Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-09-14
THE "BURIED HATCHET
Hutton's Ignoring His Betters Simp,x
Ignorance

Several OF our exchanges during
the past week or two, have expressed
their pleasure at Hutton and White
having buried the hatchet.. We
are sorry that the Colonel marked the
spot and left the handle out. The
Colonel has resumed his old plan of
''ignorlng.' He ignores the news ::
be ignores his friends; he ignores
White; in fact, he ignores everything
but himself and his pomposlty. Dur
ing the campaign he ignored your
humble servant when secretary of the
County Executive Committee-pub-
fishing the calls without our name as
secretary. This simply afforded US
amusement, to think he would be so
childish. Last week, in his report
of the Congressional Convention he
gave the names of the chairman.
delegates, committees, but studious-
fy ignored your writer, who was sec
retarv. We can't see the Colone!'s
object in this tlresome, studious ig-
noring OF your writer. Does he want
to Aet even with the world: He has
q way OF annihiiatlng-bIotting out
of existence, us it were-any man
whom he chooses, by ignoring them.
When Charlie Hardin beat him for
office, he ignored him. Il Was
death @ blow to Hardin. We could
point to number of leading citizens
who are ''aobodys' because Hutton
ignored them. The day before we
went into the newspaper business,
Hutton was our friend-the next day
he snubbed us and has tried hard
to ignore lis ever since. This is
about the only thing he ever came
anywhere near being successful in.
He failed in this at the county con-
Vention aud we hoped he would give
it up in disgust. We were ready to
be friends and thought the ''hatchet
was buried but he is at hi. old
game again. We are very sorry that
he thinks he can kill q man or a pa
per by ignoring it; we hate to see
a man such fool and bioot as that.
He never has a kind word 70: poll
tlclan in. the county-simpIy because
he Is jealous Of them, from the lowest
to the highest office. Hutton has
been very successful in his ignorance
.ln ignoring. and ut the same time he
has suffered from his own weapon in
the hands of others. This is one
thing that was the matter with him in
the report of the congressional con
Vention. He has been a candidate
ali his life. The people always ig-
nored him. When farmer the eie-
ments ignored him and he was fail
ure. As teacher the patrons ignor-
ed him. He became lawer and
his clients ignored him. He then be-
came doctor when his patients ig
nored him. All the world ignoring
him, he started q newspaper and ever
since he has tried to ignore the world.
This season lie ran for Lieutenant
HoFernOr few weeks; the State ig-
norged him. he then ran for Con.
gress; the district ignored him
each and every county ignored him,
and he claimed to have been born in
nearl y every county in the district.
The newspapers of the district
throughout the canvass, ignored him.
The st. LOUIS Republican, which is
Hutton's prayer and hymn book, in
speaking Of the candidates in the
Thirteenth Congressional District,
ignored him. The convention, when
1t met, ignored him, by not casting
single vote for him. Ignored by
all mankind, in every vocation OF
ilie, he tries TO get even with the
world by ignoring your humble SER
want. Should we suffer for the sins
OF the whole world? Should we he
set down on because the world will
not stand up for him: Must we be
kicked because the whole world wont
kneel to him? Because he has a sour
stomach must we suffer the pangs OF
outrageous torture? We are crush
ed lilly; storm beaten rose q temp
est-tossed daisy; cyclone struck
sun-fiower, ignored by an ignorant
arrogant. Our only solace is that we
have good company; all the leading
men of the county, both politicians
and private citizens suffering % the