Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-04-11
SMART ALECK.

ERo. PHIPPs BUsHwHACKISG AGAIN.
HIS CONVERSION TO II MURPHY
MOvEMENTA FAILURE-BUT HE STILL
ATTENDS FEAsTs oF BACCHUs-l
READ HIS EssAY-HIs PAST CAREER
NOT TO BE ENvIED-ALAs, POOR ALECR
WE KNOW HIM WELL.
Has the Mexico LEDGER man an
idea what blackmailing means? If
there is u copy of Webster's Diction-
AIRY in your office, you silly man,
look al it and see how he defines the
word. You charge the Monitor with
Matchmaking Doctor Conway, which
iL.plies that the Monitor attacked the
Doctor with o view 20 force him to
come to terms, and pay Il certain
amount Of hush money. Now, we
are very sorry to say, but our sincere
belief, Bro. White, is that you are
a very silly gosling, and made a great
mistake when you selected the edito-
rial profession as the one best suit
ed to your talents. The editor of a
newspaper should have a good deal
more common than You have,
Brother, and a better knowledge of
the meaning Of words; besides that
he should not be a sneak, and not
hold on to q dead beat because that
dead beat had his printing done in
his office. You just let the Monitor
alone, young man. We al manage
the Doctor, we think, and if he should
ever bring suit against us, we think
lie shall have to make II stubborn fight
for the damages he may claim.-Mob-
erly Monitor.
The following is the article which
appeared in the LEDGER last week
and to which o,d-hlow-your-brains-
out to-be-smart refers to:
Last week when The Mohcrly Moni-
tor and the Louisiana Press reached
this city with q long article black
mailing DIR. Conway, the Murphy
advocate. and slandcring his estimate
lady, WE could hear remarks on the
street TO the effect, THAT | thought
so" - said So" &c. SO you ''said
so,' did you? Well, you had best
put n stopper IN your mouth before
yOusay it again, for a PERSONS reputa-
ton, especially aladys, is n delicate
matter to talk about in Il reckless
wa.
And we will state 10 those who
think they know all about DIR. Con-
way and his reputation, that steps
arc being taken by Judge Forrest,
one of the ablest lawyers in the State
to bring suit against the Mo5erly
Monitor and the Louisiana Press for
SO, 900 each on account OF the libel
Gus story they circulated about hIhI-
self and lady. DIR. Conway is an
outsp0ken man, and even somewhat
r0agh in his at times, bat at
present We are far from thinking him
An i:npostor, and his wise other than
q most c7;IlIabte lady.
\ man with any brains at all could
understand that article without Il
second thought, but Phipps, who
could wrap his brains up in a gun
patch" and still have room for his
concience and dccency, of course
failed to see the point.
You call us , ''gosling," very
good, the right name for you would
not look well in print, but TO our GER
tain knowledge YOU are better fitted
and it suits your tastes better to
shovel '~'afFal'' in a livery stable than
to edit a decent journal.
You accuse us Of holding on to
Conway because he gave us his print
ing. Now We accuse You of trying
to blow him up because he did not
give you his printing, and right here
we will state that no man has the first
principle of q gentleman about him
that will circulate such stories about
u lady as you did in your paper, but
we can account for this. Your mind
runs in this direction, and if you had
your way there would not be a virtrt-
GUS omar in the State. Let the
Monitor alone, Young man SO
you threaten us do YOu, well we will
let the Monitor alone when we get
ready. We happen to have control
of our own columns and have the
same right to show you mp that YOU
have to show Conway up, and il you
give us any more Of your surplus
cheek we will give you such 4 ''shak-
ing up as you never had before.
You jump on to IFS about the wrong
use OF 4 word, and try to pick n fuss,
now we advise you 10 crawl into your
hole. (By the way, you used to
know how to crawl. into HOLES when
in Mcxico) and pull your hole in after
you. "You viii make a fight for the
damages no doubt, you old whisky
bl0at. IoI jump on to Conway be-
cause he breaches against whisky,
your life, brains, principle, and what
will be your death. You abuse him
because you know he can get no
damages out Of you, but re waste
words. All we have to say is that
the next time you open your ''sewer"
about us we will leave you in a con-
dition to be swept up with a broom
"Did you ever live in Mexico?
Oh! oh! ! you remember do you.
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