Year: 1873

Anonymous, from White Cloud, occupies an
other three-quarters Of q column In last weeks
Republican, saying principally nothing, and show
ing large amount Of ill-nature.


We will suggest to Anonymous that We have
never used Ira Orton's name in connection with
shell hole" We are free to speak our mind con-
cerning saloons, regardless Of who keeps them.
If we have endesvored to quiet the bad blood
that was excited between John Harpstor and
Charley West, and to convinee the parties that
there is no cause to fear repetition Of past un-
fortunate occurrences, perhaps there is as much
merit in it as in the effort of Anonymous to keep
the quarrel open. We are sure there is more
merit in it than there is in going down into the
grave and dragging forth dead mans bones, to
keep alive quarrel in the interest Of clique.
We have heretofore expressed desire that the
differences with Martin B. Bowers might be for
gotten in the grave; and we doubt whether il
will be either gratifying eonsoling to his fam
lily and friends, to have him dragged forth by
this masked body y-snatcher, to he used as an OBJ
ject around which to rally in fresh campaign
of personal hatred. We do not envy this hyena
its feast on the dead.


IL the writer is the person whom we suspect,



tiUns, we will say that we have heretofore had
occasion, in private circles, to defend her against
the slurs of the ring in whose interest she has
taken up the cudgels-and we did not think We
were commencing unworthy person, either.
The writer may feel impelled by gratitude for "a
vors grudgngly bestowed, to come to the defence
of the ryiguing house; but under AL circumstan-
ees, the epthets, slurs, and Misrepresentation in
the first communication, were as ungenerous as
uncalled for, and are wholly inconsistent with the
writer's previous professions and statements.
Should we initiate her example, and fall to abus-
ing tbose clooely related to her, who have done
MS no harm, simply to help us ont in quarrel
into which We had thrust our snout gratuitously
| it may be that We could say harder aud trusr
things than "idiot" and "laughiug stock" 1t
may be out of place in us to puff relative; but
it is not quite as cheeky as putting oneself as the
equal Of the best primary teacher who ever
taught in the County.


Since the writer mast pitch into other peoples
fights, and preach (if not practiee) all the heav-
emily attributes, we have q subject to suggest for
the next epistle. Let him Tor her) proceed to
canonze Judas Iscariot and set him up amoug
the saints. That much abused person has been
sleeping "grandly unconscious" for many hun
dred years, sacrifice to his own guilty conscience,
and even yet men are in the habit of "kicking
him in his grave" on every occasion. But Jn-
das has no tools clothed in little brief author
ity, with bread and butter to dispense, slse this
| would not be TINS.


In conclusion, our best wish for the anonymous
writer is, that when, after having tried faithfully
to discharged her duty, she finds herself set aside,
the victim of low personal spite against her
friends and her character assailed Ms q justifca-
tion of the unmerited wrong, may no professed
Summer-day friend volunteer to sneak up behind
her in disguise, spit upon her, and empty upon
her head the vessel of slops contributed for the
occasion by her enemies but which they have
neither the courage nor ability to use.