Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-06-29
borrowed from the LEDGER and used
without a word of thanks.

borrowed from the LEDGER and used
without a word of thanks.
He then calls us "a creature of
low breeding, low instincts and low
tendencies We have too much
respect for his family to answer this
by calling attention to the results, il
any, Of his instincts and tendencies,
even if they were the common talk OF
the town and county. He winds up
his article by saying:
W a never, at any time, ~insinuated
anything about his politics, and neve
supposed he had any worthy of insinua-
ton. But, we have always said, when
the matter was mentioned, that he was
MOI a democrat; never had been; could
not be, simply because there is no mate
rial in the creature, out of which to make
4 democrat. We have never vet seen the
person who held the opinion that he was
a democrat. We have never heard an
expression of opinion other thar that, if
he were in a republican county. he would
be an open and avowed republican"
1t was reported that Hutton one day
told Judge Edwards that Hon. D. II.
Mcintyre was not a Democrat. On
the same day he told Mcintyre that
Edwards was not q Democrat. The
Col. makes a business of saying men
are not Democrats just as soon as he
finds out he cannot use them. The
people of the county all understand
this matter perfectly well. We might
claim that he joined the ''shirt-tail
militia to get on the winning side
during the war. He has no more
right to say We are a Democrat,
because We are in DemOcratic county.
Our record shows for itself. Our
work for the party shows for itself.
He says: "But we have always said
when the matter was mentioned that
he was not a Democrat, never had
been, and could not be-" John f.
Hutton, every time you made that
statement, you told an unmitigated
l~otsehood, and k0eW it. Now, put
that IN your pipe, smoke it, and see
if it helps your hay fever any.
You are crowding us into this fight,
and you may prepare to get the worst
of 1t on every corner, as you always
have at everything you ever attempt
ed. He then says: eve have never
yet seen the person who held the
opinion that he was a Democrat
This Is very strange. According to
his W statement, when we bought
the LEDGER, he had the only paper
and controlled the Democratic party.
We now have at least one-third more
subscribers than he has, and three.
fourths of the county printing. Last
year we were the official organ fol-
the city, and are now the official or.
gan for the State printing in the Sew.
enth Congressional District. The
LEDGER has grown every day since
we have purchased it; and, what is
more, it is not ram on our uife';
charity, as m people haze to ri,
papers. 1t strikes us as though there
were some people who held to tht
opinion that we were a Democrat, o.
we would not have received sucl
cordial support. On the other hand
the Col. has asked for office eve,
since ''the oldest inhabitant'' cal
remember, and always got a stone
1t would look as though some peopl
"held some kind of an opinion
either about his democracy or abili
ties.
1t is useless to extend this contro
versy. The Col. tried first to exter
inmate us by ignoring us and failed
He has a way of annihilating-blot
ting out of existence, as it were-an,
man whom he chooses, by ignorln,
him. When Gov. Hardin beat hin
for office, he ignored him. 1t was
death 60 blow to Hardin. We coul
point to a number of leading citizen
who are ''nobodies' because Hutton
ignored them. We are very sorr
that he thought he could kill a ma
Or a paper by ignoring it; we hate t
see a man such a fool and bigot a
that. He never has a kind word fo
a politician in the county-simply be
cause he is jealous of them, from tn
lowest to the highest office. Huttol
has been very successful in his ignor
ance in ignoring, and at the sam
time he has suffered from his owl
weapon in the hands of other. H
has been a candidate all his life. TIL
people always ignored him. Whe,
a farmer the elements ignored hir
and he was a failure. As a teache
his patrons ignored him. He becam
a lawyer and his clients ignored him
He then became q doctor when hi
patients ignored him. All the worl'
ignoring him, he started a newspape
and ever since he has tried to ignor
the world.
He ran for Lieutenant Governor
few weeks; the State ignored him
He then ran for Congress; the dis
trict ignored him-each and ever
county ignored him. The newspa
pers of the district throughout til
canvass, ignored him. The st. LOU
Republican, in speaking Of tn
candidates in the Thirteenth Congress
sional District, ignored him. Th