The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-04-29
ELIAS DOES IT SOME MORE.

70 nail all the falshoods to which tbs
News gives currency the year round,
would require the combined effort of al
papers published IN the State. To KEEP
up with Calkins pencil is a hopeless task,
so it is by common consent that this
peculiar trait OF character is allowed fuI
rein, nc damage being apprehended
Occasionally, however, Elias lies to
some specific purpose, when, Of. course,
IA correction Of error must follow as al
antidote.
In commenting on the probabilities OF
Major Henry Baetz's candidacy for State
Treasurer this fall, the Netos relegates
its readers with the following choice NOR
sci from the fertile brain of truthful
Elias:
While other republican newspapers are
9rging many reasons why they should
have Major Baetz as their candidate for
State Treasurer next fall, ''to recover the
German republican vote, as they style
1t, there are other earnest voices upifted
against any nomination based upon the
fact that the individual is q German, or q
Norwegian, or anything else and who
insist that loyalty TO the republican
party and not nationality shall be the test
applied to candidates. For instance,
the Green Bay Gazette uses the following
emphatic language:
I'm the choice of candidates we believe there
should be entire new deal. Above all things
re protest against the ammunition Of tbis man
q
Betchnaas poIa not and tuH bring strength to the
aicket.' That sort of trading may be safely rele-
sated to the Democrats. It's their thunder and
we want none Of it, If we cannot elect a good
republican. pure and simple, we ought
,s--i9ot to elect him at ALL.
Speaking of Major Baetz, and the al
fusion to Manitowoc as his residence, a
correction is in order. Major Baetz is
resident OF Milwaukee, having come to
this city to live when he retired from the
State Treasury, shortly after January LIST,
1874. He is connected with the Second
Ward Bank, OF which Senator Jacobs is
the able President, It may also be ad-
-ded in his favor, that he rendered sub
stantial aid by his influence to the Dem
ocratic-reform ticket i'll 1873; which
viii make him especially popular with
the candidates on the defeated republl
can ticket of that year, including ex Gov.
Washburn and Col. O. G. Johnson, who
E0pI6StiltCO Uu0 tlSuIGIG duIl
then had the place OF candidate for State
Treasurer which is assigned now to Major
Baetz If the Republicans nominate
Ludington for Governor they will hardly
take another candidate from Milwaukee.
Besides, as Treasurer Keuhn VIII, be-
yond all doubt, represent Milwaukee on
the Democratic Reform State ticket his
extreme popularity viii protect that
ticket from the inroads which Major
Baetz, or any other candidate, might
otherwise make upon it.
To correct the corrections the NeWs
makes, let us state for the benefit of the
few who still suspect some grain of truth
IN the hero of printing steals. that Major
Baetz is not a permanent resident OF
Milwaukee, merely sojourning there for
% short time Major Baetz claims his
home here where he is the holder of
considerable amount of real estate; that
on returning from the State Treasury he
returned to NIanitowoc where he remain
ed until some time last fall. Further
more, Mr.. Baetz is In no way connected
with the Second Ward Saving, Bank of
which Senator. Jacobs is the able
President, and it would seem to us some
thing more than the quintessence of the
most contemplate meanness to insinuate
that Major Baetz IN any manner contrib
4tteG to the success CT the Reform Ticket
two years ago.
Major B. took no active part in the
canvass, and Manitowoc Co., as well as
every county in the State by its vote ex-
pressed its disapprobation of the action of
the Republican State Convention. The
-Nesos seems to feel somewhat alarmed at
the prospect of cur old fellow citizens
nomination III opposition to Mr.. F.
keuhn, and certainly not entirely with
out reasons. The Republican State
Ticket viii be carefully made up this
fall and the men pleaced upon it viii go
IN to win, all of whichis synonymous with
IN end to back pay on defunct printing
claims, fat offices for the men who run
the NcauS, and the accidental administra-
ton of our state government by the
ghost of party that ought to be name
less. No wonder Elias resorts to his
old dodge to Gle early and often - but
why waste material in hopeless case?
Try it on another tack.
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