The Grant County herald. (Big Stone City, Grant County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1883, 1883-02-16
Milbank NJ I'd.

An inside view Of Milbank is hardly
Il fit spectacle to thrust upon respect.
able public but as all there is to the
town is thus dissected by the trench
ant blade of the News.Letter's cary.
ing knife, it may prove all the more
reformatory that it is the more widely
circulated:
"The Pioneer Press Of Monday con-
tanned the announcement that "A. II.
Lewis had been confirmed as postmas.
ter at Milbank. A grosser outrage
upon a free (D people was never perpe.
trated. He is exceedingly obnoxious
to ninety nine out of every hundred
in the village and Of those receiving
mail of this Office. With but one or
two exceptions every man in Milbank
signed remonstrance against his ap.
pointment. Had providence endowed
him with the least self sespect, or
with particle of respect for the
rights and wishes Of others, he would
instantly decline to accept an office
obtained by lowdown intrigue and at
the expense of all manhood. But he
will not decline it! His mean soul
seldom has generous or noble i'm.
pulse! He is an utter stranger to all
that is manly and upright, and he is
sufficiently contemplate to exult in
accomplishing his purpose by means
that any decent man would abhor and
to hold on to a position secured by the
vilest treachery. If the principal and
chief beneficiary Of this wanton out.
rage upon popular rights is 50 utterly
degraded and lost to common decency
what shall be said of his accomplice
and tool, one J. w. Bell. The latter
went to Washington intrusted with
matters of special Importance to Mil
bank, and his expenses were betrayed
by the business men of the village.
| He may have fulfilled his mission but
he found opportunity to stab the whole
community III the back. and at the
same time pay debt of gratitude to
the "ineffably dirty creature who
rendered it possible for him to draw
$3.50 out Of the county for alleged lie.
gal services to a rotten and imbecile
county board. To Lewis is Bell in
debted for all the money he received
from Grant county. Had the former
used the columns of his paper to ex.
pose Bell instead of making a Chinese
Joss Of him on all possible occasions.
the tax. PAYERS would have taken the
alarm and sooner close locked the
treasury vaults. Bell may return and
thrust his presence upon this com.
munity, but he will find his resonance e
destroyed. The Bell is cracked and
its tintinnabulations that once sound.
eel 50 mnsically will CRATE harshly up.
OH the public ear. But Bell alone
could never have brougE this in
dignity upon Milbank 1t was fitting
that Pettigrew should close his con
gressional career by insulting this vii
lage. lie doubtless had his reasons
1t will be remembered that the con
gressional delegates from this portion
of the county were not overwhelmed
or blinded by the transcendent abili
ties of delegate Pettigrew, nor die
they go their "bottom dollar
on his honesty and singleness Of pur.
pose; consequently they voted against
him at the Grand Forks convention
The voters hereabouts regard hin
with distrust, and for this are they
punished. Though delegate Pettigrev
has committed political suicide as fa
as Grant county is concerned, he car
console himself with the fact that il
the appointment Of A. II. Lewis a!
postmaster. he has dished up to hi!
political enemies here a more villair
GUS and repnlsive stew than was con
cocted by Macbeth's witches. It..
gall and wormwood to all.