Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-11-23
TAKE AWAY The
BABY'S MILK
And II Squeals Does The Advo-
cate Editor When lie Finds That
We're Increasing our Business.

We ~ tfNhSochhS Voh o8SshSScs
Last week the Audubon Advocate
came out in an article under the caption
Some Things We Would Like TIC
Know" Nodoubt there are some things
Mr.. Spencer would like to know.
There are great many things he ought
to know, and doesn't know-especially
about the newspaper business. III Mr..
Spencer were newspaperman in all
that the term implies he would not
constantly be getting himself into
trouble. However. he has applied TO
the right information bureau in direct
ing his questions to the Republican
editor in the following impertinent
manner:
Just the nature Of the attack the Advocate
has made on the Republican:
The nature of the attack came when
the Advocate editor tried to discredit
our popular voting contest by personally
assuming that the prizes as offered were
cheap. He knew nothing of the value
of the prizes. When Mr. Spencer wrote
his article of three weeks ago the prizes
had not been purchased so we absolutely
know he knew nothing about the matter
on which he posed as Johnnie Wise.
Whether The Republican got the piano from
the business man in Extra for which he offered
TO give SIS and said he would not pay more for
oneg
Here is where Mr.. Spencer has been
completely duped. He has either manu-
featured the above falsehood out of
whole cloth to maliciously misreprent
The Republican, OF he has been the
victim of a practical joker. Mr..
Spencer or his informant has had apipe
dream. The Republican editor has
never so much as mentioned piano" to
any one in Extra much less to make an
offer on one. We do our buying at
home with the merchants who give us
their support. Mr.. Spencer cannot, or
does not dare to publish the name of
1.-THE business man in Extra" We defy
him to publish his affidavit. Mr..
Spencer's foreflush has been worked to
death but we are here to call his bluff.
If Mr. Spencer is man of his word he
will produce his evidence If he fails to
produce the evidence he stands self
accused and he alone will be responsible
for the position in which he has placed
himself before the public. Or, Mr..
Spencer will have to acknowledge that
he has been entrapped by the evil devices
of men who are looking for easy marks,
and that he is an unsafe man as editor
of newspaper that purports to publish
reliable news. Mr.. Spencer there Il
positively no way of getting around
this proposition. You are either trying
an. underIsnded, unprincipled game OF
you are the easiest beguiled tenderfool
that ever Travelled Broadway. Kindly
tell your readers in the next issue Of
your paper where you are at on this
question. M
whether The Advocate was very far from th'
tfath when they referred TO a $40 piano as
cheap pianot
You are right Mr.. Spencer when you
referred TO A S75 PIANO as being cheap
for il hasn't the slightest reference Il
THE PIANO we are Offering as n pre-
MUM in our contest.
Whether The Advocate was speaking withou
knowledge when a reliable business man o
Extra told us that Bro. HoogenalSker assures
him that he would not pay more than SIS for
piano for his contesti
You certainly were speaking withou
knowledge. and THE Reliable Business
Man of Extra" did not contribute, b
your supposedly fund of knowledge.
Just how Bro. Hoogenalxker Is going to proven
The Advocate from telling the truth when
has been doing that long before Bro Hoogenal
xer appeared In Audubon
We are not here to prevent MI
Spencer from telling the truth. we wan
to encourage him all we can, but if h
bases his truth telling" on the recen
assertions he has made concerning TIL
Republican and its editor, we do no
care to indulge in his brand of tellin
the truth That field in Audubon wi
be left entirely open to Mr.. Spencer.
Whether Bro, Hoogenakker thinks that alt
tude only isconsidered when measuring busine:
ability and he does not think that latitude an
longitude should be also consideredY
1t is perfectly legitimate to conside
latitude and longitude in this connection
Mr. Spencer, but it is not fault of our
that you did not reach higher altitude