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Show If . "Personalites." IB , Tin; R-ki'uiilicax has this to say in B regard to charges of indulging In ob- H Jectlonable "personalities" during the W- campaign we believe wo were acting B on the defensive at all times and can H hardly understand how our position B could have been avoided. It is not B ' our disposition to say unkind things B? " of any lxly we much prefer to look BT on the brighter and better side of H, everything and everybody and prefer 19 to express the nobler and better phases K" v r vcry person's life, but hen badger- Bf V- Cl1 iul(I harassed by an arrogant foe, Bv- it Is but natural that in defense we Bu should take that method best culcul.it- Hpv L'd to self-preservation. Patience B sometimes ceases to bo a virtue, and Bf;' when one arrives at that state, there Bp is seldom a disposition to light with W gloves on. M .. With a possible exception or. two, m: the columns of this paper have been 8. remarkably free from objectionable M matter, and so far as references to E- candidates of the opposite ticket, no- lM thing was said which wo are called B' "I'ou to rctiact. In one instance a wk mistake was made, and in the next Is- m . sue It was rcctilled. Tiik Hki'uiimuan m freely expressed tlio desire that Its ; statements be carefully Investigated, w and that Its columns were open for X any icply to any -statement made. K Frequently we had urged upon us the ; necessity of slating certain things In W- icgard to Democratic candidates, fc but constantly refused, and only In K . those Instances where we had the 11 ', matter foiced to an issue by the op- K position organ did this paper take up C" personalities. 1V The count ry boy going Into thecltv, WF though averse to lighting, frequently H has to do it to establish himself; un- BK' less he lights he must always sutler IB the Ill-natured uadgeriugsof his older Wk . and larger companions. Likewise with Wg' thlspaperwe are new yet, and as K, Hie champion of the i-'"ubllcan B paity It Is necessary that wo establish JP' our ability to take care of it against w1 opposition fiom un older If not larger m' publication. Our friends lead us to BL believe that wo have handled matters Bf satisfactorily, t-o if In the futuio this j paper deems Itti better policy to main- V tain a dignified silence ratherthan In- mm, dulge 'In Ill-sounding bickerings there lis need bono icason for a belief that we If ' aie unable to take caie of ourselves 1 1 when it becomes necessary |