Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-04-14
W EEKLY CITIZEN
SATURDAY, AIRIL 10. lSSa
PECULIARIrIEs OF NEWSPAPER
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PECULIARITIFS OF NEWSPAPER
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 In Nvuber last. Judge Morrison. o' Apache County, ID bold and many C. mpupicst.ou to the Albuquei9u' On zer. deuouocsd ihe wrong doing' o' .,m. n,om,..pt democrats in Apache County. AmcUg Ihrm the name or l W Jobpsou figured largely and foI vbirh i'd T. W. J. entered suit Tor s1ot % .susges to his valuable charse- t.. c .mneutiDg on this the "fucsor C11lzeN" eduoriaIl, said, 'Io this ex- DO NJ. Johnson obisots aud shrnt tprou.h L bi peiIti to the court for re dress. ,Dst he Is short Sl0.O00 worth of the repu.at.on winch nc brought into this territory six 10 lntbs ago." This sE- pe4Ts not to have been appreciated by that gentleman, for on the return of th' writer from Globe. s5out March lst, b. found a very courteous note ffoLi mr. Johnson rtqu~stIng the author hip Of the Lr,icle in question sDd saying in substance, that inasmuch ss he was 6 stranger hereAt outs we could have known notbinR Of him, and implying th # said comment had been written by some one closer to his hone. As there semed to be more truth than poetry in tbis, ihe writer ID measure conourred ipasmucn he had lingering recollec tion of several interesting communics- tioDs from as may reputable citizens Of Apache county which were not used, bat it Sss ID, ughI bsr,l ly possible that one Of these might have slipped ID, and so wrote Mr. J. |" that eff ct, promising furtb -r to look ihs matter up, but being elosely occupied in clipping editorials from the St Johns Herald the promised reply was uBintentionslly overlooked. Thsuks however, to Mr. Johpson's hind ness, attention was again called to the matter which iiolted the follosinR reply :
 Tues IN, March 30. 1888
 nv JOINS t q. st Johns:
 near SIR ferri0g to your favor Of lN n AhNAss u 1d Aoo~ho1 e-@~ A@ NNN time. The article of whioL you make IrQuir was written iu comment. with out sny uers pal kuowiedse of yUursel or anv fec ing in the matter whatever. ou the staiemrni made by the :Albu- querQue CitZ-0 that you had entered ao't .gsnst Judge Morrison for Sl0, coo for d+'sns ion Of chs-scter There w.s rot tne Las, intention to do you nsrn. Y,nrs very truly,
 HERBERT BROWN.
 This wes written ia good faith and should hsve settled the matter. but Mir. Johnson, or soms one to whom he fur nisbed tbe correspondence iD question, sppesre to tbink OtherEise, for in the St, lbu's Herald. under the heading prefix-d of this article. after fsce,iously dubbIug tbe writer "colonel" he ssys:
 "Ibe Colonel preteDds that he wrote Y, IT. perfect igunrsnre of the facts and the pc san ahused, but that b. meant no harm. | hat be Eould take the respop- slb-ly to sbnse snd vIllify 6 private cit b, Rh DO be ind not know. in the pnb T. priu'. and then n 6 puvste letter fry 70 crsN fish out oft
 ID the first place We confess that we knew Mr. Johnson only through report which be must acknowledge, wss in DO VIse favorable to bis reputation. and the comments thereon. beyond givinE his modest demands publicity. were coDssfV tive and far removed from an attempt st v.llIh,stiOn or abuse, and Eauld prs b ibly have been accepted ID like spirit butf,r the ites entertained by him, that the CITIZEN editorial complained of, was written by one O. his Deirhbprs 10 St. Johns, and whO was eupprsed to be better acquainted with tte facts ot the case than stranger, st distance. But m conclusion with out nov c nsi iering the sut lec2 further, We must d,sclsim any and sllIntentioDs of crawtisbiug snd think Mir. Johnson exceedingly uojn-t t0 impute such 6 move to renutsble citizen of whom be can have no personal knowledge through such jim-crow concern as She S:, Joans Herald.