The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1904-03-18
AN AcRoSTTc
ffow q once Famous Editor was
Imposed upon

The fine vein of irony running
through the editorial comment of the
New York Times on the clever acrostic
that was perpetrated on that thrifty yet
| brilliant newspaper man, Charles A.
Dana, in his own paper will be enjoyed
| by all who remember the aggressive
character of the editor of the New York
Sun. The incident is just about old
enough to be new.
1--WE have from time to time had diff
ferences with our neighbor. the New
York Sun. The views entertained by
the Sun about the silver dollar, the pro-
tective tariff, civil service reform and
the President are unlike our views, and
We commonly take great pleasure in
events. tendencies, movements and tri-
umphs which cause the Sun acute sui
ferine. This is because in these things
the Sun. as we regard it. is sinful by
nature and made more SO by practice.
But we think we know how to put aside
mere differences of opinion with an es-
teemed neighbor, who, after all, is hu-
man, like the rest of us-and if we dag
nose correctly the emotion which agi-
tates us as we write, we are capable of
feeling just resentment toward a
wretch who would covertly enter that
neighbors esteemed columns and revile
him with his own type.
This atrocious violation of the laws OF
decency and hospitality was committed
in the Evening Sun, which gave prom
inent place upon its editorial page to
the following verses;
GOOD ADVICE TO ADVERTISERS.
Delighted are they who at end of the day,
Are blessed with the Evening sun. Sun SUM
No paper on earth can equal its worth,
And yet il Is only begun, gun, gun.
IT'S newsy and bright and ahle TO fight,
So that it will never get left left, left;
And every line will sparkle and shine
From pencils remarkably deft, deft, deft.
Read always you know. by million or so.
| Advertisements in il Will pay, pay, pay;
| Unrivalled by all. it being so small
Distinctly each ad. will display, play, play.
This is an acrostic. The first letters
OF the lines, reading from the top down
wards make up the words, ''Dana is
fraud" proposition which is not only
insulting, but untrue. And the indig-
nation mounts higher as we reflect on
the artfulness with which this diaboli-
cal william did his work. We have no
doubt that he is an outside contributor,
but he knew the weak points of his vic
tim. His manuscript appealed at once
to Mr.. Dana's love for poetry and to his
yearning for advertisements. He knew
that after days weary knawing at the
Mugwump file Mr.. Dana turns to poetry
for refreshment as the heart to the
waterbrooks. He had scanned also the
ing Sun and he used his knowledge to
aid his detestable purpose, His caitiff
verses are composed with skill which
made certain their acceptance and pub
LEGATION. They were not too good-in
fact, they were bad, very bad. But
their imperfections beftted their COM
mercial purpose and averted the eye of
suspicion. 1t was contemplate and
cowardly way of getting around poet
ry loving and thrifty old gentleman.
And it was an affront TO newspaper
editor which the press everywhere
ought to denounce in the severest
| terms. s
Believing this to be the duty of the
press, we hereby denounce this knave
and his work, and extend TO our neigh
Dor, Mr.. Dana, our lively sympathy.
and the assurance of our disbelief in the
libelous statement which he has unwit-
tingly published against himself.