Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1882 — “ANOTHER INCONSEQUENTIAL LETTER. [ARTICLE]

“ANOTHER INCONSEQUENTIAL LETTER.

Editor Reptblicam. -Sir: You voU unteer Tour “foil consent” for me to write another letter! What “asinine assurance —T never yet asked the consent of “doesticks,” and why . should I require that of his “Damphool?” You consider certain expression in my former letter as libelous, and scy, “But as we believe him to he in the habit of using words whose meaning he dees not understand, we pa>B it by with contempt ” Will you per init me to say that I had then and have now a full understanding of t! e words used, and their legal import, and I now repeat that your “scurril- ' ous attack” upon me was uncalled ’ ’’or. and was only made by you for j “pcitisan” purposes, and I w ill suggest that the courts am open, arfti if | you feci ’hat your character or reputation have been injured, you have I your remedy, but I must olunteer ; the legal proposition, for which no fees are askec. thaL should a case of that nature be adjudicated, i jury , might be placed in a dilemma to as ; certain whether you had, or had not | ‘any reputation to injure? And as to , my use oi words whose meaning is at i all vague or hard to understand. I i hope you wiil not deem me egotistic i when I say that I have always be«n j noted for using language so plain that a “way-faring man, though a fool” need not err. and if you had a.® mucn brain as a “Woodpecker” you eoultl not fail to und rstand me You term tny letter “inconsequentinl.” and yet rack your demented brain in writing n column and a 1 a!f of par ■ nsan “taffy’’ in reply, which if writs ten by a ten year old schoolboy might j be appropriately headed. "The wail of the damned—Republican.” My acetic Brother. th< lions skiu that concealed your real nature can no longer perform that office: you undertook to roar, and the result was. the ludicrous bray of “yourself.” 'n the Republican ring you are “one of them damned literary fellers,” who seem to say,,l am Sir Oracle, and when I ope*my lips let no dog bark ” You undoubtedly thought you could get in a little work for your party by a scurrilous attack on me, but your weapon has proved to be a boomerang, and here you propose “to waste no more time.

My crusty friend, if you .w so ”ory solicitous regarding the “common sense’’ and ‘common decency” of those who attend temperance meetings, and would not have them outraged by any reference to polities, why did you not criticise the rem nks made three or four weeks ago by the present Secretary of the Republican county committee ? From t: e same rostrum, and to the same society, he took special pains to viliily. for par tisan effect, some of the ablest men in the state. But you see, ’t makes a difference whose bull is gored. W: it lit.lv brain you have is so mixed with the scum of partisan polities that you cannot have, an unbiased judgment A few weeks ago your phlegmatic in tellect, for partisan effect, tried t< abuse the County Superinten lent o* schools, but the Teacher's In.Jitiite set i s seal of condemnation on that attack. Failing there you then tried your boomerang on 'h. “Saph n : Captain,” and n-iw, who will b the next targe:? You have not the good serne nor ability to discuss political questions. The ability, integrity, and sobriety of the candidates on the Dem oeratic ticket you cam ot and dare not assail. You have a store of pai tisan abuse that must out; und so, like a mad dog you snap at ihe fl St thing crossing your path. You are entitled to, and undoubtedly receive tno commiseration of your personal friends, tint who will explain your .de moralized system and apologize' to your readers with whom you have no personal acquaintance? Who will inform them that you are trjing ’-j keep up on soothing syrup, or “Radvzay’s Relief,” and occasionally a little brain food, to keep your “Daniphoolishness” from sending you io an asylum? My enraged friend, keep cool, suppose you do have to support a man not of your choice, for State Senator, and some other officers, when you kuo y the Democracy have abler and b; tier men appointed to them, that gives you no reason to growl if a temperance Democrat happens to say something that you cleim is not Re publican doctrine. Your readers would be better pleased with a discussion of principles, than they are with your scurrilous attack on one wh > has no interest in politic further than to see the right prevail, and the best men elected to office. Honora blv yours. Chas. A. Edm >nds.