Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-05-25
Who is II that gets Drunk


For the especial benefit of our Black Re
publican n,ishbors who seemed so 'tickled"
ut an opportunity of slandering the r. l.
Argus and its proprietors, We publish the
following extract from its last Weekly;
"Wny Is IT so In local ARTICLE in the
idttrti$cr OF yesterday uornng, noticing
the fact that one T. f. Scott who is n run
ner for hotel in this city, under regular
monthly pay. was arrested for being drunk.
that paper takes especial pains To say that
he is local EDITOR of the .irgos. and that he
i the second employee of that this estab-
lshment who has had the honor of boarding
at the Gridlron hotel" What does the I'D
rcrtiser. seek Ia prove this l. il that the
Argus is at fault because Mr. Scott INDUCED
too freely in bad whisky Mr. scott obtains
-teamhoat advertisements for this paper for
which We pay him "A regular commission on
each and every dollars worth of work he
rings Us. Tina, is the extent of his connex
ion with the argus. or Of the .Arg..s respon-
Ill iiiiv for him
Ii is true that Mr. Scott got tight" was
arrested. was locked up, and was fined for
having little too much whisky on board
and that WAS all. We hope it will do hin,
good We understand he has taken the
pledge. and hope in future, that he will i'm
itate the example Of his employer and keep
snber, instead of that Of his reyier, Who gets
drunk and ought to have been locked up
with him.
put Why does the advertiser publish such
,illainous articles. Is a newspaper respon-
sibie for the morals Of its Employees And
if 50. how would the id.y,tser stand ? Mr..
scott is regularly employed, under monthly
Fay, 10y hotel kept by a political friend Of
the advertiser, and only occasionally hy us.
states that he is local editor" Of the Arq,ls,
which is an outrageous falsehood But if ii
was true. i, the -iryas responsible because
one of its employees got drunk. The other
employee" spoken Of, who boarded at the
''Gridiron hotel was simply a Jour printer
lie was. in politics friend nd advocate Of
the party which the Adcerti er badly DANA
| ses by its support; and. alter he was sen,
To Jail, was the regular CORES, ,oudent and
local Jail editor Of the -Adrcr;,ser filing il.
columns with foul abuse and lies in regard
To the editor of the argus, all of which h.
rctracted. in a private letter sent to Us af,e,
he was released
Who are the propriet"rs and editors o
this -id'erfiser. u paper which seeks to Lrin.
odium upon the .iryus because r. +. scot,
who Is in the regular monthly employ Of q
black republican got drunk. and because .
black republican jour printer was sent I,
Jaiiy Who are they There il only on,
name published, rs having anything To d,
with that delectable sheet. and that is IT
K. Raymond. proprietor Who is 7. |,
Raymond. who allows someb.iy to attac.
us through his coumnsg He is a regular al,
whisAey soaker He has been steeped i,
whiskey most of his life, and only the da,
before he caie To this town. Law ho.. DRUM
in the gutter in a public street in Chicago
Not week passes but what he NAV be s.e,
running around from one saloon to another
in this city. the drunkest and the s;l,;..,
man of all the town. Yet he keers on, a
Jail, because he is not So noisy as his fellow
,lrunkard scott, and generally has frien,
on the police who will take him home in
stead of taking him to Jail. That is r II
Raymond. very clever, silly man. who i
too weak to control his own paper. and a
lows it to be used by blackguar.ls as a '.
hicle for abusing better men than then
selves
Who edits the sheet For aught the wor.
knows 1t edits itself No persons name ar
pears in lite columns as editor, hut il is Ger
orally understood that onsO. p, Wharton. II.
when the republicans found Il necessary !
| Ct ~ neme cet Of sight q editor n ~
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