Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-11-17

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An Old Reprobate VS.. 4 "Doardless
Youth"
Anna Wittenmyer's proteee, the beardles1
youth who presides over the columns Of the
NAUTICAL IS dome som .ss ise ssl msI
have went" !" he done It." &c, IL now ensaeed
r. the Dubuque and Sioux cy
I powerful !-ChdyIes City Intelligence.
When we were a private soldier in
hospital near Helena, Ark, we, together
with our sick comrades, were rendered
grateful to Mrs. Anna Wittenmexer
who visited our tent IN the capacity OF
Iowa Sanitary Agent. In the winter
after our return home, Hildreth was q
member of the Legislature, and exerted
his unapproachable meanness to the ut
most to cast odium upon Mrs. Witten-
meyer. Hildreth remembers that we
censured his unmanly course, and re-
venges himself by jeeringly calling us
Anna Wittenmeyer's protege." Hill
dreth took precaution throughout the
war to prevent the possibility of his
coming under the care of q Sanitary
Agent or an Army Surgeon. Poor
wretch!
1t is also necessary for the old mon
ster's peace of mind that he should call
us "beardless youth" He seems to
be fully persuaded that bristles, like
those he fondly stokes on his own bra
zen chin, are a necessary adjunct to
manhood, and that youth is quite dis
graceful period of mortal existence
Beardless youth" is a favorite taunt
of Hildreth's, and one he brings into
frequent requisition. Poor coot! - ~
The vindictive scalawag quotes, or
pretends to quote, a few errors from the
GAZETTE, with which to add pungency
to his sarcasm. He should have thought
Of our poor grammar years ago, and been
prevented from copying so many of our
articles into the Htelligencer, and palm
ing them off as his own. Poor thief!
We are "now engaged in annihilating
the Dubuque and Sioux City Railroad
Company" he says. Mr. Hildreth is
well aware that we have published
nothing to lead him to any such con-
clusion. He knows very well that he
made the statement because he bears us
a personal dislike, and hoped thereby to
work our injury. Poor old liar!
If Hildreth meets with the least oppo-
sition to his desires, he Immediately be-
comes the bitter and persistent enemy
OF his opposeTs. There is no meanness
70 which he will not stoop to blacken
the characters of men whom he hates.
He is, withal a coward, as proved on a
certain occasion when Marshal Melendy
asked him what he meant. Do you
remember that instance, Hildreth?
We undertake to say there is not a
publisher in Iowa 50 utterly despised
by all decent journalists as A. b. F.
Hildreth, the editor and proprietor of
the Bed-blanket. He does more stealing
than any dozen other editors in the
State, and many times his leading edi-
torial il taken bodily from some eastern
paper. A sensible article on the "Coun-
try Press" which was re-published by
some Iowa papers and credited to the
Intelligencer, was stolen. Another ar
ticle of later date on Editorial Courte-
sy" was not his own, though the Da-
venport Gazette, and other papers, copied
it, and gave the Intclligencer credit for
a good thing. Hildreth is pretty man
to advise on editorial courtesy, or yet
courtesy of any sort. .........
If there is anything Hildreth is not
mean in, we do not know what that
thing is.
AT the time of the big fire in Charles
City few years ago, we are told that
Hildreth took the crank off the wind
lass of his well to prevent his suffering
neighbors from drawing out the water.
We know he came to Cedar Falls one
time and spent an hour or two in effort
to get pass on the railroad to Dubuque
and succeeded in getting the Conductor
to trust him until the Superintendent
could be heard from. So disgustingly
small and beggardly was Hildreth's ac-
ton, that the person who introduced
him to the Conductor felt constrained
to apologize to that official for having
done SO. At another time Hildreth
begged, whined and threatened to avoid
paying fare between here and Waterloo.
The amount over which he made such
a miserly fuss, and which he was made
to shell out despite the assertion that he
was A. B. F. Hildreth, editor and pfo-
prietor of the Charles City Republican
Intelligencer, was the enormous sum of
tlgenty cents! ... ~.
We have previously stated that Hill
dreth was member of the Legislature
in 1864. We might add that he was q
disgrace to his constituency, though the
fact is too well known to render the as
sertion necessary. His time during the
session was occupied in abusing some
person or persons, and in efforts to Sc
cure appropriations which would in
some way be of benefit to himself, per-
sonally. His great desire was to get a
gold pen and pocket-knife. The Goth
of March, three days before adjourn
ment, Hiidreth offered the following
resolution, which was laid on the table
by a vote IS nays to 8 yeas:
WHEREAS, The members Of this General As
sembly have been furnished with very infe-
rior quality Of pens, and whereas, 1t has been
customary to furnish members with good gold
pens and pen-knives, There ore be Il resolved,
that the Secretary OF state be and he is hereby
authorized and requested to furnish each menu
Der Of this House with good gold pen and Q
good pen-knife.
We do not desire to find fault with
Hildreth's grammar, but really we do
not think it has been customary to fur
nish members with gold pen-knives, as