People's voice., 1900-10-18

| gresham"
"And is it Chester"
Bob spoke more slow and less assured,
The figure answered "yes,"
The figure wrote and vanished,
The next night he came again,
And showed in black and white,
The name which decent men mos
detest,
And 10, Bob Simons' name led all the rest
Then the gray lion of the tribe of 81
mons arose, shook his name, hied him.
self to the inner sanctum and with di.
lated nostril and foam spattered Jaw
spread himself on the 'fasco" of the
late convention like tom-tit trying to
cover goose egg.
1t may not be good taste, it may not
be a display of political wisdom on the
part of me, the roasted, skinned, crushed
and Inundated Dinsmore to reply to OF
notice the ebulitlon of personal spite and
peevish malice ON the part Of this rat.
like travesty on political virtue, this self
worshipped saint, who licensed to teach,
licensed to preach and licensed to prac-
tice law, daily mounts the pedestal Of his
own egotism and thanks God that he is
not as other men; but l am neither a
saint nor the son of a saint, and the time
for turning the other cheek has passed
with me- Last year / failed to please
the little misanthropist by my course in
the county convention and came in for a
column of personal abuse and silly child
ish twaddle in the pages of his delecta-
bic sheet. This year l had the audacitv
to announce myself as proper subject
for political consideration at the hands of
my party, and while defeated, was
much fattered at the support received,
coming as it did from the people of the
immediate communities where for eight
years l have made my home and trans
acted business and that the support l re-
ceived came to me without solicitation
and as freely and voluntarily as the
spring water comes down the hill, and
came from the men who knew me per-
sonally and knew me best. may have
been "catspaw' for these are the DAYS
OF hypnotism, but if so the power reached
out and grasped me at distance of three
hundred miles and is marvel in its way.
My personal friends are surely guiltless
of all but supporting me freely, Loyalty
and faithfully, and while defeated by a
large majority and what of course ap-
pears to me as an exhibition of poor iudp-
ment and bad taste, l am content, salts
fed and reasonably happy. l am a Re-
publican as have been for years, always
in the ranks, sometimes in the band
wagon, occasionally in the front of it, but
when it passed over me, always ready to
assume my place in the ranks and push
once more. l lost no time or money in
the campaign. l had no father with the
prestige OF party paper and years of ex-
perlence i'll the pursuit of the elusive
Olice to assist ME, by devoting two solid
months of letter writing and personal
button-holing acquaintance in misrepre-
sentation of other candidates. ] had
to assist me beyond the hearty
support of those Immediately acquainted
with ME, aud it speaks volumes that a
good majority of the Caldwell delegation
me in preference to giving
their support and confidence to the per-
sistent Office seeker R. T. Simons and his |
son, the other Caldwell candidate.
Comparisons are always odious, but
under the circumstances l can hardly re-
frain from calling attention to the fact
that from South Haven township where |
lived for six years, and the city of Cald- |
we'll where l have lived less than two
years, Ireceived a total vote of i2 Y, from
the same precincts where Mr.. Simons, ort
his father, is also best known, he received
total of Ioh votes. Who is the Joke
on and who received the Singing re-
buke?" Some things are like unto
loud noise or bad smell, unanswerable. |
So with personal attack in a political
paper. do not understand that nv per-
soma. habits, character or reputation IS in |
question at this time. I am not now
and have never been an Office
seeker and presumably shall not be in
the future, and an attack on me person.
ally in a political paper is simply an out
burst OF childish, impotent hate and vim
dictive malice. R. T. Simons is disap-
pointed and bitter. He has always been
an office seeker from the first day he ar
rived in the county, and repeated de-
Feats have curdled the milk of hnu1an
kindness in his breast. He hates me
personally because l have seen fit to
assist in thwarting his vaulting ambition
at different times, and particularly in his
to be postmaster. He also
hates various other citizens in Caldwell
on the same grounds and nothing would
please him better than the defeat of
Chester l. Long. He undoubtedly
thinks that by making his unkind, un-
gentlemanly, uncalled for and uuchris-
tan attack upon myself aud others of nv
friends he will create a feeling which
cost the entire Republican ticket some
votes. He will be deceived, for his influ-
ence and his power is gone, and he glow
ers and chatters and spits like a worn
out witch in the corner with all the vim
iietive hate TO wreck the. universe but
wholly impotent in her wrath. His
oaper has never been of The slightest
'alue as a political power. Candidates
nd politicians recognize the fac, that to
ecure an endorsement therein is 20 CEN
II political suicide, and t'tir oulvi
iurSe iS TO bribr him iutu S;lenr,. f,r a..