The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-09-24
THE SEASIDE CONGRESSMAN
Metropolis De Docrat


this congressional district, arrived here
last Monday night and registered al the
McCawley house. We can't say whether
he registers from Fortress Monroe Chats
down " the seashore) or from st. Louis
Chats on the west bank of the Mississippi
rlver) at any rate he registered, We sup
pose he will Immediately begin the business
of persuading the people of this congress
sional district that nobody living in it can
represent them quite 50 well as he, the
nonresident defendants, reminds us of a
bit of business INDUCED in by the NJ aSsac
Journal not long since. The journal, as
everybody knows, is subsidy organ. II
it amt for subsidies, then as matter of
fact it amt for anything. Now the Jour
nal, as we said before, is nightly for sub.
sides and for the paltry sum of $500, thar
or thar abouts, can't say exactly, it printed
IN its columns the following;
TObLlIAllON NUIlCb,
State of Illinois Circuit Court of Mas.
sac County, Nov.
County of Massac, Term 1881.
In the matter Of Robert G.. B. McKea VS..
John X. Thomas Bill to Foreclose
Mortgage.
Affidavit OF the above named complain
ant that he has made due inquiry, and that
he is unable to ascertain the whereabouts
OF John X. Thomas, the defendant, and
that he cannot have the usual process
served upon the defendant above named,
having been filed in the office of the clerk
OF said circuit court Of Massac county,
notice is hereby given to the said non
resident defendant, that the complainant
filed his bill of complaint in said court on
the chancery side thereof on the 10th day
of August, 1881, and that summons there
upon issued out of said court against said
defendant, returnable on the third Monday
of November, 1881, as is by law required.
Now therefore, unless you, the said Jno
Il. Thomas, shall personally be and appear
before the said circuit court OF Massac
county on the first day of the next term
thereof, to be holden at the court house n
the city Of Metropolis, in said county, on
the third Monday of November, 1881, and
plead, answer or demur to the said com
plainants bill Of complaint, the same, and
the matters and things therein charged and
stated, will be taken AS confessed, and
decree entered against you according to
the prayer Of said bill
ELIJAH p. CURTIS, Clerk.
HAYS Il ARMSTRONG, Compt's. Sol.
September 10Th, 1881
twill be observed that Mr.. Mckee makes
affidavit that he has made due inquiry and
is unable to ascertain the whereabouts of
the said Jno II. Thomas, non resident de.
PENDANT To come to the plain truth It
appears that the said congressman like
Joseph of old. had fled and got him out
leaving his cast off garment which Mr..
Mckee greatly desired to lay hold of, yea
and did lay hold Of it. Now Mr.. Mckee is
a good man, A man that this deponent
respects very greatly, He is an honest and
a truthful man whose word is as good as his
affidavit and his affidavit as good as any
body's. Neither Congressman Thomas nor
the Massac Journal would any more dare
call Mr.. McKec's affidavit in question than
they would stick their hands in the fire.
And furthermore, Mr.. Mckee is n stalwart
Republican, one of the sect, president Of
the banking house of Mckee, Quante & Co.
therefore we conclude that the fact is estab
lishcd that the said John II. Thomas either
lives down by the deep blue sea, or else in
the state at Miss-ou-ree
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