Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1915 — The Shot That Missed. [ARTICLE]

The Shot That Missed.

11l controversy it -is better to be intellectually honest than to be cousin tent. In an ecclesiastical discussion that occurred at one of the general assemblies of the Presbyterian church in the United States Doctor Krebs was pressing bis antagonist, Doctor Breckinridge, hard with his authorities, and at last, as the New York Times relates, came down on him with this: "And now I will proceed to quote Breckinridge against Breckinridge.” Without rising from his seat. Doctor Breckinridge Instantly retorted, "And you could not possibly cite an authority that would have less weight with me!”