Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-05-22
Alas +! Poor YOrick +!

ISN~~N~A'oNN
upon an article which appeared the
week previous in county paper, and
doubtless through force of habit, | used
the term, Dear HERALD certainly
did not think of impinging on the corns
of any one; but had | Haunted red
flag in the face of a mad bull the result
could not have been more disastrous.
Why. it made the JACK the Giant Kill
en-" who is now running as chief en-
gineer of ''the civil service reform pro-
gressive Republican party, $50 pro-
voked" that he had mind to call me
a 'yaller dog"
Perhaps he may pardon me if / assure
him | had no thought of paying COM
pliment to the present management of
THE HERALD when using the title of
but to me it is at least
dear as "reminiscences. | have read
THE HERALD over forty years, and to
me it is associated with the names of
Wiltze, Goodhue, Marsh, Shrader and
the elder Cover, all of whom | knew
personally, and all but one of whom
have passed from the tolls and cares of
this world. During this long period,
the views advocated by THE HERALD
have sometimes conceded and at others
differed from my own; and on it | have
sometimes bestowed praise and at others
is to me the Dear HERALD" | have
never so far adopted it as my Bible as
to break into a passion at any incidental
kind word uttered in behalf of any of
its rivals. But these are 'troublous
times" and, if one fails to read or vote
according to the wishes of certain .'re-
formers he renders himself liable to
social and political ostracism. Under
the new dispensation, the majority of
those who have heretofore voted the
ticket are to be thrust with
out the pale of the party. We are told
that Republicans have no more use
for the Hazelton party than for the
Democratic party" AT the last gen
eral election in Grant county, the can
dIdates for Congress received the fol-
lowing vote: Hazelton, 2,S05; Jones,
2,616; Reyes, So; Hastings, S22. Now,
would not Jack better study the above
figures little before he kicks out those
who did not vote in accord with his i'm
portant self ?
1t seems that he either accidentally
or in pursuance of a ''gurrate purinci-
PAL voted with the winning party, and
now arrogates to himself the success of
the whole movement He swaggers
and struts about, saying, "How ne
apples do swim" He assumes the
"Ue," in his illusions, with all the
dignity of an editor or an emperor.
But he has moods, withal. One mo-
ment he is a puerile boy, making faces
and saying, IF you don't do as l tell
ou,you shan't slide on our cellar doorr'
The next his Imagination raises him to
think himself Hercules, and having
destroyed the Nemean lion; killed the
formidable hydra; killed the monster
Geryon; plucked from the Internal re-
gions the three-headed dog Cerberus;
annihilated THE HERALD, Charley Bax-
ter and Ed. Kidd, he lays on his club,
in the plentitude of his power, and re-
solves upon manipulating town caucus.
How he rallies in defense of that caucus
of eighteen; and sums up the glory of
its results in averting the terrible calam-
ity of sending f. |. Kidd as delegate
to Chicagol o, this terror, Kidd!
knew him as a flaXen haired boy; saw
him when still in his teens on the tented
field; again, in his prime, in the Assem-
bly, Chamber, recognized as the peer of
the best. All these years he had kept
his reputation unsullied in both private
and public life, and confess l longed
to see him 90 to the Senate, when the
present incumbent took step higher.
But. alas!
ooh! ever thus since childhood's hour.
I've seen my fondest hopes decay"
He roted for Hazelton. and off goes his
head! Jack, look about you. There is
one left yet. Judge Clementson voted
so, too. just wait, though, till you get
that position of honor and profit in the
halls of Madison. Then of course your
first act will be to impeach the Judge.
This Giant Killer asks if | am s'not a
little off in regard to the caucus, in
asking "why go outside to find some
one to represent the soldier element?''
The expression was made in the caucus
after the list had been consulted and
one found absent. He says Lewis
Gelbach was there, wasn't he SOL
dier?' o. no, Jack; he was not there,
and he was not soldier, and he did
not 60 to Beetown. Better get posted
by some of your friends who are better
acquainted.
Young man, take advice. Go slow!
You may yet SO manipulate caucuses
and conventions as to place you on the
track for some position of honor or
profit and then at the polls be so .'sat
down upon that YOU will imagine you
have taken contract to hold the Wash
ington monument on your lap
You cannot justly claim to embody
in your own corporal self all the abil-
ity, honor and virtue vouchsafed to
mankind. The little wavelet you may
raise by this breeze will LOST in the
great ocean of futurity. Al d.
will rise and set. the tides ebL I'D 4 ~
just the same after you have gone 20
the happy hunting grounds, your opin-
ion to the contrary Notwithstanding.
Hazelton, as a factor in Grant county
politics. has ceased to exist. Good men
voted for him-equally as good men
voted against him. Their rights to so
vote, no man of sense viii dare ques-
ton. 1t is no longer an issue and
should be put at rest with the eternal
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