The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1892-05-13
THE VERY BEST WE CAN DO.

has been dealing more or less with
.ready print and other supply houses"
inst q trite over six years and in that
time has had dealing with the follow
ing: The Sioux City Printing Co.,
the Sioux City Newspaper Union, the
A, w. Kellogg Co., the Dakota News
paper Union, the Mann Press Co..
Marder, Luse & Co., Barnhart Bros. &
Spindler,s the Minneapolis Type Found
ry and Wright, Barrett g. stfllwell and
no others. X Here is direct
charge. 1t is not uncertain or indefn-
ite, except as to amount. 1t charges
that the editor of the Gazette has q ct
NV houses" You have made
this charge Mr.. Wheelock and you GER
tainly must have made itupon evidence.
You have made this charge public
through the paper of which you are
editor and now | demand that YOU
make public your proof in the same
manner.
shall wait one week to. give you the
opportunity to prove your charges.
After that'you shall near from me.
The above manifesto is not signed but
there is no doubt that its author is the
"poor witless devil" referred to in THE
REPUBLICAN a few days since. 1t
bears the old familiar earmarks of
threatening some dire thing or other if
THE REPUBLICAN, does not prove this
or take back that. But, for once, we
are ready to back down. We don't
want to hear from the Gazette some
more for we know from past experience
how tiresome its TRADES are to the COM
munity at large. We have too freshly
in mind its recent bold attacks on the
corrupt" county and city governments
to desire to have it come at us in any
such savage fashion.
We have given the matter further
investigation and we find that the Ga
zette has not s1et down" these ready
print and other houses after all. The
extended list it prints of the different
newspaper unions with which it has
done business affords the explanation
It has made the rounds without letting
any of them down, simply because by
their methods of doing business it
could not without ceasing to exist 1t
had to settle with one before changing
to another-which change was gen.
orally made about the time it's ready
print packages began to come G. o. D.;
after few months experience on the
part of each house had convinced the
latter that this was the only safe plan
We therefore cheerfully retract what
ever might have seemed like an imputa-
tion on the integrity of a concern
which, affecting superior virtue to the
rest of the community, never hesitates
to attack the business and personal
standing of any man who differs with
its crazy political views: concern
which only ceased abusing the National
Co. when the latter began to advertise
with it; concern that raised great
hullaballoo for weeks over county cor
ruption for the sole purpose of getting
apart Of the county printing, and stop
ped its racket the moment it got what
~ WhuGeo. COuC6fu WHICH o1tlloeiCe
the town for months in the vain at
tempt to force similar recognition from
the city government, and whose editol
afterwards virtually admitted there
was no justification for his slanders:
concern which deliberately "let
down" every advertiser represented il
its columns by printing claim of 2,54:
circulation when its actual circulation
has not reached that figure.
We repeat, then, that we take bacl
whatever reflection might have beel
contained in the article which eXcitet
the ire of the creature in question, be
cause he makes such awful threats Q
what he will do if we don't retract.
And now that he has got the extr
advertising which he was evidently at
ter we hope he will quit, too, having
been the aggressor this time, as alway
before.