Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-12-11
JOsT CENSURE

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kepresses His Opinion of the Organ OF
the Anti-Pa0e Faction ia ST. Paut-He
Concludes There's No Discredit ia Befuo
abused by Joseph Hheetock.
| To the Editor of the Globe.
DEXTER, Mimi, Dec. 4th, 1885,
VIII you kindly allow small space in your
columns in reply to the sIanders of the
Pioneer Press, which, for some reason best
known to the publishers of that deIectabls
sheet, has seen fit to pour out its slime and
venom upon everybody whom it imaeiues
to be in any way instrumental in the atteupt
now being made to bring to justice the per-
| petrator OF one of the most cowardIy and
dastardiy attempts at assassination recorded
In the annals of crime. Without expressing
| any opini On with reference to the guilt or
innocence of Riley, the alleged assassin of
ex-Judge Page, the fact that he has been
adopted as the especial pet of the Pionee,.
| Press and held up by that fragrant concern
as model of sanity patiencs and resiena.
ton, Is calculated to prejudice his case in
the minds of ell right minded persons who
are aware OF the antecedents of the p, p.
and know the character of those whom il ia
in the habit of holding up to the world as
prosecuted saints. But this communication
IS not for the purpose of berating the
T.. L. on account of those whom it chooses
to take to its bosom; if it chooses to exalt
ex-convlcts, assassins and keepers of bawdy
houses, that is its own affair, but for the pur
pose of resenting the ISLANDERS and malicious
lies about Dexter and her respectable c,ti-
zens which the p. p. is daily paradine
through its columns, because they do not
JOIN it In its support of murder and assass-
nation. As to the "straggling, dismal town.
of Dexter, allow me to state that 1t is a station
on the Southern Minnesota division of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad, situ-
ated in nearly the center of the county, and
contains two general stores, two drug stores,
one hardware store, one boot and shoe store.
one furniture store, two hotels and "nary''
saloon, which naturally enough explains its
dismal aspect when viewed through the
Pt0Heer Press reporters spectacles. The
county conventions OF the county have fire.
quently been held here, while a few weeks
ago the T. p. was full of appreciation of
the people of Dexter for their
handsome reception of the La Crosse
board OF trade excursion. Our
''rural Dogberry" and Ignorant country
justice" has been justice of the peace
almost continuously since the war, through
which he passed In active service, having en-
listed as private in company B, Second
Minnesota regiment in 1861, and being dis
charged when his regiment disbanded, being
then frst lieutenant of his company. He
was appointed by Gov. Miller, one of the
commissioners to take the vote Of the sol
dlers stationed upon the frontier, in 1866,
and has more than once been delegate to
the State conventions of his party. When
add that his decisions upon the Riley exam
nation on Monday last, were sustained by
1uoge Farmer, In every single particular,
except IN the matter of bail, which the judge
admitted was disputed point, the CON
tempti6le meanness of the p. p. and its pro-
foundslegal lore are apparent. But then how
could we expect an editor to know anything
about legal proceedings, who graduated
from Novia Scotia wilderness. and whose
knowledge of law has been ACQUIRED BY act
ing as defendant in criminal actions. The
2. p. no doubt imagines Justioe
Gaskill to be "simple minded
countryman," because he shouIdered his
musket and marched to the wars, instead Of
adopting the Wheelockian tactics of holdino
lucrative government office and sneakine
out of the draft by claiming exemption as 8
!, British subject. And men NAV yell fee
proud in being made the objects of the i'm
potent wrath and foul ibels of the p. P.
for the simple reason that it has voided its
vile NTH against the best and purest men in
the State, and that people everywhere, who
know its animus, conclude at once wher
a person is abused by it that he is exactI,
the reverse of what he is represented to be
Ii is prlma facie evidence of innocence t.
be charged with wrong by the P P
There is not man in the State, from Sena.
tor MCMILLAN down to Justice GaskilI
whom it could not bend to its base designs
OF whom it imagined to be an obstacle tc
Its vile and selfish purposes, that 1t has moi
siaIoefeo and vilihed, and declared to be ,
fool and imbecile. y ~