Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-10-28
RIGHT WINS.
The Opinion of the Supreme
Court.
That Deviltry Settled.

Court had ousted Mr.. Baker from g
position he usurped over year ago,
position which the people had given tc
Mr.. +. j. Wood by the silent yet pos.
ilive decree of the ballot; and that a
fine Of 5000 had been imposed fol
such usurpation. For one whole wear
our people have waited, waited, wait
ed, patiently enduring the injustice
knowing that in due time the great
wrong would be righted. 1t is not
necessary for us to recount the facts
connected with this most inexcusable
and fragrant outrage upon the most
sacred rights of sovereign people.
Those facts are known to every school
boy in Wood County, and every citizen
of the state is conversant with the in
decent transaction which savors of a
| tyranny as unlicensed and cruel as was
ever exercised under the Jurisdiction
Of Jeffreys. We remember the re-
Jolcing following the signal victory af-
ter most gallant fight. We remem-
Der too, the anger that burned in the
breasts of our people when the uncred-
tied intelligence came that an officer
sworn to discharge his duty faithfully
had dared to disfranchise large por-
ton Of our voters and declare himself
legally elected. We remember more.
We remember the foretokening sign
that told but too plainly of deviltry to
be enacted, how the canvass was post
poned till late hour of the night :;
how suspicious were aroused; how those
DESTROYS that only justice should be
done were insulted and given to under
stand that their presence was not
wanted in the canvassing room how
slight irregularities in the election re-
turns were made an excuse for reject
ing such returns while the proper off
GERS stood ready, and insisted upon
making such corrections, and how GER
tain other returns favorable to the Off
Ger who was determined, at whatever
cost, to re-elect himself, were returned
to be corrected how certain men who
have held the county as in vice while
+, they extracted it's vitality, went ont
one by one to their homes or elsewhere,
so grondly innocent Of q knowledqe of
the damnable business that was to be
transacted when they were gone And
after the matter had gone before the
courts we all know the subterfuges re-
sorted to, the changes of front,-the
lodges resorted to to prop up cause
builded upon the foundations of He'll.
whose superstructure was frescoed and
festooned with all the adornments that
infamy could devise. and whose pinnicles
and turrets were Illuminated with tn e
sickly glare of treason, or at least
fendish light "akin TO it," Ana we
remember, too, how. through the
Vaccinations of that Canvassing Board
with Mr. Baker at it's head, one G. w.
Cate, an honorable man sits in the
seat that legally belongs to A. s. Nc
Dill. And still another thing we
know; that justice has come at last,
though tardy in its coming. and that
GEO. R. GARDNER is Dist. Attorney,
of Wood County, VIM. T. King is
Register of Deeds, and F. J. Wood
Clerk Of the County Board, and all
the people say "AMEN !;
We give below "a portion of the
"opinion'' Of the Court which will do
till We can get the remaining portions
". There is nothing 90 distin-
guish the case of Kroner from ordi-
nary cases of the kind. Judgment
will therefore go in his case in the
usual form against him and in favor
of the relator.
But lhe case of Baker is very dis
tinguishabIe from ordinary cases of
contest for office. At the time of
the election and canvass, he was
County Clerk; one of the officials
who made the Register of votes in
the first ward of Grand Rapids,
which he now asks to operate SO as
TO disfranchise at the election all the
votes In that ward. The County
canvass was made by him and the
two officials whom he took to his
assistance to form the Board of Coun-
ty Canvassers. Saving the defend
ants personal knowledge Of the Reg
1Star in Tho 6re% of G.on1 P,,