The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-06-06

Republican party, are mercilessly her.
aided to the world as anything which 4
vile tongue may choose to suggest.
This class Of newspapers, with the
Times for leader, have bounded Com
missioner Smith almost to the grave
and driven his wife into an insane asy-
lum raving maniac. A late triumph
of the Times in this direction was in
killing the wife of General McCook by
publishing an insinuation that to Sc
cure her husbands appointment, Mrs.
McCook had encouraged and submitted
to such attentions from the President
as no honest woman would permit.
This libel was handed to her while she
was suffering from a temporary illness.
It is said that she never smiled after
reading it, and soon sank and died.
The St. Paul Pioneer, speaking Of this
newspaper murder, says: "What COM
ment can be made-what terms are
sufficiently strongto express-the indig-
nant detestation which every lover of
good character and every defender of a
pure and honorable home will feel, upon
hearing the sad particulars of this MUIR
dered woman g death -
The very latest assault of the Times
upon the good name of respectable peo-
pie, of which we have heard, was in
the publication Of vile story affecting
the social standing Of several promi-
nent citizens Of Rockford, Illinois.
The story was false and so absolutely
filthy that it is said even the Police Ga
zette would not have published it even
if true. The Chicago Tribune, speak
ing of the ISLANDERS, says:
They could have found light no.
where except in the Chicago Times.
Our correspondent in Rockford says
that the indignation in that city over
the libel is intense, and that the paper
will forever he excluded from respect
able families in that vicinity. Respect
able families that have been taking the
Times deserve what they get for their
pains. AS well admit a bawdy book to
place in a public library rs such a
paper in the household. 1t has long
been that no respectable woman in
Chicago would lie seen reading 4 copy
of the Times. This will probably be
the case henceforth in Rockford.'
The parties slandered at Rockford
have brought suit against the Times for
$50, 600 damages. The Rockford Gazette
says:
Mrs. Gen. McCook is hardly in her
grave when a young lady of unblemished
reputation, the daughter of an eminent
citizen and public officer, is selected for
purposes of slander-such SANDER as
might well drive her to insanity, and
which cannot fail to cause her and her
relatives lifelong sorrow. A short
time ago, the editor of the Times an
nOunced that if he did not take due
vengeance on DR.. johnson and sundry
others, mankind might call him dog.
He has not taken the vengeance afore-
said, but he has diligently sought to
earn the appellation which he invoked
upon himself by assaults upon women
and children.'
ROCK OUNTY AND THE SEED WHEA 7:
We have not thought it worth space
to take much notice Of the complaints
Of the Rock County Herald in the mat
ter Of the seed wheat distribution. We
said before that ''ring" had been
formed there to sell wheat to the Com
missioners at S1,25 per bushel, and
this ''ring" was disappointed when the
Commissioners bought at Sioux Falls
at S5c, and this same "ring'' no doubt
inspires the Herald articles. We have
never heard a word of complaint from
any Of the farmers Of Rock county.
The Mobiles County Committee, includ-
ing Peter Thompson, whom the Herald
lntimateS made a handsome margin.
were simply the servants of the Com
missioners and of the public, and that,
too, without any pay whatever. The
Sioux Falls Independent comes to the
rescue Of our Committee and the dis
comfiture of the Herald in a recent
article. It says:
They 1.-THE Sioux Falls wheat dealers)
accordingly sold the wheat to Booge &
Co. for eighty flee cents q bushel deliver.
ed here, fact that the farmers well
knew. Some of those having a little
money to invest OH their own account
paid Howard one dollar a: bushel for
the, extra amount of seed they got over
and above their order from the county,
Bo0ge & Co. turned over the wheat
to Thompson for eighty-fre cents q
bushel, so that if any one made mar.
gin on the wheat they must look nearer
home than Sioux Falls or Sioux City.
1t would be a remark hardly worthy
the average intelligence of a Minnesota
or Iowa man that the merchants in
Sioux Falls would sell wheat for sixty
cents bushel when they were paying
eighty-five and ninety cents for the
same grade of wheat right along. No,
MIR. Herald, give us Il conundrum will,
some items of truth in it.
We should like to ask the Herald
where now is Peter Thompson's ''mar.
gin ?" The fact is, Booge & Co. sent
the warehouse receipts to Thompson
and that is about all he had to do with
that transaction.
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