The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-10-10
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-zs1lA4kdiser Of tie Ricdmoad 7rss Re-
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vi Shiny attention has been called to
an article in recent issue of The Repub-
licon under the caption of sJnstice done,
in which ! am charged with having sur
reptitiously obtained the publication OF
an article as editorial in the columns Of
the Brookyille american. Believing that
silence on my part might be taken as a
tacit admission of the truth OF this allie
CATION, . proper regard for my reputa-
ton, - we'll rs sense of duty prompts
this reply. I therefore respectfully re-
quest that you permit me to say through
the columns of the Republican that the
charges made against me IN the article
above referred to. are false and SANDER
Gus, aud that your informant we'll knew
them to be such when he uttered them.
Immediately after the publication of
the Explanatory note in the american.
i addressed communication to the edi-
tor thereof. setting forth the entire facts
in the case. (which the following is q
true copy: .s'A3e s PES ssse s9i
49, 'Brookville. July Is, 1867.
c. H. BrsGHAM, Esq,
Sir:-In tie last issue of the Anser;
'con,. you published an. explanatory
note in which you announced that the
article in the previous number in regard
to the Fourth Congressional District and
Hon e. W. Julian, should have appear
ed as communication and not as cdito
rial. If so disposed, you might have
further stated that you we're not the au-
thor Of various other articles which have
appeared as editorials in the 4fn,erican.
But as you have seen proper to disa,ow
this one alone. it may not be amiss for
your readers to know the facts in the
case, which ale briefly as follows:
Shortly after Mr.. Julian's visit to this
place, some two months since, you ap-
preached me on the street and express
ing yourself opposed to his course, invi-|
ted me TO write an article for the A'eeri5
can in opposition to him. A second
time, the same day or the next succeed !
ing one, you introduced the subject. end
again requested me to write for the
American. Some time subsequent, to
this, in your Office. you again placed the
columns of the american at my disposal,
with the voluntary admission that while
you could conduct lhelocal departmento of
the paper, you knew nothing about poll
tics. Under these circumstances wrote
3 few articles. which. by my permission,
we've inserted as editorials. The one
headed, "Watchman, what of the night
was written by me, and handed to you,
in my Office, in manuscript. You read
it in my. presence, and smilingly ap-
proved it with the remark, 'sThat is all
right You adopted it as your own
and used it as your leader, az your ocn
option and soithout my solicitation. But it
seems that change has come over the
spirit of your dream,' within the short
space of one week, snd you now hasten
to Ego back on your very recent record
For this very consistent and honorable
course you undoubtedly have q suitable
explanation, and can, no doubt, state
what the confederation Is which has been
brought to bear upon you. Pug
'ss- : = asA ' Respectfully,
R. H. SwrFr.''
Mi Bingham, for reasons satisfactory
to himself. refused me herring though
the American. To several Of my friends,
however, lie expressed regret at having
published his Explanatory" article.
Such being the fact, I should have per-
United him, quietly, to occupy the ridic-
ulous. position in which he had placed
himself, but for the assault made on II me
by the Republican.
Referring to the original article which
seems to have aroused the ire of the Ju +
liam family to terrible pitch, have to
rciterate every statement made therein,
and to challenge a rcfutation. 1t con
tains no personal or abusive attack on
Mr.. Julian "villainous' or otherwise,
but is simply an effort to show by an
array of facts, the Improperly, not to
say danger. os nominating weak or OBJ
jectionablc candidate for Congress in the
new Fourth District. Whether Mr. Ju-
liam is weak or Objectionable, the cleo.
ton returns Of his district which show
him to have fallen behind the Republican
ticket in 1864 one thousand and seventy
%niuhf f107Ql vnfes and IN 1900 o;1rb%
hundred and ninety six (s96) votes, will
sufficiently show. IT, might have been
safe to risk such nominations in the
Fifth District with her overwhelming Re /
publican majority, but d like proceeding
in the Fourth would he questionable, at
least. So g s@..s 80 feesAaA G@&s *
It was not written as charged. in the ii.