The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-06-17
COUNTY CORRESPONDENTS

poHihcSo SuiiChS oi put up Job
for the purpose of delay.
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.
Lake Crystal.
The scurrilOus article in the "BiHs
Boz RecGac. INDUCED in by the
flannel toothed yam, who parts his
hair down in the middle. rs far as
his legs part.up, and who presides
over the waning fortunes of that in
famous sheet, too plainly shows the
straits to which he is driven, in or
der to answer some plain facts, given
by your correspondents, and which
he himself substantially acknowledges
to he true in his last issue. 1t is GER
tainly refreshing when, in the same
issue. he calls on all good Christians
to witness his mental and moral suf-
ferings by reason of the course pur-
sued by the FREE PRESS, and what
he processes to fear. its effect on pos
terity. This, too, coming from the
pharisaical individual who has been
stepped SO long in the filth and cor
ruption of county rings and other
similar organizations whose sole OBJ
ject has been to plumber the public,
till his mental and moral nature ont
rivals in number, the nine separate
distinct offensive smells said to ema.
nate from certain city of Europe.
He is so egotistical us to imagine
that he is the particular individual
meant, and takes it as Il personal af-
fair if any one dare attempt to crit.
else the actions of any of our public
officers, and more particularly, any
thing that may have been done by a
county official. AS citizen and tax
payer of this Commonwealth, re-
serve the right to judge the question
able practices of public servants.
Personally, have nothing to say
against any of our county officials:
they are gentlemanly, and l believe
them competent for the business. and
the individual in question. need not
attempt to screen his dirty work be-
hind respectable men as his presence
is readily detected by more senses
than one.
In proof of his desperate character
he has gone to neigbboring town
and employed as an accomplice. Il
one-eyed villain whose principal rec.
commend consists in quarreling with
his neighbors, abusing his horses, and
buying poor whisky on the sly and
taking it to his family, for six days
of the week, and on the seventh, do
Ing the loudest groaning in the church
which ,disgraces itself by tolerating
him rs a member. If ! imagined
that my horse was SO destitute of
self-respect and common decency, us
the chum referred to, would trade
him off for yellow dog. and then he
tempted To slruut the dog.
This is not the first time the would
he dictator has sought to run grand
juries and to HIM, with no better re-
suit. will agree with him that Il
former grand jury" did fail in do
ing its whole duty; for had it done
so, true bill would have been found
against the editor of 4 certain sheet
for public sculdugery, and his paper
declared a public nuisance.
Probably there never was Il session
of the grand jury in this county, but
what mGre or less cases were pre-
scented for pure spite, and without
the least regard for the expense to
the county.
Undoubtedly, the case referred to
by the Reriew and over which he has
spent go much sentimental gush,"
bit his finger males and torn out his
hair, was one of that class, and the
jury very properly threw the case in
to the stove and ought to have thrown
the complainant out of the window.
Since the editor of the Reciep has
volunteered to falsely state what |
haze done, allow me to kindly state
some things didnt do.
have always paid my taxes in my
own name, and never put my proper.
ty out of my hands for the purpose
of getting rid of paying an honest
debt, Neither did l ever refuse the
common courtesy of the street to a
prominent county officer because he
succeeded in being elected by large
popular majority, to an office coveted
by friend and whose friendship be.
gan and ceased with the flow of pub
lie pap.
] did not p"bliely adrocate the reduc-
ton of the fees of the sheriff, last
winter, and at the same tii.a use my
influence on the sly, to defeat it; nor
by using the same deception on the
public, help to get law passed,
which like the "SaIary Grab" was
retrnctire in effect and, not only in
creased the salaries of two of the
county officers, the snug little sum of
$500 each. but allowed them 81 900 a
year for back pay. This may be like
Ben. Iohnson's poetry when chal-
lenged TO rhyme with John Sylvester.
II may not rhyme. but Ills true.
With all his brag and buster about
the amount of taxes which he claims
he pays and which il one OF his chief
delights in parading before the read
ers of his paper, will wager him II
bushel of tnrnips or a new hat, that
my taxes for the past two years have
been from 40 to so per cent. greater
than his, and have not published it
once in two or three weeks either and
forced it on unwilling readers. We
are all proud of his accomplishments
and take an honest pride in stating to
our neighbors that his taxes amount
to the prOdigious sum of S45 or there.
and that he pays them in his
own name. and that of this amount
his personal tax Is upwards of 1913
consequently he can't tell lie % He
has yet to learn that the prosperity
Of the country depends directly on
the success or failure of the farming