Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-08-03

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aasrase Journal. which declared The
Optic Gas % blame for the La VEGAS
fsosiofftc~ difficulty. Such imIsata,ions
N cast b. the journal are. perhaps.
even considering the scarce. worthy
u more serious attention.
The fart y that the AIbaaaeFaae
Journal has mad. i,self Notorious With
In the past year and . half by liz icng
continued and malicious misrspfesenr
tasion N everything connected With
public affairs In New Msxiea. The
abusive and Isesnieioas policy shlcn IL
has chosen To adopt has nj times led
II into such astounding missiatemen,s
u fact that aenisis or corrections have
appeared entirely snperflnous, I'm ms.ss
Instances in Ties sre 80 apparent that
they deceive no n Who h. In sny
measure familiar with puhiie aaes.
lions.
Such q Journal 10 Of necessity. how,
ever. a public menace. a. there are NJ
ways q certain number ~ uniformed
and ereiulous readers who aeeap, It's
distorted views n n true ipetture'of ev.
entk and issues
A. O sample ~ the Journals '.Ioar.
nalism." We viii call attention 10 an
instance which readers Of The Optic
will rememher. xhcn our contempor.
airy assalled this paper nj the time Of
Congressman Ta~ney's trip through
thu territories. md under the caption.
Truth IL Mighty" auu,cd from Tho
Optic statements which had never apt
pcared In IL and used quotation marks
repeatedly 90 attribute Ia this paper
editorial attefanees which did not ev
en- slightly resemble any statement
which had appeared In our editorial
columns. Al that time we stated that
the editor 0f the Journal was an ass
aud a fool. and would prove himself a
knave II he did not correct his lie He
never corrected II. =
More recently. In I'm issue IT Tues.
day, the Journal quotes two bald lies
regarding The Optic from an obscure
weekly and declares that they size the
matter up correctly. The first refers
TO the recent trouble In the las Vegas
city council and says: 1T appears that
the republicans have worked a trick
Of doubtful legality tn secure contrul
Of the city council and then The Optic
wants the democrats to quit, The ad.
vice OF The Optic Is always had In
things political. not only because Of It's
bad Judgment but from It's evil dispo.
sltion." e.s,
To the last three lines We wdsflN'
take no exception. On matters III op4
inion there are always two sides and
Ne have no argument with the Jour
nal. What The Optic stands for Is tho
we'll known 10 admit of argument. But
the question concerning the city couuF
ell Is u Of fact and not one Of opin'
lon. The fact Ia that the Las Vegas
city council was elected as a o par
tisan body.
The row which arose was nor per
sonal than political. In advising both
sides to quit" The Optic spoke for
no political party nor for any faction,
but for the people OF this city. who
demanded that the members Of the
council cease a%uarreling and get to
work. The Journal by butting In In
this instance, only displays the ignor-
ance for which 1t Is noted.
But the worst In yet to come. The
most fragrant. inexcusabie. malicious
and foolish lie which we remember
seeing In the Journal for the past two
years Is the following declaration ,
''The advice of The Optic caused las
Vegas to be split tor postoffice pur'
poses, and II win BIZ years Sefose that
evil Is overcome" We are tired using
the word HE, and iiaar issfasdte inadts
quate. We brand the map who wrot"
that as a eur and the editor who quoted
II as a correct statement Of fact is his
brother. And We don't need TO produce
any facts to prove 1t, Every eatr~miat
ed citizen OF Las Vegas. and every
reader Of The Optic In the territory,
Is our witness that We have labored In
season and out of season for harmony
between the two sides OF this commu
nifty and especially for the settlement
Of the postoffice trouble. When the
movement was started about sixty
days ago. looking toward the selection
OF a central site. IL vas The Optic
which started 1t. and the editor of The
Optic was elected chairman Of a rep
resentative committee Of six eitizeus
OF each side whirh succeeded In 'checs
ing a central location. which most oil
i the business mel of both sides have
since endorsed.
We wish particularly to emphasize
this statement Of the Journal "a indi
cative Of Its bilious disposition. It's per
nicious policy and its inability to tel
the truth. Its daily mi~srepresenta
tons must for the most part 50 I'M
noticed. But when 1t ]wilfulfy butt