Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-11
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Our Esteemed Contemporaries.

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Our Esteemed Contemporaries.
Their Estimable Relation with Each other
and with the /" rntsilSgsnoer."
Examiner
As the gusher of the ITELL1eENCER Was
scarcelv out Of his swadling clothes In
1851, he may be excused for saying that
the editor of tho Es0uiner, ~ state sem
ator. "betrayed his constituents and vio-
lated his Instructions" meaning that We
were instructed 10 vote agasnst the repeal
of the tonnage tax and then voted for its
repeal. This, Of course, ie not true, as
tho records show, and the memory Of
those old enough to remember the circum-
stances all know.
Editor Hicstand A. State Senator.
New Era, April 8, 1882
The editor of the Erpress knew the ex.
posures he was about to make involved
charges (as was stated at the time), of
such a character no innocent would lie
under them ;" that if they could not be
sustained the parties implicated in them
could prosecute US for libel and make US
pay dearly for such outrageous defama-
ton - hence the precautiOn was taken not
only to have the facts written up by
lawyer, but passed upon by lawyers, in
order that there should be no legal risk
taken in printing such column leaders !"
as that of October /, 1861, from which the
following extract is fair sample
ITO the shame and reproach OF Lancaster
county 1t must be said that her two Senators
fJno. A. Hiestand and VIM. Hamiltonl. ... and
her four representatives. were In this cor.
pocket the reward of their iniquity. They
knew their constituents desired them to op.
pose the repeal of the tonnage tax. The con
vention OF their party, which nominated them.
passed resolutions instructin0 them to oppose
Il. Yet not one OF them raised a voice against
sn
nived at 1t. and two of them voted for it. while
the others voted for the Sunbury and Erie bill
identified with the bill for the repeal of the
tonnage tax, and that both measures were in
tended to inure to the benefit OF the same cor
poratfOn, at the expense OF the public. That q
large sum of money was paid for bribfng the
Legislature is well known; the sum paid to
each senator for the support of these measures
was IS. COO, and for each member of the House
OF Representatives $l,0t0-except those who
uiolated the Instructions of their constituents.
whose coEsciences were mollifed by an addi-
tional thousand"
1t is creditable to the management of
the Express who enlisted their services, as
we'll as to the legal talent of the gentle
men Hon. l. E. Hester, Hon. o. J.
Dickey aud w. II. Brown, esq.,1 who
wrote and approved such journalistic COL
umbiards AS legitimate for public informa-
ton, that the challenge, repeatedly given,
to test the truth of the allegations before
a court and jury was never accepted
True, a suit was brought under pressu re
of friends who said the parties implicated
must vindicate themselves or get off the
ticket, but the suit was withdrawn and
the costs paid by one of the attorneys for
the prosecutors soon after their defeat.
Admits He Wasn't t LibeIled.
Examiner.
Mr.. Warfel's editor has at last come out
from under covor, and admits that Messrs.
Brown and Heister rendered valuable aid,
as "legal risks were to be taken, in
printing column leaders. Well that is a,
least a kind Of confession. And fol
ability and shrewdness in dodging the Law
of libel-appearing to make charges and
not making them, has seldom been equaled
and had Messrs. Brown and Heister con.
tinued editing, they would have acquired
great fame.
Won't Run Ticket This Year.
New Era.
When our contemporary assumes that
"W. F. Boyer, esq.,. will of course, be the
Ne,r Era candidate" for county solicitor,
it speaks entirely upon the responsibility
of its own fertile imagination. The Neu
Era has no candidate for any of the coun.
ty offices to be filled this fall and does not
propose to be the organ of any
personal contest where a principle
is not involved. L: has already indicated
its policy on the gubernatorial, judicial,
congressional and legislative questions,
and will pursue such course as it may
deem expediept to secure the nomination
of candidates for prison inspectors who
will be in accord with the reformatory
measures of prison management hereto
fore advocated by us and 80 auspiciously
inaugurated by Mr.. Burkholder but 50
far as the other county officers are con-
ce!ned we intenC that the candidates shall
have fair fight in an open field