Correspondence
Johnston, Robert & Hauser, Ronald & Johnston, William & Quigley, Billy
CORRESPONDENCE To the Editor: Until today, I had great hope in The Alternative as a responsible organ for conservatism, and ergo, democracy. I had envisioned your fine journal as the voice of...
...This may sound like a clever lotftt bid, but I find that your equally clever and dastardly need while I fiind out me in one of our country's citadels of learning, morality, etc...
...Buckley's compliments to your work...
...Unfortunately, coupled with your article by Mr...
...Sincerely, Ronald R.Hauser Cleveland State University Brook Park, Ohio 44142 TO THE EDITOR: I was recently introduced to your devious publication by a member of that insidiously rightist organization, ISI...
...I had envisioned your fine journal as the voice of "what's right with America", tolling the sweet bell of insight in lucid contrast to most contemporary student journalism...
...I shall remain on your mailing list to keep my well-trained eyes upon further subversive tendencies...
...Purdue University To the Editor: Enclosed is a check for a one year subscription to your excellent, and I must say fair, magazine...
...Really conservatively yours, William Quigley, Jr...
...First, you ridicule the keystone of our democratic, or republican, system in "Great Moments in the Ninety-First Congress, Part I...
...This alone I might have been able to understand as an example of the occasional irresponsible journalism that slips into any literary accomplishment...
...I recognize that in one's youth it is difficult to restrain radical tendencies, but I must caution you that we don't need any more extremism...
...Denison University Granville, Ohio 43023 To the Editor: The Alternative is fantastic...
...Moynihan, I fear my suspicions are correct...
...Plottingly yours, William C. Johnson Denver, Colorado 80222...
...Any encouragement, nourishment, revolutionary-exterminator kits, etc...
...Sincerely yours, Robert F. Johnston, Jr...
...Not until today, when I received my February issue, did I become suspicious of your real intentions and begin to probe your positional innuendoes...
...Keep up the good work...
...not to mention a subscription...
...But now I have been let down, and my disillusionment is not banishd by Mr...
...You probably could have maintained your facade of conservatism and continued to warp your readers by little subtleties-that-they-were-not-even-conscious-of-being-influenced-by, if your cover had not given you away...
...There is support perhaps more than anyone realizes for your position...
...You people are leftists...
...In Moynihan's calling for "great complexifiers" he has insulted the native simplicity of Middle Americans, and you allowed this tripe to go un-rebutted...
...will be humbly and rightfully accepted...
...My incredulity has become disappointment - I had believed in you...
...Buckley's nationally published column recently extolled The Alternative's zaniness-ed...
...Even this I could excuse, as imagaination, but all of the aforementioned indications plus my final observation left me no doubt...
...You might under-estimate our perceptive powers...
...I have never read anything as intellectually stimulating and funny...
...Your toleration of such ideas implies espousal of them...
...In conclusion, I would like to commend your ingenuity in emulating a true conservative stance, and hope someday that you find yourself giving up this fraud and turning to the true conservatism...
...Being a poor graduate student (no pun intended), I am curious about the possibilities of free subscriptions...
...Really, Abraham Lincoln portrayed in a thinly-veiled black-power salute, don't you think that was a little flagrant...
Vol. 4 • April 1971 • No. 5
