Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-10-31
Winneshiek Politics.
PLYMOUTH ROCK, IA, Oct. 30, 1902.

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EDITOR OF THE PLAIN DEALER:
DEAR S1R:-In your issue of Oct
2Sth, the patrons of your paper and
voters Of the Third district of Winn,
Shiek county for supervisor read the
much tlowery wisdom of political
oxpbaut of the re dlftrict, made so
by his own eagerneSS and SeItiShneSs
for boSsiSm, the man whom l refer to
is no other then John F. Mur1ha, ac-
cuser. John in his tit of anger is Will
Ing with little forethought of his flu
ture to bury his political right for
ever. Now he finds fault with the
way the convention was conducted in
DEBORAH, when he himself went to
the caucus at Blutfton and triad hard
to be delegate from that township,
but his people did not want him for
he was turned down at the caucus. He
came home and started out for to
make trouble for the party at De-
corah by compelling uninterested par
ties to leave their work and go with
him to DEBORAH and try to down a
good democrat because he had a per-
Sonal grudge, and after hearing all
the motions put in order and carried
through In their proper form, he did
down, but instead he was up to his
old game; he wanted to split the par
ty, he was after leadership and got up
and pulled his narrow guage together
and suggested bolt in the conyen-
tion, but his innocent followers who
saw the right state of affairs when he
came to the convention that Murtha
had been misleading them and [
might here state that Murtha did not
hesitate to tresplss on the boundary
lines of facts To mislead these men,
boys and some children which he in
tended to carry the convention with
standing vote. Now all of these peo-
pie that claimed to be Murtha's fol-
lowers at the convention when he,
Mnrtha asked them to leave the hall
and go to the lower hall and nomi-
nate an independent candidate, re-
NAMED in their seats and the good
honest democrat john f. Murtha took
his hat and walks out of the conven-
tion alone. Not one OF the twenty
hive or more that came with him to
DEBORAH, miSled by him was willing
to take chance further.
Now is not this enough Mr.. Editor
and voters of the Third district to
show that Murtha is using his per-
Sonal spite to down one OF the best
county supervisors that the Third
district ever had a man that is not
afraid to get down in a stone quarry
and work for the good of his constitu-
entS, and man who has looked after
the interests in every way since he
was put there by the voters of his dis
trict. A man who has been a demo.
crat because he thought its princi-
pals was right and through thick and
thin has stood at the wheel ready to
go down in the waves If he was Sa tiStied
ne was in the right.
Now let US see what is the matter
with Murtha. He is sore that is sure.
He Is generally sore at election time,
we all look for that. John is not 10.
Gated in as desirable quarters as he
would wish to be, but if he was mis-
taken in his selection of a farm and
got behind all the bull work and
rivers in northern Iowa and cannot
get mail routes and bridges across the
rivers, it is not the fault of the demo-
Gratis of the Third district, although
| might state that he blamed much of
them because his petition for bridge
across the river was laid on the table
for its turn at the meeting Of the
board OF Supervisors, and that sam
petition was signed by all of us voters
he presented it to, and honest John
did not scruple in putting children's
names on this petition, neither did he
stop In Winneshiek county to get sig
natures, but would go to Howard Co
and tell them how they needed such a
bridg and after all of this good hon
est work Murtha is finding fault with
9 cattle way put across the road for
Flemming Bros. Now 1 can satisfy
all who wish any information about
this cattle way. Winneshiek county
has not got a penny in it. Free
mon t township furnish the plank and
the stone and timbers was furnished
by the said Flemming Br S, and the
work of the bridge was done by Ed.