Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-08-21
THE ST. PAUL DISPATCH SITS DOWN on
KING SHERMAN.
Reason Asconsls tho Throne
An Old Ass.


Reason Ascon<ls tho Throne!
An Old Ass.
On Tuesday we reprinted from the
Chicago Times a St. Paul letter signed
"Poly Carp" which concluded with the
somewhat nettlesOme allusion
to a certain notorious MinnesOtlan, whose
character and career the Dispatch has
hitherto been disposed to place III q very
charitable light before the public:
There is another surprising candidate for
reelection in Mower county, and that is Judge
man without dccency, dignity or common
sense. He is the most cantanker0us human
being that ever infested community, and the
ford is that he will be imprisoned for life,
when he might be given chance to emigrate
to Minnesota. where his aim would be greatly
ence for a target here as there. ' We are in
formed by the Austin Republican, that Page
has ''recentlDR,urchased splendid Kentucky
is as pious in horse trade as the Rev. Adj
rondack- GOlden-Rule Murray, perhaps more
so, and we are anxious to know whether, since
the recent purchase, Page has any victimized
friends who could compare notes with J. w.
Losey, of La Crosse. He knows what horse
can be when solemnly recommended by Sher-
man Page.
Yesterday morning we received from
the "cantankerOus human being" referred
10 in this article, letter, which SD fully
exposes his innate smallness and petty
malignitY, that we present it In full to our
readers las We did the letter of Poly Carp,
rs follows:
AUSTIN, August 4, 1879.
CAPT. CAsTLE-I have not the least Objec-
ton to your publishing such slang a. appears
in your paper of the 18th inst, but question
the good taste of man who buys it for bis
20 % ~r~Sh <Ann <<van MA
send me your bill up to the 18th inst. and dis:
continue the paper at that date. 1amtndebted
for the paper since March 20, 1879, and would
send Ae8 To hat 1s a"hdr
know who owns oaid author and dictates what
what is said concerning myself. II will come
far short of its object. The day IS past when
the editor of q newspaper can afford to open
It is q gun that kicks hardest at the breech.
Truly yours, SHERMAN FACE.
We need hardly comment on the pow
erty of manhood and baseness Of spirit
displayed in this epistle. They speak for
themselves, and that is why we publish
1t. OF course we are glad to have Sher
man Page stop his subscription If he
does not want the paper any longer-es-
peclally if he will pay US what he owes
US on that subscription, which we some
what doubt his doing. But the self: con-
sc,ous attitude Of superiority to adverse
criticism, the despjcable littleness OF
heart aud mind AMI soul. evinced in his
manner of doing it, raise the Insignificant
act into unwonted importance, as that of
a man who now stands before the people
of five Of Minnesota's best counties and
asks Of them an honorable judicial Office.
Sherman Page can claim nothing and
can give nothing to the Dispatch, or its
editor on the score of Friendship" We
never liked him and we never took pans
to conceal our dislike, even from him.
But in pursuance of our Interpretation of
high public duty. we defended him
when he most needed defenders; we stood
fast by him when he was amid the roar
ing breakers of disaster; we believed he
had done nothing worthy of impeach-
ment, and we said 80, IN season and out
of season; we played no Insignificant
part in the drama which resulted in his
acquittal, and exercised, we are free to
claim, no uncomfortable influence in Sc.
curing that acquittal. We will leave it
to any honorable man in the State, cog
infant Of all the facts, to say whether we
did not thereby earn the undying graft
tude of this man, and place him under
obligations which any amount of subse.
ouent criticism would not release
But we did not do enough. We did
not toady to him. We did not lie to please
him. We said his character was not
altogether lovely or loveable. We said
he was acquitted, not indicated. We
advised him to go and sin no more. We
said he would live in history as the fly
embalmed in the amber Of ex-Gov. Davis
eloQuence. We said all the time, that il
we had a hundred votes to cast ut q judi.
ciai electi3p il his district he Shom'd no, no;
the truth, as any honest, independent
journal should. And he did not like the
Dispatch. after all. We did not care
whether he liked it or not. And he did
not like that. And now he seizes upon
this fimsy pretext to avow his dislike.
We are glad OF it. We "held some slight
allegiance till this hour" We are now
a fit subject for contempt of court. We
hold his honor in supreme contemplated
we rejoice that he, himself, has furnished
for our readers an opportunity to heartily
join in that contempt. Sherman Page,
we write you down-An Assist. Paul
Dispatch, Aug. 18th.