Year: 1878

Republican" writing for Democratic
sheet. Such charges are false and
malicious and are sprung at this time
for the purpose of injuring my stand
ing in the party and defeating my
nomination for road supervisor at the
next Republican convention.


am sorry that so prominent a
journal as THE ADVERTISER should
think for a moment that I am in any
way shaky. No, no Mr.. ADvER-
TIsER, am true TO the faith, and l
doubt very much if you could find a
III ore orthodox Republican in all the
west than / am. So firmly convinced
am / in the faith that I refuse my
wife the privilege of borrowing coffee
and meal from her Dem mocratic neigh
bors. 1t is my orthodoxy that wor-
ries the Press folks, hence the charge
of renegade"


Up here, when the Press says a man
is disloyal to the party, it is consider
ed he is all right on the goose; and
when it says John Doe is rascal, we
look upon the said Doe as an honest
man and Uice UerSa. If that paper
speaks we'll of a DemOcrat-even in a
business point of view. his party
friends look upon him as weak
brother, and shun him. If it says be
is thief, he is certain of election to
some lucrative office. Thus you see
we are better educated as to what that
paper says, and its effects upon the
people, than you Brownvillians are.
litical destruction of one of Otoe's
most honored citizens-I mean the
Hon. ]. Sterling Morton-by bedaub-
ing him from one end to the other
with its putrid slime. That gentle
man cannot mark a pig, set hen or
doctor hog for the cholera, without
that villianous sheet mentioning the
fact with flaming head lines like the
guide boards at railroad crossing.
Not long since DR.. Miller of the Her
aid, and Governor Norton" had a
little spat with each other as to which
of them had said the meanest things
about Dan Voorhees, and character
istic of the Press, it put 10 its yawp
and took the fight off the govern
Ors" hands. This assumption on the
part of the Press has brought the gov
ernor down peg or two among dem
Ocrats who don't know him, but
those who do know him, have undy-
ing faith in his time honored allegi-
ance to the democratic party.


Thus again you see, where the Press
is known, people like me and Morton
care but little what it says, for it can
do US no harm. But when a stray
copy gets as far away from home as
Brownville, and the Inhabitants
thereof read it. they are liable to be
deceived. Hence L rise to explain,
much lengtheir than / should have
otherwise done. To further show you
of the pure cussedness of that sheet,
have only to refer you to the fact
that some two months since, the Ag-
ricultural Congress of the United
States assembled in Chicago, and
among the representatives present
was Mr.. Morton of Nebraska Dur
ing the deliberations of that august
body of men, the president had oc-
casion TO go out and wet his whistle,
and while absent, Mr.. Motion occu-
pied the chair temporarily.


No sooner was this done than a
special reporter of the Press telegraph
ed that paper to the effect that Gov
ernor Morton of Nebraska was elect
ed temporary chairman of the agri-
cultural Congress"


A copy of that paper found it's way
to Chicago. and the Times of that city
called him Governor, also.


Had the Times known what lying
sheet the Press was, and how it was
trying to belittle Mr.. Morton at home
by publishing bis name in its columns,
1t would have refrained from printing
such stuff as it did.


You see that paper is destined to
work mischief and deviIment ,wher-
ever aud whenever it can. So far as
am concerned, / care but little whatit
says about me, but when it under
takes to fight the battles of Govern
or Norton" it assumes what it can
not do; for Morton is looked upon as
a much ADLER writer than Brown of
the Press is, and Is fully competent to
slay Doctor Miller or any other man
over his own signature, when he feels
like doing SO. 1t worries "GovernOr
like fun to see the Press idiots come
to his rescue.


No, am not a renegade Republi-
can. j. w. PEARMAN.