Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1886 — Answered According to his Folly. [ARTICLE]

Answered According to his Folly.

Democratic Sentinel. It don’t make the least difference whether the editor of The Message lives or dies, etc.—Horace E. James. O, yes it does! It makes a big difference. It is a burning shame that in this “land of the free, and home of the brave,” such heartrending and soul-bursting cries should find utterance. Perish the thought that a fellow-citizen—a distinguished fellow-citizen —one whose noble physique has wabbled over the guano-spread and saltstrewn highways of Turk Island; whose mighty intellect and penetrating eyes have caused the natives to bow at his feet. And here we demand of Uapt. M. F. Chilcote, chairman of the Republican county committee, Hon. Henry A. Barkley, chairman of the Democratic county committee, William E. Moore, Esq., chairman of the National Labor Greenback county committee, and all other good citizens, that they give our “stricken” neighbor such assurances of safety as will set at rest all his fears, relieve him of the necessity for carrying a walking stick, and cause his heart to sing for joy. .No, Horace —never say “die.”