Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-01
ARKANSAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
A Fool Correspondent Answered Accord.
ing to His Folly.
speoial Coz. Chicago Inter.ocenn.l

Special Cor. Chicago Inter-Ocean.J
LITTLE Rock, June 81 don't
exactly know what kind of a display
will be made by the exeursionists. but
as they claimed they could not make
their arrangements in less than four
weeks, it is presumed they expect to
surprise the good people with the
richness OF their apparel and the elo-
quence of their speeches. l would
not advise anyone to call Tor speeches
from anyone but the president of the
association, and the representatives of
the Little Rock and Hot Springs
press. The backwOods orators never
know when to stop.
As represented in this city, in the
convention, the Arkansas press asso-
citation is a motley crew, and Potter
Palmer will entertain an entirely new
class of people to any who ever
crossed the threshold of the Palmer
House. Free entertainment at a
rst-class hotel is a great indueement
to these men, who were raised on
cOrnbread and sowbelly, and every
little newspaper in the State will be
represented at Potter Palmer's ban
quet table.
To the above malicious and silly
charge Colonel A. w. Weber, editor
of the Saline County Digest, made the
following happy and effective reply:
The above language is that of a
very foolish ass, and the Inter-O Ocean
man must have been sadly lacking for
copy to have printed such trash. The
attack is entirely uncalled for, but
since such stuff appears in a promi-
nent print, we offer to our Chicago
friends that the late Arkansas Press
Association was a very creditable
assembly, Nearly one hundred mem
bers were present much genuine en-,
thusiasm and earnestness prevailed.
1t was frequently remarked that they
were the finest and best behaved body
of men that have assembled in the
capital city for years" Our personal
observation is that the present news
paper force of Arkansas is the hardest
worked, poorest paid, but equally as
good a body of men as in any other
profession in the State. They are
faithful gentlemen, Il -sacrifcing.
sturdy, noble fellows, worthy of ten
times the bestowment hat can be
given by the pleasure of a ride to any
city North or South. AS to the slur
on their apparel we beg to confront
the Little Rock fop, that from our
knowledge of Potter Palmer, we think
he has the knowledge of human kind
that he will be the same bluff. open
handed Palmer and genuine gen
tleman that has characterized him
in the building and rebuilding
of Chicago, nor will he have
the %vulgarity to hint that even
Arkansas editors shall fare better at
the sumptuous repast he will give
them, than at their own quiet homes
and iresides and. among the fruits aud
flowers Of their own gardens. Potter
Palmer has Rerer yet entertained a
truer and more devoted company of
gentlemen than are the press gang of
Arkansas, even though he might have
entertained richer ones. But maybe
the lout who wrote the above stuff Is
born too high or too low to be invited
or able to obtain the requisite passage
to the Garden City or lakes ofthe
North. On the part of the Arkansas
press, we assert that St. Louis or
Chicago, or any other place or city,
never need be ashamed of our fellows.
their wives and sisters, and on the
part of Chicago, we assert that we be-
lieVo they will be met cordially and
Hospitality and with brotherly love,
and that they will have no need to
take along any "cornbread and SOW
belly" to lunch between Potter Pal
mer's five meals a day. In the Inter
Ocean office even they will find a
capital gentleman in the person of
VIM. Penn Nixon, the business man
ager who never wears horns, unless
his deyelish editors upstairs compel
him for the time being 10 adopt them,