Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-22
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EvFo. MARCH %. lsea.
Editorial /" Rashness - and IS Judgment"
The Examiner says:
Good characters We will always respect
but doubtful regulations, clothed with
false sanctity OF h:ddsn behind stolen
titles. are quite different things and can
be handled less carefully, but at the same
time must be spoken Of tsuthfully. The
case of our contemporary, the !STELN-
GENcER, is different. 1t is rash, but has
tone and character, and 20 what We said
concerning its charge upon Mr.. Cartel;
grew out Of just surprise, that man
with the character of Mr.. Carter, should
be harshly Judged and cruelty wronged by
a journal generally fair and frequently
liberal.
When our esteemed contemporary
points out. as differences between the
Examiner and the INTELLIGENCER,
that this journal has tone and charac-
ter" and is generally fair and fire.
quently liberal " we can hardly in truth
or politeness find fault with the distinc-
ton which it draws. A strict regard for
truth, however, compels US to say that
the INTELLIGENCER is not rash." It
forms its judgments with deifberation.
Especially was it not rash in accusing
Prison Inspector Calvin Carter of SELL
ing his four dollar hogs to the prison at
seven dollars apiece. A communication
by reliable and disinterested party to
that effect was printed in this journal in
good faith and after diligent inquiry
into it's truth. That inquiry resulted in
developing very much stronger circum.
stances to warrant publication than any
well-conducted newspaper obtains for
most of the news it prints. BY a most re
markable coincidence, it happened that
the allegation against Carter was not
strictly correct land the INTELLIGENCER
very promptly investigated and pub
lished the facts, which were that the four
dollar hogs sold to the prison for seven
dollars were bought from personal and
political friend of Carter, though he had
told his own neighbors that those in his
own pen were for the prison, and had
even engaged one Of them to haul them
up. That Mr.. Carter's character was
neither harshly judged nor " "cruelly
wronged may be inferred from the fact
that subsequent investigation of his Off
cial conduct has shown that.
All of which, together with our de-
fense against the charge of libel, we
would be pleased to show before any
tribunal which Mr.. Carter would seek
to redress his wrongs or reverse our
judgment of him.
That the Examiner SO impetuously
denied '' tone and character to the In
TELL1GENCER, on the occasion of its
structures upon Carter, we have never
laid grievously to the charge of any of
the generally fair and frequently lib
eral' persons engaged in its editorial
direction. Every well-informed person
knew that the sometimes too liberal y
hospitality of its editorial columns had
on that occasion been abused by polit-
ical loafer and editorial dead-beat, who
had his private axe to grind by a super
serviceable defense of Carter and an
ancient grudge to feed by abuse of the
INTELLIGENCER. He failed about as
lamentably in this rs in his exclusive -
advice to Carter to bring Il libel suit
which he has dropped like a hot poker.
Ifthe Examiner wants to establish cl
maintain reputation for g tone and
character,'' for general fairness and fire.
quent liberality: it will not only exclude
such intruders from the chance to make
it ridiculous, but it will cool off its red
hot Columbia correspondent, who is now
using it's columns to indulge in low
grade and unstinted abuse of Senator c.
$. Kaufman, in order to discharge his
personal venom. There are a good many
good people who would he very well
satisfied to see John NJ. Stehman nom
mated for state senator from the upper
district, in large measure because he has
suffered injustice from mad dog y
cry against him. But a very sure way
to hurt him with this class is to resort to
personal vilifcation Of his opponent.
As a candidate for reelection Senator
Kaufman is to be judged by his record.
1t is very fair one, and good deal
more creditable and less ridiculous than
his enemies hoped and some of his
friends feared it would be. His char
acter = as a citizen or an official deserves
quite rs much " respect - and merits as
careful handling" as Calvin Carter's,
and il cannot he hurt much by the "red-
hot" abuse of the Examiners special
correspondent, especially when" Colum
bia'' makes himself and his motives so
plainly known.
y ROMANTIC interest always attaches
even to the most bootless search for the
North Pole. The popular apprehension
of failure throws around every new ex.
pedition a glamour, and the uncertainty
which nearly always attends the fate of a
portion of the explorers gives perpetual
melancholy interest to the lost mariners,
and stimulates new efforts in the direc
tion in which they have failed. Though all
trace of Capt. DeLong of the Jeanette,
since October 9, has been lost, like Sir
John Franklin, he will be an object Ct
interest until the similar fortunes of
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