Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-06-25
The Congressional Race.

10! as though wrought upon by the mys-
tic power Of the magician's wand, he has
arisen under a new banner and a new
name and is once more seen in the arena
lourishing his battle flag and making
great thrusts with his pencil as a sword.
No, there can be no mistake about the
identity. The style Of diction is all your
own, though il took you two weeks to
obtain your ammunition from head
quarters. You have mellowed down re-
markably though You forgot to call
me cat, camel or fool, and this time
did not threaten to go for some man out
side Of the county if you coul not nomi-
nate your favored Northway Don't use
50 much hypocrisy. The readers of the
TELEGRAPH will hardly think you sim
cere when you say if you can't get North
way you want Rowland, remembering
that only two weeks ago you said il you
could not nominate Northway you
would go outside Of the county for your
second choice Now didn't you let your
evil intentions "slop over" just little,
when you made that declaration? Since
you are so far upon the road of reforma-
tion, hadn't you better confess that you
manifested too much of "dog in the
manger' disposition, when you created
such CONSERVATION in the Rowland ranks,
by blurting out that declarationf Don't
try the old game Of denying the whole
controversy as your great Leader" did
in the famous interview. Don't follow his
example by saying it was stolen from a
private conversation aud then have
another "Swift' reveal the truth Of the
whole matter, Let me whisper in your
ear, Mr. "Ashtabula, IL will humor you
by adopting your new name--it hurts your
cause most materially to make such
"messes" of H.; it hurts your cause to
have your leader kick all the other candi.
dates, and it hurts again to have him
boast of his own strength and then it
hurts a third time-and worse than ever,
to have him attempt to crawl out from
under the ruins of his own wrecked in.
terests and be 50 badly heaten by anews-
paper reporter. Now, as ! said before
DON'T don't slop over. Don't let the evil
in your nature creep out in that public
manner, We do not feel like that When
we shall have become thoroughly satisfied
that we cannot nominate our man-should
such time ever arrive-we will not get
mad aud run off TO Tumbull or Geauga.
No sir. We will try to do something
better than crafty so little and mean
feeling of jealousy. Therefore, for the
welfare of both of the Ashtabula County
candidates let me beg of you not to get
mad and "slop over" any more.
AS to the repeal of that Justice of the
Peace act, can only say that il was a
good law and had not ppT legislature been
composed of lawyers who cared more for
their own pockets than the Welfare Of the
people generally, it would never have
been repealed, Every intelligent jury
man who has been in attendance during
the present session Of our Common Pleas
Court, will tell you that the law never
ought to have been repealed. There has
not been one case in ten tried during the
present session in which the judgment
would pay the fees of the jury, and have
one case in my mind in which the claim
was about $1.25, and court poRl and law
yers lees amounted 70 sametAing like
$3.50. Such cases are not carried to court
for pepupiarY profit but rather to gratify
feeling of revenge and ought 10 be tried,
if tried at all by jury beGare magis-
tfate and slapped there, OF course there
would not be 80 many fools TO hold the
COWS for the lawyers here at the county
seat to do the milking, but there would be
more cows left for the contestants them
selves to milk.
You seem all at once TO he Vely much
alarmed about the burdens Of the tax
payers, Perhaps | will refer you, In some
future letter to q little matter which cost
the taxpayers Of the state more money
than all Of the HOwland's laws, and in
which the will of thepeople was thwhrted
by your very mercifiI candidate. For
the present have neither time nor space
to go into the details of that and some
other matters, hut will reserve them for
future use in case fReea,
| see that yoV are a very poor reader in
decd. | never credited Northway with
the authorship of the road law, but as l
understand the matter he did the bark
ing for Judge Tlbballs, and after they had !
got that mighty measure through the
Legislature they put their wise heads to-
getheF aud discovered that they had made
no provision for paying the township tTus-
tees anything for their services, aud that |
NQrthway so amended the bill as to pay |
them Sl,59 per day, OF course may be
wrong, do not take two weeks to obtain
my ammunition from headquarters. l ad-
NIT my ignorance, but am better posted |
than some others. l have hardly been |
able to find NortRway man who knew |
that he had eyer been in tAe Legislature
| knew that he had been there and help
ed pay his salary and supposed he had |
done something, but you make out that
he never originated a single hill 10 show
as she result Of years labor aud as a
for the salary received
Poor Taxpayers indeed Now if am so
"a cat' ga camel" and weak
in the upper regions, you ought not to
insult my friend H. by forcing me into
his family. If l do enjoy such elose le.