Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1855-04-10
TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1856.
!. EVIL BE TO HIM WHO EVIL THINKETH."

EVIL DE ~ WIN
1t seems to us that we cannot choose a more
appropriate heading for article in reply to the
Minnesotian of Monday, than the above caption.
From the very commencement Of our career as a
journalist in this city, the Minnesotian has embra
ced every opportunity to miscOnstrue our motives
and to place us in false positions before the pub
lie, the ostensible object of which is to get out
of the way. Our prosperity has been source of
great annoyance to the editor, who, failing to
break us down by insinuations and direct false
hoods, many of which now haunt him as terribly
as ever the ghost of Banquo haunted Macbeth, at
last resorted to threatening those who patronized
us, with his ill will, if they persisted in doing
This failing. he now takes another tack, and
attributes to us sinister motives for those which
were honestly and sincerely intended. Well this
we have expected. and we are not disappointed.
1t Will be remembered by our readers, that Il
few days since alluded to the efforts being
made in New York. st. Louis and other large cities.
to suppress the sale of Intoxicating liquor in those
places, on the Sabbath. Our choice of city Of
fcers had Just taken placc-good men had been
elected, and in common with many others, we were
anxious that Mr.. Ramsey should follow in the foot
steps of Mayor Wood, and thus put quietus on
evils which now exist in city, and which in a
few years, if not checked, would grow and spread
and become almost unmanageable. To this end
we pcnned an article expressing the hope that the
new officers would spare no efforts to bring about
certain reforms which we considered paramount
to every thing else. There nothing in that
article which any honest, wellwisher Of society
could possibly object to, and yet the editor of the
Minnesotian, true to his instinct or fearful that
he would lose his daily teddy, discovered in it an
effort on the part of the Times to injure Mayor
Ramsey and forthwith he reads homily
our short comings. The editor says he will not
quarrel with us rs to the necessity of these
FORMS and vet his distorted mind will not permit
him to allow us one particle of honesty in the add
vocacy of that which he admits is right. We pity
him-we pity any one whose Jealous disposition
thus narrows the scope Of his mind and makes
him sour, disagreeablc companion in all the
walks of life. But let us what derclc-
ton of duty is, and FIRST to the election of May
or Olmstead.
The Minnesotan we'll knows that we took no
part in the election Of Mr.. Olnstead or the other
city officers, as the Times at that period was not
in existence, and knowing that Mr.. Olmstead was
elected by those who were opposed to the reforms
now advocate,we considered it perfectly useless
to agitatc a subjec. which would result in no good.
but only create us enemies and yet from the very
first issue of our paper to the present time, we
have unhinchingly, and at all times. advocated the
suppression Of vice in city, and there is not Il
person who has read our paper but will bear us
out in this assertion. We received no MD from
the Ninncsotian then and expect none
Well, what next ? Mr.. Olmstead's term drew
to close. Two tickets brought into the
field. We chose from these tickets the names of
such men rs we believed would make TIL best Of
fccrs, and placed them at the head of oar cd.to-
rial column. We told that politics not
TO he brought into the ISSUE, AMI yet very
sstcnt contemporary, who belongs body and soul,
TO IL. VI. Rice, Nebraska ID mocrat, turns
round and accuses US Of striking of of tic ticket
three Anti-Ncbraska Wings and putting in their
places as many Nebraska Democrats. Politics
not to b, brought into TIE field not at all
Out such hyf ocrisy.
But again The Times in its advocacy of the
ticket it supported. was Influenced by the EDITORS
convictions of right, and 10y other CAUSES
We have cxcu; iyc control over the columns of
this paper. ard neither ask this one or consult
that one, as to what shall, or shall not ap;ctr.-
We have driven the d.tor OF the MINI rS0tian to
the wall once for his impudrnt assertion that we
under the influence of IL clique, and we may
have occasion to do again and rs to his In
situation that Gov. German had any influence
with us either before or after the election, it is
simply false. 1t strikes us that it would b. bet
10 TO ,f,t
old charges, before it makes ones. Then
again, to Gov. Germans betting on the Sab
bath, have nothing to do with We do not
consider oursclf tic keeper of Governor German,
do about the streets to pick up slang
to retail through the columns of Our paper
Betting we disapprove of in any one, and if Gov.
German has been guilty of it, he has done wrong,
but we can't see much difference between this and
visiting gros shops on the Sabbath, drinking beer
and talking politics.
''They refused to 20 to the polls!' Who does
the Minnesotian mean? The proprietors of the
Times? 1t is false. With the exception of the
editor, who paired off with gentleman who in
tended to vote the Starkcy ticket, the proprictors
of the Times went to the polls and vorhed and
rotcd for the ticket which the Times supported
NOW, ii the cultOr KNOWS Inherently, let MN pro-
duce his proof This determination on the part
of the Minnesotian to misrepresent us, is one of
the meanest and smallest specimens of editorial
warfare we have ever encountered, but then we
expect all this:
Did the Times ever hear of the ostrich, which,
when closely pursued by the hunters, a last re-
sort runs his head into the sand and thinks his
big, akward body is also concealed?
asks the Minnesotian Certainly it has, and not
only heard of it, but actually it, and better
specimen cannot be found in the world than in
habits the Minncsotian Office.
The next paragraph of the article is mere
draft on the Imagination, fully honored. There
has been clique after before the election, to
our knowledge, nor has any conversation, as that
''fanced' to have transpired by the editor of the
Minnesotan, taken place in our presence
We should judge from the great fear exhibited by
the 'organ,'' that Mayor Ramsey was owner of at
least one two saloons, and the editor was fear
full that if they should he closed, he would be de-
prived of his usual btters. There may be some
thing in this. ''Wait and sees
The WAR News. We announced Yesterday
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