Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-11-02


ing the Recorder to make out the proceedings
for publication, but it is duty he owes the
public, aud which he ought to perform cheer
fully, especially as the newspapers receive no
pay for publishing them. Mr.. Wallace need
not attempt to deny that he showed partizan
favoritism in this matter, and that his conduct
was unbecoming the servant Of the people,
tool Of the Democratic party.
Were he Republican, we would condemn |
such favoritism as strongly as we do now.
We will not thank Republican official to
furnish us with any matter Of public interest
and at the same time refuse or neglect to
furnish it to our contemporary. All that we
ask is falrness and honest dealing between
men Of all parties and opinions.
The Reviews CowARpLY ATTACK ON CuAs
8. FOSTER We love an open foe. We despise a
mean, sneaking, cowardy wretch, who seeks to in
sinuate what he dares not say out boldly and above
board. The Revieso Of yesterday admits into its
local columns under the pretensc of replying to a
very moderate statement by US OF small piece Of
partizan favoritism done by Mr.. Wallace, City
Recorder and Democratic candidate for Clerk, in
favor Of the Reoiew and against US, low, dastardy,
mean and cowardly personal attack upon Charles
S. Foster, the Republican candidate for Clerk. The
man who wrote it, under the signature of "Som
One Else," we think we know. If we are right, b
is man well known in this community as spite
ful, venomous creature, who expert at writing
anonymous articles and making stabs in the dark
at those whom he dare not attack in a manly and
open way-a man who carries two faces. Now we
challenge the ReoieaD to make distinctly the charge
which it basey insinuates against Mr.. Foster, and
prove it. The man who wrote that article, when
he tried to nsinuate into the minds of his readers
the charge that Mr.. Foster is in the habit of
becoming intoxicated so as to be unable to attend
to his own business and to have some one else to
attend to it for him, penned deliberate, malicious,
cowardly LIE which he dares not reiterate over his
own signature, and which he cannot produce one
man of acknowledged veracity in this community
to substantiate. When our opponents are reduced
to such straits as these - when foul Islander and
personal abuse are their final resort-we may know
how desperate they deem their own cause. But we
think the gentlemen who at present have, aspire
to have the charge of the Democratic party in this
county will find in the end that they haye only
injured themselves and disguised their own party
by the use of such low and filthy weapons of war.
just keep on, gentlemen of the Reoiew, in your
peculiar style of warfare, and if your own party
does not become more sick of you than anybody
else there is no virtue in ipecacuanha.
CRAwFlsH.-T The fellow who under the
name ofsSome One Else" made the false and COW.
ardly insnuation in the Reusv against the private
character of Charles S. Foster in Saturdays
ReuieW backs down and says that he had no in:en-
ton of injuring Mr.. Foster. This everybody knows
is lie. He tried to nsinuate in his first article
false and injurious charge against Mr.. Foster S
drivate character which he dared not make openly.
This was sneaking and cowardly, besides being
base. ,.r
He now says that he did not mean to injure Mr..
Foster. This is selfeyident lie to the whole COM
munity, for every body knows that he did intend
and try his poor, pitable, cowardly best to injure
Mr.. Foster; and now he has not the spirit to stand
up to his mean inuendocs, but does what we knew
he would do, because we knew he a coward
backs down. We may be mistaken in the writer
| perhaps we are-but whoever he is, he has made a
mistake this time in the indulgence of his SLY,
| underhand. backbiting procvities. As to the ras-
caps threat of violence, he don't go about the
matter in the right way to brighten anybody. The
man who makes anonymous at acks on the charac.
ter of his neighbor, whom he meets the same day
with a smile on his face, is not generally very
| courageous. Again, the nan who wrote these
| communications will be too much ashamed of them
ever to disgrace himself by avowing himself as
their author Whenever "some One Else" wishes
to try his little game OF chastisement he is welcome
to call on us, and we will make him acquainted
with the toeof our boot. a
Eay@ The editor of the Musca:ine Rtriep
in his issue OF Oct. 18Th, charged Carl Schurz with
preaching the doctrine that our revolutionary fore
fathers, in this country, were humbuggers, and
the Constitution was not entitled to respect. In
subsequent number (Oct l7th), he presses the
same charge and says: sr
-"We can produce atiidayits of some of the best
Germans in this city that that construction is put
upon his speech by good lnguists"
Believing the above assertion to have been made
IN good faith, we respectfully asked the editor to
exhibit those afidavits, for our own special edit
cation, if not for that Of the public. Upon this
application being published without our several
signatures, he chose to make that ground Of
refusal. This objection seemed to US very trivial
it in no wise affected the merits of the question,
but, willing to accommodate o urselves to the
smallest whin,s of the editor of the Regieac, we
repeated our request in the form which he pre-
scribed. Instead, however. of complying with his
engagement, be makes this a pretext for heapi ng
the most villainous abuse upon us, and those aft
dayits are not produced. We demand them for the
last time Produce them, if you can or stand
convicted before the intelligent Germans of this
community as base and willful falsifer and
slanderer. ,-se--ar --ae..<
" DlrscH,
.e5t JACoB HoRR.