OCR Text |
Show LOCAL HOOKWORM IS REPUDIATED HY PRICE SOCIALISTS. The Sun is in receipt of a communication from the local socialist organization criticising this newspaper for having referred to Benfcr of the News-Advocate ns a socialist and reminding us that many thousands of respectable members of that organization nre in reality insulted by our allusions to nny connection between Rcnfcr nnd that organization. It poems that the attitude of Bcnfer in supporting tho progressive crowd during dur-ing the recent election was too much for the socialists. so-cialists. That the progressives are looked upon ns looters and grafters and thcrcforo taboo to the socialist reformers, is the burden of the complaint. com-plaint. The very fact that Bcnfer is deemed unfit un-fit for affiliation with tho local socialists, demonstrates demon-strates that socialism possesses some Ideals which are creditable. It would seem that the efforts of Benfcr to connect his parasitical graft-hooks graft-hooks with the socialist structure have not met with favor. Our sincere apology is extended the socialists, nnd we regret thnt our sole justification justifica-tion in so representing Bcnfer was his own claim, which now appears to be like so many other of his pretensions fake. |