The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-03-20
Observer supplemented
MR. EDITOR:

MR. EDITOR:
Your rdcy contributor has given us lively
account of the recent corporation election.
which, for one who is eligible to membership
in the Spectators fat club, is not bad Ii was
a very complimentary production, and the
sharp side thrusts were given very adroitly.
There are, however, some unrecorded feats.
1t would be matter of deep regret should
they be left to oblivion.
Politicians are just discovering that one
of the most powerful weapons in an cleo
ton ia the cigar. Not the fragrant Havana,
a suggestion OF which is sometimes grateful
even to the nostrils of the ladies'. but the
vilest and rankest compounds, or the mildest
and most sapless rolls that have ever been
| introduced as "twofers. These perform
double duty. They are used by some of our
dapper and Snug cigarette smokers, not to
put in their own mouths though, judging
from the foul language that rolls out in vol
leys of oaths, this would not be inappropri-
ate-but, first, to give To the ignorant and
the poor to whom the lowest grades of tobac-
co are welcome. A cigar of this grade may
conciliate the unsqueamish and turn the
scales in favor of particular candidate.
Secondly: these choice and erpGNstDe cigars
are good to smoke out the respectable. One
election, who, Judging by the ashes on his
cigars-smokes, at least on election days, q
costly grade, was overheard to say in effect,
"d-n it. let US smoke them out" In &C
cordance with this benevolent suggestion,
some of our high-toned young men, whose
mouths are as innocent of stimulants or
oaths "a topers usually are, passed around
boxes of cigars, of the lofty grade we have
mentioned. and soon the air was dense
with the rank smoke from these rare and
recherche cheroots. We may safely say that
Manila in the Philippine islands, never eI-
perienced such fragrance. ave must have
liquor. shouted out one of these lofty
| minded cigarette smokers and out he rushed
TO get another load of the tipplers and
loafers. In they come each with a cigar
Some, il ia said-and there is some ground
| for tho statement-with small bottles of
whiskey in their pockets, furnished by gen
erous and selfish hands-by men who will
willingly give ten cents with one hand and
rob five dollars with the other; IN they come,
the clean, the NOBLE, the Intelligent, the pride
of our tOIcH and they all to man vote for a
whiskey board, or as near to il as they can
come.
Verify the town hall on an election day is
a good place for the study of human nature.
Through the clouds of tobacco smoke one
could clearly see.
LIST. That when the issue is made ON the
subject of temperance, the saloon keepers
are thoroughly aroused.
I'd. That they have many sympathizers.
3D.. That citizens of whom we might rea-
sonably expect better things, are "hail fell
lows well met" with them on election day.
4th. That men who call themselves re-
spectacle will descend TO low and vile prsc-
tees TO carry their point.
All of which is respectfully submitted with
the suggestion TO observer" that in writ
ing mp elections he put in less "taffy' and
more photographs of human nature. Has
he the moral courage TO do it?