San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1885-09-24
Injured Innocence.

We gave week before last, the record o.
Meisemore, OF the Kyle News. with SOM
particularly. We dsalt in facts which car
DO verified. He knew he could not answer
our article satisfactorily, so whiues and
whimpers as II he were much injured indi
vidual. whom We had assailed without pro
vocation. We win take a brief space to
strip from him this last vestige Of defense
We frat saw him In the fall Of 1883. when,
a travelling printer. late from Mexico, as
he stated, he applied TO US for work. We
employed him for short time, and we
think even he viii not pretend that we did
not treat him fairly.
We next hoard Of him as an employe OF
the Kyle News at its beginning, whom, as
many will recolloct, 1t assailed US
week after week for some months
entirely without provocation. II will also
be recollected that we made no response.
There is no doubt that McLemore was the
fellow who penned these diatribes. They
bear all his subsequent "ear-marks."
Not long after he left or lost his position
on the News and devoted himself TO report
ing for other papers, the BlancoStar- vindica'
tor being his fayorite medium. finding in Nc
Fherson q kindred spirit 1t was during this
period no became 30 embittered against San
Marcos, fell out with his friend Barber and
denounced all our county officers as pack
Of rascals, compared our town to hell, etc.
When he returned TO the Kyle News, we
made up our mind to let him pass, but he
was not content to have 1t so, but resumed
his old style towards US. We, however,
should have still ignored him had not certain
of our county officials taken him into fav-
or. We don't blame him for this. We have
reason to believe he was actually sent for
and solicited to take the county printing ct
five per cent less ESQ said) in order to pun
ish us for presuming to criticise them as
public men. This was more than Nc
Lemore expected, and it completely turned
his shallow brain. He Immediately began
to "feel his oats" and in accordance with
what he understood to be the wishes of his
employers, launched out in redoubled SIAN
der and billingsgate against against US. This
is not mere assertion, we have the evidence
Some persons may yet recolleot o certain
"catechism" which he wrote and published
in his paper of June 4th last, aimed at u.s.
1t was perhaps the yilest and lowest
flung thing which ever appeared in new
paper-couchod in regular fsh-market style,
as if we were perfect outlaw, unworthy of
any sort of respectful or decent treatment.
Not content with this he went on to brand
us as ian enemy to the South, announcing
as something new, what was well-known;
both before and since we came here, that
during the war we published Union paper
in Indiana. And here his genius for ly-
ing took fight far beyond any former liar
of his tribe who had before assailed us.
At the very time when we were actively en-
gagged in advocating the election of Horace
Greeley, on his platform of National concil-
lation and reunion between the late war
ring sections, thereby mourning the bitter
prescription AMI en'nity of our former Rad
ical friends, this phenomena young liar,
McLemore, now charges that we were
preaching blood and thunder, fire and
slaughter, against the Southern people, es-
pecially of Texas, regardless of age or sox !
He charges us with doing this too, AFTER
THE WAR WAS OVER. Hear him. We quote
from the Kyle News of June 4th
cat last, however, the war was over
and white winged peace settled over the
land. The old fires that had ragged So ter
ribly in the breasts of both the North and
the South, were slowly dying out, and no
FAM however welded, could again rekindle
the dying embers.
But the half has not been told. Although
the war was virtually over. on the frontier
there still existed few marauding bands of
desperate men who were hostile to the
North. Then it was that Mr.. Isaac H.
Julian, advocated, through his paper, the
naarching ofUnton troops through TEXAS and
putti,,q to the knife men, soonaen and child
rem if no other means could bring the few
existing marauders to terms"
The writer well knew when he was PEN
ing the above, that every word and syllable
of it so far as we were concerned was an
infamous lie totally without any founda-
ton or color of truth, He has not attempt
ed to substantiate it, because he knew he
could not do so nor has he had the manli-
ness to retract it. And yet he no W comes
before the public in the role of a n injured
innocent because of the unprocoked attacks
of the FREE PRESS !
Such is the creature who has had the Of
fetal honors and emoluments Of the county
thrust upon him by six out of our nine
county officers, who have entitled him to
endorse his dirty sheet, as 'the official or
gan of Hays county" And here it seems
to us strikingly pertinent to inquire, Do
said officials endorse the above charges
against US So far as appears, they still
sustain their "official orgain," which made
the charges Immediately after they had in
stalled it in that position. We feel warrant
ed, therefore, in asking the question, and
will Just suggest that, il we are not greatly
mistaken in the people of this county, the
sort of reply they give is of vastly more
to them than to US,
Whistled Him OF.
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