Omaha daily bee., 1896-11-15
ANOTHER VOLLET FROM THE JICKASS
BATTERY


ANOTHER TOLLET from THE JiCkISS
Battery
"Audacity and always audacity" was
NupocOniC motto which men born
truly great may still safely emulate,
But when the ass dOns the lions skin
imagining foolishly that he could suc
ccSsfully perform the role of the king
of beasts. his braying will soon betray
his lineage and only make him
ridiculous. If audacity in coming fakes
and persiStently palming off glarng
fnlschoodS upon the public would con-
sttute an editor truly great, then the
World-IIcrald would indeed loom up as
the mightiest journal of the western
hemisphere.
Nothing less than aSininc audacity
could have prompted its principal owner
and publisher to follow up the London
Financial News fake. which had been
exploited for all it was worth during
the late campaign of deception and
dclusion, with II personal letter to the
editors of leading American sound
money dailics with an impudcnt de-
mand for an apology for having de
nOunccd the fake and its authors
Under date of November {, four days
after election, the Omaha Faliir writes
to the Buffalo Express as follows:
| have noticed in your paper a mlsrepre-
sentaton concerning the publication OF an
article from the London Financial News in
the Omaha Wcrld-Herald. The article which
we published appeared in the London
Financial News on April 30, 1894, and We
inclose you a fac-simile of the entire page
of the London Financial News OF that date
containing the article in question.
Concerning the publication of other alleged
articles Of the London Financial News the
WorldHerald is not responsible and does not
propose to be made responsible What we
have published We have also proven, and the
local paper which at first denounced the
WorldHerali has been forced into silence,
although it has not had the decency to
apologize for it's false charge.
Although the campaign is over. the World
Herald objects to being misrepresented and
believes that any reputable newspaper will
recall and correct any Misrepresentation.
u vi. MI NtiIoJh.
For madultcrated gall our iackass
battery will be entitled to first prize
leather medal-at the TranSmiSSisSippi
Exposition. 1t first published Il down
right forgery credited to the London
Financial News of March 10, 1896,
claiming that this fake was clipped by
its own reporters from the original
copy of the London Financial News
When the fabricatOrs of this fake We're
pinned down they pretended that the
forgery had come to them through
parties whom they considered reliable.
That exposure did not, however, stop
the impostOrS. They tried it again in
Il new form by printing II garbled eX-
tract which they asserted was word for
word copied from the London Financial
News. This was denounced by the
editor of the Financial News as spurious
and radically at variance with the views
of that paper TO make this denial
more specific the London Financial News
of August Is, 1896, positively declared
that no such article as that which an
Omaha paper had published under the
caption, paste This in Your Hat" had
ever appeared in the Financial News.
The original of this editorial was for
warded to The Bee from London by
Walter Nccf, general agent of the AS
sociatcd press, so aS to substantiate the
assertion Of The Bee that the pretended
extract was bogus.
But that did not stop the faliirs
About the LIST of October n copy of the
London Financial News, dated Septcm-
Der. 10, 1896. was received by The Bee
which cditorially reiterated in positive
language that the articles published on
this side and credited to it had never
appeared in its columns. That copy
OF the London Financial News is still
in our possession and subject to any
bOdy's inspection. And this Is why The
Bee has not seen fit to take back any
thing it has said concerning the
forgerics and fakes that were produced
in various forms as true copies of the
paper from which it was alleged they
were quoted.
So much as to the course of The
bee. HuCu ol tIe lthhlHS hll4ItS as HuNt
not ignored it's impudent demand of
apologies give the Fake-Mill very cold
comfort. Instead of Offering an apology
the Buffalo Express has this to say
As to the Financial News fake. we never
credited the Word-Herald with having
published the article of which it sends US
an alleged fac-simile in paper OF October
2O 1896. That alleged fac-simile Of the
London Financial News of April 30, 1894,
Is the third form in which the Financial
News fake was published by the silyerites
during the campaign. What we did say
was that tho Word-Herad first published
the earlier form OF the fake, afterward ad
mitted by the sllyerltes to be spurious,
which was credited to the Financial News