Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
AN ADMITTED FAILURE

AN ADMITTED FAILURE
With Apologies to Our Readers We be-
vote This Space to-Nothing.
"PrO Bono Publico."
The Times Herald las week said that
it would publish a "reply" from j. A
Stanley to the personal rantings that
E. s. Ames had engaged in for few
weeks past. Therefore, last Monday
evening j. A. Stanley sent communi-
cation to the Times Herald. That pa
per failed to print the article accord
ing to its own offer, and according to
all rules of courtesy and newspaper
ethics. Instead of publishing that
communication r. S. Ames devotes a
whole column to another matter en-
tirely-wholly personal,-and rants
and bawls like an inmate of an insane
asylum, telling of his failures in life,
and how j. A. and w. H. Stanley fur
nished the money to start him in busi-
ness, and thus possibly kept him from
becoming pauper. He tells great
many truths in that article of his, but
some things that are not true, of
course. Nobody feels any worse over
the matter than those who furnished
the money that made it possible for
him to engage in business at all. We
will admit that we are just as ashamed
as can be that together with w. 81.
Stanley we furnished E. s. Ames 1895
with which to buy the 1850 'good will"
of the Herald. And we continue to
blush and feel mean when we think
that he has 1926 of our money yet, and
that we have never had cent interest
on the whole amount, although he had
the 1895 for over three years, he having
invested only s115, and yet was given
complete control of the whole plant,
when those whom he now denounces
owned over half interest, and had
reason to expect him to give bill of
sale for it, merely as security for the
money, and not that they desired to
have anything to do with the sheet, for
with only half interest they might
have had just as much to say regarding
its policy as had 3. s. Ames. In fact
had they been SO Opposed they would
have been justified legally and morally
in kicking him out of the management
of the Herald long ago
By his own statements Ames proves
himself a complete failure in every
thing, and now after the Stanley
brothers furnished him the money to
do something with he is crying like q
whipped cur because they did not run
it for him, and make it a success. At
the same time he seeks to have the
public believe that the Stanleys were
engaged in "plot to suppress the Her
aid" together with its editor.
Such insane Inconsistencies; such
self-confessed incapacity and brazen
ungratefulness as this man Ames ex-
hibits in his personal explanation of
his failures in life, is something un-
paralleled in all history.
The only thing that we possibly
should apologize to the public for is
that we are now giving any notice to
his rawlings, and also for helping such
a blubbering, babyish and crabbid in
dividual into position where it was
possible for him to affiict the public
as he has. Had we not supplied him
with funds in his days of penury he
probably would not have infested the
public with his rantings. But then we
are hardly alone in this awful respons-
ibility, for had he not been given the
free use of u printing outfit he might
not have been priviledged to continue
his nefarious work.
But we hope to be forgiven for. all
that we did for him, and we will prom
ise never to let him have any more
money, nor to encourage any one else
to.
We are free to admit that when we
supplied Ames with the money with
which to buy out Mr.. Callahan we did
not do it purely out of love for Ames
though we were glad that he might
have an opportunity to earn an honest
living. Mr.. Callahan wanted to sell
because the STAR had the lead in bust.
ness. and we preferred that he should
for the reason that we would not have
such strong competition with his plant
out of town. 1t was purely business
proposition about which there could
be no questionable motive. If Ames
; failed to realize the business feature
of it, to the STAR, at that time, and
thought that he was the only one whose