The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-09-13
EDITOR TRUE NoRTHERNER:

EDITOR TRUE NoRTHERNER
The National Independent of the 9th inst =,
asserts that Mr.. Burrows refused point blank
to discuss the financial issues of the day at
Decatur on the evening OF the 4th inst, with
one Moulton, and that he said he was not up
in the cience OF finance
1 am able to say that the above is only one
OF multitude Olive will draw it mild and
say misstatements published in that unreliable
concern run in the interest OF the fat" paper
money party of this county. I was with Mr..
Burrows at Decatur ON the occasion referred to-,
and know that no proposition for joint DIS
cussion was made to HIM by Moulton or any
one else. Moulton did not go to Decatur with
any expectation of engaging in discussion,
but was there for the purpose OF taking notes,
preparatory to meeting MT. Z. in Joint dis
ing called at Decatur was called as Republi-
can meeting, and had been advertised as such
by the Republican county committee for weeks
before and large and enthusiastic Republi-
can audience collected there to hear the truth
and not to listen to a rehash OF the fanatical
yagaries on political economy by John Stuart
Mill. 1 don't know by what rule it would be
expected that a republican meeting should di-
vide its time in Joint debate with every green
back whipper- shipper tina. comes along, I'M
less the Nationals expect to assume the role Of
bulldozers. Mr. Burrows did not ray he was
not up" IN finance according to standard au-
thority, but he did state that be was not up in
it IN the sense in which these modern " fat"
fellows are up in it. II all Qreenbackers were
as discourteous and ungentlemanly as the oily
haired editor showed himself to be at Glendale
(although chosen as one OF the chairmen) no
party should ever debase itsel. enough to
either challenge or accept a challenge from
them. Why, after Moulton got through read
ing from Mill and whilst Mr.. Burrows was re-
plying to him, this champion Of the rights OF
the down trodden and oppressed" jumped
down from the platform with the supplements
to his luminous paper ACROSS his arm and
went through the audience distributing them
to the faithful, to the utter annoyance and dis
gust OF all persons present possessed OF the
slightest degree Of self respect. And yet this
degenerate son Of Esculaplus pretends that
his party is so fortified by political principles
and wisdom that no man dare stand I'D before
1t, when he himself by his course shows con
clusively that he dare not sit, nor permit he
followers to sit and listen to the discussion OF
the principles OF honest money and honest
government. This same paper, whose editor
was recent aspirant for congressional honors
and now asks the people Of this county to vote
for him to fill an honorable and responsible
Office in this county, mads another character
istic mlsstatement, when be charged a few
weeks ago, that Mr.. Burrows was salary
grabber," and privately gave as a reason fol
doing so, that he (Burrows) had once prose
cuted suit against him for NAL practice in
setting old man Tolls broken leg, and recovered
Judgment for 10000, as damages. For
shameless inattention to truth, in conducting q
paper and campaign, this would-be County
Clerk is only excelled by his more intellectual
but equally abandoned coadjutor, "Brick
Pomeroy.'