort to it.
1t tells your story far better than aught
L can contribute. I am free to admit
the subject Of our controversy disposed
Of, but if you insist on keeping your
claims to a denomination for the Office
you now hold before the public, will
do the best can in helping you along.
You don't succeed in fighting with hard
names, nor scare me cut of my wits by
any shape you may assume.
That is about all that 1 have to say al
present, with the exception, perhaps, OF
an apology to the readers of The TRI
BuNE for the waste of some space thai
might have been occupied with some
thing less distasteful than the subject o.
these communications.
FRED HEINEMAN.