The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-06-12
THE KIMBALLGRAPHI
cLATE TINAN
Official Paper Of tho City and County

Os0 Man Maynard Df0ol8 More Venom
From time immemorial, wrote a
Kansas editor once, vt has been custo-
mary for ants and flies and f1eas and.
fools, s%coundrels and scalawags and
skunks, Januses, jackasses, lizards,
leeches and lice to assail mankind in
general and their superiors in particu-
lar. There is one reptile not mention
ed-overlooked because If its rarity
that reptile a newspaper low down
enough in the scale OF Journalism to
uphold a personal attack upon another
editor for telling the truth.
That the GRAPHIC has passed and
unnoticed the slurs, dirt and filth
thrown at Its editor for the past few
weeks by the miserable excuse for
a newspaper down the street is COM
mon talk. The public can nov Judge
which of the two Kimball newspapers
is the aggressor. We have tried to keep
out OF a newspaper controversy that is
relished by few and condemned by
many and which does no good to any
town, partly because of the wishes OF
those near and dear to us-whose
natural refinement sickens at such
things and whose peace Of mind is Of
more consequence to us than a million
yellox dogs and their snappings, and
largely because when the GRAPHIC
goes to war with a newspaper it wants
to go to war with a newspaper OF. its
class-with It's equal or superior.
Fighting the dirty sheet down the
street with the GRAPHIC is like taking
a pickaxe to a pismire. We can no
more afford to quarrel with G. j.
maynard than to get out in the street
and fight a Niger. In such q case we
get the worst Of it even IL we get the
best OF it.
The unpleasant incident between
the marshal and the editor Of the
GRAPHIC last week would have been
passed unnoticed-as it would have
been with any other principals unless
the case got into justice court-so
far as the GRAPHIC is concerned. We
have yet to vent spleen through
these columns to serve pure personal
ends, however much we feel at liberty
to criticise a mans official acts and
work for this city. 1t was because the
disreputable fungus down the street
knew this from others-because he
Thought we would pass unnoticed
again anything that he might say that
inspired the tissue of lies, misrepre-
sensations and SANDER that he places
in his miserable sheet this week. 1t
is not the first time he has all but
called us a thief. This article stamps
G. j. maynard as being SO far below the
scale OF humanity that it's a wonder
God does not strike him dead.
Had this tottering old imbecile who
Is kept at public expense out OF pity
who seems to live but to round out a
failure in life by s%landering those who
have been more successful in their
undertakings-had any desire to make
q fair statement he could easily have
obtained the other side Of the story,
but he was too intent on SANDER to
wish it and sits down and out Of his
own diseased brain concocts a a Of
stuff with an untrath in every other
breath.
Envy and jealousy Of the success Of
the GRAPHIC and its editor has con
sumed what little manhood c. j. may
nard ever possessed. Powerless to do
us any harm, socially or in a business
way at home, he has sought for years
to belittle us with the outside press. II
he could but make somebody believe
that we had been mauled even by a
s tt. 2 marshal for crlticising his offici-
al acts, this miserable old gray-headed
skunk would be happy. His article OF
yesterday was prompted by one desire
and not to sustain the marshalin en-
forcing any water ordinance man
whom If his own words are to believed
he detests-a man whom he is said to
have affirmed we told but the truth
about-a man whom he himself has
slurred repeatedly-to the point
where he went in and stopped his
paper.
In comparing the two, however,
there is more manhood in the smallest
hair Of J. s. Stewards head than in c.
j. maynard's whole body-so great a
difference that any offense by the
former is utterly lost sight of in the
contempt for the other.
The dirty, santimonious old hypo-
critic will find his latest efforts as
futile as the rest. His poor little
sheet always lies unopened about town
until it goes to the dirty end for
which it alone is tit-except when
there is curiosity to read what he has
to say about Tinan; while it is the
laughing stock and butt OF nine out
Of every ten newspapers in the state.
This is what hurts him so-hurts him
more in minute than anything We