The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-05-11
A Rupture in the Happy Fam.

Some twoyears ago Horace White
and w. F. Storey, responsible editors
respectively Of the Chicago Tribune
and Times, entered into a league, Of
fensive and defensive, having for ite
object, the disruption of tho Repub.
lican party in that city, and the
division ofplunder among themselves
This scheme triumphed temporarily
in the election Of a Peoples Reform
backboneless lot Of political prosti.
sutes, from both sides, to ofiico, who,
Of course, fell into speedy disrepute
on account of their rascalities, with
oil decent people, and even incurred
the hostility Of their respective puta,
tive parents, to-wit the Tribune
and Times EDITORS
These two papers, however, have
been working together in grea,
harmony, in the direction fsdemor.
alislng the Republican party. The
Times openly and viciously, and the
Tribune more dangerously and Of
fcicntly, because it still pretends II
maintain thin guiee Of Republican.
ism, in the mean surreptitiously and
assassin-iike, stabbing the Republi.
can party in the back, and under the
htth rib, whenever On opportunity
offered.
A difference hiss, however, sprang
up an the happy family, and the pub
lie is likely to witness, in their case,
an application of the old adage that,
"when rogues fall out honest men
will got their dues, Judging from the
following article which We clip from
tho Times Of Saturday, tho 9th inst:
A c0wARDLY, DIRTY DOG.
'In The Chicago Tribune of yes.
terday appeared an editorial article
concerning newspaper advertising in
Chicago, tive or three sentences OF
which, as representing the anlmus Of
the whole, are appended:
"Stilt, weare amused very
often to learn that, no sooner does an
advertiser send his announcement TO
it's natural channel, The Tribune, than
he is forthwith waited upon by the
drummers OF every other city paper
with celebrity exactly in the ratio
OF the smallness of their circulation.
the emptiness Of their cash-box, and
the malignity of their natures. : =
He is interrupted and beset by the
persistent assaults ofa dozen adverti-
sing bummers, led by the raging
TIMES man who hints that unless
the sad.' is published in that sheet.
&C., &C. If he refuses, he may be
surprised to learn, within day or
two, Of the most piquant and startling
facts concerning his private lite and
character, or the solvency of his
business, or the morality and respec-
liability of the uses to which his bull
diDgs are applied. Of course, this
species Of blackmailing confirms him
in the impression that these lodges
are only resorted to because the sheet
10 trying to sell it's space to him for
more than it is worth" VI
mi. Horace White is the RESPONSE
BILE editor of The Chicago Tribune
The editor of TIE TIMES has hitherto
been led to believe Mr.. Horace White
TO be . more decent person than he
is esteemed to be by the generality Of
people, and has treated him as such
IN Journalistic and personal relations.
The editor Of The TIMEsis impelled
to denounce Mr.. Horace White as q
lying scoundrel and cowardly dirty
dirty dog. The editor of The TINES
applios this language personally to
Mr.. Horace White, and posts it upon
his infamous forehead with the adhe- |
siveness OF sticking plaster"
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