Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-08-16
Congressional - The New Sorehead
Leader Farm Mortgages.

OF Fennimore has assumed the COM
mand OF the sorehead army, and
he is to engineer the cam
paign. His blunderbuss has explod-
ed, and the rank and file are watch
ing the effects of the shot. They say
one discharge of the "mitraiIIeur"
killed about 800 disabled horses.
Capt. Jim Jones ordinance is fearful.
ID. L. Parker examined it, and Dean
and Amherst Barber examined il and
held it in reserve till now. They
got up the dialogue between Mr..
Jones and his bereaved mother-in-
law they interlarded it with signs
and tears, and reach climax in ac-
cusing George G. Hazelton of defraud-
ing the mother-in-law out of $17. %.
Jones is so confident of the justice of
the claim that he tells us he has COM
menced an action against Hazelton to
recover the amount. 1t seems he has
begun his action before Squire Rind-
laub, and published his complaint in
the newspapers. 1t strikes us that
this is q singular mode Of commend
ing q law suit. If Hazelton was
guilty of overcharging the mother
in-law, in obtaining q pension, it
must have been several years ago,
and how does it come about that the
dutiful son-in-law has kept his hand
off of Hazelton till the present time !?
Time sometimes grasses the remem-
brance of wrongs from the memory,
but the son-in-law got madden and
madden as years rolled away, till now
with a flourish of trumpets he in
forms us of notable lawsuit, James
Jones rs. George G. HazelUon, in
which the son-in-law seeks redress
for the long Injured mother-in-law.
1t seems hardly fair for a plaintiff
thus to endeavor by newspaper ar
ticle, to prejudice the public against
a defendant. If the plaintiff has
good grounds for an action, he ought
not to endeavor to forestall public
opinion, by publishing his wrongs to
those who may have to decide the
case as judges or jurors. Nor does it
become US as public journalists, to de-
clare that his Indignation is mere hy-
pocrisy, and the wrongs of which he
complains, mere sham and pretence.
If his mother-in-law has any Just
cause of complaint against George
G. Hazelton, let her bring her action
against him, if he will not give her
satisfaction without resort to law.
We don't see how Mr.. Jones can sue
when she makes no such complaint.
We understand that some minor re-
covered two or three hundred dol
lars against this same Mr.. Jones in
the Circuit Court, on the ground that
the latter appropriated about one
half of the minors bounty money.
Let Mr.. Jones withdraw his suit, and
tell his mother-in-law to "crack
down" and perhaps we should have
some confidence in the plaintiffs
sincerity.
But, if, as we are informed, this
publication and lawsuit was concoct-
ed in general council where most
of the the sorehead sachems were
present and took part, we are iusti-
fed in pronouncing it one of the sill
liest devices that sorehead brains
ever contrived. Is judgement to be
pronounced against Hazelton on the
plaintiffs own statement, and that
plaintiff no other than James Jones
Of Fennimore We pity the weak
ness Of men who have to resort TO q
trick SO palpable and ludicrous. We
do not desire to assume the position,
wa do not desire that our readers
should entertain such preudices
against Mr.. Barber as not to support
him if nominated. We have not crit
icised Mr.. BARRIERS private transac-
tions. We know the unpleasant
that might be resuscitated
if we referred the "farm mortgagors"
to Mr.. BARRIERS course, when whole
of our most enter
prizing citizens, including sons-in-law
and mothers-in-law, were threatened
with expulsion from homes created
by their hard manual labor. Mr.
Barber has made money; he has
loaned it out without limit as to in
terest where the law created no such
limit, and with his money he ought
to be contented. We admit that he
cannot be bought nor can he be sold,
but it is q we'll known fact, that he
soon loses all influence in any legis-
lative body Of which he is o member.
His invective and sarcasm sometimes
annihilate an antagonist, but oftener
his own influence.
This Congressional District must
now call upon Congress to complete
what it has undertaken, by making
large annual appropriations for the
improvement of the Wisconsin river.
The improvement while it is going
on in. the disbursement of money and
in the employment of labor, will fur
nish us with home market for our
produce, and when finished, it will
furnish us with highway to for
eign market. 1t will reduce railroad
freight to the canal standard. And
the vital question is, who of all the
candidates will be likely to exercise
the most permanent influence over
Congress, should be elected to that
body, in favor of this great enter
prise. AS long as we believe that
that man is George G. Hazelton as
long rs we know and believe that he
is the choice of a decided majority
of the republicans of this county, we
shall support him for that office.
CoNGREssIoNAL.-The Monroe Sen
tinel in an article on Congressional