The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-11-12
Communication,
For the Conservatiye.

Ed CONSERVATIVES: The magnani-
nous course Of the editor Of the Her
aid towards the Morgan County Agri-
cultural Society has attained its climax
in his refusal to publish the "twaddle"
of the Secretary, who assumes to de
fend the Society and himself against
the foul aspersions Of that profound o.
wiseacre Perhaps. however, there was
not sufficient room in that sheet for his
"twaddle" and mine but, after hav-
ing assailed the Society and myself so
revengefully in his paper, it was no
more than my rightond duty to have a
fair hearing in the same journal in
which we we're attacked His ungen.
tlemanly and uniournalistic course in
this matter is reprehcnsible, and priHa
fdcic evidence Of the injustice he has
done US. Talk about selfishness 'Peo-
pie that live in glass houses should be
careful where they throw stones" His
sclfshness and base ingratitude arc
unpara Feled in this community; and
his egotism beyond the measure Of
language Ifhe had q high regard for
truth he would be more careful about
some of the statements he makes, and
would not attempt to favor his cause
with the idea that he proposed to do
the Society's printing FOR nothing rath-
er than have il sent away lie nc5er
made Sach proposition 70 me. But said
he would rather do Tie printing for
nothing than have il sent to Cincin.
natl Jhe society rus not aJie 70 pay for h'
This being a qualified proposition, and
the Society always having been able to
pay for the printing and all other work,
fell to the ground as worthless, as ma
NY other of his propositions have.
Again he says, in referring to the
"bungling manner" in which the Pre-.
MUM List appeared in that paper of
the Sth ult. that 'if there are errors in
it, he, the Secretary, is the responsible
party, if indeed, there is blame any
where. fle knew better than that when
he penned this item Tho truth is
that did read the proof of the List
rs it appeared in the Herald last May,
but lack of material in that Office ne
cessitated its being distributed" or
torn down" Immediately following
the first issue, since which time that
office borrowed the list in type from the
Conservative office, and in the interim
before the Fair that list was rarity
pied, some of ihe figures transposed, as
well as other errors made, all to the
knowledge Of the editor or attaches of
tho Herald oflice-but no effort was
made by him or them to correct the
same, although it was his or their duty
so to do did not read the proof Of
the list rs it appeared in the Herald of
the sth ult. The editor of the Herald
cannot crawl out of so small hole as
that in excuse for his incompe tency or
carelessness, and attach blame where II
does not belong,
4 strict adherence to the truth would
enable this young parasite to make q
different statement from what he did
in referring to the colored posters the
Society had printed in Cincinnati. In
the first place, that office cannot print
such poster (coloredl as we had print
ed. Aad in one color for what he
wanted to charge us $40, we could and
can get printed in Cincinnati for &c.
and a little larger poster and put up in
better style than he could furnish it. 80
As to the errors in it, admit there be
ing a perhaps two material ones -
but he will acknowledge that printers
are not infallible, for in his issue of Oc.
tober lst, there appears only 1913 errors
on the inside-53 on the record, and 70
on the third page of that paper and
many of them glaring and unwarrant,
able errors Look at the same paper OF
the 5th inst, and you will find it TEEN,
ing with errors that any enterprising
Journalist would be ashamed of. But
shame is something foreign to him in
his nature, Dwellers in glass houses
should be more prudent in their FAULT
finding, that their shortcomings and
incapocity may not be exposed.
This egotistical young man cudcav
ors 10 make his readers believe Chat hD
is popular indeed In speaking Of tho
Board he says, "the'c is not Il man in il
that we can't take cordially by the
hand What unwarranted impu
dencel There are some Of them who
do not deign to notice him whose in.
suits they have borne until 'forbear-
ance ceases to be virtue Others, and
many or most of them do not care to
associate with him. and his course in
slandering them and the Society is
tending to estrange them forever lie
may feel like counting their favor, but
he must conduct himself moro gentle
manly and honorably if he expects TO
grasp them cordially by the hand in
future.
As to minority Of tho Board desir-
ing the printing to DO done at home, I
admit it, but it was truiya minority - on
ly Two out Of twelve members, so ex-
pressing themselves, and ono of them
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