Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-09-27
"a Lie wen stuck TO is as good as the
Truth, -

TrufhsD
It is the policy Of the Herald to observe
the above saying to the letter. The 0iR-
dictivs prcprietsrs Of that concern observed
this policy when they gratifed their ma
lignant and revengeful feelings against
Mr.. Riddle, because that gentleman refused
to lend his influence to getting Messrs.
Harris and Benedict appointed to Office, by
circulating lying stories throughout the
district to the effect that that gentleman
tumblsd an exhausted soldier out Of
his carriage. They succeeded in doing
this by garbling and mutilating Mr.. Rid
dies Bull Run letter, and playing most
skilfuIly upon the sympathetic feelings Of
those who have loved ones in the army.
Although Mr.. Riddle came out with state
ment which was backed by the Hon. H. G.
Blake and Thomas Brown, editor Of the
Ohio Fa rmer, who were with him in the
carriage, to the effect that the "infernal
coward be stumbled out, alluded to in
his letter, was a Lieutenant-COlOnel who
was running away from his regiment, and
that he was carrying three private soldiers
in his carriage at that particular time, and
feeding one of them out of his lunch bask
ct, yet the Herald still stuck to the lie it
had succeeded in getting started
On another occasion Benedict had the
impudenee to publish that he was never
candidate for the Office Of Postmaster, al
though it was a matter Of notOriety that
he was and that every understrapper in
the Herald Office had canTassed the city
for signatures to q petition recommending
his appointment. That lie he stuck to.
Latterly, for the purpose of defeating
Senator Wade, against whom Benedict has
some personal spite, during the Senatorial
contest last winter, the Herald started the
lying insinuation that that gentleman
was Incorporate in his habits" or in
other words, was drunkard And it
stuck to that lie, too, with persistency
worthy of better cause, by refusing to
retract it.
And recently for the purpose Of still
further gratifying the revenge of the pro-
prietors of that paper against Mr.. Riddle,
they published a most infsmOusly garbled
and unfair report Of that gentleman speech
before the Convention, which was calculat-
ed to put him into false position. This we
exposedin the LEADER of Thursday morn
ing by publishing the speech vsTbsta',
which was pronounced by number of
gentlemen who heard it to be correct. For
the purpose of attempting to extricOte them
selves from the position our expose Of their
lying report Of Mr.. Riddles speech had
placed them, the Herald has been
compelled to publish "Card" Of Mr..
J. Il. A. Bone, in which he stated that he
reported the speech in question, and that
to the best of his belief it was a correct
report of its substance Unfortunately
for Mr.. Bone, his "Card" does not
! convince gentlemen who heard Mr. Riddle
that his report is true. His reputa-
tion for truth and veraeity has been so Sc
riOusly damaged by his many false reports
he has made heretofore when required to do
so to crafty the personal feelings Of theprO-
prietOrs of the Herald, and his persistent
belief, in common with the balance Of the
FIVE editors, in the doctrine that "a lie
well stuck to is as good as the truth, " makes
his "card " null and void, and Of no sReot.
We are 3 little curious to know what
the next lie will be, when issued and stuck
to by the Herald.