The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-08-08
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Hezett9,
The Elk Advocate for the last few weeks
has been coming out with column and half
editorials manufactured in Washington city
by detail of clerks for that purpose, they
are high flown, full Of falshood and vipit.
uration, These editorials are printed in
clips and are franked to such administra.
tion editors as are in need Of this sort Of aid.
One Of these editorials found its way to the
New York Tribune, and was subjected to
lively comment on last Thursday. More
than likely IL will appear in the Advocate
Of this week. The article is here given.
Here follows the article referred, TO
which we omit for went Of space.)
We are glad TO see that Henry has drawn
on this editorials association In Washington
for some laundering edito rials Of this sort
10 arouse the readers of the Advocate. The
onslaught in his own language he has made
heretofore have not been considered very
brilliant. Let us by all means have the
above In the next Advocate or something
else after the style of "Nero and Caligula, u
and the hell hounds Of the late rebelion.--t
Elk Gazette,
The Gazette of last week comes down
on US after the above manner, and we
have no doubt the editor Of that sheet
with fire in his eye, and mug of beef
in easy reach, writing at the dead hour
of midnight; aided by the Pickering
glare of "tallow dip" and the dis
torted imagination of muddled brain
thought that the lines he was writing
would drop like Goals Of fire on our de.
voted head, and with crash akin to the
dissolution of worlds he would see the
Advocate aud its christian editor vanish
into smoke. In his extreme eagernes:
to squelch US he does not hesitate, no,
only to make assertions which he knew
to be untrue, but does so without citing q
single shade of proof. His assertion
that our editorials are manufactured in
Washington city by detail of clerks
for that purpose" is not true; aud that
they are "fulI of falsehood and vituper.
ation," the editor of the Gazette does
not prove, but merely asserts that it i:
so; and from his entire unfsmiliarity
with the truth we doh't see how lie
could judge anyhow.
His next move is to hunt up the
Tribune and scan its columns to find
an article with which to answer the
Advocate (this seems to be the fashion
now; we presume the Gazette copied
this original idea from the Democracy
after finding an article that he thinks
will snit him he makes haste to add i,
to his original article, and then looking
toward the stars and taking another sip
of beer; suufing his candle with his
fingers, and wiping his nose on his coat
sleeve, he feels prophetic, and prophisies
that the same article would appear in
the next Ado cate. Then, after this
great effort to annihilate us he drops
down a peg and is glad to see that we
have "drawu on the editor association
etc. He sums it all up, after draining
his mug of its contents, and again snuff
ing his fast expiring "tallow DIP" by a
pithily and auxiously written sentence
concerning "our language" etc., and
after selecting short article for the
next Adoocate the famous editor drops
of into a gentle snooze. We thus
leave him, hoping that he will awaken
in time to get the next Advocate and
copy from its local columns sufficient
local matter for the Gazette.