The Globe-republican., 1891-08-26
THE MUD MACHINE.

unWaShed gave his views IN q r0tner
gossippy manner upon the democratic
convention and incidents Herewith
connected. Bro. Petition writes quite
glibly about mud-slinging as though
it were kind of game or sport al
which he is expert and takes especial
delight. 1t also appears to be with
him a method of political warfare in
which his proves is SO great that he
expects to make the editor of this pa
per and candidates on the republican
ticket ''froth at the mouth.
There is little quadruped Of the
genus mepAitis for which nature has
provided no efficient means offensive
or defensive except the ability to
emit an extremely fetid liquor from
the aIimentary canal. Our neighbor,
from his own statement, though BIZ
ped, possesses this peculiar character
istic in a marked degree. We believe
however, that the similarity extends
still farther, in that he is otherwise
comparatively harmless. We confess
that in a contest of this kind our
worthy neighbor would have the ad-
vantage if success were measured by
the degree of stencil produced, and
he might, by his boosted facility in
singing unsavory projectiles, cause
not only ye scribe and the republi
can candidates, but all others who
peruse his delectable sheet, to "froth
at the mouth" This paper is not a
mud machine. Its editor has no ia
cility in the use of billingsgate Ian
guage, neither has he any skill in
fabricating unfounded charges
against worthy citizens. Those who
are clear in character and whose past
record is good, need never fear
an insinuation in these columns that
would throw the slightest shadow
of stain upon either the one or
other. The Democrat may fling its
mud and emit it's fetit effluvia until
the air is full of it, but our readers
need have no fear of like infection
from the GLOBE REpUBL1cAN.
However, it is the imperative duty
of true and faithful journalist, when
ever it comes to his knowledge that
any plan or scheme is arranged to
plumber the public treasury, rob pri-
vate individuals, or otherwise jeopar
die the interest of the community in
which the paper circulates, to give
due notice to his readers. We hold
that the newspaper man who knows
anything concerning a candidate for
public Office which units him for a
public trust and fails to warn the
people against such candidate is as
guilty as the candidate who seeks
thus to betray the community in which
he lives.
We further hold that where the
editor of a public newspaper has good
and sufficient grounds to suspect
from past acts or present conduct
that any person not a candidate for
Office will do his neighbors wrong,
and fails or refuses to issue a word
Of timely warning, such editor there
by becomes an accolnplice and utterly
unworthy the esteem and confidence
of his fellow men.
Since our last issue it has been pr
vately intimated to us that if we did
not refrain from further mention of a
most nefarious and unworthy plot by
certain individuals to restore and per-
petuate the Cox dynasty in this county,
the Democrat would devote all the
skill and cunning of it's editorial con-
tributors to devising false stories con
corning the candidates upon cur tick
ct. That they would seize upon the
most harmless acts and distort them
into crimes of darkest dye.
1t is not the nature of the editor
Of this paper to be arrogantly defiant,
neither do we boast of skill in literary
work equal to that of some of the
writer's who are enlisted for the cam
paign on the staff of the democrat, but
right is might" and the weapons of
truth and plain-spoken facts will be
more effective with honest people than