Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1882-10-19
THE PIONEER PRESS,

1t may be a little dangerous for little
fish like ourselves to resent the insults of
a souless old whale lik e you, but neverthe-
less we believe there are rotten places
enough. in your fraudulent carcass, as
thick as, You have made your skin, through
which we can penetrate, to show you up a
little at least. We do not wish to stir you
up all at once, as the smell thusly created
might drive your even far off neighbors
from their places of business. You show
very plainly in an article in your issue of
Saturday, October 7th, on Mr.. Kindred
what the matter is with you, which is that
he did not subsidise all the newspapers
(which were accessible to subsidy" and
that he. purchased outright bankrupt
Democratic sheet at St. Paul" but did not
purchase you. 1t is a fearful thing to have
such spears of ostracism piercing your old
leaky hulk, but your indignant lashing the
waters and causing the sea to foam with
your putrid wrath, will do you no good.
Mr.. Kindred must be accredited with at
least a little good judgment. you can't be
entitled to ALL and if in exercising it be
purchased that bankrupt Democratic
sheet,' he must have thought it was worth
more, and had more influence than your
self; there is where the shoe hurts you the
most. You took it for granted that Mr..
Kindred had a job to let, and as usual you
ought to be let in. and the first one to be
seen; but the truth is, (and it might have so
been in the mind of Mr.. Kindred) that you
have so often been seen, your influence in
this state has long since passed away. Be-
sides this the services of your spewing had
already been bought by Nelson, and you
had already vomited forth the contents of
your putrid stomach in his behalf with
whole page or more to the great disgust of
every decent person who knew the facts
in the case. Notwithstanding this, did
you want to commit treason against Mel
sou and have Kindred purchase you also,
as you say he purchased that bankrupt
Democratic sheet?" Were yousso anxious
to get on both sides to do the dirty work
Was not the support of Nelson and his
fraud sufficient for your disgraceful outfit?
You speak of Kindred's NOISY abuse of
Nelson, did you not yourself first start this
noisy abuse for Nelson, at which your
high state of morals now shrink from in
disgust? Did you not as his mouth piece,
or otherwise, open up the campaign with
all the disgraceful stuff Mr.. Nelson's
crowd had the power to originate?-an-
swer, you old blunderbuss, did you not do
ite and have you not got your pay for it?
Did you not throw all the indecency into
the campaign, of which you, in your as
sumed grief now find fault with? You are
ashamed of it, are yon, yes, and SO is Sa-
tan for his meaness, as much. You can't
see, can you, that the very NOISY abuse
which you complain of as coming from
Kindreds side and shot at Nelson is now
in your article aimed at Kindred? Mr..
Kindred may, as you say, discover that
the whole weight and value of the utter
ances of public journal depend upon the
public confidence in its integrity and dis
interednesss," but he will never live long
enough, for life will be too short to dis
cover any public confidence, integrity or
disinterestedness in you. You are never
happy unless your confidence and integrity
are under pay, and your "disinterested-
ness" comes in when you get all you can
out of the victim who purchases you.
Your Influence" is four fifths of the time
in your professional jobbery, on the losing
side, until it has been often considered
more popular for one to have all your i'll
will than your smiles, caresses and kisses.
We hope you will, as you have opened the
campaign for Nelson, continue your un-
warrantable and indecent assault upon Mr..
Kindred, for you will thus show the
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