Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-02
About Those Records. "

Enterprise. And as, at least, one of
the changes alluded to was made by
Mr. Christensen at my instigation, it
would scarcely be honorable in me to
sit back in silence, while he, for that
act, is maliciously slandered.
TIE facts in the case are as fol-
lows Some time in March last, I
sold piece of land to man living
out of the county, for $500. In
making out the deed, | used blank
deed from which was omitted the
word sEALl which an cid and absurd
form of law requires to appear on the
deed after the name of the grantor,
and without which the deed would be
bad. My grantee, not noticing the
omission, accepted the deed and paid
over the cash Some months after
wards, in looking over the record of
this deed noticed the omission of the
seal; wrote to my grantee requesting
him to return the deed that the error
might be corrected. The deed was
returned to me; [ corrected the error
in the deed, presented it to Mr.. G.
and requested him to make the same
correction ON the record. He did so.
Had he been disposed to be disobliging
he might have refused. Had he re-
fused, [ would have rendered him
seventy-fve cents and required him to
re-record the deed. Who was injured
by the act Of Mr.. G. in this matter :?
No one but Mr. G. himself who lost
seventy-fve cents by trying to be
obliging. My grantee had paid the
the cash and [ desired to give him a
good deed, the change was satisfactory
to both of US, and no human being
was injured except Mr.. G: himself
] have examined the records and
find every change specifically referred
to in that article similar to the change
made at ny instigation.
Ii the writer of that article meant
anything, he meant to lead his read
ers to believe that G. had falsifed the
records or in some way changed them
so as to make the record false repre-
sentation Of the deed, and not what
the parties to the deed intended. Tn
this his whole article is false, and well
calculated to deceive. He may find
cases where. after the deed was re-
corded the parties to the deed discov-
cred some slight omission or error for
which they did not think it necessary
to be put to the trouble aud expense
of making and recording a new deed
and so corrected the deed already
made, and had the correction made OH
the record of G. And such changes
of the record have been made by every
Register of Deeds since Wood County
was organized
If Mr.. c., by his official act, has
injured any man, he is officially liable
and will answer in compensation to
the one injured. If he has falsifed
the records of his office he is criminal
y liable, but while the writer Of that
article does not allege either of these
things he traudulently attempts to
have his readers believe them. The
writer says: "There are other and
even greater violations of law and
right perpetrated in that Office, but 7
will not speak of them now" This
allegation savors strongly of cowardly
deception and falshood. Without spec
flying what he means and thus giving
G. Che opportunity to defend himself,
he would lead the public to believe
that G. is guilty of some great offenses.
It would seem from his article and
the exactness of his specification that
for months he was engaged in ferreting
out the mistakes Of G.. for some spe-
cific purpose. His article reveals the
purpose and it is patent to any fair
man that if he knew any greater
ofenses he would have alleged them.
| Because a man is a candidate for
some local Office and does not belong
to our party, is poor excuse for
heaping libels and SANDERS upon him.
C's character I believe to be above re-
preach of any kind. and I believe he
feels more than ordinarily sensitive TO
all such attacks | do not believe
that any intelligent, fair minded voter
will join hands with such dastardly
peddlers of libels and falsehoods by
voting for the man who authorized
their PRONUNCIATION.
] J. A GAYNoR.
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