Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-09-02
"Personal."'


4 sPersonal. -
4 Ourspace IL somewhat limites this
week, and what We have might, pev-
haps, be used to a better purpose
but remembering the scripturRl in.
Junction to "answer a fool according
to his folly" we are called upon to
reply to an article in the Reporter, Of
Waterloo, this week. Not content
with the dose we gave him last week
Fin answer to an unprovoked attack
upon private citizen of Cedar Falls
and the editor of this paper, the Re-
porter man attempts to assail. M
again. The man whom we are COM
PEELED to call Smart, because of Q
misnomer, simply claims to have an
average share of common sense. ~
That is news to us, and we are war
ranted in saying that the people OF
the county are yet blind to that
fact(?) He has learned that honesty
is the best policy" Well, its time
1t has been by bitter experience we
know, and the only quandary to
US is, that after learning by his lou
cunning so many sad lessons, that he
does not practice it. Talking is dirt
cheap. Let us have something else
than mere professions. He says that
"the GAZETTE man attempted to sell
short on the vote of Cedar Falls for
Treasurer one year ago and failed,
and also endeavored to dispose of
the vote of the members of the Leg
islature, and failed again" To these
statements we ask him to produce O
delegate from Cedar Falls, or = MEM
Der of the Legislature who will say
that we ever approached them with
any propositions OF the kind. We
challenge him to produce the proof
of his statements, or stand before the
people of the county base slanderer
and vilifier.
He says we failed In securing the
publication of the laws, and why?
We shall leave the answer for fu-
ture developments.
He says that had it not been for
certain indefiniteness Of ideas, we
would not have had the tax list, &c.n
As the readers of Reporter will be In
doubt as to the meaning of that term,
we will state that the certain indef-
initeness" was the attempted combi
nation with the Courier against US,
to secure our vote for Judge Couch at
Ft. Dodge. After going to Smart
and asking him whether the Report
er proposed to come In competition
with US on said tax sale and answer
ing us no, with his usual protesta-
tons of honesty, he then went to
Mr.. Logan, of the Courier, and said:
~ have told Snyder so-and-so, but
why didn't we go in against him,
and compel him either tossvote for
Couch or lose the tax sale p" We
have only to say to our bucolic broth
er, that such game wouldn't have
won worth cent, and we will fur
Their say for Judge Couch that he
would have spurned such q PROPOSE
ton, had 1t been made to him, as did
Mr.. Logan.
He insinuates that we have charged
illegal prices for bills against the
county. He knows such to be false.
If he can produce proof that we ever
knowingly charged one cent against
the county more than we We're enti-
tied to, let him come forth, or stand
before the people again as malicious
falsifier.
Now that he has called us out, we
unhesitatingly say that he swore
falsely as to his actual circulation of
January last, proofs of which are
now in our possession. If you de-
sire the affidavits published, call us
out. Smart knows as well as any
one else acquainted with the circum-
stances, that the actual circulation
OF the GAZETTE, on January last,
was two hundred larger than the Re-
porter's, but that we were cheated
out of what justly belonged to us, by
the affidavits of an unprincipled
scalawag. We also know that when
asked If he would swear to his list
produced he answered, an swear to
anything"
He attempts TO cast slur upon
our military record. To this we will
only add that 1t was our pleasure
during our five years Of service in the
army, to command colored troops,
and we are frank to say that, though
they all had q blacker skin, not one
of that thousand could be found
that:did not possess a whittier and
purer heart than ever throbbed In
the breast of J. J. Smart.