The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1885-11-18

Mr. EDITOR The eoterie for whom the
independent minded Regulator" acts as a
| jorden, met, used the vessel with dysenteric
profusion its contents were permitted to
stand for a time. but the sweltering sinking
mass of putridity has at length been poured
upon the country, while the people upon
whom il has been inflicted loudly cry for
disinfectants
From the time wrote my first article on
the 2ith of August last. until | wrote my
last on Oct. 3lst,an uninterrupted stream of
abuse has been heaped on PLAN hago. or on
fsome one imagined to be him. Every pre-
diction that have made has been fulfilled
The Somerset Dem0cFd, of Nov I1th. saws
Mr.. Philson would have succeeded just as
well If the Commercial would have suppor-
ted some other individual" Democrats
voted against Philson for the reason that if
he had been elected the Commercial would
have claimed all the glory" Plumbago
said Smith would injure Philson.'
My arguments tor new Jail were right
or wrong. If fright. the rand Jury of May
Term were right in their recommendations.
but if my arguments wrong and illogical.
that fact does not make the argument of
the Commercial and its scribblers right, for
they have not advanced one single argu-
ment except the al Aemnem one Of cost.
Now unless the argument of cost be suf-
ficient one to overturn all of mine then the
Grand Jury of last term OF Court made a
wrong finding. and Mr.. Smith has wrongly
instructed the people There is no dodging
this conclusion; and no amount o. personal
detraction, OF of hlth will meet the issue
may have used personalities, some of
them gross personalities. / did not so until
traducers opened their batteries on me or on
persons supposed to be me- | now leave
the beardless boy to his studies. the cobbIer
to his last and the coterie to their own re-
fiections.
Byron says somewhere: True foes once
Joined are joined till DEATH" aud / cannot
let some others Off so easily; were | dispos-
ed to go into the business of personal de-
traction | could weave verv readable
yarn" from what / know ofthe happenings
about the town of Lancaster, ard in Ger
tain school down there in the neighborhood
of Mount Joy, about the year 80 or 90.
could tell how somebody came to lhis Coun-
ty of Somerset, a tramp school-teacher, and
Lancaster County from that day to this, or
if he has they have been stolen visits |
can tell how the serpent tooth of renorse"
has been digging at his heart for twenty
FIVE years driving him to periodical drunks,
which have always landed him in the gut
ter from which his friends have drawn him
more than once to the detriment Of their
clothes, and their purses. Fcan tell how in
one of his remorseful agonies he joined the
church. thinking ITO patch up his old body
for heaven" but his religion has not been of
sufficiently high proof to cause him to
make reparation for the Mount Joy affair."
In short know the whole history Of an i'll
spent life.
/ do not give it to the public for the rea-
son that have no desire to do 80. and ! am
z
retiring from this contest. vlsning it to
close. have merely limited shat can do
if the matter is pnshed and know that at
least one person will understand.
least one person in the county will under
stand.
wonld be cruel did not fill one hamper
at parting to the Semi. Weekly Commercial
the sanctum of the Commercial has long been
a sewer-trap into which any. msn or anv
dirty dog might purge and spew, and thus
enjoy the sight OF bis filth as it ran through
the common sewer-the paper itself-un-
except little filthier from contact |
with the unclean hands of the editor.
Until next Grand Jury sits am
Yours truly.
PLuMBaGo.
Addison Pa Nov Il l9s5