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JOURNALISTIC HONESTY.
TO TBE EDITOR.
Sir—The reading public will require something
more tangible than the "wishy-washy"
subleader appearing in the Advertiser on
Monday as a reply to Mr. Hussey's charge
accusing your contemporary of journalistic
buffoonery and political jobbery of the most
glaring description. Mr. Hussey deserves the
thanks of the community for exposing such a
disgraceful partizanship on the part of a paper
which so often boasts of its numerous circulation.
Would it be too much to ask the Advertiser
in future to confine its columns to the recounting
of " tiger yarns" _ and " ghost
stories," and leave the discussion of political
and other important matters to those papers
whose columns are open for the discussion of
both sides of the question. It would have
been much more to the credit of the
Advertiser had it confined itself to replying
to Mr. Hussey's accusation, and not
attempt by an evasiuu Cf the whole
matter to throw out insinuations to the
effect that yo« been accused of altering a
t _Cgram purporting to be the feeling of Jamestown
on the political crisis. The telegram in
question appeared in your columns in the exact
form it left the hands of your correspondent.
The Advertiser makes a big flourish at the end
of their article about Mr. Hussey not acting
for them in the future, but it is significant that
the misleading statements originated in Waymouth-street,
and not at Port Elnot.
I am, Sir, &c.,
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J. H. TOUCHELL.
Jamestown, August 26.
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