Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-12-01
THE REPUBLICAN EDITOR
DEAD AND BURIED
According To Elder Spencer Who
Published The Following Obituary
In The Advocate Last Week.

IN his last issue of the Audubon Advo.
cate. We publish it for the amusement
of our dozen or so of readers. The
Elder says:
| 1t were better to let the dead past
be dead, but II seems that some refuse
70 even let the dead past rest i'm peace.
When one has already become famous
mar ana mas that honor undisputed and
unchallenged. why continue piling up
works along the same line. A. g. Ross
posing rs q literary genius, and already
unchallenged in the field of liars,
still desires to dig up the dead and
| fight ii over again.
He attempts TO be cunning and cute
but becomes silly and sickening. But
why complain, one in their second
childhood should be humored and so
let him frolic. He is O dear blessed old
man outside of politics, but there is his
one weakness. He dies hard for he has
always been one of the favored
As to that agreement, we are satisfied
and not worrying about it. We have
the assurance of such an agreement
from one in whom we have more con
tidence and SO has the public than weor
the public has in the word of the blessed
old man or any of those to whom he
appealed for help. A. r. Drake is a
man whom we have never known to
tell a thing not true. One would not
expect the secretary and president of +
society to divulge its secrets. As TO
your advice save it for another of your
kind if you can find such a one. They
are scarce. We play fair i'm politics
and could not fit your advice into our
mood of doing things
AS to the belated edition of the Re-
publican the last week before election
we as well as all others know that this
rush of business i'm the Republican
office never occurs only when il will
cause the sheet to'come out late the last
issue before election containing rotten
bunch OF politics. If none of your dozen
or so readers worried more about the
matter than we, it was n wasted effort
to come out at all. We realized that
your rot would make votes for those
attacked and it did. IL we had wanted
to answer 1t, we could have did so Fri
day afternoon as that is our publication
day, Your rotten politics the last issue
before election, showed your disposition
but did no harm,
Again we wish to say that you are
presuming great deal when you make
an attack upon about two thirds of the
voters of Audubon county. You seem
to assume that all the voters who voted |
for w. Nj. Crees are aw-breakers
sluggers, horsethieves, or sympathizers
with horse thieves. The following
statement from last weeks Republican |
would bear us out in this assumption:
The majority that Sheriff Crees re-
ceived last Tuesday clearly suggests |
that it would be a popular thing not |
only to leave the cell doors open but |
also to furnish a step-ladder saw and |
crowbar at public expense for the use
of other horsethieves who may be cap
tured. "
We believe that the opinion of two
thirds of the voters of Audubon county, |
is more to he desired than your approval |
and we believe that upon close investi-
CATION that ut least some of those who
voted for Mr.. Crees are not law breakers
sluggers, horsethieves or sympathizers
of horsethieves. You further state.
'P. 5. Our stabber may be little
blunt, but our sl<inning knife has keen
edge. And we give you fair warning
that If we ever enter another campaign |
together, and you commence butting in,
there will be one free hide hung on the
fence to dry in short order"
Now that is real funny. Humorous
in fact. That really provokes q loud |
grin. A little old decrepit, enfeebled |
broken down, squirt of an old man |
talk about getting hides. Say, Snow
ball, do you think that sounds good for
you to talk about getting our hide. |
You had better tackled that Job before
your friend Henry left. Let us adyer- |
tise the event and make funeral expenses |
out of it Mr.. Chesty. 1t would be a
a great stunt.
The blessed old man does not seem
satisfied with his lying before election, |
he thinks he has not told enough Now |
a word of advice to him. We respect |
his age but do not recognize his ability. |
We would suggest that he use little |
precaution before he finds himself in q |
position where it would be kindness |
TO him for the sheriff to be careless. |
Here is telegram which he printed in |
his sheet last week:
Audubon, Iowa, Nov. 8, 1910.
Gov. Claude II. Porter,
Centerville, Iowa.
Dear Claude:-Our hearty congrat- |
ulations on your election. We told you
so when you were here. Three cheers
for Gov. Porter. X. G. SPENCER |
and million other democrats
in Audubon County.
Here is the telegram we sent:
Audubon, Iowa, Nov. 8, 1910.
Hon. Claude X. Porter,
Centeryille, Iowa,
Accept my congrat- |
ulations upon your most remarkable |
vote for governor Of Iowa.
Signed X. c. SPENCER, Copy
Does it require more to clip the |
sanity wings of this blessed old man. |
The belt is yours and you have fairly |
won it. Take it and be happy with it.
Now before we close, we wish to say |
that some of the friends that we esteem |
most highly are republicans but not the |
lying kind. There are men in the Re-
publican party as well as IN the demo
cratic party we have no time or use for
SO far as we are concerned, the past |
election is past. We have nothing of |
which we are ashamed Henry is gone.
We presume that this will be the end
of the whole affair. The blessed old |
man died hard so let his friends comfort |
him as best they can May he now |
have more time for his siesta. The |
world will move for little while even
though he is snactive.
Fine Missionary Program.