Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1910-01-20
Casady's Second EpistIe to the
Preacher

tempted to reply to my article OF last
week, both from the pulpit and
thrugh the press.
He begins his alleged reply in the
Tribune, by saying that have rep
utation for playing to the grandstand;
that | have created an issue for the
purpose of putting myself in the lime
light, ETC., to get applause from the
gallery; that he is standing for civic
Righteousness and am singing mud
at him. Then he is heartless enough
to blast and blight all my cherished
political hopes and ambitions by say
ing that my labors in this matter will
never carry me into office. How sad!
to thus blight the hopes of a young
political fiedgling like myself He
threatens me with punishment, by the
church people, because l except to his
statements regarding the people Of
this town.
Now where did Rev. Winston learn
Of my playing to the grandstand or of
my seeking applause from the galleries
or Of my morbid desire to be in the
limelight? Who told him of this?
Did he hear it on the streets? or did
those naughty young girls tell it to
him in the post office? There is per-
haps about the same foundation for
this that there was for his other state
ments.
He says | am making mountain
out of mole hill"; that | ''magnifed
the meaning Of his statements and the
statements themselves.
If | did this, it certainly was very
wrong indeed and | should apologize
for it, because there certainly was nc
excuse for making his statements worse
than they really were, or in making
their meaning worse than his words
would imply He claims now that he
did not say he had the names of eigh
teen young girls who swore and uset
vile and profane language in the post
Office, etc. He now claims he said "a
few. l did not pretend to have heard
this statement but l gave it just as
told to me by good people who were
present and say they did hear it ano
several have told me he gave the mum
Der at eighteen. One, a prominen
member of his church, says he usec
the expression of "a dozen or more
} | gave his statements as faithfully a
| could reproduce them and | leave i
to my readers to say whether or not
have magnified their meaning, or i
my comment and conclusions were un
} warranted and unjustified
Those statements were in substanc
l as follows:
l That he has never found create
moral rottenness than he has foun,
: right here in Grangeville. (Thi
4 statement was made when he had bee
S here but about four or five days.
a That as soon as drummers get O.
/ the train, they are solicited by youn
: girls of this town.
S That the first night man is i
town he can 60 to the post Office an
hear young girls swearing and usin
S vile and profane language.
S That he, Winston, has the names
S a NUMBER think it was eightee
/ cora dozen or more;or"a few youn
d girls, the daughters of Christian pa
!. ents, who have been heard swearing
k etc., m the post Office and on tn
n streets late at night.
Now he may think that such stat
ments, by him, from the pulpit, wei
: of no importance; that they were onl
\ trivial matter; that to pay any a
tention to them was making "moul
tain out Of mole hill" Perhaps /
did not expect the people to belieV
them. Or thought they ought
know be:: ter. He may have though
that, coming from him, the peopl
would surely take it all with graf
Of salt. That they would pay no a
tention to it.
1t may be that l did take him tt
seriously. But l was afraid som
body, not acquainted with condition
here, might really believe him an
get wrong impression Of our tow
and its people.
doubt very much if he did full
realize or appreciate the necessary an
logical deduction to be made from b
statement. He may not have though
He may not be capable of logical d
auctions, even if he did think. The
is such vast difference between log
= cion and some, so called, theologian
i He made some illusions to my art
i Gle, from the pulpit, last Friday nigl
| and his principal criticism of me WI
| that / should have come to him pri
ately. instead of publishing the