The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-05-14

for the county. Not content with a
reasonable share of the patronage, you
demanded the lions share. Our official,
being a modest man, did not court
newspaper no.oriety, and maintained q
virtuous silence. That was his busi-
ness and not mine, but claim that any
member of the Republican party had a
perfect right to criticise when you
made the unwarranted assumption of
being the leading organ of the party,
and I begged leave to dissent from
your views. 1t is evident that the shot
struck you in vulnerable spot, and in
the paroxysm or your rage you exclaim,
sneaking cur" Did you consider
when you fired the first shot at the
modest official that it might hurt him !?
IF I will "come OUT from behind
the nom de plume you intimate that a
terrible punishment awaits me. If it
is such heinous offence to write over
a nom de plume, why do you publish
such correspondence? You are not
ignorant of the fact that 80 per cent of
correspondence is published anony-
mously or over nom de plume, and you
are the last one who should growl ii a
little mild criticism brings you into
cheap notorietY.
You say you will wager he is no
m IRE Republican than mongrel is
a st. Bernard" Ca dog metaphor
throughout). Now, my dear sir, in
justice to your creditors, you cannot
afford to wager even a nickel when
the chances are positively against you.
/ am not a betting man, and have no
desire to lose what little money
have, nor do | wish to win yours, for
you have need of all you have and
something over, as well as myself. In
this case it would be equivalent to
gambling s0ith loaded dice. Keep your
money and use it for legitimate pur-
poses. j..
If he evil come out" you " will give
him all the attention he requires"
Now, such insinuations are avery poor
inducement to " come out" The phys
ical disproportions between you and
myself are so great that it would be
folly to expose myself to humiliation
from your ponderous fist, and in such
skirmish as this should scorn to
shield myself under the laws protect
ing wings.
Sneaking cur" Mongrez,' est
Bernard" Your knowledge of zoolo-
gy enables you to classify me at once,
without reference to the books but l
like an ignoramus, am an infant in the
science, and as children must COM
mence at the beginning to learn theil
lessons, in childish simplicity it is nat.
ural to place everything in the most
innocent and familiar class !; therefore
in my first attempt at canine classified
ton, you will pardon me if / err in
placing you in the primary class of the
species.
You are positive that 1 am " not q
Republican" This is an insinuation
that Killeen was the author of the ar.
ticle which set you growing. You
are laboring under great error. The
hand which pens these lines traced
those. Ny good friend, allow me to
inform you that my genuine Republic
anism has never been questioned by the
most jealous politician. have voted
that ticket, a0ithoIt q dodge, from the
first inception of the party to the pres
ent time, was voting it when both you
and your coadjutor were in pantalettes
I have no political sympathy with Mr.
Killeen. We are as far apart as the
| of nd
greater satisfaction than to see the
Democratic party shivered to atoms
and the atoms showed under
I have, on a number of occasions
bestowed crumb of patronage or
your Office and paid for 1t, and unless
you bestow too much attention up
on me, shall be happy to repeat 1t
These pointers ought to be sufficient.
You seem to have forgotten wher
you commenced criticism that it was {
game which ttoo could play at. Their,
is little fun in playing alone. Yol
opened this "debate," and we have'nov
each spoken twice. do not propose
| to prolong the discussion" on my part
nor can / impose on the iberality O.
the TELEGRAPH to afford you gratati
to,ts advertising.
AS humble citizen, I do not ceur
notoriety through newspaper contro
versy; that, and that Glone-save your
threatened attention, induces me-
to maintain my nom de plume. Yol
may endeavor to provoke me, to draw
me out, but that matters not. I woul(
not lay straw in your way, nor would
I monopolize your attention." wher
important editorial duties press you.
When / commenced these remarks
it was not my intention to extend then
to so great length, but your paragraph
being a most remarkable multuna IN
pGr0o, 7 could but make it teGt, anG
arrange my "discourse" under suit
able heads" though portion of then
were dogs heads; hence this "long
drawn out" dissertation.
Wishing yourself and the Republi
can party a long life of prosperity, hap
piness and usefulness, ! remain, my
dear sir,
| Very respectfully.