Show fl fw WAS IT A BETRAYAL BEAY A OF br OON bon r ri r M cave e u understand n that tbt the friends 4 S r of N tanner jr eeb sq regard our use of bis name tiame in an editorial fro ro view of hie his communication a few daye 4 since jaa a preach d of bonfi dence before Mr tanner presented his hi manuscript toua tous to ua haasken edi I 1 u kf W to tor r if ii his co communication would ou 1 be published and r soine how or oth cr er perhaps gathered 1 from him the idea thai thit the he had no boob ob ilie of oabie his oame name with bis his statement moreover we deemed the nature of his article such that the interests of the tle peoples party demanded a pub lie knowledge of the authors identity in all cases where gentlemen send us articles for publication under a itom dep deplume tume the right as an exclusive editorial prerogative to use or disclose the authors real name if in our judgment such a disclosure is necessary or br expedient we have course in the past in the case of if D 0 russel who wrote us an article censuring certain federal officers wh which ich appeared ja red in the new edition of the x III HERALD MALD we roe la i i moved the noOT de tie plump plume and at j ta cached clied liis hii own name to ani eam corn muni catton be because cause weAle emed that juaice justi ceto t ourselves dem demanded lidded e a such f s a course while as 6 s a rule we shall f have no occasion to disclose tho the identity of correspondents writing under a nom de plume yet we claim tho the right to do so whenever we deem it proper or necessary this wo believe ia is th the usual practice ei wo understand fd that boint some are ard disposed to regard oui our allusion to mr tanner as lawyer antan NT an ner as an attempt to lurl hurl a disrespectful ful insinuation at that gentle man P nothing could haye have been furtner from our intention iten tiou how ever wo we used that form only as a convenient way of one gentleman from another of the same name without any thought glit of disrespect |