Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-01-23

gan is a Democrat and is at present
county Judge of Adams county,
Nebraska. 0. A. Abbott is a dis
tinguished Republican living at
Grand Island, Nebraska. Not long
ago Mr.. Abbott sent some papers
to Judge DUNCAN, county Judge at
Hastings,to be filed, and accompa-
MED them with a cashiers check
for S. as advance costs. The fol-
lowing letter shows the reception
of the fee and something of the
nature of the cautious county
Judge:
HASTINGS, Neb., Dec. 81, 1907.
Hon. O. A. Abbott, Grand Island,
Neb.-Your letter of the Oath inst.
was received enclosing bill of par
ticulars in the case of f VS.. -;
also notice to take deposition in
said case. In the light of political
history of the last eleven years I
was staggered upon reading your
letter which states, Enclosed please
find S. for advance costs in = ct
al. VS.. - ct all | ran with the
eye of a detective through all the
papers to find this S., but up to
date | have been unable to discoy-
er it. However, there was a piece
of paper accompanying this letter
which, if it had not been for the
education given us by the astute
Republican financiers-of which,
my dear Judge, you were a shining
example-in the campaign of 1896,
might have passed for S.. But
when I think, Judge, of your able
exposition of the financial question
in the year of 1895 and subse-
quently, of your setting forth that
every dollar we issued must be as
good as gold-that every dollar
issued must be good in Europe
and when | think of the times that
| withstood all the vituperation,
calumny and ~invectives that my
Republican friends could command
because | advocated the fifty cent
dollar | am at a loss to under
stand your mental condition when
you forward to me this piece of
rag money Probably it is a ghost
OF that long departed era of Wild
cat money of which l have heard
so many Republican spellbinders
speak with such iuency. AS a
matter of fact, it follows the line of
the three card monte man and the
shell game, because, in bold, black
type it purports to say that it will
PAY to the bearer the sum of S.
but notice, in much smaller type,
or under it's breath, so to speak, it
says, lin eastern exchange or credit
only Judge, I am willing to stand
for a greenback or fifty cent dol
lar but when, in this era of Re-
publican prosperity, in this very
dawn of the golden age of the Re-
publican administration, in the
third year of the reign of Teddy
the First'-when you come to try
to work off on me any bank shin
plasters or rag money, after having
educated me in that school of
sound money in 1896, | must pro-
test. | enclose you this ~nondescript
piece of paper issued without au-
thority of law and revolutionary in
every respect-and say to you, my
dear Judge, when you forward me
So as you stated you had done in
your letter, though they be fifty
cent dollars I will at once file
these papers and issue summons.
| await with breathless expectancy
your explanation of this peculiar
attitude which you have taken up
on the financial question. How
ever, Judge, assuring you of my
continued personal regard wherev-
er your financial vagaries may lead
you, and hoping some day you
will be able to come back to that
sound and stable doctrine Of the
fifty cent dollar | remain
Yours, Very Respectfully,
HARRY S. DUNCAN.