The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-08-19
MAINE PRAIRIE.
MAINE PRAIRIE. Aug. 18th. 1877

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EDITOR JouRNAL.-I see that our Maine
Prairie "corrector' is not satisfied with
his first effort at correction and tries his
hand again in the St. Cloud Press. Ishould
deem the article unworthy of notice were
it not that he had brought in the names of
gentlemen of high standing here in con-
nection with himself and endeavored to
drag them down to his own level as CO.
workers in 1lefarious and corrupt scheme.
AS he has no character to sustain nor rep
utation to lose, it is paying him too much
of compliment to reply to his personal
abuse. Still, at times he seems to have
warm and generous impulses, and I can ac-
count for these outbursts of passion only
upon the hypothesis Of disordered liver
probably an accumulation of BILE. I am
the victim of this accumulation now, and
in all probability some one else will suffer
from the next overflow. Twill review first
the article and then the author.
In his first, he quoted my statement
about the political caucus, and said that it
was false ; no.u, he admits the whole state
ment and swallows it all down with the ex-
ception of the one word trapped" which
seems to stick in his throat. For quack
doctor, nothing is so abhorrent as dose of
his own nauseating compound, so nothing
is SO hard for this "corrector'' to swallow
as one of his own traps. He says that "El-
der Shoemaker and A. Spaulding had the
matter in charge and they say no one was
trapped." ! Elder Shoemaker tells me that
he. has nosrecollection Of ever telling him
any such thing and was confident that less
than dozen knew the object of the con-
vention. Now, where does the falsehood
come in7 MI. Spaulding merely acted as
President putting the motions and declar>
ing the results. Elder Shoemaker is a
Christian and q gentleman and strong
temperance man, and not at all the kind
of man upon whom it would answer for a
political trickster to throw the responsible
ty of petty trick. The idea that a meet
ing composed almost exclusively of Repub-
Leans would have k'so,oingly sent delegates
to organize Temperance party when they
knew that nine-tenths of the votes cast for
that party would come from the Republi-
can ranks is simply preposterous. o- Z.
AS chronic candidate for Office, no mat
ter what Office he aspires to-anything
from road boss to Representative in the
Legislature-and never having succeeded
to any Office higher than Overseer of High
ways, he feels keenly the repeated verdict
Of the people and naturally looks upon
every one as his rival. And now, for my
newIy :aedged Temperance friend little
kindly admonition. 1t was bad policy for
him to leave and repudiate the Republican,
party. He may reply that he has labored
long and persistently NTH (not tor) the Re
publican party; that he has got up sly eau
cuses in out-ofthe-w way places; that he. did
his best to cheat MI. Stanley out Of his
delegateship two years ago; that he has
for years spent his time and money as dele
gate to Conventions to nominate Others to
Office and never had the compliment re-
turned Well, think of the fourteen long
Years that Jacob Of old labored for the: Gov
eted prize. Think of how the children Of
Israel were kept forty years before they re-
ceived their just reward, and then think Of
Judas Iscariot, and Of Benedict, Arnold.
yAh, L fear this re.olyjosnd zeal for the
cause has bereh him Of his US
nal. carlton. - iz2.;: e .;,t5- -.
Perhaps, if our kind friend will devote
as much time and patience to the work Of
swallowing our phrase trapped" as zoe did
to his statistics" he will succeed. :,
MAINE PRAIRIE.