Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-12-06
Mr.. kSheIman's Compliments q
(lemeral Comfy.

lily that he has written touching the Jour
MATS failure to publish the Presidents
Message in advance Of the usual hour Of
publication. 1t is part Of the vocation oi
drabs ana fools to mouth the word liar,
and all such epithets; and General Comfy
can, therefore, with impunity indulge IN
such language, for the reason that neither
law nor society would hold him guiltless
who should strlke-a fool. In fact, we pre-
fer that General Comfy and crazy JOSH
should call us liar, and thus relieve us
from being brought into immediate con-
tact with them.
Ever since General Comfy, through one
of the inscrutable dispensations of Provi-
dence, or the wiles of the Devil, became
the editor of the Journal, he has sought
occasions to throw out his venom against
TIE STATESMAN and against the Franklin
county Democracy, and has assumed an
air and strut wherein he carried the con.
viction to all discriminating persons that
he is pdrvenu. His filings at The STATES
NAN have been frequent, and designed to
be disparaging and offensive. To this we
have made no complaint, nor do we feel
aggrieved, inasmnch as what a fool may
say about US gives US no concern whatever.
| On several occasions, by way of pleasantly,
we have exposed General Comfy to ridicule
| until his name has become almost a con-
not do through any feeling Of malice; for
we do not suffer any such feeling to grow
up in our heart toward simpleton. Even
| this humiliation and modification we
would have spared him, had he not put on
such pretensious airs. Indeed, such is our
goodness of heart had we known in the
outset that he is so ineOneeivably dull a
fool as he is, for the sake of his family and
friends, we should have permitted him to
/ pass unnoticed. We erred on one occasion
| in recommending that his friends should
| put him through course of treatment for
insanity. This Recommendation carried
with it the intimation that he had brains,
that through some cause they had become
disordered, and were susceptible Of being
restored to healthy condition. We did not
| then know General Comfy as well as we
do now, or we should have counselled his
friends to treat him to quarters at an Idiotic
Asylum. That the man has no intellect
that can possibly be put to any account
| has recently been made Enthusiastically pal
! pable in at least two instances. Some one
connected with the Journal establish
| ment conceived the potion that if the
| paper were put in new type and its
form changed from folio to quarto, the
| public would accept it as an evidence of
| enterprise and as a substitute for
the absence of ability in General Comfy.
For few days this might have had the de-
! sired effect; but, in the second number of
| the Journal after this change had been
made, General Comfy spoiled all again by
| publishing lengthy editorial, wherein he
undertook TO explain to "all the readers of
the Journal show the paper was made"
! In that editorial he told the public, that the
work Commences about 10 A. NJ" on the
Journal, at which time the sleepy looking
| workmen make their appearance" He
gave the readers to understand that there
we're on the Journal quite a number of
Editors, and these Editors he represented
as Sc the jaded Editor" as Z" the Editor-in-
Chief-(poor devil ~ as the Heavy Man."
an unhappy individual" !" as the literary
Editor" the most sheep-faced man on
the staff" as the local Editor" who goes
"pitching through the streets like an ami
mated catapult," and "the theatrical and
musical critic" who seems to be continual
ly sin despair" And because we have
since that time referred to those working
men and Editors in the same language that
he then spoke of them, the poor Idiot now
| sets up the whine, that we have INDUCED
in repeated filings" against the Journal
workingmen," and blubbers out that
they "pay the highest wages, and have
never failed to pay in full every week"
and that "it is fair to suppose that by this
means" they can "secure the best of work
men, That's matter we know nothing
| about, and care nothing about. Its none
| of our business; but the whine illustrates
the idiocy of General Comfy.
The other point we propose to make on
| the General, in this connection, is this: II
was the determination of the Journal folks
| long entertained determination-to beat
THE STATESMAN in publishing the Presi-
dents Message. For years it has been the
| custom of these two offices to race in get
| ting out that document. In conformity
with this custom the foremen Of the two
Offices made their arrangements. The fore
man of the Journal Office undertook to press
into his service-into the service of this
establishment thatclaims itpays ''the high
est wages" and has "never failed to pay In
| full every week"-extra hands. So late as
Saturday night the foreman OF the Jowna
endeayored to make arrangements with the
| foreman of another Office in this city to as
sist in running the Message out ahead oi
| THE STATESMAN. 1t was In turtherance Of
I this purpose that one of the employees oI
| the Journal went to the telegraph Office and
patiently and anxiously waited until the
telegraph operator received instructions to
hand copies of the Message over to
| the publishers of the papers in this city. 1t
was when the Journal folks found, and only
| when they found, that they could not COM
pete with THE STATESMAN that the Journal
l. abandoned the race. Precisely at what
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