The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-04-08
"A REPLY.


notice the SANDERS uttered against him,
people for long time believe them to be
true. When truths are told to man 5
discredit, the wisest thing he can possibly
do is to keep silent; in this case we propose
to sling little ink. In our cotemporary
of last week the TRIBUNE gets hauled
over the Goals at wonderful rate. In
fact the TRIBUNE must be of some i'm
portance or it would not have received
four columns of abuse from that source.
Well 1t has been cur aim to plant thorn
in the sides of swindlers and rogues, and
we are glad to see them begin to squirm.
But who is it that wriggles most? Who
is it that wears the coat which we cut out :?
What member of the Ring flies to its
rescue and seeks to cover up its foul
deeds? Echo answers, who While we do
not pretend to know definitely who wrote
the articles published in our little neigh
Dor last week, we will say this much, that
among the reading portion of the com
munlty Henry Sibree gets the credit of
SO doing, and though he should deny it
point blank las he undoubtedly will there
are certain ear-marks in many of the ar
ticles which can be covered up no more
than they could be in the article some
time ago, signed TT" We shall reply
briefly to all the charges made against US.
In the first article, in the third line is a
direct falsehood. The TRIBUNE never
said Malloy was offered suit of clothes
ito cote for Sibree," and the man who
says it did, is p willful liar. In No. 2,
MIR, Malloy is called drunken man"
and spoken notwithstanding he is one
of the Democratic County Committee
as a man who would accept BRIDE Now
be it known that after Mr.. Malloy made
his statement, leading Democrats went
out to his farm to make him retract what
he had signed his name to, but he was
not so drunk as he might have been, for
he remembered every word he had utter
ed and completely nonplussed Sibree' S
friends. In No. we are assured that
''Sibree is safe - Good, the Republicans
feel that they are, SO long as Sibree main
tains his present attitude. The first
paragraph Of No is too indecent for any
person with the least particle Of self re-
spect to notice at all, though the asser-
ton that the democratic nominee can be
beaten as tippler is the most extraord-
mary statement we ever heard Of. In
the second paragraph the charge of
drunkenness is again made against Malloy
As we understand MIR. M. proposes to
reply to that charge himself, we have lit
tie to say about it. We do say, however
that the assertion, that Malloy said it
was all lie, and aCrote letter to that
effect, is as false as the writer of the ar
ticle could makeit. The s'letter': which
Malloy signed was aoratten by another man
and that man lives in Manitowoc 1t is
further said that if Malloy had been kept
drunk he would have kept on lying, "
from this we infer the principal writer in
our contemporary last week was kept con-
tinually drunk. No. 5 is piteous wall
because "a certain old line democrat
refused to vote for the new convert. No.
6 holds UP a "hanner" 80 the gaze Of a
town which threatened to bolt the Re
publican Democratic nominee. No Z
informs the TRIBUNE clique that certain
circumstances might have Influenced Ma
honey to give tvo suits in order to secure
a County Judge who would sat him. This
agrees with what we have thought all a
long, and also with the statement OF
Mal!oy. No. s says the TRIBUNE charg-
ed "that Mr.. Quinn received $50 to vote
for Sibree. 1t is a lie, the TRIBUNE
made no such charge. A certain demo
crat asked such a question in our paper,
which is very different matter We are
personally unacquainted with Mr. Quinn
but we are informed that once on time
he came to Manitowoc as a delegate !;
went to one of the candidates and insinu-
ated that as he was to vote for him in the
convention the said candidate ought to
pay his ex penses while In town. Candi-
date gave him So. and Quinn voted for
'tother Teller, which was good joke on
the candidate but does not prove the
warm personal friend of Mr.. Sibree to
be one of ''the most worthy and highly
honorable young men Of. the county. .
No. 9 ihtimates that the people have run
wild and made mistakes during the past
ten or more years. Aye, that they have,
as our immense county debt abundantly
proves, but it is plain they have their
eyes open now, and there will be no more
Poor Commissioner steals, if the people
can prevent it. 1t says also the people
should cease to follow the lead of ambi-
tious men who seek Office at the hands of
democrats This advice was taken in
its most literal sense, and Sibree was Civ
en- the cold shoulder. No. 10 ''soft
soaps one of the editors of the TRIBUNE
for the purpose Of throwing mud at the
other. This is about as contemplate a
thing as person can do. No IL says
the TRIBUNE would deny Mahoney the
right to employ an Attorney to write de-
tense against an unfounded attack upon
his integrity as a public officer. Not a
Bit of it! The only thing complained of
was that the Attorney did not dare sign
has name, or that Of Mahoney. Some