Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-08-15
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Much as We feel ourselves disgraced
hen We touch the dirty cur, We are yet I
'mpelled to pay some heed to the vile
Of deviltry in Mower county. d
'stead of meeting the committee Of citi-
ms like an honest man and brave one,
> sneaked around corners and was only &
reed into definite promise Of granting
meeting, at q second interception in his
3wardly flight Then, instead Of meet
II them without fear, as any honest
ian would have done, he must needs be
by his pusillanimous few,
Who would not have availed snap.of:the-
myers worth, had any violence been at
he time Intended. But no-"suspicion
'lways haunts the guilty mind, and every
hief doth fear each bush an officer" and
70 we are robbed of the last atom of |
for the pitiable coward who sits
IS a Judge among US. Hitherto, no
matter how purposcly and maliciously
wrong may have been his course, we still
had that respect man ever pays to the brave
and fearless. But when we find that In
addition to being knave and rascal,
Sherman Page is coward as we'll, then
are we robbed of the last shadow of re-
spect, and he sinks to the level of Dois-
some reptile whose venom is less dreaded
than his sight abhorred.
How comes it, if he is so good and just
that on his first appearance in public, as
a teacher at Lancaster, Wisconsin, he set
them by the ears so that his faction built
him separate school house, and the dis.
sessions he there sowed, are not yet heal
ed?
How is it, that at DEBORAH, Iowa, he To-
mented strife until he was compelled by
popular sentiment to leave town, and a
bitter feud remains unto this day.! Was
he alone righteous and harmless, while
all DEBORAH was possessed of devil?
| How is it that he had trouble with the
boys in blue? All! they know how te
deal with such cases, and the indignities
heaped upon him,were but earnest Of wha
would follow, and he sought escape by
resigning. Were our soldier boys then
all he-devils, and he alone the sinnet
against?
And next he comes to Austin, and w
know the sad result. Can it be possible
that these ever recurring disgracefu
rows are the fault of the people among
whom he has been cast by an adverse
fate? Has Providence a special spite
against Sherman Page, that it casts hin
at every change into lions den? Or il
it more rational to suppose that God, Il
afaict communities, sends HIM as a dev
lis scourge to curse every people he drop
among? How Is it that in every place
he sets his foot, there soon spring VI
strifes and enmities? If he IS innocent
if the people are and always have beer
to blame, and he alone has been punish
ed, then God grant that his punishment
may soon end. and he be transported t.
fields where congenial spirits dwell! Blu
we have this question to urge upon tn
readers of the TRANsCR1PT--how do 20
answer-why is it, that IN every plac
Page has entered he has been abused
Has all the world entered into conspi
acy against this one poor man? We Q
Mower county are not alone, for ever
place that has known him, curses hi
memory:
See how this man crow DIS decent an
quiet citizens, so that among our neigl
bors, Austin is becoming by.word an
a stencil, SO that men congratulate eac
other on being furthest from US.
p While Judge Page is in disgrace Judg
Brill approves man as turnkey. A
soon as Page is escaped the clutches {
the people, behold his unparalleled bras
IN removing for spite, one whom his sui
stltute approved! You or l would hav
j. lacked the cheek, the simple cheek, n
cessary to undo the acts of judge, VIII
! occupied orr place while we were di
graced as only judge, whose Office
most honorable, Can be disgraced by r
Il proof from the people.
1 Page appoints a stenographer for Hou
ton county. The county commissions
revoke the appointment, but at the ne,
}" court, it is said Page comes brazen to Il
scratch and with him his reporter.
l. The county commissioners of Fillmo
refuse to allow his reporters bill f
- transcribing unlmportant cases, and Pa,
y supports him and attempts TO bully "a
y the county till the case nearly went to Il
supreme court; and Page has made s
N enemy of Fillmore county.
D. Then what can one think of man wi
3 will persist in holding his position VIII
i asked to resign by so overwhelming
q majority of the voters of his count,
e And he, instead of crawling into sou
y hole to hide his dishonored head, wi
8 brassy impudence answers back that
y will "see those who have signed this I
IS tition and find out what misrepresent
T. tions have been made to them!" !
n proposes that we shall wait while he j
u terviews 1900 men in all parts Of Il
- county! And more astonishing vet,
the cheek Of his Offering to speak
them and demanding of them to COZ
and hear him.
n All! Sherman Page, you are indie
e. cheeky and sharp and cunning, and
re first sight, you seem to have out-witt,
st US and our committee. But look clos,
re and you will see that when your ov
a. weening vanity induces you to publish
s, report of your treatment of that comm
g tee, you have over-shot the mark, a
IL proven that you are abundantly capab
Re for dirty and ungentlemanly trick. Y,
n We're sharp, and you must, boy.like, tell
ar that, and boast of your infamy thou2
at you injure your cause thereby.
It. And now people of Mower county,
! l.