The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1880-06-02

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An Open Reply 10 "An Open Letter."
Wm. Shdrer, Esq GreearWe, ny:
In the last issue of the .H"hienJerg |
Echo ] find an open letter from you adj
dressed To me, which contains, ~ you
know, gn,ss Misrepresentation. ~
much so that deem il proper to make
an open reply.
You attempted To create the impress
sion that ! offered to remain silent for
$3.50. never made you any such prop
osition, and used no language that
could he so tortured or stretched as to
convey such meaning.
| received letter from you on the
I'D of May, which | supposed you in
tended rs a private letter, and in my
excoriation of you in last weeks paper
so treated it, making noextract what
ever from it, | answered you on the
oath, and supposed of course my reply
would Ike treated the same way, but no,
you refer TO il in such n way as to dome
great injustice, and make public prop
erty of it. You thus let the bars down,
and am relieved from any obligation
to treat your letter rs private, and will
refer to il and make extracts from il in
this reply.
In my reply, said in substance, that
if had known your communication
to the HERALD was untrue, | would not
have published ii for $500, and consid-
cred that lis publication had damaged
the paper seriously, 10y weakening the
confidence of the public in il as a re-
liable newspaper.
also stated that | would not have
had the fabrication copied i'm the Louis
vile Commercial, and its notice thereof
after finding out il was false, for so,
and supposed you would not care "to
dance up" with these amounts, although
you had proposed 'to stand RESPONSE
ble." This is as near as l offered Ia re-
main silent for a consideration, and |
am willing for a just public to decide
the matter.
SO far from intending Ia make any
sort Of proposition to remain silent, you
know that you brought all the influence
to bear you could to get me TO remain
silent, but ! refused any overtures al
entreaties from you, or any one for you
determined, that rs you had imposed
upon me in public manner and made
me the tool to place Wickliiie and Me-
Gown before the public in an unenvi-
able light, SO in the same manner should
you he exposed for your unmanly act.
Further than this, | intended, as mat
ter Of future protection to myself and
the paper, to 80 publicly expose yOul
imposition upon me, that no other chap
seeking public notoriety as a = Boss
Liar" would care to undertake To palm
a sell off on me.
l did offer, i'm response TO a letterwrit'
ten in your behalf, to modify my article
and simply explain, if you would get q
Joint letter from Wicklifie and McCowI
requesting me to do 50, but this yor
did not do.
You say you can buy an Editor fo
$3.50. How do you know? Have yol
been pricing your home Editor?
trust not, and do not believe Urey wOul,
so underestimate his own value.
You say "The only additional apollo
gy have to offer is, that the canar,
: was sent to you because believed tina
the paper in whose columns appeare'
the " Anderson Bazaar Scandal" Wa
the only sheet published in Kentuck.
in which my article should be inserted.
Now you thought that was "A sOckdola
ger that would completely demolish me
but oh, how sadly mistaken! What
severe denunciation of your own act
There are 40 papers besides the HER
AID published i'm this State and her
, you say your canard was too mean, to
: vile, too slanderous, too outrageous I
be inserted i'm IA single one OF them
! You say this yourself and hence you be
mean your own act as severely as di
e and agree with you in toto, and go on
better and say it was too infamous t
: appear i'm anv paper published in thi
State or out of it SO far as that is con
$ cerned.
2 As to the so-called Anderson Bazaa
= Scandal" referred to, il personated II
one, slandered no one, accused no pan
: ticular individual Of any particula
: wrong, wasan ingeniously written advel
4 Using canard, the like of which are al
1 bearing from time To time in all the p;
= pers i'm this whole country, had its d'
y sired effect, viz, attracting attention
the business of the advertiser, harme
! no one and we have no apology to off
II for publishing it.
e Your puny effort at pun by tisii
4 that old thread-bare ,0eakiy, for week..
d little paper, &C., is not worthy of motto
= You are welcome to all the capital 80
y can thus make. eI.
r You deny having malice, envy,
e will, or any but the kindest feelings f
!, McCown and Wicklille, and say TIN
:" the intimation to that effect is mo-
damnable lie than the one you manage
to get published in the HERALD.