The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1869-11-13
& Radical Editor Pressed for Proof

& Radical Editor Pressed for Proof
When the editor of the Homer
Iliad charged the Editor OF TINS
paper with spending ''ot'er peo.
pze's money in the vain pursuit.
after Office" our first impulse was
to brand the charge as a slanaer
,nd O. falsehood. We then dellb-
Grated whether to treat the mat'er
With silence, or to meet the I'M
imitation squarely and show IL
was a cunning and base faor1ca"
tion with no other design apPa-
rent in it's inception than INJURY
IF ourself. When we considered
that this charge was made by an ex-
Congressman againstthe individ-
nal who was chosen as his success
sor, and that we owed something
in the matter to our friends, but
one course appeared proper ana
that was to ignore delicacy for
tho occasion and not only de1y'
but even demand a full EXPOSE
ton. And this we did, unpleas-
ant as it was to us to have private
matters dragged before the public
Knowing the author of the CHARGE
we accompanied the demand for
proof with a request that there
should be neither shutting nor
quibbling in complying with our
demand, as we desired ga plain,
unvarnished statement" Com
pliance with this demand was not
only easy and simple, but it was
a bounden duty, a responsibility
voluntarily assumed in publicly
preferring the charge.
Our readers will see in the fol-
lowing article from the Had OF
the 9th inst, the proof upon which
the editor of that paper based his
charge:
The editor of the OUACH1TA TELE
GRAPH demands the proof on ou
charge that he squandered other PEG
Piles money in the vain pursuit
office. Perhaps we should not hav
made this charge, as it was in realit
none of our business. 1t was simply
political family matter" with til
editor of the TELEGRAPH, and We
alluded to by US rather unthoughtedl
and perhaps indiscreetly. on the spu
of the moment, as rebut to his met
dlesome interference in a matter thu
l did not specially concern him. SIEVE
! al members of his own party mentione
q to Us ON more than one occasion th
y he was foolishly squandering mont
collected as bonus, in the vain pursu
i OF seat in Congress-, when he mu
q (have known from the FIRST that he h;
no chance to succeed. They spoke
: this matter as hardship to themselv
l. and Others; declaring that the gen.l
g man never should have run for Co
% gress, as he was notoriously ineligib
THE is all the foundation we h
= for the charge; in which we did n
l. intend to insinrate anything dishont
Is or dishonorable against the editor
to the TELEGRAPH.
t. Mr.. Blackburn's0 explanation
h what he meant originally, or
s. tended, was not the subject
is inquiry at all. We ourself E
~ competent to construe pls
1e English, and have our. own ide
ye of honor. Neither sought we
,e a1nplification of the charge.
u demanded specifications. We p
lis fectly understood our accuse
ly meaning, and possibly his mott
ut which, however, is yet to be
m veloped, but has, of course, so
r. deeper foundation than m
of spite based upon our illusions
n the District Judgeship of the 1:
District, a matter which has J
been discussed and sifted +
enough.
DIS The answer Of the Iliad is
I'LL at all satisfactory. The edi
~ only repeats his charge, VIII
III he would mollify with the