The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1886-03-11
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We very cAeerfnIly record lie fack m1ntioaed
In the moTning specials thAt the editors assem-
bled IN co0vention a Cincinnafi have made ~.
c. H Jssnea. Of the 9sasA un6ea, their president
We do not hesitate 70 say further thai II. Joees
viii make the organizatio0 very aclve capaose
aud useful executive ofaces. Beyo1d this. truth
constrains us 10 add that II b much more appro-
pirate that Mr. jones should have been elected
president of this body than OF the press OF ftor-
ida, for his attitude toward the outside newspA-
per men has been, by many degrees more coor.
teous, considerate and professional than toward
the poor devils who have been chastised INTO
submissive loyalty in this Ssatc.-JackscnciAt
Herald Ft6. 36h
We may not be able 10 see the point In the
above paragraph-not on account of It's ambi-
guilty, but on account of our inability to read be-
tween the lines, but il looks to Us that the es-
teemed Hcruld has said little more than it In
tended. Mr. Jones received our vote for Pres'-
dent Of the State Association because we
thought him the best man for the position
Does our esteemed contemporary intend to dub
all that voted for Mr. Jones "poor devils = Ii
so, it has made a mistake We can speak Tor
ourselves-and we think the same will apply TO
almost every editor in the Siate-and say that
we are tied to no man, and that if the Tunes
Union has been applying coercive rod to force
the weekly papers of the State to endorse its
opinions, the rod has never fallen in this direc
ton. We are glad to say that we are on good
terms with every paper in Florida, yet We do not
agree nth them in but few things. We have as
little use for the impracticable SWIVEL service
theories of the Times Union as We have
for the moss-back, burbonistc political ethics oil
the Herald, FLoRIDIAN and other papers oil that
kind, or the insincere course of a few political
trimmers of the State. Yet, we are fully salts
fed that the editors of the three papers men
toned are al gentlemen, and we fail TO see why
we should abuse the editors personally, because
we do not agree with the positions their papers
take.
We think it is in order for the esteemed Herald
to say what :" poor devils" have been chass'sed,
so that we can know who they are; it is, as
we'll as its two morning rivals, welcome VISITOR
to our sanc,um, and if we are one OF the poor
devils" that have been chastised, and it is now
trying 10 chasise us for having been chasiised,
we want 10 know so that we can avoid it.-Lcy
County Times.
We like things that are well written,
and for that reason we like the above
but will the esteemed Times permit US to
ask how it knows that it is "on good
terms with paper that it styles Z" moss
back and bourbonistic ?'-whatever that
means. "On good terms" understands
mutuality-takes two to make the rela-
ton. Without knowing what our much
esteemed means by the words " mossback
and bourbonistic " We don't know about
the mutually, but will suppose that they
are all right though they look bad-not
intrinsically bad, but as if our much es-
teemed thought they were bad when he
slung them at us. Now if he thought
they were bad and that we deserved them
how can he conscientiously and with due
sef-respect be "on good terms" with
such bourbonistic mossback as he con
sders US to be ? 1t seems incon-
sistent for gentleman to keep
such bad company-or to apply
such terms to person with whom
he is "on good terms" To be sure, these
were among the pet names that the rad
ical Independents gave us in the last cam
paign, but then they did not profess to
be son good terms with US and we un-
derstood perfectly well that they thought
they were singing some very black mud
over US. There was plenty of it in the
political puddle in which they were
camped, and when driven there we ex-
pected them to use it in lieu of better
weapons. But we really don't know
why it should be flying through the air
now. and from place where there surely
can be no puddle-the sanctum of our
Democratic esteemed contemporary. He
agrees with Florida papers Gin but few
things "-more's the pity that so many
journals should be wrong-and we may
not expect that he will agree with us in
this matter of discussion; but if we are
to be chastised, please don't do it with
mud.