Show political discussion draw it mild 71 now TWO burlington MEN WENT ABOUT IT lre there is one thing said bald mr leatherby 2 as he was walking down town yesterday morning that disgusts me with politics and that is the violent and abusive tone in which our daily papers conduct the discussion of every issue and question which they touch upon indeed you may rhay well be disgusted at it replied mr bartholomew who had just joined him it is as much asa as a man can dot do to olifta lift a newspaper off his doorstep door step with a pair of tongs time and again I 1 throw the paper down hal half read fread and I 1 have seriously thought of stopping it altogether for I 1 consider its pre presence sence schee in my family a contamination it is hm in truth 9 I 1 replied mr leatherby it is worse than a contamination it is corrupting it has a degrading brutalizing influence that is I 1 am convinced undermining the foundations of our moral the daily press of today to day is one great engine of abuse defamation bad grammar grammars worse lan ian runge RUge and worse morals 11 1 I annot see for my part said mr J new mew why men cannot 1 I icuss cuss i politics as freely as earnestly and as entirely free from acrimonious Crimo erimo expressions and feeling as purely free from abusive language of any kind from any heat and anger in fact as the they could discuss the grade of a street or the style of a coat sl and so think I 1 11 said mr leatherby 1 t I cannot for my part conceive ceide e of an intellect so warped and narrow darrow a mind so shallow that it cannot carry on a discussion upon any question in politics wit without failing falling into the asperities asperi ties 1 ty abusive deti detraction action ana shameful slander that is the reproach and disgrace of the newspaper press it is a form of idiocy I 1 believe replied old bartholomew it is an indication of a feeble mind that looks upon abuse as an argument and bullying as logic I 1 am and always have been alle alte publican but I 1 can express my disapproval of many democratic measures in a gentie gentle manTy naMy manner and if it I 1 had bad ilo not nol t mind enough to keep my temper perl nerl I 1 would consider that I 1 had no right to talk politics you are perfectly perfect Jy correct replied mr leatherby liea ilea earnes earnestly aly and while we disagree on so some bome me points in political contro controversy versy veray I 1 being a we iong long democrat yet we can freely and with mutual pleasure and I 1 trust profit meet and discus discua 9 our differences in a friendly I 1 way V 1 1 byj without civi giving ing way to the detestable exhibition of temper ignorance and prejudice which marks the tone of the morning papers 1 I had not noticed if i to much in the tiie sl replied mr bartholomew tholo mew with a show of awakening interest in the conversation but when that trashy democratic sheet that pollutes the evening air is brought me by my neighbor an ignorant do dolt doit t that can neither read nor write but takes the paper as a party duty to read for him iam lam I 1 am amazed that the godsoe truth and decency do not annihilate thein the infamous puerile sheet with their thunderbolts 12 it you must bear in mind however Is rejoined mr Leat leatherby herby heiby spearing speaking aking ahing a trifle louder than was pec pee necessary essary in addressing a companion whose hand was re resting ting on his arm the gazette has such a tide of corruption such an avalanche of 0 political and villainy to rebuke that its voice must be raised in order to bo be heard and it must speak boldly defiantly and in thunder tones of righteous denunciation to at startle urtle the people into into a realizing sense of tho tue peril which threatens the country from republican it misrule and tyranny coby by georgel shouted mr bartholomew tholo mew ohe oho the tho illean party is the last the only bulwark between the republic and eternal ruin ruid I 1 tell you sir once let jet the democratic party control of this government once let that infamous organization of political thieves keucks outlaws and arld cast taire take charge of our political n machinery iachine lachine ryland and we will nind find ourselves in ju the hands bands of a horde of the most abandoned profligates the most utterly unprincipled the moat moat most vicious demoralized ancon diabolical set of 1 dreja areis that ever cheated the gallows by tile twe long horned spoon 1 roared doai e d mr irr weatherby jer jerking hinz king his arm away from mr Bartholo mews hand if the satanic and infernal plans of the party were carried all their attendant knavery and debauchery this government would be a rule of branded malefactors and convicts a government of feigns a penal colony in which the most hopelessly irreclaimable graceless villains would administer the law the bad faith of the Republic republican Ati party its ignominious record its vicious tendencies have shocked the christian world and n if urea ulrea uren liar s ye yelled e e mr ir bartholomew tholo mew and you are just like thel rest of your besotted low lived ignorant classa class a low mean pitiful fulja beggarly unscrupulous and treacherous seb set whose impudence in asking for tho the he votes of honorable men is is only equalled equal led by your rapacious and unbridled greed for office your 11 you arg an old fool 1 howled mr leatherby a censorious clamorous scurrilous foul tong tongued cled died acied old reprobate and I 1 disgrace imy name when I 1 talk to you in the street you mistake vituperation and abuse for foi argument and you reply to a simple plain statement of facts with malignant and defamatory slander and calumny because you cant answer c shut up shrieked mr bartholomew tholo mew dont you say another word tome to me or ill sla sia slap your ugly by george pil kiek kick ki your tour head onn oft s you cant do it roared mr leatherby pulling off his coa eoa coat t and dancing around mr bartholomew 1 I can lick the whole republican mt party from rom the big whiskey thief md d ring ringmaster aster down to the sneak that picks ae s pockets at mass meetings I 1 ican lean can f youre a fighting nig fig fiting liar and you barent take it up howled mr bartholomew pulling off his coat then mr leatherby ran up and kicked him twice while he was struggling in the arms of his coat but bub the old gentleman got loose in a flash and hit mr L lea Lya leatherby a resounding thwack on the nose oe with w ith his hia cane and when mr leatherby stopped to hold a handkerchief over his bleeding proboscis mr bartholomew got get in a couple more good ones with his cane then mr leatherby went for the rocks in the macadamized street he broke brote two windows in a grocery before ho he hit bit mr bartholomew when wilen he caught me ibo old ben gen gentleman tieman oleman on tho the side of the thip head and dropped him then mr bartholomew took to the stone puo pile and hit a young lady on the other side of the street and mr leatherby hurled burled a ire irem M big rock which missed the old gentleman and blackened the eye of a policeman who was coming to separate them but was BO so incensed that he arrested theland the mand they were each fined 10 and costs for fighting in the street and they both bath firmly believe that the unbridled hatred and unreasonable recriminations and abuse of the daily papers Is iniquitous in its influence and should be suppressed for the good of society burlington hawkeye Hawk cyc cye |