The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1896-06-20
HEW TO THE LINE.
A Reioinder to Mr.. Marsland-Better
Kept Quiet Than Make a Public
Spectacle of Himself.

This mornings Sentinel returns to the
incident of an alleged threat with which
it charged a reporter Of The DAILY
LEADER in it's issue Of the morning after
the election contest hearing closed, by
apparently quoting the reporters answer
to and denial Of the charge. With his
usual apishness which he mistakes for
originality the editor adds: 1.-The Sen
tinel records only facts" while in the
clipping above referred to he exhibits
his usual and instructive dishonesty In
journalistic work by saying The DAILY
LEADER had been called upon by sever
al men" when the item stated explicitly
that it was the reporter that had been
called upon. This is not The DAILY
| LEADERS fight and it has taken no hand
in it, and has given its reporter just
sufficient space to see justice done.
Now, as regards the denial OF MIR.
/ Marsland to the reporters denial Of the
Sentinel's charge, it would have been
we'll for him to have left it as it was and
not have taken guilt to himself. His
name was not mentioned and he might
have saved himself a humiliatipg expo
sition by letting the matter drop. There
we're just three men present at the un-
pleasant incident and MIR. Marsland was
the aggressor. The reporter was sitting
on the depot platform listening TO H. B.
Schriner and another gentleman talk
about city matters when Mr.. Marsland
joined the company and soon got into a
heated discussion with Mr.. Schriner.
The other gentleman had left some time
before the discussion came to a crisis
and the reporter was on the point OF
leaving without saying anything when
Mr.. Marsland cast an %insinuation at
him that arrested his attention and
turning to Mr.. Marsland the reporter
said: why don't you go back to the
beginning Of this fight on me and fix
the responsibility for it: l received ar
honorable nomination from an honestly
conducted caucus, and simply because
was connected with a competing institu
ton in business that the editor OF the
Sentinel does not like he instigated the
fight on INT purely for reasons of bust
ness spite and you played second fddl,
to him. Now, if you are going to carr
the principle OF business spite into poll
tics and you are going to engage *
much Of your time in politics as 20,
have done in tLis contest, where is i
gong to get the Normal school if car
ried to the extreme?" There was n,
threat implied in the remark and q,
threat thought Of, but it seems Mr.
Marsland must have had this on BIZ
mind as a consequence, We presume, o
his own acts. and Immediately broke on
in q volley Of profanity which we canno
quote, and said il We thought we coul'
put him out Of that school We could tr,
, it, and said much more Of profanity an
buster.
/ We felt sorry for the man and assure.
0 him that We should never trouble our
3 self aoout him or his position, and wen
away and left him. The remark he at
Q tributes TO us in his quotation is III Ian
3 guage we never use, except in quoting
3 and being foreign to US We would not b
: likely to use it. We wish to give NJ
\ Marsland credit, however, for coming
us that afternoon, the scene took plac
before dinner, and apologiziDg for whs