Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-12-19
A Grlst of the Mills, not Of the Gods,

A Grlst of the Mills, not OF the Gods.
EDITOR HERALD: Allow me a small
portion of Your valuable space and |
will try to fill it with Invaluable
matter.
In your issue of Nov. l4th, End a
local in which you state there were up
for office in the recent fall elections.
two sons of the Hon. j. L. Mills
one, George "made a good run" for
Dist. Atty on the Republican ticket
IN Wisconsin the other, j. Warner
"was badly beaten on the Green
back ticket for Representative in Col.
orad0.
This pointed contrast seems stud.
led attempt to dangle before the eyes
OF the rising and the risen generation
the fearful aoarnlng of some terrible
example! Being born into the world as
Garner to my race, of course | shrink
not when the time for Darninq comes.
it IS therefore that l take this occa.
sion to address you this letter. Now.
Mr.. Editor, since you have ha1 your
filing" at me, perhaps you will be
good-natured while your ssfing" is
being flung back.
| am glad brother of nine "made
good run" in Wisconsin, and that
same brother, no doubt, was sorry |
was ''badly beaten" in Colorado. For
were 1T otherwise there would then be
that contemptuous Indifference to fra
ternal affection, which you yourself
would apparently seek to create by
the insldious insinuatlon of your local.
Isay 'insidious insinuation, because
from reading the HERALD, much to
my surprise, have become impressed
with the thought that IN Wisconsin
all Greenbackers are "fools," and l
naturally conclude that by innuendo
you mean to say the same of the
Greenbackers o. Colorado, among
which latter class it would seem yon
place myself. Now if l am, in fact, a
fool, one who would have SO little
sense as to twit on my infrmity in a
public PRINT, should certainly share
with me the same opprobrious title /;
While IT 1 am not fool, and still
twitted as though / were, he himself
is the fool of fools who would foolishly
expect that | would manifest the fool,
cry either to submit or to recoil.
lt.was Mark Twain, believe, who
in apologlzing to Longfelow and
Whittier whom he had offended, used
words something like these:
-t pad .-.-..-I-.>.au tor anu a
TOOL know l am fool; | am Gods
fool-and therefore pardon me for
Gods sake If not for my ownr'
This is an apology so short and
unique-lt We're no bad idea to know
1t by rote pledge you my word ii
will be found as often convenient for
Editors as Tor Mark Twain or Green.
hackers.
A word now as to my candidacy
aud l have done:
1hree days before election, without
any solicitation on my part. and
against my own wish, still, with my
consent and knowledge the name OF
). w. Mills for Representative was
hoisted by the hackers of Hins-
dale County. "TEe very head and
front of my offending hath this extent,
no more" "Fiatism" was no part of
my platform, for | do not wish to see
a paper dollar afioat without its ap.
proprlate metallic basis, The Green
hackers OF Colorado were not so i'm.
prudent as the Greenbackers of Wis
consln. They did not subordinate
the fight for the abolition of Nalional
Banks and for legislation once more
not absolutely oppressive to labor
to the mock heroic fight as to whether
we shall have hereafter paper money
signitied by a mere government i'm.
press, IN the stead of a paper money
that itself signifies by a metallic basis
a 0dtue aolthout government impress /!
Had that been the issue here, would
to-day be no more fawning syco-
plant of the Republican party that |
have ever failed to be-still, I'd be a
Republican, and not Greenbacker.
That these were my known, avowed
and publicly expressed views before,
and since my nomination, well under.
stood by those by whom the nominal
ton was made-every moderately in
formed persol of Lake City can tell
you,-even your own genial fellow
townsman Joseph Book who was re-
Gently here, must certainly be able to
tell you.
came to Colorado to practice law,
not to ran Tor Office. That, | am sue
cessfully dong the former, / am proud
to say in a measure appears from my
cases and receipts. That have no
aspiration to be the latter my "boy-
ish" thoughtlessness in lending my
name for target and my head for a
football but three days before an cleo
ton, and without any hope of either
success or "applause"-must appear
to all at least, it will so appear to
the eyes of the practical politician.
Thus much have ! written, Mr.. Ed.
itor, not to provoke your trenchant
pen to acrimonious reply, but to reply
myself through the medium of your
columns to thousand queries con-
corning this matter that have been
communicated to me by my kind and
solicitous friends at home. Moreover,
when | again return to the sacred
ranks of your charming village l wish
to talk uninterruptedly of your new
railroad and other improvements, and
have no desire to approach the good
people of the "banner county of tie
siate,' as though they were consti
tuency to whom / must repeatedly
address my views on the intricate
issues of finance.
Yours Truly
JARED WARNER MILLS.
Lake City, Colorado Dec. OH, 1878.