Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-07-05

Wanders and Gives More Space to the
Edilor of the indie pendent Than


wanders and Gives More Space to the
Editor of the Independent Than
to Question at Issue.
The little daily paper that issues
from the Republican office, quite in
keeping with its character, permits d
two column article of "slush" over the
signature of a man by the name of lib
belts, who does a kind of collecting bus
mess In this city. If the article had
appeared over the signature of most
anyone else than Tlbbetts, the editor of
the Independent would have felt called
upon TO give consideration TO the hsr-
sngue As il is, the Independent will
notice the matter very briefly, being
convinced that the said Tibbetts got his
data from the other world spirits that
reveal unknowable facts to him and
very few others. As he seems to know
more about the private business of the
Independent than he knows himself, ii
ls quite evident that he got his knowl-
edge at sesnce.
In the first place, the editor of the
Independent fails TO see how his pr!
vate business can be matter of public
concern The aforesaid spirituslistic
genus homo seems to think that the
public should conclude that some one
has given the editor of the Independent
pendent is not sverse to such good for
tune, but so far In his life he, like many
others, has bad TO dig for what he has
He has been In business just nine years
and has tried TO accumulate little
each year, at the same time striving TO
maintain the comforts of his family.
What money he has invested in Plym-
outh is his own money, and il is no.
bOdy's business but his own whether 1t
siderstion for the fellow who commun-
icates with the spirits of the other
world
The little daily paper that issues
from the Republican office some time
ago made the statement that the pub
Usher of the Independent had sought to
consolidate the Independent with the
Democrat, and the spirituslistic collec-
tor takes this also to be matter of
public concern.
Immediately after the editor of the
Independent returned from the legisla
tive session at Indianapolis he had
conversation with Mr.. Mcdonald, at
which time he asked Mr.. Mcdonald if
the Democrat was for sale and stated
that if it was or should be in the near
future he would purchase it if it should
be offered at reasonable price. He
told MIR. Mcdonald that In case he
could purchase that paper he would
consolidate it with the Independent.
That is all that has ever passed between
Mr.. Mcdonald and the editor of the
Independent relative to consolidation.
The publisher of the Independent
might go on and give the statements
made by Mr.. Mcdonald if he cared to
make public what was given him in
confidence and what was purely per-
sonsl matter as between Mr.. Mcdonald
and himself.
The aforesaid Tibbetts also takes the
editor of the Independent to task for
his vote on the "20 cents sD hour law"
At the proper time the editor of this
paper will defend his vote in this par
ticular as re will on other matters. OF
the 80 members of the house and SEN
ate, l3o voted for the $50 cents an hour
bill" According to Tibbetts, these 135
are demagogues, and the fifteen who
voted against il are statesmen. 1t did
not matter which way the Marshall
county representative voted, the result
would not have been different. The
majority in favor of the bill was over
whelming.
The vitriolic Tibbetts seems to have
taken an overdose of carbolic acid or
else he has been actuated by the wrong
kind of spirit. If he ever writes an
article for newspaper again we hope
his production will show more evidence
of sanity than the one he had published
f.stI Il