The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-05-23
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The Tri.County's so Desperately Mad
that 1t even Bites Itself.


posed as such. That as shining social
light he don't shine. That in business
transactions he is always looking for the
best of it and that he owes debts. That
he has innumerable other failings, and
is, as the saying goes, "tuf nut he
knows it and as we have said, the public
is pretty we'll aware of it.
But his course has not been the result
of improper tutelage in his youth, or not
because devoted parents did not exer.
else watchful care in his youthful days.
The mean things you say OF him do
not hurt him. Personally he has grown
callous to such things. His patrons are
sucL with true knowledge OF his true
character. r.-Tri- County Neacs.
There's an unwritten law handed
down from generation to generation that
a gentleman need not stoop to return
the assault of one who is outside the
pale OF honor.
Here's self.confessed "tuff nut" re-
former. Were we disposed to black
him, his own words and his home repu-
tation would remove all necessity.
Hence it is not to handy personal cpl.
thets we notice his three columns OF
wild abuse. Only that its political bear.
ing may be clearly understood, do we
refer to it at all
There are causes under the surface for
the combination which urges this un.
timely wrangle. There's some personal
anti Forakerism, some personal anti
Mayorism, some personal anti Marshal
feeling, some jealousy of the NEws-HER
AID, and some desperate financial needs,
to provide for which the bleeder's lance
must find a victim.
On small scale it is a conglomerate
of unjust discontents somewhat similar
to that which doomed our party to Ma
tional defeat in 1892, and precipitated
general disaster.
Like causes produce like effects. For
the sake of Republican success in High.
land county, we argued and protested
against the injection of discord pending
a State contest, and now the angry fury
of the entire alliance is centered on us.
The combined wisdom and sagacity of
the Tuff.nut reformers is exhibited in
three columns of personal abuse, in
which the most trivial incidents are
magnified to our discredit.
We are pictured as a "bloat." This
NAV 90 in communities where we are
not personally known, until the people
form our acquaintance. But, after that,
this sample of their false insinuations
will give way before the evident fact
that if we are bloated, it is not on the
prevailing beverages of Tuff.nut reform.
We -spresented as an informer,
posting '".ckersham as to certain alleged
offences against him, when everybody |
knows he was2aware of such alleged of.
fences, and had created scene at the
R. & o. Depot, by attempting to kill the
alleged offender.
In private conversation we told him
our only knowledge: of the ofense in
question was through others who pro-
fessed to know, and we did not even
tell him who the other parties were,
We were not at allsconcerned about the
matter, and it was referred to by him.
self. But, he says we threatened to
publish affidavits concerning the mat
ter. And, on this false premise, he
throws aside all his fearful expressions
OF regard for innocent little ones, and
madly demands the publication.
We have reasons for not acceding to
such demand. We're not an attorney,
not in his employ, and it's none of our
business to furnish such affidavits. Be.
sides, we're trying to run decent paper,
and wouldn't publish the affidavits, any
how. We never agreed to do 80. We |
never vouched for the evidence alluded |
to, and don't care continental whether |
it is true or not. 1t doesn't affect the
sound money issue, the tariff, or the
or Hawaiian question, or any
other matter of political importance, if a
hundred men were guilty or gulltless.
Hence. we positively decline to air Mr..
Wickersham's family linen on the News
HERALD clQthe6-llne.
The fact that, from force of habit we
closed the Office door behind us as we
followed Wickersham into his sanctum
10 clothed with awful and sinister mean.
ing.
Our reference to the fact that the Tri.
County and the Two-for had formed a
literary bureau and that each republish.
Cd the others attacks along the Repub-
lican line, is magnified into an auto.
cratic edict upon our part that his paper
Bnould make no extracts from the Two.
loe. Never was anything more far
Sstched or ridiculous. Hardly week
passes that We do not make news ex.
tracts from the Tri County. Under ex.
isting circumstances, this would never
be, il We we're ~ narrow and prejudiced