Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-09-24
Grant County Observation-Disclosures
Ends and Aims of New Party Leaders.

Grant County Observation-Disclosures
Ends and Aims Of New Party Leaders.
At times it becomes editors to crit
icise the action Of their party and
friends. The public good may often
require it. And when in the iudg>
ment of mon ever right, never ways
ward, the editor Of a newspaper al
lows wrong to pass unrebuked and
wrong doors to fasten themselves in
places of high trust the editor not
sending forth his ablest protest, then
such editor deservedly loses the pub
lie confidence. When the best men
join the press in active denunciation
of wrong acts, there is certainly
soundness at the head, and the peo-
pie are safe. But when Indifference
rules the hour, or what is moro dan
gerous, when the best men seem to
want the bad ones oiled over and
their deeds covered up from the pub
tic eye, as they say for tie party good,
then our word for it there will soon
be seen party carcass filled with
maggots, and the old democratic buzz
yards be seen flying in and competing
for the official prizes.
At several times during the seven
teen years of our connection with
the press of Grant County, we called
up the wrongs of some Of our public
men and with becoming truth and
force exposed them. La all such cas-,
es the people heard US with candor
and then took such action as made
things right.
Public men, such as hold Office and
aspire to official trust can have no
just reason for Directing to editorial
criticisms upon their actions. 1t is
the right Of press and people to know
their official servants, to know them
woll, to search their past and pres
ent records aud connections with
men and parties and deeds, and to
approve or condemn any or all.
And it is the equal right of official
servants and aspirants to use the press
in defending, explaining or justifying
their acts. Such are the rights Of
citizens and press aud of official as
pirants, as sanctioned by wholesome
usage and good sense.
We never had much faith in pol.
icy ENTERPRISES; rather, we despisc
them for being the entire stock in
trade of knaves. Honest men are
always men of out spoken principles
and actions policy men of conceal
ments and secret actions. The evils
of the town caucus system all spring
from policy workers who Join them
selves to cllques-their rule kept up
by means OF secretly inviting in only
those IN the ring to attend the meets
lngs. Some towns are thus ruled for
years before honest men find out
what's the matter.
For some years it has been fact
SO patent as to be affirmed generally
and denied by none that Grant Coun-
ty has been officially governed bv
men of the very first quality for in.
tegrity of word and act for business
trust and ability and for moral cons
duct. So far as we know the county
officers and such legislative servants
as were nominated in County Con-
vention and by the people elected
have been the very first for trust and
capabllity. Such facts as these have
afforded the very highest induces
ments for our young men to be in ALI
respects the very best in behavior
and integrity.
But such facts as these very natur.
ally excited distrust and bad FEELINGS
with such as by nature and practiee
are selfish, mean and corrupt-yet
inclined for Office. 1t was therefora
not unexpected thatthere must come
quite soon severe struggle for off
elal power in Grant County. bv men
greatly below the standard rcouire
ments in morals and business trnst
For the reason that no mistakes
seemed being made in the selection
Oh candidates and officers and that
nc'ther knavery nor the usual science
~ Inception could reduce the renubs
llc"h party To mere medium for the
use u machine operators. there an
peared at last degree ofimnatienre
actually ludicrous. Men 80 infatno~
Tea wanted but leaders for any mis-
on,ei mat designing men conId ask
En- ~ lancaster for instance. inven-
ZION OF falsehoods and of dcmoro~no
80 'nss were resorted to for lower;ne,
S;rbpps uo, r',.i mind toward men of the
G u.snes' Puohc trust and character W
oucn sayings as these wer" ~ go, .v..
and indrstriously passed 70 - started
and more thoughtlcss in yi eve oung
ing up the town caucus ana ~, VI MI.
such men as led the county co ec.lng
ton; we have them from tbose Nh pn@
thoughtlessly for the time, were na r
ties in the raid:
"There is court house clique. its
centre at Lancaster, its supports all
over the county"
"This court house clique must be
put down"
"Cover is running the county and
with his paper dictates everything. "