Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-10-22
KINGSYILLE.


Eds Tel:-As part payment for the
"Softsodder," soothing.syrup letters that
X. has been sending from here TO the News
he was permitted, last week. to insert in
lis columns \ lengthy, garrulous attact
upon myself. Some Of tho statements in
that letter would, from almost any other
source have started my Irish; but as il is,
am like the boy when kicked by the mule,
/ consider where il came from.
His first statement is 10 the effect that
he 'sends in the names " ten new sub
scribers for the NeUs, which will cause
Iron Wood to gEash his teeth" Just
why it will cause Inc gnash my teeth is not
so plain. do not care il he procures
eleven three months subscribers, II he does
il by fair means; but one Of those ten men
has told me himself that he did not know
what the paper was before he bought It,,
and that if it had been fairly represented
to him he would not have had it in the
house. But it is no wonder he procured
the names, for it is just hardly possible
when a man has been an agent for a few
years, for his conscience to become as elias
tic AS an lndia-rubber string. Besides, X.
has had nothing else to do for few weeks
but to get subscribers, and he has worked
like beaver at it.
He says l mlsquoted his former letter,
and that the word Republicans does not
occur in that article. That is true, but he
meant Republicans, called one Of our
prominent Republicans by his initials, and
said that men Of his stripe would not take
a Democratic paper. He referred to the
Republicans and he knows it,, and he in
tended that every one who read the letter
should know it. He says it is a mystery
to "Iron Wood" how any one can listen to
u Republican speech and not take down
every word Of it rs law and gospel. That
is not true, but it is true, that | cannot
comprehend how man can uphold the
Democratic party and its papers-as he did
in his letter referred to-and in the same
breath cali the speech Of Geo. A. GrOot
the best speech Of the season, as he did,
when that speech was the most radical one
OF the campaign. X. says he is not on the
fence. Perhaps not, but before the Octo-
Der elections he kept close enough to it, to
be on the postofice side when the right
time came.
To show that he is true Republican, he
says he has paid me for Wide Awake suit
this year. So he did, but his patriotism did
not slop over in that way until my former
letter in the TELEGRAPH. 1t is barely pos.
sible that it was done then, that it might
appear in the Nel0s, and in that way be
heralded to the public
His next statement does not refer to me
for have never said that man could not
be Democrat and christian Mt the same
time. But when he compares the Repub-
licans of this town to KuKlux, he is whip.
ping better men than myself over my
shoulders.
In regard to neighbor G's mantle, new.
er supposed that | could fill it, and if X.
will step under my arm, think the man
tie will cover us both To reimburse him
for the terrible strain upon his mental fac
ulties and conscience in his labors for the
NeiCS that paper has promoted him to cap
tain, and given him two local puffs besides
space for his brain. splitting attact upon
myself.
But for the same reason that it is not
fair to hit man when he is down it is best
not to be too severe on X at the present
time, for as soon as he got the returns from
the ONO election he lit out Tor Nova Scotia
on the fastest train he could get, like a
woodchuok before a prairie fire.
IRON WooD.
The above communication from our
valued Kingsville correspondent is insert
ed at the request of himself and some
friends. There is not, we think, sufficient
general interest in the matter to carry far,
and we prefer to let it drop with this arti,
cln