Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-06-05

consistently conducted than his present
venture. Ii was run to the seeming
satisfaction of its patrons up to within
few months of his retirement when
there seemed to be a marked change
not in the editorial ability evinced but
In the satisfaction, As an individual. |
certainly had no fault to find with it.
(No rates charged for this opinion
Nor have | any fault to find with the
weekly Teller. On the contrary. | take
a certain interest in it. | have been
waiting with some anxiety for the
Cashier to make its appearance as the
promised sem-weekly. and hoped
the venture would prove so successful
that the President would follow as a
daily, and thus our little city be blessed
with another bank from which to dlaw
not currency, but morality. har-
mony and political purity. True, |
did refer to the Teller as a mongrel
political sheet, doubtless in my paucity
of terms in which to express my mean
ing L hoped if were wrong in my use
of the term | would be set right. lie
says 8 mongrel means mixed breed =
Strange, but that is exactly what |
thought it meant. After long and
careful reading of the political editor
Ials, concluded the paper is either Re
publican or Democratic, and | don't
know which, so | logically concluded
the breed is rather mixed; hence mon
grel' In fact. it reminds me of verse
in an old Wing song, which came out
forty years ago, before the Democratic
nomination; and in referring to one of
the probable candidates against Clay.
it said of him that
- though not a Ounce
He WI run both sides Of the track al once
10 win tie race will all things copy,
be sometimes ZIG and sometimes pappy."
Will he please tell which side he is on,
anyhow? He says our friend pro-
fesses longing for the promotion of
the ODonnell whom Hazelton has Sc
lected to accomplish his sworn political
assassination of Mr. Ryland'' and ..Ry-
land elected to State office, and says
''of course such love is unnatural" As
a mutual friend to the parties, | am
surprised to learn of this threatened
assassination. | supposed the parties
to be as friendly to each other as | am
to each, and could not have told but
they always worked together in thar
mony.
He says Mr.. Kidd was elected TO the
Assembly some years ago as a Hazelton
man. The same year H. 5. Keene
was elected from the second district;
the Hazelton crowd did not want
him and sat down on as many of his
votes as they could OF this | know
nothing. But he says 1.-THE next wear
the Republicans of the district wanted
to return him, but he did not belong to
the Hazelton party and he was
'ostracised'. -" The next wear il was
proposed TO run Mr. Keene for county
office, but he found such ring combi-
nation was formed by the Hazelton
crowd that there could be no show for
him in the convention. This certainly
does not accord with the published card
of Mr.. Keene nor his statement to
friends at the time. When his name
was mentioned in the papers as a can
didate, he published card stating he
had neither time nor inclination to make
a canvass and was not a candidate: and
told his friends that the condition of his
family and his building projects would
not permit him to think of entering the
canvass. Still Mr.. Hazelton may be
as responsible for this as he is for the
hog cholera Friendly rs | may be to
the parties, DO not think that the
aspirations nor hopes of Mr. Kidd,
Senator Ryland or Mr. Keene should
be dragged before he public as a dis
turbing elem mt in the Republican par
ty. But he evidently thinks he is on
a keen scent of the writer by the tenor
of his article, though he will ultimately
find he is barking up the wrong tree
Like myself, he is "a little off. | am
perhaps not the first one who, when Il
little bewidered, have turned on the
wrong street. | was certainly of
on the writer of the Teller articles, for
while | thought that somewhere in the
Course of Time | had met similar
diction, | regarded it ut most as only
Il Joint stock affair and not an emana-
ton from headquarters. | was not
not aware that editors wrote commune
cations To their own papers and then
commented on them editorially. 1
had read of idolators in heather lands
who would make hideous image and
then fall down and worship IT, | was
not satisfied by his footprints, but his
IIilh dNONCi IGiilDNtS all uOtDl as To
the authorship. Had | known this
should probably have contemplated the
awful significance of silence rather than
have gone into print not that | think
any more or any less of him than of
the supposed writer, but because he
has me at great disadvantage An
editor is as full of resources rs of vitu-
peration and billingsgate and can al
WAYS fire the last shot.
! will 90 as far as he or any other man
toward harmonizing any discordant ell
ements. but of course would sooner ex-
pect to see the dog wag his tail than the
tail wag the dog We have all heard
Of the man, who, after hanging the jur;.
complained to the Judge that the other
eleven were the most stubborn men he
ever met.
| believe the Republican party was
founded on Just and correct principles,
and though it may make mistakes and at
times be swayed by wrong counsels, the
intelligence and honor Of the mass of its
members will in the main keep it the
party Of justice and progress. While 50
believing, ! must still subscribe myself
REPTBLICAN.