Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1886-04-07
The Jim-Jam Correspondent.

In lust weeks WinOnn Times a letter
appears from Mr.. A. Potter "denying"
the authorship Of the jim-jam letters !;
and Gcorgic says this should make the
RECORD ''put on its thinking-aap." The
RECORD, however, his had to do consid.
cradle thinking for q year or 80 in helping
to defeat the schemes of the two Doug
ascs. and therefore has no time to give
much thought to such small matters
Furthermore. the RECORD has never said
That MIR. A. Potter and the delrium-
Iremens correspondent wore the same
clothes. We have referred to the ind,-
vidual who wrote some low tiings ut one
or two gentlemen who hold county officrs.
We said he was "a dirty bird. "askunk,"
tic. but we see nothing definite enough
IN these terms to enable any man to llcn-
'ify himself and to imagine that he was
the party referred to-. We have "nuthin
agin" Mr.. A. Potter. only that he :'reso-
uter" against and wanted to snuff out of
existence the poor little REcoRD (price $2),
even while 1t was printing alliance pro-
ceedings free gratis fur nix. But by his
invitation to the RECORD outfit to take
turkey with him at his ranch he touched
the finer feelings of our nature and bit us
u "bif' In our weak spot. There is one
reason. also. why Mr.. A. Pot,er's denial :
should be believed. As just stated he in
vitcd us to dine on turkey; whereas. the
jim-jam scribe wished 10 provide us Il
hanquet of badger stuffed with gall"
Ugh OF course the same hand did not
write the two invitations. We are con-
vinced that, when Mr. A. Potter said tur-
key, turkey he meant; that the devastat-
ing and famine-breeding effects of a
Dakota editors appetite were all duly
considcr d by him prior to his expressing
a desire to see us feed atrhis expense.
Surely he would not. subsequently. under
i'm assumed name, after we had begun our
preparatory fast for his banquet. have
had the heart to blast our hopes through
amending the original invitation by s,rik-
ont the word turkey" and inserting, in
lieu thereof, "budger stuffed with gall"
1t has been suggested that the articles
were written by a Syndicate" of two or
three people VINO, short time ago, were
threatening and seeking to get pretty
nearly everybody in the county indicted.
From the waste of brain tissue which
must have bceu required in constructing
the cpistles, no single individual could
have survived the effort.
At any rate, we are glad that one man
has had the decency to rise up and deny
the authorship of the letters, for it is the
depth Of cowardice and meanncss 10 at
tack, under an assumed name, the private
life of any citizen, and the publisher who
allows such stuff to appear in his COL
umns is worse than the writer.
1t may be that George wrote the cffu-
sions himself. But this is hardly prob
able; for, while the letters gave small
evidence of literary merit, their construc-
tion was better and their diction much
less peculiar than the wonderful produc-
tions known as Times editorials" and
the acknowledged offspring Of George
himself.
As to "blackguarding citizens" if
keeping watchful eye on Harry, George
and their few allies. holding up their
schemes to public view, and commen ting
thereon in plain words, is blackguardism,
we accept the honor Of the term.