Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1912-07-11
Spencer Tn2 aarisee.

of dog attracts attention, it is only
the stranger who might stop to listen.
The Advocate editor must have been
the stranger for he listened long enough
to become perturbed.
To be likened to dog is a compli-
ment, for any dog, no matter what
color or breed, is credit to R. c.
Spencer. He is absolutely devoid of all
common sense, energy and faithfulness,
which qualities constitute the nature of
dog Of the barking variety. A dog
will always be countenanced, but
skunk with its disagreeable effiuvium
is distasteful wherever it goes.
Audubon people are beginning to
comprehend the height and breadth and
depth of the hypocritical impudence
the editor of the Advocate is displaying
and they realize the iniquity that lies
behind the tumult of his professed vir'
tue and the clamor of his protested
purity. He comes before his readers
with unfinished front and reviles as
ITtllOTS, HATS anu DdlhcIS, tIC lich WIN
do not pander to his personality.
Mayor Spencer finally admits that
the Carnival Company, which brot on
this controversy, is just what we told
the people it was. There was no occa-
sion for the Mayor to berate The Re-
publican editor for offering word of
criticism because the Mayor of Audubon
did not prevent the law breakers from
continuing their unlawful practice
while in Audubon.
Mayor Spencer cannot contine himself
to the point in question and wanders
aimlessly about to find material to fill
column and half of space on the
. front page of his newspaper.
The people of Audubon do not care
what Bob Spencer thinks of The Re-
publican editor. Everytime he seeks to
besmirch our character he allows the
mask to slip away from his sleek and
SNUG visage that has so long deceived
superficial observers into the belief that
he was sincere man, and shows him
sells in his true character of migrate,
traitor and Pharisee.
The Advocate editor claims at this
late date to have no desire to continue
this controversy and says he never &C
quired taste for it. Spencer has al
ways had taste in the past for trying
to belittle the editors of The Republican,
as his newspaper files will show, and
he has repeatedly offered to insult
them. Our predecessor has shown him
in his true light on numerous occasions,
but all this he has forgotten
Now that the young lad from Guth-
RE Center is fighting him with am
munition of the Spencer brand, he
claims to have lost his taste. Its a
good thing for Spencer to lose. People
do not enjoy a lengthy newspaper
quarrel, but in self defense we are
obliged to fight him with his own
method of warfare. The Republican
made him say enough last fall and
last week he again admitted that he
had enough
But the real joke of his article last
week was his reference to our ''slouchy
English and offers to criticise us for a
typographical error. 1t lily becomes
the Advocate editor to offer any crit
cism in this respect. His own news
paper is standing joke with the news
paper fraternity. No newspaper in this
section of Iowa contains more typograph-
ical errors each and every week than
the Audubon Advocate. The very
article in which he offers the criticism
contains numberless errors Entire
sentences and paragraphs are absolutely
meaningless, such as the following from
his last issue: He ran again the
changed, complied with the state law
next night but his methods as
as interpreted by the city attorney"
But a man like the deacon editor,
wise in his own conceit cannot discover
his own errors.
Perhaps the Advocate editors vocab-
ulary could be augmented by the use
of whiskey advertisements or the pur-
chasing of new vocabulary" His
readers would gladly welcome a change
no matter from what source the change
was derived. The alligator tears"
expression has been worn threadbare.
He has used the expression so often
that he cannot use anything else. He
should be careful or one of those
alligator tears" might fall on his shiny
pate and denude the Mayor of his present
limited vocabulary.
An essay comes to our mind at this
time and we would like to acquaint
Mr.. Spencer with Pope's Essay on
Criticism" a part of which is as
follows:
There are, who Judge still worse than he can
write.
Some have at first for wits. then poets.
passed.
Turned critics next. and proved plain fools
at last.
Some neither can for wits nor critics pass.
AS heavy mules arc neither horse nor ass.
But you, who seek TO give and merit fame,
And justly bear a critics noble name,
Be sure yourself and your own reach TO know.
How far your genius. taste and learning, co.
Launch not beyond your depth, but be dis