Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-07-03
"Diye, John Guilder!"

felt like exclaiming in the language Of
the street gamin, 20, give us a restr'
But after silently soaking his head for
three weeks, the Teller man again comes
to the front with a burden of "Straws
without Bricks" This, at least, is the
caption; but frcm beneath his load of
straw and chaff he SHES brickbats indis-
criminately at the writer and the whole
"llazelton crowd"
| am well aware that this indiscrim-
mate warfare is all that enables me to
keep the field, for had he concentrated
his powerful batteries against me, I
would long since have been placed hors
de combat. But while directly engaged
with me, he has never lost an opportun-
ity to kick Hazelton, slap Baxter, punch
Kidd, gouge the "two court house Of
ficials, and scratch, bite, strike, stamp,
and thrash the ground with the "dear
HERALD and its ''trotter and advertis-
err 'ex-Good Templar Democrat" and
praying attaches. Should any of
these survive his attacks it will not be
through his lack of zeal for their ex-
termination, but because he scatters like
an old army musket
To go back to the beginning. On
the 1st day of May, the Teller contained
mournful wall of column and half
over the failure of the "civil service re-
form progressive Republicans" to bring
the Hazelton element to "harmonize
with them.
A caucus of eighteen had been held
in Lancaster and selected delegates to
the assembly district convention at Bee
town-carefully excluding from such
delegation any man who had voted for
the Republican nominee, but filling it
with those who had supported the Dem
ocratic and Prohibition candidates.
They got to Beetown and "here also
the talk was for harmony" This con-
vention selected five delegates-"one
from Bloomington, one from Beetown,
two from Lancaster and one from
Cassville or Waterloo Lancaster was
given the two delegates, the article
states, because it "polls third of the
Republican strength in the district"
Lancaster had polled 1873 votes of the
500 polled in the district for the Re
publican nominee for Congress. Potosi
is Democratic town, and Lancaster
was the center of opposition to Hazel
ton. In the other seven towns of the
district Hazelton had 554 votes against
81 for the combined opposition--Keyes,
Jones and Hastings. These towns GER
tainly had some rights in the convention
as well as Lancaster, which latter town
is believed by the others to assume a
dictatorial power. The result was that
the delegates to the State convention
were not selected solely in the interest
of the minority, hence the mournful
wall. A few of those who had actively
opposed Hazelton in the city of Lancas-
ter had formed themselves into mutual
admiration society, exclusive as to mem
bership, and willing to take upon them
selves the arduous labor of debating
how the city government and everything
outside of it should be run. This i'm
perious dictation was not relished by the
rest of the district, as shown by the &C
ton of the delegates Because of this
they were threatened, and the "back
stir is still held in allegiance to crush
them for their temerity when the proper
time comes. While ostensibly working
for harmony, it seems to me at least to
be in reality for the purpose of foster
ing fractional strife. took the position
that Hazelton is no longer a factor in
our politics, either county, district or
State But now we are told that he
entered into bargain three years ago
by which he is to be chosen U. S. Sena-
tor next winter ! am not cognizant of
his trades but predict that he will get
about as heavy a vote for Senator next
winter as the Tellcc writer. / still re-
gard him as politically dead in Wis
consin, and think that is the opin-
ion held by his friends. As
to the "change of opinion of Hazel
upH ~ w. ny MIN, He can explain 10
the public without any 'innuendos" of
mine. He says, The county printing
was taken from us because we would
not change our opinion of Hazelton &
Co" 1t is rather hard to reconcile his
assertions, as he claims it was through
his efforts as editor that Hazelton was
elected in 70, and yet within two weeks
after the election the printing was taken
from him because he "would not change
his opinion" Now, this is his assertion,
and not my "innuendos.'
have certainly not intentionally
sought to do injustice to the harmony
writer, though perhaps have inadvert-
emily done so by not giving his produc-
tons as close attention as | should have
done. Had looked more closely to
the headings | would have noticed that
his avowal of authorship applied to the
article of May ID and not to that of
May |, and the simile of the image
would have remained unwritten. Look
ing back, | can see that he only slipped
into the boots of the Sother fellow
after he had fred the first shot. have
already taken too much space to notice
his reference to guides in the walks of
life, so forbear for the present.
REPUBLICAN.