San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-06-01
That Mares Nest.

topics which, II seems to U.S. Il on9h
TO he necessary, among sensible PEG
pie, TO notice. The late tempest in tea
pot" at Kyle abou. paragraph in the Fax
PREss, seems 10 IN of this character bu
the meaning and intention ofwhat We said
have been 10 grossly perverted, and believ'
ing that we can set the matter right, Will
sensible people, in afew words, We again re
turn TO the subject. The following il what
we said, and all we said;
The trustees of Kyle Seminary having &C.
Ilected teacher for term Of years, cor
respondent of the Nutshell wants TO nov
why the patrons OF the school were not con-
suited 2 He must be ''greenie" not TO
have found out that few self-seeking dem
agognes in politics. and u few officials IN the
church, have il all their own way, quite ire
spective of the dear people" or their pref
crences.
Now in the first place II is perfectly
obvious That, ~ to whether the above reflects
upon the trustees of Kyle Seminary, depends
entirely on the truth or untruth of the
statement of the Nutshell correspondent.
II he tells the truth, then they had
reason to feel implicated in what We
said II, however, what he said was untrue.
then our paragraph does not apply to them
ut all, and they should have reserved the
walls of their wrath for the Nutshell exclu-
siyely. The truth is, we took what it said
simply az a text for general remark, Of I'M
questionable truth, and had in our mind
an entirely different application. We did
not say, as the Nutshell now alleges, nor
think of saying. that said trustees were self
seeking political demagogues," or 'officials
in the church, but we did decidedly intimate
that the classes thus described are too fire.
quently in the habit of disregarding the will
of the people. 1t was the Nutshell
and not we, that charged the trus-
tees with the name thing, and now it tries to
fasten its own sin upon us. But it is we'll
known to be more remarkable for ''cheek"
than honesty.
The Nutshell goes on rs follows:
We think it very unjust and inconsistent
that the FREE PRESS should cast such slurs
Mt our trustees and town. Slurs and insin-
uations are poor capital for newspaper,
especially one which processes to be run III
the interest of q county.
1t would, indeed, have been very tnco'as's-
tent if we had really done what the Nutshell
for we have always done the most
ample justice to Kyle in all respects. From
the beginning we have noticed favorably al
her improvements, and spoken in compliment
tary terms of all her business men, and other
leading citizens, We also gave her Seminary,
it's trustees, faculty, ETC., handsome send
off at its start, and have repeatedly noticed
it favorably since. Every reader of the FREE
PRESS, in Kyle, and elsewhere, knows that
we are stating the exact truth. Yet the mo-
nent it is supposed that we have made
remark about its school man.
lgement- without waiting for the facts or
TO give lis chance to explain-all our past
services are forgotten, and an effort is made
to hound us down as though we were Grim
nal Could anything be more ridiculous,
Or discreditable to "whom it may concern!"
We have long been aware of some heart
burnings between Kyle and San Marcos, or
ather Oh the part of the former toward the
after The slurs and insinuations, referred
@ by the Nutshell have nearly all come from
is own town. Both personally and editor
ally we have heretofore ignored this state of
.ffairs. We have been entirely frien dly to
Kyle, and have studiously avoided saying
anything calculated to increase ill-feeling be-
;ween the places. Our readers all over the
county know, that during the contest con-
corning the location of the county seat, the
FREE PRESS made it its special mission to
pour oil upon the troubled waters"
Friends must be cheap in Kyle, when it lis
sought to siigmatize one of the best the town
las ever had, rs an enemy, on no better
grounds than this. Even if we had actually
lone injustice in the paragraph under notice,
our past course ought to have demonstrated
hat it was not intenti0n0l and our columns
ire always open for correction of any errors
We may make.
Upon the whole we cannot doubt that
the great body of the people of Kyle will up
,n little reflection, see the absur dity of this
much ado about nothing, and the injusti ce
which some have sought to do us in their
name.
w. H. Greeley. who wrote such mon
,trous lies to the San Antonio Express about
the smallpox scare ut Lockhart last winter