Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1880-10-23

evidence to suit nlH, mere pufSsS iHCo
low. vicious trade against the editors O
thi. paper. aN. T. Williamson and 6
p. McColl are, and SO brand them b.
fore the people of Umatilla County an
the State Of Oregon, malicious villife' :,
contemptible slanderers and consumm;
liars' 'They manufacture falsaho
out Of the whole cloth" h"-"They forge the |,
name Of innocent third. persons to their
false ard slandel Gus accusations" This |
mendacious couple malign and |
villify the character of any and every
one opposed to themselves" fit may be
considered as the proper course to pur-
sue in Canada" a"-"Coming into Umatilla
County with no testimonials of charac-
ter, as 1 can Learn" n"-"When they at
tempt to smirch my character and des-
troy my standing among the people of
Oregon they must present stronger
case than that they have made out. I
might well bring against them an action
of slander-I scorn to do it might
| call them 20 a personal accountability,
but by SO doing I should consider that I
| was placing myself on their own base
level. I Irenounce all communications by
written or spoken word with them, and
shall for the future treat them with that
silent contempt they deserve at the hands
of every gentleman" The reader may
wonder, why this shower of vile epithets2
Probably first to divert attention from
himself, and secondly, the E. o. would
dearly love to bring the standing of the
LEADER down to It's own. The people of
this county may remember the nasty
language it used to US before, because of
correspondence IN LEADER rejecting on
DR.. La Dow land which was afterwards
reasserted in the Independent, without
CONTRADICTORY, which upon receiving his
statement, we apologised for. The names
Of the authors of the letter concerning T.
j. Lucy were published with it. And
now when Mr.. Cox thought he had his
case fixed, his spite simply overaowed.
Thus he has overbalanced himself. The
, ''speech" at Umatilla and what he econ
tributed to the defeat of DR.. Williamson
as causes for our action, is tso ludicrous
, a joke to require serious answer.
, Then the absurd insinuation thrown
/ out by this Mr.. Cox that Berry, Pierce
! and third person, "zeaders Of the divis
io,a party IN Hilton precinct" stole the
I poll-books, reflects no credit on Mr.. Cox
t Mr.. Colby said the precinct favored divis
+ ion, DR.. Blalock has always said it, ane
when Mr.. Cox asked Y. c. Blalock if h,
!, did not think some Of the Milton boy
= stole the books, he "aimost laughed il
y his face" and told him s'of course not
for it was strong for division;" and be
sides that, everybody believed it was
! solid Division precinct. That was
" grossly stupid statement for Mr.. Cos
=. The statement we published on the st
y and for which this Mr.. Cox has assaile
b b US as above is in every respect correc
$, as the following afidavits satisfactoril
A. establish
1T I,Y. C. Blalock, being first duly sworn, d
!, depose and say that the sta ements made h
u me to L. B. Cox, were made before had rel,
" or understood the article published i'll tt
=, LEADER. Having since read it, l now sa
{" the statements as made by the LEADER, al
ed as made them to father by telephone whe
asked by him why we did not hold an electie
at at Blaluck precinct. Further, the LEADF
B. did not say l had met Mr.. Cox. while / vi
:, given to understand by him that had sa
10 he was seen by ME at the mill before electio
p The man described by the LEADER, was Il
>. man at the mill two or three days before ele
I'm ton; and the man there on election day W
id. different person altogether. think NJ
'ar have conveyed the meaning he published,
re- my letter, but did not intend to.
- Y. BLALocK.
'"' Subscribed and sworn to before me this t
nd 10th day of Oct. 1880.
,,t JONATHAN TALBERr,
'"' Justice of the Peace.
STATE OF OREGON, }
sed COUNTY OF UMATILLA. {
re. I, r. E. Eastland and w. T. Williams
) as being first duly worn, each one for hinse
and one not for he other, say that the sta
J. ment published in the LEADER Of the :
9th lust. in reference to Blalock precinct pt
icle hooks, is in every particular the same as Il
y l which Y. G.. Bial,ck communicated throu
ing the telephone to his father as reported to
lrty by the latter at the time in his Office ut Wa
fa- Walla. ROBERT E. EAsTLAND
me W. T. WILLIAMSON,
ohn Subscribed and sworn to before me this
one Goth day of Oct 1880. A. MEACHEN,
two [sEAL. Notary Public
'ent
,sed
lem Jhe 'quack Dill as 1t IS stlmetln
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