The Morning herald., 1876-02-09
The MiddletOwn Meeting

To THE EDITOR OF HERALD:-There ap-
peared in last Saturdays Middletown Tran
script communication in reply to mine In
the HERALD of the first Of last week. This
said communication in the Transcript is
signed Middletown. Now Mr.. Edward
Reynolds, do not know any person by the
name of Middletown, nor am disposed to
90 looking for anonymous gas bags, but as
i is published in your paper of course with
YOUR consent YOU must father it, and I ask
YOU if YOU do not think you would have
been more honorably filling an editor chair
had YOU left out all mention eff the Agricul-
tural Society, than to have offered your
skirts (and l must admit very tongsy
like) to shelter an anonymous writer, VINO
spoke of the very gentlemanly Prolessor
Porter, the very gentlemanly Robert Gum
minis, the gentlcmanly T. J. Budd, and No
len, and then stated that Governor Cochran
was out of order in his opposition, and tho
same of me, only that / was lamb-llke.
Now sir, reiterate did not 60 to Middle,
town that afternoon for the purpose OF at
tending the meeting, but was asked to 60 IN
to the meeting after got to Middletown,
and took ticket with every name of the
old Board on it, Budd included after being
in the meeting short time Professor For
ter got up and proposed that resolution
be passed, offering 800 to to that Grange
that would bring to the meeting, next Fall,
the best display of grain, or, probably vege-
tables included. was astonished at such
a proposition, but looked at the far end OF
the room, and saw Cumhnins, Dean, and
Budd was in favor which at one blow would
have torn up the Association, for this reso-
luton cut off all the outside competition OF
farmers single-handed, for It was only to
Grange associations this 800 was offered,
and we further know that the old Newark
College has swallowed up the public land
given to Delaware, and now the
Newark college through its
President, Porter, who is now
or has been one of the principals of that
college, and granger offered said resolu.
ton. / considered it outrageous to the
general mass of farmers, and very unfair to
grange associations in general, for what
grange association has from eighty to one
hundred thousand dollars at it's back to
experiment with, but this Newark grange
and l was glad to see the general mass of
grangers in said meeting oppose Porter's
resolution. Now Edward, so much for the
history of the introduction of the grange
resolution, and were you not present when
a vote or division of the house was taken
and its friends seen it was lost, did not
Robert Cummins, William Dean harangue,
and worst of all did not Thomas Budd
leave his seat as Secretary and talk for a
long time, and then went SO far as to try
to put it in another shape, was this parlia-
mentary? put this question to you great
parliamentarians, who have graduated
three months in debating society, few
weeks or months in grange, or one term in
Legislature. Old Thomas jefferson and
his mammal on "Governing Debates" would
be an old fogy now -a-days, at Middletown
the modern Athens, as l stated, had a
ticket and intended to have voted for Budd,
but as soon as saw the part he took as
Secretary, tore it up, and got one with the
old board with Clarkson's name as secre-
tary, and this meeting was held on the 18th
(Tuesday,) and your paper goes to press
not until Friday, which would have given
plenty of time to have qualified the new
Secretary, or William R. Cochran could
have signed as President, and the judges
who held the elections for it, has not been
published, and you have been patronized
enough by that association to have inter
ested yourself sufficiently to have got the
true reports unpublished them. Now as
TO the loud sounding name the
Peninsular Agricultural and Pathological
Association, the word peninsular is all bosh
or only an attempted piece Of sharp practice
to try to monopolize the Peninsula People
who live clean of thesmoke of Middletowr
are as sharp to their interests as you, fol
you know Kent county, Maryland has hel
agricultural society; so has Kent county
Delaware, and also Sussex county, Delaware
and this society at Middletown is nothing
but Middletown or New Castle county
society, and the flaming word peninsula ma,
as we'll be cut close off. You say was yer,
lamb like-how could l help being yer,
lamb like among go many gentlemanly
spread eagle, hifalutin, speech making
Parlimentarians, tearing Jeferson's manue
to pieces, all out Of order, and calling on
another to order. They put me more Ii
mind of scenes in my younger days, urchin
; with blossoms and molasses candy slidin
, down cellar doors, each one claiming hi
particular plank. Now Edward, if di
reflect on Robert Cummins great hobby
committed left him in Heaven with tn coll
folks, whereas you or MiddletoWn try TO di
turb your lambs dreams by the iDs sinuatior
of warm regions. Don't you think you al
little unfortunate in using the type
lambs, and then try to fumigate my no.
with birthstone thought you fellows a
tended church, for If you did, you wou
have heard your able ministers use the wol
lamb, as the type of all that is truly got
and pure. However it may have been poss
Vt BILE you meant that for me, and throus
o your ignorance said what you did not mea
l. I accept your apology as I have lived so 10,
J. among fools I am very forgiving,
e Edward go where will, people will alwa
y see my signature to what write. I will n
e sign fictitious name and then hide myse
r. behind toungesy editor like you, for fe
l might be seen. It. is rumored that 20
j. late very competent and knowing secreta
'e did not call the meeting on the day nam
in the ch harter, and therefore all the parl
mentarian spread eagle speeches will ha