Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-05-10

Dir. Ringers personal-spite. Whether,
as it is stated, Mr.. Kruger has been
advised and is backed in his action by
Hon. Isaac Stephenson, or by any
other parties, we think it is very small
business for him to go into 1t is
very true that HE can possibly lose
nothing in this conflict, but. he places
himself in the unenviable light of
spy and irformer, and becomes the
direct cause of an increase of expense
to the taxpayers without any benefit
whatever to anyone Mr.. Hiles and
the other gentlemen waived an ex-
animation. and came home on Thurs
day morning last, well satisfied that
no criminal act or intention can be
proven against them. No lawyer nor
any sensible man believes that the
action can be sustained.-[ Centralia
Enterprise.
THE STAR AND NEWS OPINION.
The Enterprise claims to be the
enemy of fraud and the champion of
the laboring man. George Hiles
claims to be the boss in the town of
Dexter, and it is a we'll knowR fact
that he has been an enemy to every
laboring man who has dared to think
and act for himself in the matter of
politics. The Enterprise claims to
think that no good can come from a
prosecution of the parties guilty of
the election frauds, because the ell
ection matters have been settled, or
in other words the fraud did not change
the result of the election Some peo-
pie who are not so far advanced in
political science as the Enterprise still
think that the fraud is a fraud whether
it is successful or not. and if the town
board of Dexter are guilty they
should be punished. Hesler is dead,
and prosecuting Fenner will not bring
him back to life, but still there are
people who believe Fenner should be
tried. and, if found guilty, punished
for the crime, even if the prosecution
does entail an expense upon the tax
payers. The Enterprise says that AIR.
Kruger "has placed himself in the
unenviablc light Of spy and informer. "
We do not know Mr.. Kruger, but we
have heard that he is gentleman of
learning and ability. If SO. he knows
that a man who will expose crime and
bring the perpetrators to trial is in
initely superior to one who makes
himself willing tool of the law
breaker, and by defending him becomes
an accessory to the crime.
When Judge Park announced that
he wonld contest the seat in Congress
on the grounds of fraud at the polls,
the Enterprise and Grand Rapids
Tribune were both turned loose upon
the trial, and their loud mouthed bay
ing was heard all over the land.
When it was discovered that in Ash
land county where the great Stephenson
frauds had been committed only one
illegal vote WIS cast, and that one
! was for Park, they did hot howl SO
loud. Now, when Mr.. Kruger comes
forward and offers to prove that in the
town of Dexter at least one hundred
Illegal votes were polled for Park, they
commence abusing him for exposing
the crime, and claim that he is prompt
ed by unworthy motives. The
journalistic shyster who will thus pros
titute his calling, and become the
/ kept strumpet of a man like George
Hiles and his pimps is unworthy Of a
place in the profession and is a dis
grace to the fraternity. Only boys
and dishonest "what-is-its" would
lend themselves to such disgracefuI
proceedings. The respectable portion
of the democratic press and. thank
the Lord, they are in the majority
will rcpudiate the position taken by
the Tribune and Enterprise. Taylor
County Star and News.