Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-10-18
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; MEN AND BRErHHKS,-I have been younG
man, now am old, yet have never seer
the righteous forsaken or his seed begging
bread. In answering certain charges brou, h
against me BY q paper miscalled the Peo
I ple's Advocate, ! find myself In the position
, of the lion spoken Of In the fable. The lion
was challenged to mortal combat by skunk
, after getting 70 the windward side and view
ing his would-be antagonist over carefully
, he said: ''If should fight with you yoU
would have the reputation of fighting with q
lion, while every one that came near me for
month would know that had been with q
skunk. therefore I beg leave to most respect
fully Decline"
) In casting about for means of defense
against these acrimonious charges frag.
ment of Biblical history comes to my mind
with vivid freshness. The passage is found
in Samuel l, chapter %, frat aud second
verses, which has reference to the early his
tory Of old Capt. David, and reads as follows:
David therefore departed thence and escSp-
ed to the cave of Adullam, and when his
brethren and all of his Fathers house heard
of it they welt down thither to him. And
every one that was IN distress, and every one
that was In debt, and every one that was dis
contented gathered themselves unto him and
he became captain over them, and there
was with him about four hundred men,"
We have no means of telling how many
renegade Irishmen were in the famous four
hundred, but if there was even one like this
would be editor David must have made 1t hot
for Saul, with whom he was at this time in
state of rebellion.
l don't wish to be understood as being
preiudiced against the Irish people, for
know many noble men of Irish extraction,
men of true nobility of soul, that have adorn-
ed and blessed history. We have some on
our county ticket now; men that l voted for
at the primary and for whom shall vote this
] fall if l live. Yet this political vagrant is
| trying to butcher his own nationality, both
politically and personally. 1t is fortunate
that the law of nature does not allow mon
sters to propagate their species.
Now this Captain Jack, vulture on the
body polite, who like his feathered name-
sake is never so happy as when feasting on
meat that has lost its flavor. 1t is natural
for his class to be always in state of rebel
lion, either against their King, their God or
the Democratic party, especially SO when they
are refused an Office.
| 1 am we'll aware that there are many we'll
meaning people who will blame me for kick
ing up this tempest in tea kettle, and that
was the aggressor in Enchanting this human
tiger, who like the infamous Murat of French
| revolutionary notoriety, has mules head and
tigers heart. / wish to say to those good
people who take this view of the situation,
that am not a candidate for any office; that
my notice in the NORTHWEST of October 18th,
1888, was not dictated by any personal con-
siderations; that would have kept out of
/ this controversyif had been actuated by
personal considerations. But if l am the
emetic that has caused this human vulture to
vomit more of his slime than usual over men
whose only fault is exercising their right
under the constitution, in presenting their
names as recipients of popular favor, then l
will be the Balm in Gilead, and in my weak
and feeble way pour oil on their bruised and
lacerated regulations; l will be the Aaron
with his censer, standing between the living
and the dead.
While the famous Capt. Jack is trying to
| initiate IN his cave in the corner of the Sig
nal office his illustrious predecessor in his
cave of Adullam. 1t may be interesting for
! some to know who this Capt. Jack is. He is
not the Capt. Jack OF Modoc fame OF the bad
lands, nor is it the Capt. Jack of the horse
Marines but a sort of nondescript Jack from
the 9TH ward of Toledo, who is trying to hide
his own rascalities in showing up other peo-
pies faults. He has standing editorial in
his libellous sheet calling on the board of
commissioners to keep back part of the jani-
| tors salary, man who has had his salary
| rA1S6O anu lu0TlbOElOuo S0TNlC6Ss
| On this poor man, man respected by all,
man holding no office, neither is he a candi-
date for office, he has been vomiting his slime
since the first issue of what he calls the peo-
ple's friend.
Now, in order TO show the good people of
this county what kind of champion they have
in the Advocate, l will give them a bit of his
personal history in this town. he owes in
nearly all of the saloons in town unpaid whls-
key and beer bills, in saloons where gambling
was allowed he owes for chips bought on
credit, hoping to win an honest drink, los
ing them the proprietor had to redeem them
, with spot cash; he owes unpaid board bills
in this town of over four years standing. In
fact he owes nearly every man that would
trust him. This, fellow citizens, is the kind
| of reformer that asks you to leave your
own party lines and take trot with him
on the road to perdition.
In making my defense l will read few
verses from the 109th Psalm of David, the
| first eight verses, which seem to me to be
peculiarly applicable to the victims of this
| ghostly vampires assaults. They read as
| follows:
Hold not thy peace, Oh God of my praise, for the
mouth of the wicked and the mouth of tho de ceitfu
| are opened against me. They have spoken against
| me with lying tongue; they coupassed me about
also with With words Of hatred and fought against
me without a cause, for my love they are my ad
| yasares but gave myself unto prayer. and they
| have rewarded me evil Tor good and hatred for my
| love.
| Set thou q wicked man over him, and let
| Sateh stand at his right hand. When he shall be
| Judged, let him be condemned, andlet his prayer
become sin. Let his days be few; and let another
| take his office.
| To those that are familiar with the scrip
ture they will see at glance that the class of
Jackalls recruited by Capt. David while his
headquarters were at the cave of Adullam are
not extinct yet. That they have only devel-
oped into full grown hyenas, that class of an
| imals which the Snowman tells US rob grave
yards and feasts on the contents. That this
human hyena who runs the Advocate does not
hesitate in decending into the graveyard to
procure food for the ravens who hover round
! this representative of the fox in the primmer
that drop their piece of cheese in the shape of
| dollar for the Advocate is evident to all who
read his insane effusions.
In his issue of Oct. 13 his baseless insinua-
tions against men 5000 miles away, well know
ing that distance and his already half demor-
allied carcass is his only protection, thing
so low if we are to judge by the reputation
that follows him, so low that it would be base
| hattery to call him a coward, reputation
that IS endorsed here by all his victi ms.
10 his charges against the Bishop of the
Church of Divine Fragments, they can be
answered best by relating an anecdote about
a Giant Scotchman, who was blest with lit
tie wife, who in her freaks of frenzy would
pull his hair and strike him, boy witnessing
her assaults remarked, that big man like him
ought not to stand such abuse. Oh, says the
husband, itamuses her and don't hurt me.
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