Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-05-06
Editorial Personalities:
We heartily endorse the following
sentiments of the Cleveland Herald !:


sentiments of the Cleveland Herald !:
No one thing so lowers the news
paper profession, as its indulgence
in editorial personalities. No true
gentleman will allow an editorial
contest to degrade itself into mere
personal abuse. The calling of
editors by name-except in way of
compliment-should never be per
mitted in newspaper columns. To
this vulgar and vicious practice of
abusive personality, is due the low
standard Of the editorial profession,
for it is not to be disguised that,
while newspapers are power in the
land, their managers have not such
reputation for truth, candor and
courtesy as should mark calling
VI on which hinges interests SO de-
licate to individuals, so important
to the State, SO vital to the nation:
and so essential to the human race
Those editors Of which we speak
are exceptional; at least those who
are guilty of the attack, for there are
others, goaded TO retaliation by un
just personal aspersion, tempted to
fight back with the same weapons,
who never would be the first to
enter the field of personal detrac-
ton.
1t becomes a very nice question
to sensitive man, one who recog
nize the law Of courtesy, and who
values good breeding, or admires
inherent delicacy of feeling, to know
how to act under the personal at
tacks of q blackguard. Patience
ceases to be virtue, and self res
pect demands that something should
be done, either to silence the SLAM
derer, or to break his venomous
shaft. We seldom find an antidote
to the poison we complain of, so
Justly administered and so causti-
cally applied, as the following from
the Cincinnati Enquirer. 1t ought
to be ef1icacious, unless this case, so
familiar to all Ohio editors, is be-
yond cure. The Enquirer says:
The people Of Cincinnati can at
test that we have sought no person
al controversy with Mr.. Halstead, of
the Commercial. We have scarcely
ever mentioned bis name in the En-
quirer. Indeed we have sought to
cultivate pleasant private relations
with all the members of the press in
the city. The people of Cincinnnti
will also bear witness that for the
last eighteen months the editor of
the Commercial has spared no oc-
casion, in or out Of season, to assail
by name, and slanderously, one of
the proprietors of this paper, Mr..
Washington Mclean. But while
the public is witness to these en-
venomed personal attacks, it is ma
turally ignorant of the reason of
them. Let ours be the simple task to
tell the cause. We could have Sc
cured the silence of Mr. Halstead,
and he knows it; but we refused to
pay the price asked. Hence his
malignant personal defamation.
Now we simply propose to bring
all this matter to head Silence
on our part has produce license on
his part. We-and we take It, the
public-are tired Of it. Neither we
nor Mr.. Halstead have any right to
make the people parties to what is
evidently on his part personal hate
of one of the proprietors Of this
paper, who, we will here say. is un
conscious of ever having done hin
harm by word, deed or thought
And with a view to bringing the
matter to an abrupt conclusion, we