The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-08-10
The Pig Squeals.
Holding that if they are givel

friends will hang themselves, w
have proffered to let them blow of
their accumulated gas through oul
columns. In answer to the offel
we received the following:
Editor Chronicle:
$ Having promised in the last is
sue of your paper, unsolicited, to
publish in ertensio the proceedings
of certain ''white celebrities,
please announce to your admirers
that another ''tea party" was re-
Gently held, not at "Fat Toms
wigwam," nor under Radical au-
spices, but at the domicile of "Fat
Dick" on Big Greek, composed of
Independent" vkters, men who
know their rights aud dare assert
them. 1t was kind of indigna-
ton meeting, if one should prop
erly express 1t, and savored strong.
ly OF disposition for every man
to use his own discretion in the
next election. If this notice suits
you, / will endeavor to to keep you
posted in the future, in order that
you may truthfully chronicle, COM
ing events. McKN1aHr.
Now, that is what we call pretty
good for beginning, and if they
follow it up to suit us as well as
the sample below, there is nothing
for us to do but ply out the rope
and keep out of the mud. This
came inclosed in the same envelope
with the above:
COLFAx, La, August Z, 1873.
Editor Chronicle:
As you have opened your mud
battery for the amusement of the
people of Grant, in a manner in |
dicating the line upon which you |
desire to have the present cam
paign fought, and the "tea party"
having survived the effect of your
several blank-shot discharges, we,
as Independent representatives of
that political faith, though not
Crusaders" announce ourselves
ready to come to the scratch at the
call of time. So henceforth our
battle cry shall be "more mud,
Mike" We had thought seriously
OF placing our colors at half-mast.
In regret for past failures, and
make a conditional surrender, but
the refusal of All arlnistice aud the
cry OF no quarter, caused, as you
anticipated, Council of war"
and we have resolved to try to
''hold the fort"
At last you have drawn our fire.
Intentional or not, and,
though we cannot hope to silence
your battery, protected as it is be-
1ind those impregnable paper
wallis, We will serve you with bro
zen doses while our supply lasts,
md meet the issue squarely in an ::
open field at long or short range,
is you prefer. No objection to be- ,
ng interviewed from an "inde- :
standpoint, as we have a {
high regard for any person who
has the temerity under the pres t
mt regime to express an opinion :
# his own, whose ideas are not q
nodded to suit the will of the I
'arish directory. Surprising your =
i'm to be directed to this point. q
re freely give You the range, not H
o much from neglect of duty, o
$ through pure sympathy for an s,
'erwrought and superficial imagi- Il
alton. Tie prying eyes of a gal 8,
anlzed Democrat have discovered q
"Fat Toms wigwam," an imagi- o.
airy hornets nest, and with as y,
and wild alarm, ex- a
aims in the language of one of 81
bur most potent "dead weights" d.
The Radicals are not dead, but d,
eepeth." Fear not, sir knights
the quill and roll, search well al
our he arts, and give your guilty al
rest, lest much of the
niger you have foreshadowed =
lould reflect upon yourselves, and Ia
I'd bring your frierds to grief. pe
Fat Tom is a trump card. be
I'd as the Democracy intends to til
repeat the game of "euchre" she GU
actlced against US last election, da
ne that Mat Wells would be ia
hamed off, we cannot afford to 10
ose a trick. Brother Dan" is ~
lite competent to take care of m,
nself, and We have no doubt of re,
ability to keep Cowans and
yes droppers off his trail. eff