Telegram-herald., 1890-03-13
.IrnIn - -


II ever t0s TELEGRAN- HsRAID xSs
iusuked in us-Eg the above words. -
often abused i : Just ~ the pEeseat
time. Whsn the loot sensation was a.
IS he.gnt 4nd tss az around certain
newspaper Ofhees sas fall OF blood and
thunder theories Of murder, abduction
and robbery, by some villain or villains
uaknOsu, the TELEsEAN-HERALD treat
sd tae cas- As one Of simple, ord mary
unFOmsnte stealing. TIE Ds5aoerot
secuted our .heoEy OF the case and read
- 4 lecture as follows.
"Up 70 date no such evidence has
been produced against yoang IOot
For ten days the seavengers nave been
AZ sork trying 70 rnd rottsnnsss u nis
aaDlts and character, and they nave
found nOtl x, although gwen moral
support AZ I'D ia LnsiT work oy organs
that clalnl a certain degree. 81 least, Of
resQect4Dilty. stores have been pub
hsned, too. rejecting upon ms charae-
ter which were wholly without tOundA-
ton. and known % be 30 when pub
l..hed Tnls sort OF journalism has not
helped solve the mystery and has
amounted % want0n cruelty 10 mem
bers OF young TOots family"
n reply 20 this the 1ELEozAH-iIEK-
AID, On the following day, under the
head OF sympathy vs. Sense" took
occasion 10 say;
''It has been the opinion OF the editor
OF the fEIEGRAM HERALD-based upon
a consideration of the circumstances.
wltnoutany personal acquaintance with
Mr.. loot or his friends-that Clarence
AIniself Is alone 70 blame for ms dIsap-
pearance. But, feeling as strongly a.
the Deznocrat the force OF his good repu-
tanon-and our inquiries have never
Developed anything derogatory TO him
and being Just as anxious as our con-
temporary not 10 hurt the feelings Of
hls stricken friends, We have hitherto
retralned from editorially committing
the IELEGRAM-HERALD 10 our view or
I the case. But we submit that, while nc
one theory Is free from difficulties, the
more recent developments III the case
are al II line with our very first i'm
/ presSlons. IL IS no more violent pre-
I sumption that Clarence loot finally
| yielded 70 the same temptations thai
are daily running thousands OF equally
! promising young men, than that sC
| fearful crime has been committed IN
| our very midst, almost under the eye:
/ OF our detectives and policemen, with
out a single bloody trace left behind.
The publication by the Democrat yes
terday. OF a letter written by young
loot himself TO his father, who is al
employe OF that paper, settles thc
whole question and justlties the opin
ion of the TELEGRAN-HERALp. Stripped
of all sensatonalisin, il was a simpl,
case of stealing.
But what position has the Democra
placed itself IN now, for so sensltiv,
a creature as il tried to make itself on
to be? For the sake of sensation, i
has given to the public private letter
which the writer himself asks to hav
kept secret, and it has stultlfiet
itself and justified those Organs" wh'
took the only sensible view of the case
The Democrat Is holding a genuin
"wake" over its own corpse.
In view OF its own developments tn
Democrats lecture 20 certain "orgaus
was great waste OF assumed virtue
When the TELEGRAN-HERALDt takes an
lessons from the Democrat IN decency
honesty, virtue, respectability, human
ity, temperance, sobriety, religion Q
politics, it Will be when the TELEGRAM
HERALD has sunk lower in the scale c
virtues than even the Democrat itself.