The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-09-20
What a St. Paul Correspondent Thinks Of
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ST. PAUL, Sept 9th, 1875.
Editors of the Pioneer-Press.
l certainly do not suppose that Mr.. Buell.
will feel under the slightest obligation to
to me for attempting to defend him from
the puerile calumny contained in the artl-
Gle Of your Winona correspondent, and
published in the Pioneer Press Of the 7th
inst In factI don't propose to attempt to
defend Mr.. Buell. What / have TO say
shall be said simply in behalf Of common
decency.
It is lust such scurFilous, unprlncipled
creatures as this man who make politics the
low, filthy cess-pool of SANDER, libel and
impurity that it is, and that does SO much
to drive the best and purest men from the
political arena. If every man who be-
comes candidate for Office is TO be covered
with opprobrium by these miserable scrib-
bling traduces, irrespective Of his cbarac-
ter, standing. and credit, good men will a.
ways prefer TO be counted out.
Let us look at this article jus. % though
we knew nothing whatever Of Mr.. Buell.
| and the writer confesses that he knows but
| very little indeed Of him. We find that his
name is most obnoxiously used in connection
| with the names Of Bill Tweed, Shylock and
Ralph Nickleby, He Is said to be . .'usurel
and mouey shaver" which fact is said te
| be "A notorious as that ..Bill Tweel is 9
thief" and sthe fame Of his Shylockiar
propensities', is not confined by the boun
| daries Of his own county," Again. ''Mr
Buell., with the grasping avarice Of shy
lock. has the sneaking cowardice OF an Ar
| thur Circle, and the blatsnt hypocrisy Of
| Pecksniff." He has traded upon the press
| ing needs and the extremifies Of his fellow
citizens. When misfortunes have been rift
and the need Of money pressing, Dave Buell.
has been in clover" Again, he clings &
his hoardings with al the gripping tenacIty
which avarice inspires Such are tns
foulmouthed aspersions that are cast upon
Mr.. Buell.. and which are calculated to bring
| him into odium where he Is not known
Now what single fact or instance Is glver
from which the reader may judge or ascer
| tain for himself the truth Of these defama
tory charges. Not one We are told tha
| Mr.. Bueli's devilish Vaccinations and PrAe
| tees have mot been bounded BY his Owl
county lines. He has been roaming ovel
adjoining counties grinding the poor ant
satiatinK his greedy avarice out Of IN
pressing necessities Of the unfortunate
His nefarious operations too in that vicinity
have extended over period Of more thar
fifteen years. Nov surely, if %, his victims
must be q thick Is autumn leaves IN . fToet
A hundred Of them could be pointed ONT y
| Eve minutes. The number Of his rascal!
| transactions must be legion There wouit
be no trouble in selecting : few hundreds 9
them and pointing them ont 70 the public .
that people could judge for themselves
why then has this man mot given % som.
Of these eases! He pretends % know -
about them, vt he carefully rsfrains re.
mentioning single one The enly PosnDL
inference remsins that he i wilfully and
nalisisgsly Ebeling Mr- Baell
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