Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-15
OUR AGENTS
Modern s'Reformati0n"-By
Brundage.

and vegetable" Kingdoms, greet US
upon every hand. Productions of
these kingdoms are frequently seen, the
economy ofwhich, from a purely hu-
man standpoint it is extremely diff
cult to discern; but when Providence,
as it sometimes does, kindly removes
the veil from mortal vision, and ex-
poses, before their final completion,
alike its wise purposes and its strange
instruments for their accomplishment,
We are rejoiced that all It's ways are
aot past finding out" Not unfre-
quently, bad men with evil purposes
rise up, and surrounding themselves
with an army Of unprincipled camp
followers, for time overwhelm all OPP
position. Sometimes justice and vir-
tue and mercy are bound hand and
foot, and seemingly powerlesS at the
feet OF blood-thirsty agents Of dark
ness, seeing which we are led almost
TO doubt that God is just. Examples
illustrative of this have been so fre-
quent during the past few years that
the reader will readily recall them.
But in every battle that has been
fought, and the issue finally determine
ed error has been routed and justice
triumphant. Thus it will ever be
while Immaculate Justice sits upon
the throne.
No cause ever seriously contended
for the mastery, without willing advo-
Gates. The more unworthy and infa-
nous the cause, the more willing, and
at the same time more unscrupuIous
and degraded. must be its defenders.
So long as unbridled license and cor
ruption shall be permitted to grapple
with their opposites, they will have ad-
vocates. And in the main such adyo-
Gates will, from the necessities of the
case, be especially adapted to their
calling. They will be persons Of some
intelligence, but without self respect or
the respect of others. They will have
neither conscience to upbraid them,
nor character to lose. This accounts
for Brundage, whether he be ''animlP'
or vegetable, the cause he is serving
demanded such a being, and in the
economy of things he came forth.
Soon after the removal Of the late
District Attorny from the Office he had
disgraced-I think in its first issue
after the removal--the Tribune, in the
department of its local editor, the
aforesaid Brundage, treated the public
to a lengthy dissertation upon the sub
ject, in which it pretended to give the
Governor reasons for the removal,
characterized them as chin" and un-
satisfactory, and gravely announced it
to be the duty Of the Sheriff to call a
special election to fill the office of Dis
triet Attorney. 1t purposely misrep-
resented the reasons assigned for the
removal, (because the order Of remov-
al was in Brundage's hands and by
him read and exhibited after it was
served and he could not have been ig
norant of the reasons it assigned) 1t
more than intimated that Mr.. Cassidy
was a "damphool, and that the peo-
pie so understood when they elected
him and it broadly announced that it
was none of the Governors business if
the people of this county chose to have
such an officer. Fully convinced that
the law, as laid down by the Tribune,
was erroneous; knowing that its pre-
tended version of the facts and the find
ing of the Governor were false, and
manifestly SO intended, and dissenting
earnestly from reformation" which
Is to establish the doctrine that the
people of a county may. if they choose,
elect law officers who will defy and
disregard the law of the State
wrote an article which appeared in the
Reporter as editorial, in which was ex-
pressed dissent from these several
propositions of the Tribune, and quo
ted Governor Washburn's own Ian
g'tdgc, IS used in his finding or YER
dict, upon which was based his judy
ment removing Mr. Cassidy. The ex-
act language of the Governor was
given. that the readers of the Report
er, at least, might read and judge for
themselves whether or not Mr.. G.. was
removed, as has been so often asserted
by Brundage, for making ''single
mistake. The Tribune was asked why it
did not publish the Governors opinion.
Subsequently, and before the Reporter
containing that article was publish
ed, Mr. Brundage happened in