Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-06-29
RELUCTANT REPLY.
BE calm III arguing For iiefccness makes
Error a fault. and truth dis"uurteSv.

This controversy with Col. Hutton
is very annoying to us and to our
readers, and we regret having to use
valuable space in such an uninter-
esting cause. We had made up our
mind to treat his unwarranted attack
with silent contempt, but so many of
our friends all over the county seem
to expect us to reply, that we do not
see any pleasant way out Of it.
The Col. is forcing us into the
fight. He started it. He is keeping
it up. He is making it bitter and
personal. We answered his first vile
attack in a very mild, gentlemanly
manner, and thought that would end
it. He again attacks us without
rhyme or reason, making no charge,
but using a long string of meaningless,
degrading adjectives, which would
sound villainously coming eve from
the frequenters of the slums of our
cities, or the associates of the most
debased thugs. We are not going to
answer in the same coin, and hence,
will have but little to say. We hope
that when the ''dog days" are over
he will feel better, and find some bus
mess of his own to attend to. The
Col. has no reasonable excuse for
losing his temper, and distorting his
elegantly handsome features. 1t is
no new thing for him not to get office.
1t is no new thing for him not to be
able to ''boss'' the Democratic party.
He should be like the eel who becomes
SO used to being skinned that he
rather likes it. 1t makes no diff
ference to us or to other gentlemen
i'll the city and county whom the
Col. Is fighting, OF what he may in
sinuate. Who is it that does his duty
that cannot endure being Kissed at,
even as by the tongues of vipers,
traduced by rogues, sneered at by
crowned reprobates, hawked at by
the black beak of envy, and thrust
and stabbed at with the yelled dagger
of malice? We shall pay no atten-
ton to the pet anne he calls us, and
will only notice one or two points in
the column article.
In speaking of the way he treated
us when We first went into the news
paper business, he says:
kindness and courtesy common to the
profession, until his vulgar personal at
tacks developed the true character of the
fellow, when the dirty thing was stricken
from the exchange list"
Our friend Deacon Hutton's men,
DRY is, to say the least, very bad.
The day before we bought the LEDGER
We consulted with him about it. He
said he had the only paper in the
county, and that he controlled the
Democrats Of the county; that nothing
could be made of the LEDGER; that
he intended to run the only paper, &C.
Notwithstanding his advice, we pur-
chased the LEDGER. The next day
after we bought, we started up to bis
office to get some advice, as he was
an old friend and Sunday School
teacher. We met him on the street
in front of Reeds store, and spoke to
him. He turned up his Grecian
nose and looked the other way. He
never did send us the IuteNigencer
hence, how could he ''strikes the dirty
thing off his list?' He speaks Of
"courtesies shown" He. never
showed us aught but discourtesies.
When the editor of this paper was
secretary of the democratic centra.
committee, Hutton published the calls
but left our name off the call. When
he broke his printing press, the In
t~eUigencef was worked On the LED
GERS press. When we broke our
|, power press, he said s'the dirty sheet
should not be worked On his press
Is this courtesy?
Speaking of the insulting letter he
wrote demanding us to bow down
and worship him, he says:
"Within in a few hours afterward W.
were informed by other friends, and the
+ truth of which was admitted by first in.
formant, that the language used was no
what it was first reported to be, and III
further attention was paid to it."
/; So we see. We ignored you ant
your letter. What "attention'' coult
you pay to it? You got a club, bu'
never saw fit to use it. That was al
the attention you paid to it. Aftel
t you found you were ''mistaken," why
= did you not act the gentleman, an(
write another letter and withdraw the
first! Your explanation is s'too thin
You thought you could brighten us t.
death, and when you failed, all you
could do was to ''pay no more atten
ton to it," but bite your graceful
moustache, knaw a file, and flee unit
the mountains of hepsidam: or SOM
other hiding place of the jackass.
He then calls us a ''lying scoundrel
: silly fool: blubering boy" &c. W
chose at this writing to pass b,
these allegations. He may We
find out he is mistaken. He says h
never knew anything about Mount
trying to buy the LEDGER" and thel
goes on to explain that they were in
, hurry to get started after the fire
was the reason Mounts wanted us t.
set a price OF our good will and in
luence. If he did not know any