Daily Republican., 1880-05-27
xNn EDITION.
"A BURNING INSULT.
How Two sleporisrA ~sse Treated
atIhe ODD ! iels.ws' BANQUET.

How Two slSporIer4 Wsse Treated
atthe Od1 reis.ws' Ranquct.
A man named John L, PieJson at tht
Odd Eutlaws' banquet last night, by &
hasty action ana awGItei Judgment
caused u4ore modification to his fellow
mem bers and at iesst two representa-
tives Of the press, than the pleasure o
several semi centrpniai anniversaries
will be- able to courterbalarce- Shortly
after the bapque: had commenced
while the representative of the REPUB
IIcAN and a brother reporter were seat
el at one OF the tables, the man camt
to them and, in loui tore, demanded
what right they had to intruds theil
presence In the banquet.
Just here it may be stated that both
the reporters received their tickets
through leading member Of Dsia Tars
Lodgr, aud that they came to the ban,
one, upon those tickets, being actuated
more BY desire to properly chronicle
the events expected to take place, than
to take part in ths festivities. Their
amazsment may therefore he imagined,
whan, after all this. Pierson came to
thtn, aud without waiting for an ex
PLANTATION, and. evidently desiring none,
for he refused even to glanse at the RE
PUBLICAN reporters card, suMmariiy
ordered them to quit the hall.
He accompanied ths order nv pulling
Jba txun lamar, fynu, tna a Ia
and, loudly and anarily, declaring that
such lrszen intrusion was disgraoeful.
They started for the door, he following
them all the while, and urging them to
quicEsn tLeir pace, and at the door he
said, sect away or I'll kick you out"
The tGo gentlemen, thus grossly
insulte', deferred from knocking the
fellow down as they would have been
justified in doing, and waited for a
more favorable time to seek satisfaction.
When ths banquet was over it was
found taat the majority Of the members
Of the Lodge were very deeply morti-
fed at the action Of Pierson and
that they did not for mement upho>5
him in his kasty and ungentleman}y
course.
Finally. when he was talked with,
lie, as dreaming man grasps at a
straw, clG!ched the excuse that the
tickets vera ssnt to the editors of The
papsrs and not to Office boys as he sup.
posed ths reporters to be-. Even vixen
his bTethern told him that they knew
the Newspaper men to be gentlemen far
above intruding themselves into even
the rather unen1oyable occasion of an
Dad Fellows banquet, he persisted that
he believed they got their tickets illeg-
ally, and that he did not believe he did
them any harm, whatever.
After this came the only apology he
was willing to make-he did rot think
he had done them the least harm, but
if he had he was sorry. He followed
This up by volley Of oaths, threatening
to fight the reporters or any one else.
The members of the Lodge are not re-
spOnsib'e for the outrage and condenp
hin, in TO measured terms.
As the reporters left the nall the in
sultiug fellow added injury TO the pre-
vious gross off-nsa, declaring profane]y
that if the REPUBLICAN reporter said
word absut it in the nspsr "hp'd be
ID If hs wouldn't lick hin like h."
He thus lays himself open to criminal
prosecution, and had the proper Steps
been taken he would have been ptis-
oner in the dock at police court this
morning.
But from accounts this morning his
boorishnes went further, for he even
in his sepseless strictness about admit
ting persons offered an insult to Hon.
Schuyler Colfax, the principal guest
Of the evening, refusing 10 allow him
to enter until La had procured ticket.