Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-07-21
That Town Of Minneapolis and the
Iowa Editors.

That Town Of Minneapolis and IN
. Iowa Editors.
REGISTER OFFICE.
Dies MONIES, Iowa July 10, 1871 !
. Editor of So. Paul Press:
It was my hap, q few days ago, 3
stop with party of Iowa editors q
the Nicollett Hotel, In Minneapolis
and thereto, by the Minneapoli
press has been attached a tale, where
of the following are links:
From the Tribune.
among the editorial dead beats from lows
who recently visited Minneapolis, and who wen
of without paying their bills was, az reported +
us, the editor of the Des Molnes 8 tate Registe
because he controlled the party and was instrn
mental In bringing 1t here. Finding HIS claims q
free quarters was not admitted, Of course he wen
OF disgusted, and abuses Minneapolis"
From the NeWs,
1.-THE Tribune 10 informed that the editor OF thu
paying his hotel BILL As Mr.. Clsrkson, the edito
In question is Chairman OF the Republican Stats
Central Committee Of Iowa, we would suggest 4
publican party OF Iowa. raiss fund to iiauidats
Its leaders unliquidated travelling bills" sa
BY the kindness of your paper,
since cannot obtain audience In
either the Tribune or the Neaos, ]
wish to say what herein follows, that
| may not walk before the people OF
Minnesota in the suit which these
cheap diapers in journalism have
trigged me. The sin Of my offending
for which / have been made the re.
cipient of the above peeling castiga-
ton, consisted in my cruelty refusing
to say what I could not say
without able-bodied lying, that
Minneapolis, when seen, fulfils the
extravagant terms in which 1t Is adj
vertised. Accompanying the Iowa
Editorial Excursion to st. Paul, I
did not choose to go with it to Du-
luth. Preferring to wait for its re-
turn, spent most of the time at
Minneapolis. Sooner or later, /
believe, with the Universalists, that
we get paid up in this world, in great
er or less degree, for what we do that
ia moan and eince have been to
Minneapolis, / believe that we also
get paid up for that which is foolish.
am now fully convinced that
have been punished no more than
deserved for being such o fool as to
stay in Minneapolis when could
have stayed in st. Paul. But, no
difference now-aDd since it has got
into the papers, it would do no good
to deny it, did stay in the town
part of three days, trying to get a
look at 1t. Two days I could not get
a glimpse Of it, the regular sand
storm, which Is chronic with the vii.
lage preventing; but the third day, a
friendly rain enabled me to see it,
"them boulevards," those wide
streets 80 bare of business hustle, its
several miles of street railway gone
into disuse, aud the other sickly alls.
There is but one opinion among trav-
elers as to Minneapolis, after they
have once seen 1t. This opinion,
drawing 1t very mildly, I repeated
in my account of the excursion
This was the main thing that made
Minneapolis, and its journalistic
musketos 30 magnificently mad. ]
am cheered by the exhibition. did
not suppose. from the appearance OF
the town, that there was enough en-
ergy in the peorle to get up such q
mad. But, after the pattern of the
hero who roared like a lion and
fought like sheep, 1t is the fashion
Of the Minneapolisites to vaunt like
| a city and whine like village
When the little town shall have ar.
rived at the age when it will no long
er wear its linen quadrangularly, IL
won't play the stuck pig whenever ii
Is not measured as it measures itself
presume there are three legs Ia
the fine story of my life in Minneap-
oils, as told by its ess,-namely, the
proprietor of the Nicollett House, the
Editor of the Tribune, and the Thing
Of the Ne,os. I presume the Nicol
lett man is one of the architects o.
the lie, since have addressed him
two letters on the subject, and he has
been too much OF q coward to answer
either. Two actions Of mine gave
me the enmity of this gentlemanly
creature. L told him, on leaving, 81
the mean manner in which he had
treated our party. They had engaged
of him, by telegraph, one hundred
rooms. They arrived to find him
able to supply only fifteen or twenty,
enough only for the ladies, eight OF
whom he put into one bed room,
while the gentlemen were mainly
given pallets on his parlor floors
charging every man in the party,
however, his full rates and some of
them more. ventured to tell him
of these things, and tell him how
glad was to hear that he did not
like Iowa. My other crime was to
ask the waiter at the table, on taking
my final Nicollett supper, wouldn't
he bring me large meal, as was
very hungry-haying boarded at the
Nicollet for two or three days. This
despairing aud hungry request fell
on the tympanum of the proprietor's
ear. He was too small man to take
a joke, and so he sought what OF
puny revenge he could by letting his
Tribune willing and Ne,0s ninny
trump up and circulate, without de.
NAL, the weak and wicked Islander
which they did. .....
imagine it is hardly necessary In
q Minnesota paper to prove the lie on
the two papers named, but to make
this story more interesting. / will
take the trouble to do so. | paid my
bill-and 1t was big enough to re.
member, | assure youth the pres
ence of six or eight Iowa editors, and
several strangers. The paragraphs
quoted, having come under the eye
of Mr.. Synder, OF the Cedar Falls
GAZETTE, and one of the gentlemen
present, he proceeds to "sit down on
it" i'm the following manner:
When it 1.-THE Minneapolis Tribune charges any
member OF the Press OF iowa with having LEFT
without paying his bill, IL lies In every sentence.
Does the Tribune pretend to say that the proprie-
tors Of the Nieollet House charge the editor oil
the Register with sneaking Of without psying
enough for anything, but that they dare not do
The writer saw him ask the Nicollet proprietors
whether they claimed that any man bel0hging TO
the Press az loiod had not paid his 6iH, and " so
to pressath and hs ,Ooald payh.
Mr.. Hunt, of the Monticello Er-
press, Mr.. Eaton, of the Red Oak Er.
press, and one or two other gentle
men of equal veracity, have borne
the same testimony. should say,
that on asking the proprietor If he
claimed that any of our party had
not paid his bill, telling him If any
had not, to present it to me. and /
would pay it then and there, that he
said there were none who had not
paid. I should also say, in justice to
the gentleman whom they have
made my co-traveler through the
press,-Mr. L. B. Raymond, of the
Hampton Free Press, Shat saw
him pay his bill, and heard him give
the lobster faced clerk very touch
ing parting salute. The other and
meaner charge that / asked for free