INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM.
. « Editors «o in for straight tonnage in Amerioa. Sometimes they become so straip.it that in -conserpuencc they go i-nt® ooffius. They are made straight by a stray hit. this is the language of an Arizona journalist about a local candidate dor office: — " What is -written below is intended solely for a -man, or rather an apology for one called, Pat Hamilton. Pat Hamilton, you are a liar, a blackmailer, and a coward. A liar by in.tinct, a self declared 'black mailer and a coward because you -are afraid to resent aa insult. Pat Hamilton, you are a loafer, because you have never -earned an bonest dollar, and a cur because you. are not a iit associate for a respectable -dog. This is enough, Pat Hamilton, to maike you assert your manhood, if you have any, and I am in this office at stated hours, and have iut one road by which 1 travel to aaid from my borne*" 01 course, -after Tbis, Pat M amilton was "on the shoot." Here, however, it would be -different- Pat would bring a libel -action in the Supreme Court, and having clearly proved hiimself to be everything thathe had been called, the jury would give him a thousand pounds damagfc..— American Paper.
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 68, 10 February 1883, Page 3
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210INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM. Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 68, 10 February 1883, Page 3
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