Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-06-15

barrel is empty, and we have no
stable litter to shovel at him; and, |
in the second place, we don't know
that he was, responsible when he wrote
what he did; and. in the third place,
WI remember a letter he wrote us
sometime since, on no provocation at
all. If he made such demands then,
what would he do if we happened to
say anything out of the way about
him? The letter read as follows:
BOW DOWN AND WORSHIP ME.
MEXICO, No, January l, lsSl-R. NJ.
WHITE: For several years past, without
cause, prOvocation or excuse, you have
made the LEDGER the vehicle of coarse,
mean, silly ~insinuations, personal to
myself. l have Just learned that you
have, within the past few months, pub
lished an article in which my honesty and
consistency are called into question.
This, therefore, is to inform you:
First. That not another word derog-
atory to myself will be permitted in the
future.
Second. That in the next issue of the
LEDGER you are required to retract every
thing hithertofore published, rejecting in
the least degree, directly or indirectly,
upon my character for honesty or con
s%istency.
Third. That the retraction be accom-
panied by an apology broad enough to
cover all our past sins committed
against me.
[Signedl J. f. HUTTON.
We paid no attention at all to the
letter. The Colonel saw he was IN a
box when we treated his letter with
silent contempt. He then got a can
and carried it. We were advised by
friends to get our life insured, and
one Sunday, as he vas coming home
from church he did say bad words
at u.s., but we paid no attention to
him, because he was an officer in our
church and we did not want him to
have a fight on Sunday.
We simply call attention to these
things to give you our reasons for not
calling names back. He says the
editor of this paper is a ''polltical
hypocrite and BLACKBOARD, who, with
the n%aturalness of a skunk, squirts
his mephitic nastiness from the LED
GER stink-pot in weekly installments
to the disgust of decent people and
the shame of the community Why
does he say such things? Do we ever
write any such stuff as the above
We suppose, like the school boy, he
thinks that "calling us such names
makes us So" Why, We might say
THAT as a three-ply, four-story, double.
distilled, triple-refined, double-barrel
ed, copper-bottomed, sq%uare-toed.
bevel-edged liar, the InteUigencer has
no equal; that its mendacity is equal
ed only by its envy and malice; that
its breath is SANDER; its teachings
vice; that its only happiness is in
wallowing in the slums of its OWE
putrescence; that its editor is an
unshriven, arrogant snob, whose un.
limited self-esteem and conceit are
!. only rivaled by his beautiful narrow
mindedness and mammoth bigotry
and, at the same time, these state.
ments may be not true. How does
he know what we ''squirt out il
weekly installments?" Thought BIZ
did not read the LEDGER; thought
he ignored us altogether. When We
went into the newspaper business il
Mexico, a mere boy without expert
ence, Col. Hutton stopped speaking
to us, for no other reason than be
cause We presumed to go into thu
same business he was in. He sneere(
t at us, and tried to kill our bushes!
by insinuating that our politics wer'
not sound. He tried in every way t.
: "'set down. ON US. How we'll b.
F., succeeded he knows. He then write
: us the above letter, and tries to pu
4 us in the dust. Again he is left
r He carried a cane then, until on
night in a fit of rage he broke it owe
, his dogs head, and afterwards sal.
he got it for n ''dog" but used i
on another. The LEDGER still lived
Shortly after, his business manager
John +. Mounts, had the cheek t
come to our office and wanted us t.
n set a price on Il office, Office build
ing, residence, influence, &C., an
promise not to again engage in tn
5 newspaper business in Mexico. A
{ these various ways were attempted t
e get us out of his way, and still b
{ now says we are a ''skunk and dis
n gust decent people," and would &C
y clear of lis some way, and thus, W
e suppose, considered he was doing til
G. community a great good.
Why should we be bulldoze
" thusly? Is not there room for bot
e of us to live On this earth, and that
e too. without making asses of ourselves
as we are doing now? We try to Al
q tend to our own legitimate business
e We do all we. can to make the LEDGE
d a live, reliable democratic newspaper
If we succeed, he should rejoice wit
q us. There is room for both of u:
h The LEDGER is here to stay. W
should think he had found that OF
by this time. We trust Col. Hutto
does not think the world was create
for him, and him alone ; that there
a but one God, who suffered and die
that he, and he alone, might live
that there is but one Heaven, whic
Z was made without hands, that |
Il might strut up and down the golde
- .x.aax. ~ Ill 1a~.. that A. 80,