THE CHARLESTON HERALD IN EXPLANATION.

Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1059, 1 April 1873, Page 2

THE CHARLESTON HERALD IN EXPLANATION.

"With a disregard for veracity, for which Mr O'Conor is becoming more noted as he becomes better known, that gentleman at his meeting at Westport, on Wednesday night accused " the editor of the Charleston Herald of surreptitiously obtaining a document" of his. At the commencement of his meeting, however, Mr O'Conor referred to the fact of his having tent a document to the editor of tbe Herald, which had not yet been returned as promised. The document referred to as "surreptitiously obtained" and that aB being " lent" is one and the same ; therefore, out of his own mouth Mr O'Conor is proved to be a liar. That gentleman for the future should bear in mind the apothegm that " liars should have good memories." The fact is, the document referred to was neither surreptitiously obtained nor lent, but was pressed on the reporter, against his desire, Mr O'Conor apparently being anxious to have its contents published for some reason of his own. Upon perusal, however, the reporter discovered the items on the document to he perfectly stale and thoroughly uninteresting; they were therefore not inserted. The document only contained some sit or seven lines in Mr O'Conor's own writing 5 so that, supposing he even never received it back again, he could not possibly have been inconvenienced. However, the fact is his " paper" was posted to him on the day of his meeting, but un» fortunately too late for the mail. Another assertion in keeping with his love for truth, is that our report of bis meeting was a "complete burlesque." A fairer report of the facts of his speech, stripped of his egotistical and personal verbiage, Mr O'Conor never received, and this fact is admitted by those whose word is to be trusted equally as much as is Mr O'Conor's oath. All we can assure Mr O'Conor is, that if the next report he receives at our hands does not please him, be will have himself ana his conduct towards the Press generally to blame.