The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1894-03-23
OUR REPLY.

The editor of the Times, in his efforts to
fulfill his mission as public educator(?,
has deemed it an important factor of his
duty to give to the public. in minutest de-
tail; all gossip and runors that have come
to his hearing regarding the sensational
side of the alleged Applewhite scandal.
So honest and conscientious has he been
in the performance of this duty, that he
has crushed and tranp1ed under foot
those tender feelings of brotherly love,
which he would have it appear, permeate
his kind heart, and has shown. to the
world, without apparent car.se other than
duty, only one side of the Applewhite
sensation, regardless of the suffering and
pain it would bring upon the head of
weak, defense1ess woman, and the sneers
| and slurs she and her little ones would
have to endure. When, however, it be-
came the duty of the GAZETTE to pub
lish to the people, facts from the other
side, which reflect upon him, he is sud-
denly struck with the idea that the press
may overreach its bounds when it pub
l1shes aUthe news. 1t depends altogether
upon whose OK is gored.
1t has always been the policy of the
present publisher of the GAZETTE never
to publish rumors for the mere purpose of
producing sensational reading, but to
publish any and all substantated facts.
We do not assert the doctors innocence
or guilt, but, will publish the facts on
both sides and leave it to therpeop1e for
their verdict.
| Irvine's abusive attack upon us on the
street. after having had the article read to
him, gives color to the statement made
concerning his aspirations for DR.. Apple
whites position. We Gid not resent at
the time his childish display of his pas
sions, when he disgraced himself by his
conduct i'll trying, in public place and
in a most 'ill-bred' manner to sbulldose
the GAZETTE into silence" i'll it's publica-
ton of facts. We had hoped that when
he had given the matter careful consider
alton he would see what an ass he had
made of himself, and would have gentle
manly instincts enough to attempt, in a
manly way, to disprove the charges and
show wherein he was wronged, or let the
matter drop. Hehas not publicly denied
the charge that he was all aspirant for
App1ewhite's position, and he knows full
well that he can not deny it.
In his abusive, iusinuating TRADE
against us in this weeks issue of his SLAM
derous sheet, he totally ignores the main
issue, and attempts to divert the attention
of the public, from what he knows to be
the truth, by publishing an article in
which he revives the old chestnut of the
ownership of the GAZETTE, and willfully
falsifes by insinuating that Wallis Nash
wrote the article referred to in our last
issue He knows that he utters a delib-
crate falsehood when he pretends to say
) that MIR. Nash wrote the article. He
knows our authority for that article and
that its validity can not be questioned,
also that the assertion that MIR. Nash had
anything to do with it is as ridiculous as
it is false.
! When the Times asserts that the GA
ZETTE is now, orhas at any other time, un.
der the present management, been 'the
cringing, servile creature of the Hoggs,
J dictated to by Wallis Nash whenever
necessary" it either does so, hoping to
maliciously 1nislead public sentiment, and
divert it from the facts we have published,
/ or willfully falsifes from force of habit
q We enphatically deny that Mr.. Nash has
ever at any time, or in any way attempt
= ed to bulldose, silence, or dictate the
policy of the GAZETTE.