The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-05-13

THE PRESS AND TIE AUvEHTlsER.-
The editor of the new src0kLy newSpa
per published at Mechanicsville contin-
ues to find fault with, and attempts to
punish the ADVERTISER for causes that
exist only in his own distempered and
envious brain. When he first began,
although his effort lacked the clements
of truth and common courtesy, we sup
posed twas only his rag of making a
friendly journalistic "hit;' but a second
article shows the cloven foot Of malice
and intentional misrepresentation too
plainly to be mistaken. When he as
serts, as in this article he did do, that
the ADVERTISER said thus and so, using
quotation marks to signify an exact
quotation, when the fact is, no such lam
guage was ever used and no such idea
ever conveyed by the paper referred to,
he does that of which even the "devil"
ought to be ashamed, to say nothing of
the ctiitor. He also declares that he has
''no desire to become entangled in an
endless controversy Do not be alarm
ed, we beg of you! If you are in con-
trovcrsy," We did not know it, and can
assure you that as you have commenced,
you can continue it-alonc. Why, in
deed, should the ADVERTISER become a
party to "controversy' concerning the
number of Inhabitants in Mechanics
Vile" We should be glad if it had five
thousand, or even one thousand; and if
the Prcss has SO little conscience as to
claim it, and so great 'cheekn as to make
people believe it, the ADVERTISER
will not complain. But when we wrote
to the Assessor requesting him to give
us from his census roll the number of
inhabitants IN the torn of Ncchttni"s-
rHir,' and he replies, Il herewith send
you the statement called for,N and We
publish the figures thus obtained, how
supremacy ridiculous it is for the Press
to accuse us Of a suppression of part Of
the TRUTH and in what an unfortunate
light does it place the Assessor who now
publishes in the Press a statement that
tants. But the Press has fallen 200 since
last week, and it will take but a short
time at that rate TO get to reiiable figures.
We don't blame it for letting itself down
easy, by degrees; and in the meantime
are willing it should count out into the
country anything less than twelve miles
to support its figures. 1t shouldn't talk
however, OF 1.-TWO or three additions to
the town. for we happen to know that
but one was ever made. The Press also
! drags Upton into its article, calls the
ADVERTISER its "organ,n and says it
might say Upton has 500 Inhabitants
and that would bc the truth, but not all,
for we should then omit three or four
hundred who live in the suburbs. y
Now, in the first place, the ADVERTISER
is not the "organ' of Upton exclusively
but claims to be n county paper; and, in
the second place, Upton has just / ,29t
Inhabitants within its corporate limits
where there is room enough and house.
enough to make two Mechancsvilles-
/ immense suburbs and all. And this il
what we have been and are talking
about when speaking of any town
that is incorporated, namely: the houses
people, business, &C., circumscribed by
its corporate limits, and thus are such
statements understood by every one q
sufficient mental developement not to be
able at any time to secure a berth in al
asylum for idiots. If there are to be nc
recognized limits to that which shall be
considered as part of a town." no two
persons would ever arrive at the same
figures regarding its inhabitants, ard t,
increase the population at an time, vo,
would have only to follow the exampl,
of the Press aul count out good wa,
into the country, TO in, Mr.. Frcas, anc