The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-03-29
AS OTHERS SEE II.

Tie few little side wipes that We
have given the criminal and penitenti-
ary editor of the Luverne Herald, have
been received with undisguised satis-
faction in many quraters. After all,
people like decency and fair play. and
they DO not like to see an old ''mastiff,"
like the ADVANCE, submit year in and
year out, to the barkings, insults and
auno oyances of q ''penny" fest, sspe-
cially when they know that the old
''mastiff' could snap his 1ndia-rubber
spine ut single jerk.
10 show how the people feel about
it, We give few extracts below from
letters received.
The following is from an official in .
town not very remote from here. but
outside of Worthington:
FRIEND A. P: I am glad to see
that you have finally got to the point
where you are giving that most de-
spisable puppy that disgraces the name
OF Miller, OF the Luverne Herald, few
Of your red.hot shot, merely thrown
out a skirmish line, as it were.
want to soon SEQ you arrive at 4
point, where yon can turn your war
dogs loose and give him the thunder of
your heavy guns and cannOnade him in
such il manner that he will turn tail.
and run for life, with his face blanch-
ell with \ horrible fear that the ''craDk
IA did one Robert J. Walker Bloom,
and that he will hear warning note,
as did the notorious Bloom, on every
street corner and turn that he made,
resouuding with onr poetic quotation,
''Blooln the Dude, Bloom the Dude,
Bloom the Dude'll-do."
And there is one thing more that I
would like to see you do. and that is
to give that whiskey. soaked fellow
who presides over the destinies Of
another dirty sheet, good round blow
fairly in the face, with the old "trip
hammer ADVANCE" and squelch him
entirely. He needs it badly, and you
know how to do it up brown. All this
barking 1T the ADVANCE, reminds one
of y little rat and tau terrier barking
at q good sized mastiff, who looks
down upon the puppy with supreme
disgust from his pinnacle of fame, and
calmly thinks that life is too short to
bother with such rot"
Another letter received from a
wealthy and prominent dealer, in a
neighboring state, says:
I am pleased to see you "give it to-"
the Publisher Of the Luverne Herald.
have taken his paper for some years
and have often been disgusted with
his dirty ''slinging." 1t shows bad
breeding.
And it shows worse than bad
breeding. It shows that he is a
dirty, unfeeling, interruptions. un-
just, unmanly. fellow, who is willin-
lin order to please a bigoted and
ignorant element to insult, ridicule
and traduce brother editor on account
OF his religious belief and his social
views. He is not content to refer to
these views and ridicule them, but he
ridicules the personal appearance Of the
man who holds them. mentions that
man by name as lunatic, imbecile. etc..
keeps it up year in and year out. and
gravely remarks on the other side of his
paper that he never ''iudulges in per
sonsl journalism.
Gould the force of mesnness and in
sincerity go any further? Is there q
dirtier dog of a criminal in the state
than this fellow? What makes it 50
much worse is that this miserable
wretch and fraud pretends all the while
to be '.liberal" in his views. to not care
for our spiritualistic belief, and yet he
is willing for hire and to please the
*'gang," to insult US by the year for
being Spiritualist.
Much more anon