| Show A SCANDALOUS IUBLICUTIO OGUKN has been agitated for several sev-eral days past over a domestlcscau dal floated by tho C ItS of that row It Involved the family of a wellknown citizen tho name of Its head being so nearly given that there could be no mlstaka regarding identify The editor of the Union C B King wns subsequently iu cited Into nn ofllce room by the enraged citizen The latter In1 formed Mr King so it Is stated that ho had to do one of three things make a complete and unqualified retractioB otherwise be shot or shoot the person addressing him Tho editor chose the first The retraction was complete and abject being an acknowledgment that the scandalous statement was utterly and totally fake in every particular This was published In the following issue of the Inbn but under it was a qualification which amounted to an assertion that the original assertion was true rendering render-ing the apology a great deal wor ethan e-than Ute first accusation We do not know whether the scandalous reflection made in the I Union regarding a private family is true or false In thoabscnceof proof wenrebound to believe It to be a I fabrication Hut even if there were truth in it the publication of the scandal was a contemptible piece of business It was of a nature which showed that if a wrong had been committed the principal hai done all that he could under the circumstances circum-stances to repair it and public Journals Jour-nals could under such circumstances circum-stances let the matter slumber In the domestic circle concerned In it To do otherwise is not legitimate journalism The editor of the Cnton ought to be ashamed of himself him-self |
