Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-08-12
"The Herald's Position. .

Grant County HERALD for sits personal war;
fare upon opposing candidates for the nomi,
nation Of Congressman, and in the conclu-
sion of the point thus raised puts into prin,
what the Hazelson emissaries have been re-
hashing in their stale mouths for the last
three and a half years. a. follows:
And we can account for its uniastihabIs
personal warfare upon Mr., Hazelton, only be.
cause we know, what IS capable OF proof, that
Col. Clark is the owner aud proprietor Of the
| Grant County HERALD; We kn0w that he
borrowed Ct Mr. J. B. Mccoy g, 500, mort.
gaging certain OF his lands in Lancaster, With
which the first payment was made 10 the co.
yer state towards his purchase of the HER-
AID Office, AMI we know that he dictates the
policy and character Of the articles therein
published.
The allegations in this complaint we dis.
pose of thus The writer in saying that Col
Clark is the owner and proprietor Of the
Grant County HERALD, lied In saying the
statement is capable of proof he lied. In
saying that he knoass these things. he is liar.
Col Clark dses not own dollar or type in
the Grant County HERALD Office. To make
the fact stick out in its full vigor and truth,
as 1t can be no dishonor to him, we will say
that comparison of accounts shows him to
be in debt to the HERALD Office. The Dial
blabber-head says, 1--WE know that he (Col
Clark borrowed of Mr.. J. D. Mccoy 50, 800.
&c" Sometimes man shows his willingness
to lie by the form in which he puts his asser-
tiOns. Here the Dial writer repeats that he
k1so@s, but che poor fellow shows that he
don't know anything about is, because those
who do know, know that what he asserts he
knows is lie. And now viii the reader take
the trouble to refer back to the quoted para
graph ard tell ns-suppose every word of
the allegations therein are true-is there any
thing there dishonorabe either to us or to
Col Clark? Ia 1T not true that nearly all
papers OF any Importance, from the Grant
County HERALD up to the Milwaukee Sentinel.
Chicago Tribune, Chicago Inter Oeean and on
throughout the whole country, have tn cir
capital supplied by men who do not conduct
them Even the unimportans Chicago pat
ehted Dial that has two or three hundred
subscribers in Grant county and that charges
home patrons about as much as the HERALD
docs for an advertisement, while outsiders
get advertising in at about 81 90 per column,
is said to have been very recently if it is not
now, partly owned by Geo. O, Hazelton and
it is we'll understood he was third owner in
the Riehland Republican, still retaining an
interest in it, and paragraph in the last
Dodgeville Chronicle suggests that lie IS prob
ably an owner in that also With these facts
staring it in the face Mr. Hazelton's special
organ should have been mum. For our part
we are rather pleased to find that old dish
of hash about the HERALD put in print
where we have a chance TO analyze it.
And here we Will say that we positively did
not have twent.six Ldndred dollars living
around loose to make that first payment on
the HERALD with We had expected only TO
have to furnish thirteen hundred for parts
ner who we are told relied upon Mr. Hazel
ton, was to furnish the other thirteen hun
bred He failed to come to time, and then
by the aid of Col. Clark we succeeded in
making good pledge we had made to friend
ly bondsmen when Col Clark was 1000 miles
away and knew nothing Of it. We had to
make debt, debt which the good, homes:
working people mot the tricksters) have been
largely aiding us to reduce, but not a debt
that transfers any interest in the Grant CouE-
ty HERALD. For other payments to be made
on the HERALD Col Clark is not even surety.
These payments we owe, and here dear
reader. we say parenthetically, while you have
this request in mind, please send what you
owe, or as much as you can of It and year in
advance, and we will send YOU paper, the
best you ever saw, with new face, that owes
no man anything.
But another of the Dial writer's "we
knows" is to be disposed Of. lie says he
knows that Col. Clark dictates the policy and
character of the articles published in the HER
AID. If we knew who writes such stuff we
could tell the people how to understand him
by pointing out to them the man who always
prefixes the words Eve know" to somcthin G
that he knows nothing of St. Paul
or Moses never said a trucr word than is our
assertion that Col Clark meyer dictated or
attempted to dictate the policy or character
of any article in the HERALD since it has been
in present hands, except that since this con-
test he has repeatedly asked US not to be se-
we're on Hazelton. But who the writer of all
the stuff in the Dial is. whether it is Hazelton
or somebody for him, nobody knows. We
only know it isn't Cap. Ferg, for be can't
write anything. The miserable slush about
personal warfare we answer in another ar.
ticle