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Show tried to reason with hi rr. , but he acted more like a lunatic than otherwise. We admit that we did not attempt to retaliate with physical violence. That is the last resort ofthc lowest class of toughs and we refuse to .be p'aced in such a category. Jhe manager of this paper acted the part of a dignified gentleman, while Mr. Quayle assumed thej role of a drunken hoodlum. Itj that ho was an-unpatriotic Republican Re-publican and ought tp be defer. t-ed t-ed ii he ever ran for cTr're. Will any sane man deny o c right to do this? He would i,ch easier deny our right to breathe, i We ask our friends and the pub-jl'c pub-jl'c to consider the case' impartially, impar-tially, and they must perforce : decide against Air. Thomas. In order to prove that our. actions ac-tions in these matters were not ' . A SLIGHT EXPLANATION. The public has recently heard rumblings of some differences i between this paper and two busi-j ness men of Logan. As ourj neighbor over next to police headquarters has chosen to take the matter up and to make an effort to put The Nation in the worst light possible, we deem it only justice that our side should be given a hearing. characterized by a desire to force advertising patronage, we have but to call attention to the crowded condition of our advertising adver-tising columns. The Nation is I considered the best medium by I which to reach the people' of C .. he county by many leading business men. We oppose Mr..' Quay.e's business in the samej way that he opposes ours; wej oppose Mr. Thomas', political! aspirations because a man who' is not necessary for us to vindicate vindi-cate ourselves with a bout at fisticuffs. We have a more formidable for-midable weapon, as Mr. Quayle will find. We talk to 20,000 people twice a week. j Mr: Quayle threatened lis with annihilation if we continued the mention of his store, but we continued con-tinued it without any evil results whatever. And Mr. Quayle' will doubtlesslearn, as many an-i ! shows the malice he dees against !his ptrty paper cannot be a good j Republican. Every, legal and ! moral ruie . of right and justice land fairness will uphold our ac-jtion, ac-jtion, and we will defend our j rights in such matters as lcng as there is any justice left on earth, j The Journal ras put on a worldly, wise Jair in connection with the matter and with sundry noddings and winks and "listen to me's," has sought to make out that it could never be found sayin j a word against any one whatsoever.' It has also tried to convince the public that this pa-1 per has been attemping to force patronage from business men by attacking them. ' The Journal Jour-nal is far from the truth in each instance. Especially is this proven in the latter instance, because be-cause if we desired to obtain a business man's patro.iage, the worst plan we could adopt to atain that end would be to attack I him. V j other unfortunate has learned, that those who insist on taking the la iv into their own hands,: sooner or later come in violent contact with a bullet. .What we- her; say bears no reference to Mr. Quayle's clerks, I They are charming young ladies j and among , the best clerks in town. All we ask of our friends and the public generally is to note that we only said about Mr. Quayle in print what he has said about this paper. , In the case of the differences between The Nation and Mr. ( Zeph Thomas the matter is polit- i ical in its nature. We have al-j ways maintained that if one pa--' per has a subscription list of 2, ooo and another paper in the same town has a subscription list of i .OOOI;.. -latter is t-.s valuafk-an valuafk-an advertising - medium as the former at a latio of $i to $2 for the same space. We also maintain main-tain lhat Mr. Thomas,, being a I Republican, appearing in Republican Re-publican conventions as a candidate candi-date for office, shows a reprehensible reprehen-sible partiality and lack of party patriotism wben he absolutely refuses to advertise in his party paper a.d : " wriises constantly in the Democratic paper. He ' -v . We will therefore take up .-. !'.- --""rr.tely fhe two cases men- -tioned, and prove to the " public that we have good cause to do whatever we have done and to say whatever we have said. There was no desire on our part to injure any man's character, nor to force patronage from him. ;s not necessary for us to re-1 H - , . I such practices. We sort to a.. .. I ' fU ' "e paper with ad-. ,-can fill our enu. , e greatest vertisements with 'V. s ..ii!?-:., " 1 !cam nV explaia icaway on the !'oUirofci:,lat;n b8CauThe Nation make rcte, r.Porafca with its ci rcuiatioo . It is p-Si-. tllei"f fore, that Mr. Thomas' cta'fee 3S prompted by malice, and in 1 juriug his own paity paper auaj budding up the opposition paper'' he is bt bHod enough to fail to j see tbu,t be is thereby injuriirg his own chances of election ! should he ever be nominated. I A.s Mr. Thom::s has in this way j sought to breakdown his own i-ty stid to band up the opp'o-1 sition pari we tnej efore stated AVe will first examine the t,se j of "Mr. Quayle. Two years ago! he and The Nation had a disa i greement over political matters. Duiing the past f 70 years he' has "at various times slated "to gertle men of this c'iy that The Nation was of no value as an advertising medium. This was his opinion ' and he had a right to e.itertain it and cypress it, even though it " injured this paper, " I 'Mi . But npAr'-jaia.k Mr. Quayle's ! '"5,.'. attitude WlYen his own ox ;isj gored. Weiftscrted three lines j in a recent issue to the effect that the public could obtain better! " goods at any other store in town than Quayle's. We believed this because Mr. Quayle grew up as a farmer and has had very Jiltle experience in selecting tin fcest goods. It may not have ibeen altogether Christianlike to express such an opinion, but we were compelled to defend ourselves our-selves fsom Mr. Quayles opinions, opin-ions, and we chose to pay him in his own coin. But how differently diff-erently Mr. Quayle acted to -wliat a Christian should do. He met us on the -t-eet and poured out a torrent of abuse. We |
