The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-11-20
ADVICE
Given in All Kindness
and Charity,
Without a Touch Of NAL
ice or Anger,
SINCERELY ADVISING THAT DOC.
SINCERELY ADVISING THAT DOC.
TOR TO ABANDON
Bogus Interviews. Bogus Cha|.
lenges, and Bogus Lawsuits.

The Truth About that Challenge Which
DR.. Copeland squarely Accepted
DR.. Copeland's Acceptance Was
Backed by Deposit of $4,000,
which DR.. Mccoy Failed to Cover.
To DR.. J. c. Mccoy:
have no desire to add to the embarrass-
mont Of your position. l have all the sym
pathy for you in the world. but must insist
that you have only Yourself to blame for the
position in which you are placed Your trouble
is chiefly due TO the fact that yon underest-
mate the intelligence OF the public. and until
you are able to see that the public is not so
easily deceived as you imngine you will find
yourself getting deeper and deeper into the
valley of humiliation.
would like to help you n I could. and II you
will only take kindly and to heart what have
to say. there may be som" hoTe for you yet.
will yet do you the credit TO believe that
your efforts to confuse the public are becom-
ing wearisome even to yourself. but / am
pained to see that you still persist In an en-
deavor to appear something that you are not:
that you still carry in your advertising prima
facie evidence Of an intention to mislead.
For instance. do you for n moment suppose
that your advertisement Of Thursday. which
you represent as an interview" deceives any
one? o. what possible advantage can it be to
you to attempt to misead the public by repre-
sentinC your advertisements as Interviews"
when every one who knows anything about it,
knows that you were never interviewed in your
life. and that no reporter however humble.
and that no newspaper however obscure. ever
| regarded you as Of sufficient Importance to
make you the object of an interview.
WHO sAIDe
Your advertisement OF Thursday in the
Sun" and World" commences as follows:
"In an interview with DR.. J. Cresap Mccoy. OF
| Drs. Mccoy 4 Snow. at his Office at > East 42d
| at. last night. he said: Can you realize that
| this striking example thad grammar and bad
| English would give away to every schoolboy in
New York the fact that your assumed Inter
view" is a fake. so completely bald that even
| the wind has not a fair chance at it?'"
Now. the man who Is honest in his business
is honest in his advertising He does not at
| tempt to convince the public that that which
he says in his advertisements. and PAYS SO
| much line for. is written by reporter or en-
dorsed by the paper in which it is printed.
| II your attainments as professional man
are not sufficient to enable you to appreciate
tho bad grammar and bad English above
| quoted. surely your general intelligence is
| strong enough to realize that an attempted
deception Of this nature does not place man
| on the best possible footing with the people
| whose support he desires.
Moreover. SO far as concerns your libel suits
confess that do not regard them as any
| better advertising capital than the "chal-
| lenge." which you have apparently evaded
| with their aid. You intimate that l feign g-
norance on the question Of those libel suits.
My information regarding them. l admit. is
| drawn principally from what you say in your
advertisements. sent to Baltimore for copies
| OF the papers. which you said you had filed.
but the clerk Of the court reported that no
| papers had yet been filed. and that you had
until the Doth Of this month to file papers.
| showing the cause Of your action: conse-
Quently have been in the dark about it
| Those Libel Suits.
| You say In your advertisements that you
| have sued me for lite. because 'attacIe ed
only soures Of a. will sc t"lS Il
| don't know that have dwet especially upon
y2u1 attanments a; phySieian The burden
ground that you put in your Offices in various
parts Of the country men who ware not doc.
name j may have used strong language on
this subject, as regard It asa heartless pro-
ting them in charge of unqualified men. l
feel that even the most intense, desire to make
5 fp snG Sat VI When yen
your Offices in the care q boys and men who
are not doctors. and allow than to practice
| upon the sicK, you are erdangering human
life. Whatever have said uron this point /
am able TO prove. have no malice in max
persuade you to abandon n custom which
seems to me SO hrariess. my statements. so
far from being regarded as ihe!lous should be
regarded as tending to the benoit Of you and
your patients. and you should thank me for
| the lust and bonc!lcial chastisement.
| Now. you are mistaken in supposng have
| any desire to avoid this question Of libel suits.
| am entirely willing that you should get out
| Of the suits al the advertising which your en-
| gagement OF eminent attorneys can give you.
that you should give to the eminent attorneys
| all the Advertising they NAV gain from the
fact that you AFRO their. client. but YOU must
| pardon mo II am unable to consider the libel
| suits as resulting from any real grievance.
| Why Are They Brought Now?
| Ifyou were thus sensitive YOU would have
| brought suits Tor libel long ago against news
| papers that have from time to time written
you up as a uunrk AMI an impostor / lave
| before me more lhln one newspaper contAin.