Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-02-23
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OLD FASHIONED, PERHAPS.

AT the risk of being considered old
fashioned, the HERALD persists that a
newspaper must, to express anything
and obtain standing, stand upon Its
own bottom. Anything else in the news
paper way, be it ever so newsable, and
never so readable. may amuse but will
always be regarded rs IL sort ol comic
opera production, or sedlitz powder,
things to be taken to possible advantage
on occasion, but never seriously.
Since the advent in our midst OF Il gang
of "Knowitall's" from Wisconsin, whom,
it must be confessed, Lave iabored as
siduously to put the benighted people of
Aberdeen Fright" it has been plain to
the least observant that we had been
stu milling along in the dark for a good
many years, until those ''stars from the
east" appeared for our enlightenment.
nat tUls W lSCOIlSlIl aggregation iiNNS
made signal failures in every attempt at
business, has had no lettering influence
upon their determination to preserve tie
balance of us from going to political ,socia
and financial ruin. They are determined
to preserve the crowd, even if they
are swallowed up in the waves while SO
dong. This, at first glance, would seem
an admirable trait, but, when they as
Tor the benefit of a private business-the
public-spiritednes disappears.
The unwarrantel attack upon J. c.
Cross 10y the Morning Hogan calls for
these remarks. The attacks are simply
an attempt to belittle a competitor
through a personal organ. How much
credit would be given paper that, say,
N. g. kaufman, or any other merchant
of the city, might chose to establish,
with a view to posing sufficiently as a
public journal as to enlist outside sup
port, but really for the purpose OF lying
about its competitors? None! Yet
when the Hogan law office establishes
paper, whose chief mission is to seize on
every opportunity to attact a competitor
in the legal profession, there are those
to be found willing to give those printed
advertisements certain degree Of cred
ence.
The HERALD does not particularly en-
Joy this sort of calling down of Il con-
Temporary: In matters OF public import
oar cudgel is always ready for business,
bat, in private affairs, 1t becomes a dis
agreeable duty.
The matter in hand is a private affair.
The Morning Hogan has gone so far as
to accuse Judge Pearson of rendering
Fraudulent judgements aeainstthe city
with the intim alton that he was par.
ticipator in the proceeds and City Clerk
Clark and Mayor West with the issuance
OF fraudulent warrants, with the implied
insinuation they either consrir5d
to rob the city or were damphools,
which, in either case would call for their
close confinement.
Now, the Morning Annex to the Hogan
law office knows Il at all it said was pure
tommyrOt. 1t knew-or ought TO have
known-that the judgments against the
city, presented by Mr., Cross, had been
duly rendered in the courts; that Mr..
Gross had requested payment in suffi-
cient time for the city to have appealed
ii it so desired, and that there was moth
ing left for the city to do but pay those
judgments, with bill of costs added if
the council saw fit to reject them This
is the substance OF the report of the city
attorney on this matter, and the Sun
knew it,
The legal end OF the Morning Hogan
also knows that the statutes fix the at
torney's fee. at $40 in IL superior court,
and rs in the justice courts. Lest The
Hogan should have overlooked this little
matter, in its extraordinary exertions to
tell Aberdeen GLOW To Do IT, we will
recall the fact that the claim OF Attorney
Jonn G. Hogan, attorney ct la", and
substantial owner OF the Morning Sun,
is now on file in the court ot Judge Pear
son, for the s. attorney fee allowed by
statute in the case of the City of Aber.
d,en VS.. McNal)y, the record OF which
shows that the defendant was acquitted
OF charge of assault on January last. |
Will the Morning Hogan roar when the |
city council allows this bill-as allow it,
it must, or appeal the case within the |
proper time.