The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-03-09
From Wednesdays Daily
"A PLAGIARTST AND A FOOL.
A Man Who Steals yOEes ~ Froln m Al
lnRnRc.

For brilliant powers Of repartee, polished wit
and choice and elegant sarcasm, we recon-
mend the perusal of the writings of our cour-
teous and sw~eet-tempered friend of the Deer
Lodge Eclectic. The gentleman is most
likely fitting himself for a position on the
New York Police Gazette, or som other high
toned Eastern periodical. But before he can
hope to gain eminence in his chosen field of
literature he must alter to some extent his
present method of conducting a newspaper.
and would do well to heed a little
wholesome advice, which we beg to offer.
He should avoid as far as possible the copying
of his CALLING and terrific invectives from
patent medicine almanacs, for though the
effect is most whitening, the compiler of them
is by an intelligent public looked upon as a
plagairist and a fool. Then, too, he INDUCES
i'll a practice which is much to be deprecated,
of denominating everybody who presumes to
disagree with his opinions, an idiot, but we
incline to the belief that only those who COIN
ciCe with his views are open to the charge of
imbecility, for it is the generally expressed
ia " Ilto uNo( T. GlldU Lllt
crazy Chinawomanfr from Madison county, who
wrote that article on the writ of prohibition,
is, compared with him, a very Daniel Webster
in intellect and judgment. He is both egotis-
tic and insolent, and seems to imagine the
tremendous girth of his waist a sure indica-
ton OF intellectual immensely. He has
so long been accustomed to have everything
his own way that, to use a slang phrase.
when he takes smut he expects the en-
the territory of Montana to sneeze.
He regards himself as the only man in the Ter
tory qualified to pass an opinion on a public
event, but the fact is that were he deprived
of the assistance of his legal friends in Deer
Lodge and the female celestial above referred
to, his sheet would be an object of universal
derision, and he would be glad to seek the
retirement of a bull-whacker's life for which
his attachments so eminently adapt him.
When the MINER first made comment on a
recent decision by Judge Galbraith, we
thoroughly assured ourselves Of the correct
ness of the position taken, and in the event of
opposite views being expressed by our Deer
Lodge contemporary, were under the impress
sion that its editor or those attending to the
responsible department of the paper, would
argue the matter in a courteous, gentle
manly and reasonable manner But
what did he do? He came out in a column
of coarse vituperation and low b~lackguardism
which proved rothing except that we were
mistaken in supoosing him to be Il gentleman
of culture and responsibility. In an answer
inc article we showed the falsity and absurdity
of his position By a quotation from his Hon
or's own language, and the scissors editor,
beng driven into a corner, procured a patent
medicine almanac and with the assistance of
a crazy C~hinawoman, whose judgment was
superior to his own, and by the advice of a
few legal pettifoggers, selected and appropri-
ated some stale negro minstrel vulgarities and
published them to the world. Verify he is a
candidate for public commiscration. He
would confer d favor on his subscribers by
shielding.