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Show t If you thought to please us by you clumsv at'empt at lencfc-strfiddling, lencfc-strfiddling, you have sadly missed miss-ed vour mark, You only render yourself doubly despicable. Second- If you had, as you claim, carefully investigated the matter, you would have discovered discover-ed that so far from being discourteous dis-courteous to the county committee commit-tee we actually notified the county coun-ty chairman of our action of Feb. ! should reach a vastly greater number of Republicans than ' through your column. and we i were much more desirous of publicity pub-licity than we were of satisfying your inordinate vanity. We ask no one to take up the cudgels for us. We are quite well able to tight our own battles, thank you, e ad did we feel that we needed help, the good Lord forbid that we should be com-pelled com-pelled to fall back upon so frail 4th, and forwarded him a copy of our protest. Mr. Odell agreed entirely with our action. But we would like to know by what specious plea of either precedent or ethics we are constrained to ask the permission of, or even to consult with, the county committee, commit-tee, when we wish to file a protest pro-test on a matter of public notor-iety notor-iety which even you had aired in your quasi-editorial colums. Or by what right does an editorial 'understrapper, still in evident literary swaddling cloths, presume pre-sume to dictate to his betters tne methods they shall adopt when their rights have been infringed. Third You state -'It is a well Wellsville Republicans Re-publicans ID e-fend e-fend Their Position. Editor Nation: Please insert the following letter, which is self explanatory. Wellsville Republican Committee and attenuated a type of scrawny Republicanism as chat wh'.chyou have hitherto doled out in such irreducibly infinitesimal doses 10 your much taken iu readers. How utterly ridiculous how stupidly iuconsistent and how shockingly contemptible you, make yourself appear, when inj the same column you proceed to castigate the Logan city council for doing the very thing that we prttsted against'. Diu you receive re-ceive permission from the Conn- ty committee to administer this . rebuke? Were you courteous enough to submit your editorial I to them? If you- didn't, why dnredyon print it? It you did, why didn't you print ours? At the head of your editorial columns.with your characteristic bombastic fan-fare, you claim to be "Of, by and for the Republican Republi-can party first last and always." j Furu'er down sir, turn'er down, I for such Republicanism as yours Us neither fish, flesh, fowl nor good red herrine. Wellsville Republican Com- mittee. known fact that the Wellsville j contingent has heretofore failed to heed the recommendations of the county committee iu other matters." This is an insensate fabrication, as false as it is stupid did- as stupid as its author. We , hereby challenge you to name single instance in which we have: I failed to heed the county committee com-mittee or any of its recommenda-' Lions. On tne very contrary, we I have been loyal to it and to the I narty to the last degree. But we Editor Repubhcan:-In yor last issue, which did not coutain the open letter addressed to the Republican members oi tne county court, you have been unwise un-wise enough to advance some reasons why .you ref used to pub- lish our communication, it w ni probably be idle to expect you to j cubMh this letter likewise, and format reason we will, asm the former forward copies to vour contemporaries, l ne io-gan io-gan Journal and Logan Nation, both of whom, eJ a ;t- Trillins- to publish mat- do not propose to be disloyal to one another. The turning down , f a ca ndidate for road, supervr- Ul a canuiuu'.e iui -r -- 1 or we concede to be a spa ah at-fair. at-fair. But the turning over of ap-Donilojeivis ap-Donilojeivis vhicirare ol.rs oy " right of political conquest is a vptv larre affair, when such ap- ies otimpovtuit public import ' existence, no matter what the. flame of the party may be J the flippant manner of dealin with the exceedingly silly .false , hoods which - accompanies it, . demonstrates that your paper s BOttrnlyalpubncauityM pointments are referred to a Democratic minority. We will U not st a ad for it for one instant. , , i We will opose it tooth and toe , I nail at every conceivable oppor-, tunicy, and we do so only because j ! we desire the good of the party. I It is as necessary for the strict- j crnn and iiiab yu r-- ' . content to run a. genuine Republican paper. .Had jem - fcen content with a mere cuit refusal to publish our open let-fr let-fr vve should have remained J' t afld let it go at that for the Arty's lie, attributing your refusal to a crass obstudcy chlTacteristlc of certain equine Vrn were not sans thtWbmustseizethe, optortunitj to assault nc I insult the Republican par y o M1 P,e : est discipline ii a pomicni mi .r as it is in a church organisation. ; We are for party discipline. It is, the only way by which to obtain permanent par.y success. 1 You, next state "Wellsville, eems to have -secured about j everything to which she is en-j titled." This is but a childish! I p!aint of a cadaverous and dis-1 'appointed chronic office seeker, j lYciu can find one in every waste I place in Zion- sometimes hugg-1 inc the editorial waste-paper j basket, often brandishing a pair of blunt scissors, and in sepulchral sepulch-ral tones deep as Hades, ex-claimin?: ex-claimin?: "The Logan Repubh- ' attempt to make four joints against us as follows. P FirsYou state that "after a cafeMerusal and cons.dera- "the kick at this time js useless anHaTySen capable of either tion, you would have not tho "kick was both, umeij of two months P- .A the same childlike u sing notce', ttack these same paragraph you a ttacu tn venom of whin ou 1 c tion to them was tota.iy. a can is here to heal wounds ana fight for the party, not to disrupt dis-rupt it." How can You heal wounds bv making them? What is the meaning of this constant nagging at Wellsville being so much represented? It is nothing but the unwilling tribute that jealousy and failure always pay to energy and success. We have had notoing iuthe past but what we have been fully entitled to we will take nothing less in the future. , , . , Your fourth point, in which you take us to task for sending our letters to the Journal and Nation, when you yourself refused re-fused to publish It, is about as fresh an exhibition of gall as one could find on the grean earth, outside ofjour effie. We had already concluded that you would not publish it, this conclusion beinn- ba-ed on the wishy-wasnv nature of vonr toril ovt (you see we had you pretty well : sized up): besides we were cog-1 ! nizant of the fact that by publishing publish-ing in the Journal ai.d Nation wej |