Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-10-04
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or tHe STELLIGESL EE-
Almost any petty fight is amusing, but
| wncn the contest is 4 woody var and one
| Of the coTbat:,nts a Homan-weli to say.
the least, even a melancholy Jacques could
lind much to provoke his laughter. OF
late sweet little H. -ht Of this nature has
been carried on through the columns of
the Examiner and -Ntc Era. The editors
o. these papers, and Edward Mcpherson
being pi,ted against Miss Marianna Glib
bons Of this county. Cause Of the fight
an article on Thaddeus Stevens, which ap-
peared some weeks ago in the Sunday
edition of the Philadelphia Times in which
| article the management. of StevenS's estate
| was criticized
Exactly TO see how the combatants
stand at the present t:mc-whether the
three big men or the poor lone woman has
the better "f the iiyht. is our. object in
writing.
The Eram'aer first - let loose the dogs
OF war by coming to the defense of M.ssrs,
Roberts and McPherson tie executors.
in an editorial in which absolutely no;hin.
IL
swered or disprove,l, bat the assertion
was made that both these gentlemen were
thoroughly upright and honest men"
Miss Gibbons never asserted the contrary.
| and 50 declared in reply II the Ernnti-
ner's article
Ii the Eramtner or any one else choose
to take out of her article what she neither
said nor meant, that Was their affair no;
hers.
The Ntr Era contented Itself with point
ing out slip of the pen which made Mis-,
Gibbons say that Mr.. Stevens died in Ian
caster instead of Washington and basinn
thereon an insnuation that her whole
article was full of lies.
This was characteristic Of the Era. 1t
loves warfare of indrection, AMI possibly
is inclined to judge others truth tellin"
qualities by its own utter lack of veracity.
On the 25d, ult., another g Daniel came
to judgement in this matter, viz Hon.
who quotes an anecdote
from Miss Gibbons article, narratns the
reason for MIR. Stevens becoming q teCtota
| Ter, and proceeds to tell that the "cashicr
of the Gcttsburg bank, therein mentioned
was not his honorcd father, because his
father did not die until at least twenty
years after the time mentioned in the an
cc,lOtc, AMI because his father was never
| innebriated in his life. Mr.. Mcpherson
| m ikcs these obvious mistakes an excuse
for heaplns upon Miss Gihbnu's head a
mountain of abIsc.
Having thus erected y barricatlc from
the dead bones of his respected father,
behind which to hide his own personality
and fling mud and stones upon one that
has displcascd him. Mr.. Mcpherson as :
sumes in the next paragraph the loftily
didactic and lectures Uiodern journalism
in general for admitting matter concern
ing which there is any uncertainty.
As this latte: blow is hardly fair one,
We may be permitted the example, by sug
geS.ing, that however much Mr. McPher-
son may know what journalism should
not be. he certainly li:is not shown the
positive side of the question, what jour
naiism shouN ba-as the l.mentable fail
urc he made as editor in chief of the Press
ab;lndantly shows.
IN conclusion, Mr. Mcpherson inIuIsci
III "a tissue of glittcring gcncralities'
concerning the management of the Stew
en-; estate, in which no attempt is made
to directly or empl.a:icgly ~ swer Miss
Gibbons article.
And now Miss Gibbons strikes back A
few days after the publication of the Nc
PhersOn article, Miss Gibbons replies, and
her position seems to resemble that of the
lawyer, whose client was accused Of injury
to Il copper kettle: eff your honors
please. - said lie "we shall prove first,
the kettle was broken when VIC borrowed
it second, that it was whole when we re-.
turned it, and third, that we never had
it. " First, Miss; Gibbons never heard Of
the father Of Mr. Mcpherson, till his ar
ticlc appeared ; scconi, she did not know
who was cashier Of the bank when Ste
vens lived in Gettysburg; third, the anec-
dOte could not possibly have referred to
the e!se: McFherson, and was no: SO
. intended.
Had MIR. Mcflcrspn kept quiet no ore
would have ever suspected he had father,
but it seems he cnni,i NOT be still and SO
made the best reply he could. The truth
is the ''wound - in this; matter is that the
article in question appeared in that
wicked, independent paper, the Times,
which still continues to flourish as the
truly wicked have u habit Of doing de
spite the fCvcrisl wishes for its overthrow
indulsc'l in by the " Solid for MulhoOly"
Republicans of this county.
Looking at the matter quietly and
laughingly, and admttin. the whole con-
troversy is y very small tempest in a very
much cracked teapot, we yet must say
that the doughty little woman planted her
feminine fists very dcftly between the eyes
of the two burly editors and the very
honorable Mcpherson. We think her
blood is up and she Is only waiting for the
said editors and honorable 10 wash the
blood from their scratches and again toe
the mark for battle. Let them come
quickly, lest 4 woman rro~.
JUSTICE.