Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1879-04-03
OUR REPLY,

OUR REPLY.
:. From the above letter it would appea
that our friend Bogert is considerable
stirred up-warn. as it were, and deliver
, himself rather impulsively. He felt St
certain that some trick lay concealed in tn
request" to publish his lecture. that h
''predcted as much" to his particula
frierds; yet, without apparent hesitanc,
on his part. acceded to the request, furnish
ed us the manuscript, read and corrected
the ''proof." and thus. according to his
own admission. became a conscious party
or willing dupe to the preparation OF /:
trick upon himself. Surely he is man OF
deep penetration and profound Judgment
or he never could have seen so far nor act
ed so wisely. He knew it WIS ..treach-
erous request" yet graciously yielded to
1t. lie fOresaw the 'bedrayglng" conse-
quences, yet voluntarily consented to be
''belraggled." He suspected he was "stcp-
ping INTO the mud. yet apparently expect
Ell to come out with polished boots. But
how peculiar man Mr.. Boget is. One
would naturally suppose that instead of
being disappointed and getting particular
~ hot" AS he now appears to be, he
would feel highly eIated over the discovery
that he is man Of such deep penetration
and that his prediction has beenso literally
fulfilled. We must say, we fail TO see
where the ''trick." we are accused of hay
ing perpetrated on Mr.. Bogert. comes in.
Unless we had secretly designed to
change or garble. insert into. or expunce
from. Mr.. Bogert's lecture land such an
idea would have been SIMPLY absl,rD. we
can not see. for the lite of us. how any
trick could have been contemplated or if
possible to contemplate. how it could have
been carried out. since we have invariably |
extended to Mr.. Bogert the courtesy of
reading the proof sheets of his contribu-
ions to the COURIER. Mr.. Bocert's lee
''re stands intact-.just as lie delivered it
nst as he furnished it to us for publication.
4 any trick was contemplated or designed.
existed and now lays "concealed' wholly
n MIR. Bogert's Imagination.
When one Of the prominent gentlemen
designated by Mr.. b. as his confidential
dvisors was among the first to loudly
raise Mr.. BIS lecture and suggest that we
publish it. we told him that we had no OBJ
pcfion to doing so. but. on the contrary.
would cheerfully tender the columns of
he COURIER to Mr.. Bogert for that prr-
osc. We did so with the result known.
MIR. Bogert says mo one can object to :
llr and decent criticism of his public el- +,
)rts.' While many do. we think no one
hould. and so We thought when the AUNT
ally letter was handed in for p,blicat on. !;
'e read it carefully and observed that it :.
as free from 0bjectional personalities 9
1T it confined itself to the lectures deliy- q
ell. We considered it fair and honor =
'e C. iticism, and frankly confess we fail E
Sc AIRY reason to-day to change our
'iniLn in this respect. Parhans Mr..
,gert or :ome of his friends car point
t wher .in !. is not. If so. or they think
r. Bcgelt has been misrepresented or u
'ated unjus ly. the columns of the CoUR- l
R are cheerfL lily rendered forany defense, y
personal in s nature, that he or tliey u
~ choose to ma. le. y. ~
AS to the letter c. sting us two weeks of 1
'or, had Mr.. Boyer read the COURIER al
March Goth he would Rave known it did d
t. AS to our writing '-of course we "a
J. lover the left. We MAKE speciality -
writing all the contributors We Claim TX
receive. We have so little to do that.
fill our columns. we must write etl. 'rs
'tending to come from Helena. Virginia,
les City, Sherman. Fort Custer. Terry's TT
ndIng. ETC., and that not keeping us tri
", our naturally daredevil disposition CO
st get us into scrapes by writing RE fro
Ca : Matilda and "Aunt Sally let at
). and when we find they stir folks I'D the
e. why. we sit down and write up the no
er side. In fact we do so much in this kel
that several communications week
their way into the waste-basket. But,
n. BOgert knows how it is himself hay ,
filled the editorial chair and written all 49,,
contributions he pretended to receive. W., w:'
the most peculiar thing about the ~. -"
de matter. viewing it in this light. is ':.
Mr.. Bogert. after writing such a letter WV
Is. should openly abuse and accuse .r,'
us whom his suspicious lead him to Wv :"
K might have written the letter. 'e'
r. Bogert makes serious charge poe
INST his own lecture when he charges the
cism with being characterized bv
y vulgarity," from the fact that AUNT s
" does not go outside of the subject new
ter OF the lecture itself. nor draw an plo
renee not warranted by the language Ota
Elm used. Farther than this. in her thai
laniy generosity, she allows Bogert TO scri
''friend in court" in the personal beiI
acfer OF ODox. who explains, excuses
'stifies MIR. Bogert's idiOsyncracy with
lgennity that even Mr.. Bogert himself T
hardly claim to possess. nor
Ill. ROgert doesn't like it. He appears o..
mad" because "Aunt Sally quoted vii,
him verbatim ct Hteratim. Why that's the
'ay to criticize! "Aunt Sally" should of h
abused BOgert; accused him of star
ny vulgarity." ''unfountled statement
contemplate insin,lation,'' instead Of Lit
ing fool of herself by quoting from
ecture itself. That's where she makes
.reat mistake lin the opinion of lso- =
! thOl
t, seriously. We have no disposition o't''
ever to under-rate Mr.. Boget's quail new
ons as a writer or speaker. He is one II w
e few men in this community who no
been imbued with the laudable am-
OF furnishing occasional contrbu-
to their home paper, and no small n,
INT of credit is due him therefor. wer
are friends Of Bogert, and cheerful on d
''es'oI s"a' NC posscssee very fair abil- has