Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-08-07
The Wood County Scandal.

We have RETAINED from giving
any space TO the dirty scandal Of cur
sister county, and should continue
our silence, did not one of our city
papers furnish its columns for publ
cation of long articles from the pen
of Mr.. Hayden, essaying to defend
himself from the charges against him.;
and we will only say, that Mr.. Hay
den is charged with crimes, that if
he IS guilty of, should not only COM
pei him to abdicate the Office he
holds, but leave community which
he has so grossly outraged, and not
add insult to injury, by remaining
amongst that people whom he has
so baseIy wronged, and traducing
others of that community. What
the public Just now is most interest
ed in, is to know if Mr.. Hayden Is
guilty or not. In the case now at
issue it matters not what others have
been guilty of, the question is: are
the stories generally circulated about
Mr.. Hayden the truth, or the willful
fabrication OF a malicious mind.
Some time since Mr.. Hayden was
called a shyster, and rushed into the
courts for a redress of his grievances
and we submit that it would he
more manly in him if innocent, now
that family is broken up by these
stories, to again call upon the courts,
not only to vindicate his own, but
others characters. He can't plead
an aversion to the notoriety attend
ant upon the libel suit, as he to vim
dictate his own personal character,
courted that very notori ETY., neither
can he claim that it would only tend
to iniure a woman. God knows, she
is already injured beyond any help
except from Mr.. Hayden, and his
only way is, not by abusing others,
but in public manner in a court Of
justice disprove the charges. Come.
! if guilty, bow your head in shame.
seek not the society of respectable
people, seek not to insult an out
ragged community by an obtrusion
upon them of one so vile, but if III
nocent, meet the charges like an in
nocent outraged man, go to the
courts of justice, and there i'll 4 pub
lie manner prove the falsity Of the
charges, and restore peace and h.,r-
mony to an afflicted family; your du-
| ty to that wife and mother demands
it; your duty to yourself demands it;
a sorrow stricken father and husband
demands it; community demands it;
nay every better feeling of human
nature demands it; try it, and when
at the hands of an honest jury you
shall be pronounced innocent Of the
grave ofense, public sentiment will
without an effort vindicate you, and
your maIigners will by that same
public sentiment receive a surer and
a greater punishment than columns
of recrimination in a spirit Of vindic-
tiveness can possibly do H1osfsoa
p! Pilot.
II. B. philleo, editor of the Grand
Rapids Reporter has BONANZA on To-
cal news when items are scarce he lie.
votes column OF two to Judge Hay
den. Hayden is spoken of SO often il
the Reporter that they run out Of CAPT
tai rs and have to spell his name with
a small h. "Sort up" Philleo.-Ciara
Go. Courier.
The fact is, Bro Courier, that from
our birth up, where we have had SC
vile and lecherous a being as hayden
to deal with--when a community is com
PEELED to be ridden by so graccless :
libertine and so damnable demagogue
one who makes speciality Of enter
ing households and debauching the
home-ona who ''lays' for his victims.
saturated with cosmetics and pleasant
stink to catch the unwary, as moths arc
drawn toward a Ticking blaze or q
deciduous germ which only imprisons
their wings-one who is counterpart
Of hell with none of the cunning of its
"boss,' as is this blotch hayden, VIC
kinder get ont o sorts, and We can
help it.
JUDGE HENRY HAYDEN, of Grand
Rapids, agair st whom they have made
charges of immortality, has been expel
led from the Masonic lodge in his
town. = Wisconsin Ill.
You are just right, lIr. Wisconsin.
JUDGE HENRY HAYDEN, of Wood
Co. has been expelled from the Ma
sonic fraternity. Skullduggery meets
with prompt and merlted punishment
over in that county.-New LoneJ0a
| Times
The 's.Open Temple. ''-The Open
Temple meeting for August was held
at the Methodist church last Sabbath
ovap;nr The church was filed avery