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Show The Tribuno took exceptions to a statement in The Times to tho effect that "there was some dissatisfaction expressed ex-pressed on the part of certain men regarding re-garding the dictatorial attitude of the Tribuno ring, and this caused considerable consider-able scratching." The Tribuno, in its usual style, replied with the epithets of "scrubs" and "knaves." Calling people scrubs and knaves is not only impolite, but it is no answer to the simple statement state-ment of a fact. The Times briefly stated what it had frequently heard expressed ex-pressed by men who called themselves Liberals, but it offered no excuso for their scratching the ticket. It merely gave the reason. In the recent election there was no good excuse for a Liberal going back on any member of his ticket. The Times did as good and as honest work for the ticket as tho Tribune, and it cast every legal vote that was within its jurisdiction for tho Liberal ticket. Whatever the Tribune did in the campaign was perfectly natural for it to do. .it has about it a certain set of friends, as is also perfectly natural, and they comprise a clique or ring who wish to dictate everything in polities. Men outside of that set are hardly recognized recog-nized by the Tribune coterie, and hence their complaint to which The Times has referred. Still, as we have said above, this was not a good excuse for any Liberal scratching his ticket. It is quite current talk that, although the Tribuuo did good work for the ticket, the ticket was not made up to the best interests of the parly, and that the Tribune .set was largely responsible for it. |