The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-07-29
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Another Suit on rfand-Rube smith'a
Great Mistaae.

Another Suit on ffand-Rube smIth'l
GREAT mistaae.
SUED IN,-There Is certain element
in this town which Is deep and lasting
disgrace to 1t. 1t is composed OF men who
haven't the sand to strike from the shoulder
or pull gun and let flicker. When Tn,
Kicker pitches into man and rubs his ful
the wrong way we want him TO show NJ
with club or a gun and have it out with
us, and most of 'em are men enough t.
do so.
Now and then, however, when We OBJ
serve that such or such man ought to b,
strung up by the vigilance committee Il
make more room for coyotes and rattle
snakes, he hunts up Hank Brown, the on,
eyed, one horse shyster lawyer and sues u
for libel. Such man is Peto Foster, wht
began $4,000 suit against us yesterda,
for defamation of character Ye gods bu
think of It'll A capper, thief, liar and ex
convict injured in his character In thi
town, and injured $4,000 worthi VIII,
didn't the old coward come in with clul
and show his manhood2 Why didn't h
borrow gun and pop at us through
Window Why didn't he send us word he,
pop us on sight, and then slip out of tow
on the pretense that his mother was dying
It's our turn nowi We give him tire
days to withdraw the suit. If he doesn'
do it we shall go huckleberrying He will
be our huckleberry. II we happen to ruI
across Hank Brown we shall gather him ii
as we'll. What's left of the pair after W
get through had better leave town, or VI
shan't try to hold the boys in. We've beer
very patient and kind with this libel sui
business. We've let twenty different peo
pie sue us and bother and annoy. View,
got through now, This is the end. w,
are willing to be shot at, but we won't b.
bothered with lawsuits. If you won
shoot, we will
A WORD OF ADvIcE.-Wednesda after
noon, when Major Thomas rode into tow
and brought the news that an unknown
white man was lying dead on the hill, oul
coroner was so drunk that he could no
take charge of the case. This is only on,
Of several occasions, and we think the tim,
has now arrived for us to observe that /
Dick Blodgett doesn't brace right up ant
head in a new direction something viii
happen. Out this way we never wait Il
impeach an incompetent official, nor is
committee appointed to ask him to resign
He Is pulled up to limb and let dow1
again three or four times. and then givel
a chance to git II be doesn't take it, tn,
next pull leaves him up there
In this instance the dead man turnet
out to be old Jim Carnahan, who ought Il
have turned up his toes long ago, and wit
went out and died to get rid of his owl
company. But that's no excuse for Dick
Business is business, and he has got to b
sober enough to tell the dead body of
man from mule and proceed accordingly
or shadow will fall across his path.
NEVER DID IT.-Our esteemed contem
porary came out In double loaded edi
torial yesterday charging us with man,
bad things, and advising the people of thi
town to shoot us full of lead
We think he wrote the article under
misunderstanding, He knew that we knew
he had been in the Ohio penitentiary 70
stealing two cows and lot of pork H
supposed we were the only one possessed
Of the knowledge, and when he found.th
story all around town the other day b
jumped to the conclusion that we had be
trayed his confidence. We never did. Bill
Overton spouted 1t, and the way Bill cam
to know was because he went to the sam
prison at the same time for stealing fort
bushels Of wheat Of the same farmer.
We think we know what editorial coui
tesy Is, and We aim to practice it. Our con
temporary ought to have known that W
wouldn't give him away In any such fash
ion. We are sorry the facts come out, bu
they won't hurt his circulation any. He,
got seyenty-six subscribers anyhow, and a
they are all relatives they will stick by him
No l0.-As is well known to our loca
readers, Reubc Smith, general loafer, VII
was familiar figure in this town, is n
more on earth. Yesterday we paid Henr.
Towner, the popular undertaken, thirty
six dollars in cash for Reube's burial ex
penses, and his headboard is already SC
up in our private graveyard. 1t is marke
No. 10.
We had nothing in particular agains
Reube. While he had refused to sui
scribe for The Kicker, we didn't lay it u
against him. A man who can't read ha
no use for n newspaper. Two or thre
weeks ago, when we wrote brief local il
regard to his biting Jim Small's ear off
we didn't bear down on Reube very heavy
We said We thought he'd lived here lon
enough, and that he'd have to either ski
or hang, but we made it rather light flo
him. Sunday afternoon Reuben found u
in the United States hotel and spat in on
hat and pulled our nose and slapped on
jaw. That's where he made the mstak
of his life, He thought we were Il coyote
and he probably crossed the dark rive
still carrying that belief. We pulled OF
Reuben and dropped him in his tracks
AS In the nine other instances, we hat
him buried on our own lot, paid ull ex
penses, and shall keep the headboard il