Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-01-24
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

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The questions which follow are asked
by the Sentinel, and by The
Herald with joyful alacrity.
Question-If The Herald will
name the lnSulted democrats, we
snail endeavor to give the reasons
why they were inSulted?
Answer-The members of the Wilson
Club. The members Of the Ramsey club.
The Wilson men described by the Sen
tlnel as the Immortal Fifteen"
1893
QICan the Herald produce proof
that Sheppard did not write to mem
bers of the legislature. and did not
tell reporters he was going to Austin
as soon as possible, and did not re
quest his friends to lcOk after his III
terests?
A-The Herald is not idiot enough to
try to prove a negative. In this case it
wouldn't if it could. When diu il become
a crime for a democrat 10 solicit support
when a candidate for office, or to ask his
friends to look after his interests? How
does that justify charges of neglect of
duty and of lobbying?
%x*
Q-Why did the Herald after edi-
t~oriallv bemeaning the present col
lectOr Of customs, for years, applying
to him terms that were anything but
complimentary, grow dumb upon the
subject Immediately after the ap-
pearalce of the independent paper
from the Herald Office?
A-Tho Herald has never "bemeaned"
Mr.. Cre3gtr at any time. Two years ago
during a political campaign it criticised
him politically. Never since. The Her
AIDS silence therefore is not 50 'immcd-
late" after all; by no means so immed-
late, for example, as the abruptnesS OF
the ending of the Sentinel fight on the
Brownsville police force. When The
Herald becomes silent on any matter. i'm
mediately or otherwise, it is because 1t
wants to, not because it has to.
Not that The Herald regrets the ces-
sation of the SentinelS attack on the pc
lice. 1t illustrates the beauty and force
of an ancient text in the English bible:
s'NOw no Christening for the present
seemeth to be joyous, but gricvOus: ney-
~ertheless, afterward, it yieldeth the
peaceable fruit of righteousness unto
them which are exercised thereby.
Speaking Of Mr.. Creager reminds us OF
the pernicious activity telegram, which
the Sentinel denied signing in person,
but refused to deny in print. 1t prom
Used to deny il. but it didn't although II
said. Just wait till this evening"|or
words to that effect. Evening came and
no denial. Other evenings came and
went. and though earnestly pressed 10y
The Herald to affirm or Ceny, 1t would
not speak. Like the dear little girl III
the song:
Ut simpcred and sighed, and hung it's
head;
1t wouldn't say yea nor nay:
1t nodded it's head-'twas all It said
1t hadn't a word to say"
Only perhaps it did not nod it's head,
on which point it was even more diilidrnt
thai the dear little girl.
X X
O-After subjecting the Hon. w.
s. BlackShear to an editorial whip
ping. which forced that gentleman
into the district courts for redress,
why did The Herald grow suddenly
dumb after the issue of the SO called
independent paper from The Herald
office?
A-The Herald had said nothing in
the way of criticism of Mr.. Blackshcar
for many months before the printing of
the Independent paper, 50 that III that
matter it still falls short of the sudden
ness of the Sentinel in the matter of
abrupt ~silences.
Speaking of the Independent paper, it
will perhaps be proper to give a little
bit of that history for which the Sentinel
feels such a singular aversion. 1t is a
matter of fact that the Sentinel was ap-
preached, by Mr.. More, OF the subject
of printing a paper for the Independents.
1t told Mr.. More that it did not dare to
accept the job; that Judge Wells would
close it out if it did so. Later, however,
it boosted editorially that it had turned
down the proffer, leaving il to be inferred
that it did so because of the singular pur-
ity of the brand of Jetfcrsonian