The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1886-01-14
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New LEXINGTON, 0. Jan. II

NEW LEXINQTOR, ~. Oau. u
Ed. SENTINEL AS you we'll
know. dote On wit aud can even
appreciate q joke, indeed, in tines
Of great scarcity of the genuine ar
ticle, l have been known before
now to breakfast on a pun-do me
; tho favor to watch your cor,posit-
or lest he substitute c l.. for a p.
in that word pun; If the poor dew
,l.be hungry, as no doubt he will be;
he Will require double watching
but you know, my dear fellow. l
have always protested against the
practice Ct selecting lot of cant
phrases, shaking them up IN an
empty box, q have no aliusion Of
course to the skulls of cditors.) anal
calling the hap, hazard combination
by the rel;sbed name Of wit. That
ipractIce, was always in my eyes, an
cffense against the god of laughaer
ut whose shrine you and / daily
pour llbations Nothing could more
clearly demonstrate the error of this
mode sf.manufac.uring wit and the
grave o1ense which nay IN that
way be committed against truth,
and truth is an essential element Of
wit. than the case III hand. 70
make this clear. 1t is only necessa-
~ 10 cal! your attention to the
great injustics done in you. rs-
marks, about the cause of my do.
fest before tho Republican caucus,
wherein you attribute it. particul
arly at least, to tho "Corconiaus
from Congo" Now will you be-
i'ege no, my dear Sir, when tel:
you that tao two 'sCorconians from
Congo" were about the only mem
bers OF that caucus who sup ported
me 1T al. Statesmen are kncwleds-
eous cusses as you worry we'll know,
fer I believe you were cns once
yourself; | do nos here intend to
ias!nnate that the presence with
which they are endowed when elect |
ed BY the dear people or still tie !
deArer county clerk, con, inues
through Fife; nature MI images that
very we'll herself. She applies the |
same rule as she does when death |
separates the mortal from immor-
mortal. NAKED yo cane and na-
ked re must 60 oat.' They, in
demonstration Of their superior
knowledge, (exccps tho "Corcoui-
ans from Congo'Dpersisted in say
ing: ''he does no; want the place"
and they Gna'!y persuaded me by
their votes that / didn't.
Il is very evident, as you truth
f.,'ly remark, "be got left" How
e.. l am not alone in my misery
There vas another Irishraaa who
got left'' on that memorable day.
The Bon. Joaa QuaiIy, than whom
g dscenter gentleman honors not
tho Capital City a;ti his res,
dence, also Ego: lsif :" and lot me
Whisper in your i@g that he has
never been accused of"weaving and
waiving the bloody shirt" lie too
was a candidate for q 'peck of pei
tataie clerkship in the Legislature"
but hefore the caucus held ia the
other end of the beass; to DO plain,
my dear fellow. before tho Demo
cratic caucus; neither was be on,
numbered with the handls of"CoI."
to his name, nor embarrassed with
Zone erm." Ae was in excellent
for q Democratic race III
but ithese ts:is are ugly things
when statesmen so fool;ng with
them) that bos. Ct the Democratic
party of-the State Of Ohio, AIlcn Q
Myers, (now doa'r concert tha! Q. s
With Galic,) who. like yourself,
boasts Of all ancestry running back
to the MayGower Gan Jrishman has
more to fear :roa these ancestry
fellows than from all tho "Corco-
mans from Coneo') organized the t
fcur Senators fro,a Hamilton coun- '
" with a tribunal and before that I
august magistracy of Dan Da!- I
tor's certificates, secretly srraign-
ID poor Gually and condemned him
% totei absence from the Senate;
md the pocr devil didn't have even
''Corconian from Congo" to vo;e /
him il The caucus. It Was a star
.Ea.aber afair-a survival Of the
node in which the iordiy Britcn 8
,sed to condemn Quaieys ances- +
crs, yours and mine.
Now, lily dear Green, you will :
loubt!ess note the fact that ! am
'cry explicit, and to be caudid as
veil as explicit, / have not ths least r
'hjection, to gay to you in conf 4
|ence that believe sumethiug OF d
} similar nature, barring Dal.on's :
certificates, took place in my case
xcept the proceedings were mere 9
occult. So, my dear
elbow, it The old sayiHg, misery Z
eyes company, lie true, I am not Il
II hate. The Democratic CAUCUS r
'ery considerably suDDl;sd ma with ~