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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-03
MIR. VAN WICK AN OFFICE
SEEKER.

This mean charge has been so in
juriously circulated by the admirers of
the present County Judge, that if de-
serves some attention.
There are gentlemen now living in
this county who remember that Mr..
Van Wyck was nominated to the
office of State Senator the irst time
that be held that Office several days be-
fore he knew the fact; that he was
elected to the Office of County Judge by
a large majority without raising a
finger in his own behalf; and that
when compelled by ill-health to resign
he yielded against his own wish and
his own interests to the opportunities
of his many friends in the county to
accept a second nomination for the
Senate, for the reason that as an avOw-
ed and trusted anti-mOnOp0list they
wanted him Their e. and not he the
Office. Far from Ghe decay or nlS IN
huence inducing his leave for the
South, as intimated, all VINO resided
here at that time will remember that
he relinquished to their regret the
most brilliant prospect of political adj
vancement in so doing, it being uni.
versally expected that he would be the
next Governor, with the probable
transfer at it's close to the United
States Senate.
The Courier will do we'll to examine
it's own files Of 1882, which we repub-
lish in part to-day, for a juster impress
sion of his record than in its present
vindictive mood it can be expected to
perceive.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-03

Counterfeit twenty-five cent pieces
have been put in circulation which
are said to defy detection by all the
ordinary methods employed to deter
mine the genuine from the false. The
weight, the ring, and in every other re-
spect they are apparently the same as
the true. They have been shown to
two of the assayers at the Treasury
Department and thought to be genuine.
1t is only by chemical analysis the
fraud is determined, and in each quar-
ter of dollar found but ten cents of
silver,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-03

The bill which passed both houses
Of the legislature last week, granting
the right of women to vote on ques-
lions pertaining to school matters, is no
very decided triumph for woman suf-
frage. The bill will have to be sub
mitted to the people for approval,
November, 1887. That legislature may
not sanction the action Of the present
one. The women must be patient,
work and wait" Th4 assemblyman
from this county and the senator from
this district both had the gallantry to
vote for the bill.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-03
GENERAL GRANT.

The condition of General Grant con-
tinues to be extremely critical His
iron constitution resists death with re
markable power. He occasionally
comes near his final end and rallies
again. His death at any time can sur
prise no one.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-03
LICENSE BILL PASSED

The license bill passed both Houses
on Wednesday. Its main features are
the same rs noticed last week. In
communities Of less than 500 inhabi--
tants the license is not less than 800
nor more than $500; in villages and
cities of over 500 inhabitants not less
than $500 nor more than $500. The
communities ere to decide by popular
vote what shall be the amount of IL
cense within the prescribed limits.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-03
TRUEsDELL, April /, 1885.

LDIIUN L ELEGKAPH.
Please allow me to correct blunder
I made in the report of draining Mr..
Woods farm. said " Number of rods
of AZ foot drain, $685." it should
read 536H; which makes an error of
almost 5000 rods, which materially
changes the price per rod for tile and
labor. 1t should read: Cost of tile per
rod. Sic; cost of labor, 52c.; total cost
per rod, S3c."
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-03
EDITOR TELEGRAPH:

The Courier is trying to conceal the
real issue in the choice of Judge of
Probate by making il appear as if the
printing patronage of the court was the
question involved. The gentlemen
from Missouri who run the Courier
demanded the entire patronage of the
probate printing, the printing of all the
county offices and the patronage of
every Republican because they volun-
tarily relinquished the fun of licking
Democrats in Missouri, and emigrated
to Kenosha to hunt their woodchUe6,
instruct Kenosha county Republicans
in the principles Of Republicanlsm, and
generally to run The party in this cOun-
ty. The real issue might be learned
from reading letter from the original
proprietor of the Courier found in its
issue two weeks ago. In substance he
says: The reason why Judge Martin
favored the Courier with the patronage
of the probate printing is because the
Courier favored Martins election. The
maxim that "a public office is pub
lie trust is very generally accepted.
Neither Judge Martin nor any other
judge has right to use public office
to reward sycophant or punish an OPP.
ponent. 1t is because Of the violation
of this excellent maxim that honest
citizens have sought out the Hon,
Anthony Van Wyck and urged upon
him the candidacy of Probate Judge,
About twelve hundred dollars of print
ing patronage in four years is the price
paid the Courier for supporting Judge
Martin. Will the citizens of this coun-
ty submit to have the probate court
used as machine to perpetuate Lord
Martins reign? Heirs having estates
IN in the county court
have choice lis to what paper the
legal notices shall be printed in, pre-
ferring for good reasons to patroniZe
the paper of their choice. There is no
good reason why Judge Martin should
not accede to their wishes i'll this re-
spect. The reason for the opposite
course is plainly apparent.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-03

Among the many attempts to create
a prejudice against Judge Van Wyck,
it is now charged he has been making
a canvass through the county in his
own interest, while Judge Martin has
remained in his Office attending to his
business. It should be added to this,
that while Judge Martin remains at
home he has his paid agents travelling
through the county.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-03
EDITOR TELEGRAPH

A Kenosha county colonel, not at all
high in stature in normal condition,
but when his ire is aroused measures at
least seven feet in his socks, had some
business, once on time, in the county
court. He was very intent on the bust
ness in hand, and forgot he wore a hat
on his head. The Judge was glum and
looked at the hat, but the hat would not
move "Your honor" The Judge in
terrupted, and commanding the colonel,
said, /" Take off your hat" The naughty,
imperious tone and arbitrary manner of
the Judge made the colonel foot and
half taller on the spot, and, looking
the Judge calmly in the left eye, respond
ed 81 sha'n't do it." Now Judge Van
Wyck would have said: "Allow me, Col
onel, to find place for your hat on the
table" And the colonel, blushing like
girl while taking off his hat, would have
said Excuse me, Judge was so busy
thinking had forgotten ever wore
hat"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-03

The high license law passed by the
Illinois legislature year ago, fixing
liquor licenses at $500, it is ascertained.
will not be repealed or amended at the
present session. A good number of
Democrats favor leaving the law un-
Disturbed.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-03
PRESCRIPTION.

EDITOR TELEGRAPH
The same spirit which in the month of
February proclaimed on our streets that
Mr.. Van Wyck and others who refused
to sign the calls for Judge Martin "should
be made to suffer for it" has appeared in
the grand, old, free town of Somers.
Our senator has promulgated his edict
from the Senatorial hall, and his obedient
correspondents announce that that no
man who supports Mr.. Van Wyck for
County Judge shall hold Office in that
venerable and hitherto liberty-loving
township. Phew "Upon what meat
does this our Caesar feed that he is grown
so CREATE" Where would this high
and mighty potentate be now, had
it pleased Mr.. Van Wyck and his friends
in Kenosha and Walworth counties to
have withdrawn their support from him
last fall? Let us remember, that the
present contest between Mr.. Van Wyck
and Judge Martin, in the shape it has
been made to assume by politicians, is
no mere contest for judicial position is
no contest between these gentlemen at
all but is hand-to-hand struggle be-
tween Mr.. Van Wyck and the ring"
whose dictation he has defied between
the people and their would-be "bosses.
Let only this be understood as it is, and
an end will be made next Tuesday OF
Bossism in Kenosha county forever
ONE OF THE PEOPLE.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-03

Attention isinv1ted to the statement
of Judge Van Wyck in this paper, in
respect to the affidavit of Mr.. Dewey
in the Courier. The reader will COM
this statement with the charge of MIR
DeWeV.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-03
For the Telegraph.
THE COURSE OF THE COURIER IN
THE PRESENT CANVASS.

Mr.. EDITOR 1t has been the misfor-
present canvas: that the mean filings and
mud which its editor has been pleased
to throw at Mr. Van Wyck have been
all that its readers have seen of the
battle. The shots in reply have been
observed by but the readers of the TELE-
GRAPH and UNION, as the Courier has per-
sistently refused to give space to them
in its columns.
For the first time in long series of
campaigns Mr.. Van Wyck has found
himself in judicial contest the target
for one of the fercest assaults known ever
in the political history of this county.
His exposed situation as an independent
candidate, deprived of the shelter which
party interests usually afford, exposed,
on the contrary, to the rage Of ring"
of politicians of the party which he has
long and faithfully served, because he
has refused to obey their dictation, has
afforded the opportunity to strike which
jealousy and malice have long sought.
While it has been his desire, as we
know, and his policy, as all will have OBJ
served III the conduct of the papers
which have supported him since his
candidacy began, to avoid all offensive
illusions to the opposite candidate, the
Courier has been allowed unchecked to
let loose the hounds of its malignity
upon him. Tray, Blanche and Sweet
heart have barked and bitten to the ut
most of their venemous capacity. All
that "the gentleman from Missouri
and the like noble spirits which have
abetted him could invent and devise has
been levelled at him, and many of the
men whom in years gone by he had
greatly served have clapped hands and
egged on the pursuit. Not until the adj
vent of this gentleman and the sheet at
his command could there have been
found in our community ayehicle of ut
terance for such assaults upon an es.
teemed and highly-honored citizen.
The value of these remarks may be in.
ferred from the extracts of fulscme
laudation published in this issue, which
in 1882 were offered by the Courier tC
the same gentleman whom it has lately
sought to besmirch. Happily, Mr.. Var
Wyck comes out of this ordeal unspot
ted, as might have been expected. AL
though the dogs have not been called
off," they have failed to draw blood and
have left no stain.
It may be we'll to state here now that
the animus Of this malignant assault up
on Mr.. Van Wyck by the Courier, we
are informed, is simply the fact that
when he was chairman of the Republi-
can Committee in 1882, during the Viii
liams' campaign-when he was nc
more enlightened as to the political
antecedents of its editor than we all are
now-with the advice and concurrence
of the other members of the committee
he firmly refused to obey that editors
ldictation and appropriate to him ex-
tclusively the entire party patronage for
| the printing of bills and ballots. That
and nothing more.
/ The people will have an opportunity
next Tuesday to punish such conduct as
| it merits. Con-.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-03

Perry III. Smith, formerly promin-
ent railroad manager in this state,
and in latter years a resident Of Chi
cago, died Oh Sunday evening last, at
the age of ~ years.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-03

The Minnesota legislature. before
adjournment, passed a bill submit
ting the question of woman suf-
frage to the people at the next state
alacEinn.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-03
FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1885.

Joseph Miller has been nominated
by the Democrats for Mayor of the city
Of Racine.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-03
WONDERFUL SOMERSA ULT. OF
KENOSHA NEWSPAPER.

Those people who read the Courier
newspaper will have noticed the re-
cent attempts to belittle Judge Van
Wyck. repres enting him as only an
office-hunter, and that his purpose in
coming back to Kenosha was to get
Office. A remarkable change has come
over that paper during the past two
and q half years, as will be seen by
editorials which are taken from its
files. The first is the Couriers en-
dorsement of what an :" Old Farmer
said of Judge Van Wyck July 6, 1882.
PUBLIC OPINION.
ITO the Editor.)
AS the time is near at hand when the
Republican Congressional Convention
will be called and held, and that there
are several persons in this congressional
district who have been mentioned as
candidates before the convention, we
would be glad to see our worthy citizen,
Hon. Anthony Van WICK, receive the
nomination in the convention as the
candidate for Representative to Con-
gress. We believe his nomination would
give entire satisfaction throughout this
district, and, if elected, he would prove
faithful to.his constituents.
AN OLD FARMER.
The gentleman mentioned would I'M
doubtedly make an excellent representa-
tive, and we will take great pleasure in
presenting his claims to the people if he
will consent to become candidate
Courier, July 6, 1882.
Next is taken from an editorial of
the Courier in which the editor evil
IDENTIFY did his level best to exalr Judge
Van Wyck to the highest pinnacle of
human perfection. 1t is found in the
Courier of July 81, 1882:
Mr.. Van Wyck was some years ago
State Senator from this district, and
figured very prominently as prospective
candidate for the United States Senate.
He at one time came within one vote of
being nominated for Governor of the
state, instead of Washburn. 1t is claim.
ed by so ne that Mr.. Van Wyck was de-
feated then by intrigue on the part of
certain aspirants for the United States
Senate, in order to get him out of their
way. Mr.. Van Wyck has never been all
office-seeker, and would not be party to
any sort of manipulation to secure his
own nomination. He is a gentleman
a. xxyhn al, aEo
suspicion has never been cast, and whose
high sense of honor leads him to seek
the advancement of the interests of his
friends rather than his own. For this
reason he has so far declined to become
a candidate in the present campaign.
He is not an aspirant, and ifhe could be
induced to become candidate in any
case it would only be through volun-
tary expression of the wishes of the peo--
pie. We have said this much without
tne knowledge or consent of the gentle
man himself. for the benefit of those
who think that this end of the district is
entitled to the representation. The time
is short, and if anything is done it must
be done quickly.
Next follow complimentary endorse
ments of Judge Van Wyck In the
Courier of July 81, 1882, and August
10. 1882, which we omit for want of
room.
Comment is unnecessary. We thank
she Courier editor for his consistent
honesty two and half years ago, and |
nave only to lament his departure.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-03

A bill has passed the legislature of
this state, appropriating $4,000 for the
prevention Of the Asiatic cholera.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-03
Il. g. STRNONS.

1t is gratifying TO state that Il. G.
Simmons is the only candidate in the
Geld for Mayor.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-03
CAUTIONARY.

Statements calculated to injure cam
didatcs which are reserved until too
late for contradiction in the press may
safely he set down as .fdlsehoodS
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-03
KILLEEN'S CANDIDATE.

1t is striking illustration of the
easy way in which some people are
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-03

THE KEN0SHA TELEGRAPH
M. FRANK, EDITOR.
ONCE in Masonic Block, room of Judge Van
Wyck.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-03
Many a Lady

is beautiful, all but her skin;
and nobody has ever told
her how easy it is to put
beauty on the skin. Beauty
on the skin is Magnolia
Balm.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-14

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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-14

PROF. DARBYS
PROPHYLRCTIC FLUID.

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all Of US know the estimation with which IL Is
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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-14
FLoRIDA's FRUIT ExCHANGE.
The Proceedings OF the Meeting in
Jacksonville.

jacksonville.
Florida Herald. June n.
The Florida Fruit Exchange held a
meeting this morning at the Office OF Mr..
T.. Higgins, at which Messrs. q. r. Fair
banks Of Fernandina, T.. Higgins, p. Nc
QUAD and A. NJ. Ives Of this city, W. h
Stanton OF Putnam county, j. G. Lanier
of Sumter county, ana NJ. j. Doyle Of San
ford, were present.
On motion the following resolution,
passed at the previous meeting, was re-
scinded:
RssolJed, That the dividend OF the Florida
Fru Exchange Company shall not exceed
10 per cent per annum. and that after re-
serving a suitable sum as a sinking fund the
balance OF the yearly profit shall be- divided
pro rata per box among the stOc khOlders
shipping their fruit through the Exchange ~
a rebate on commissions and charges.
The following was then read and
adopted;
Resolpsd, That 10 is the sense 81 this board
that there shall be rebate to stockholders
pro rata per box upon their shipments when
ever the profits Of the exchange authorizes
the same.
These resolutions provoked considerable
discussion, but that which was the best
for all growers seemed 10 be the cal OBJ
ject OF all present, and hence the resclnd-
ing of the FIRST and adopting the latter.
A letter was read from Mr.. ID. Green
leaf, now In New York, giving valuable
information obtained In that city relative
10 the shipping and selling Of fruit.
Brown a Feken. fruit auctioners Of that
city, sold over 100000 boxes Of foreign
oranges last season az an advance of 30
cents over Florida fruit, simply because
they were better handled, and only by
parties experienced In the business. His
letter IL very encouraging 10 the ex-
change, and be believes that through IL
Florida fruit can be made more profitable
than through any other channel.
Michael l.. Turner, Of this city, was
elected Secretary o. the Exchange, and
T.. McQuaid a. director during the alb
sence OF director y. Greenleaf.
Messrs. Fairbanks, Amber and Ives
were appointed o committee 20 draw up,
publish and circulate a circular setting
forth fully the object Of the exchange.
Capt. Ives will go North next week 10
make Investigations. lie presented bis
bond Of $4,000 as Treasurer. which was
accepted aud ordered Sled. The meeting
then adjourned 70 meet again on July 4.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-14

There are thirty vessels in quarantine at
Pensacola.
A citizen Of Jackson county has petri-
fed gopher.
Ocala is trying to organize an Odd FeL
lows lodge.
The Sanford Marshal collected 1871 80
during the month vi May.
over 10000 pineapples were shipped
from Key West last week.
Sixty schooners were lying around An
clote keys one day last week,
Eau aallie will have boatrace on June
10, with $40 soup tuleen for first prize.
The spire Of century plant AZ Orange
City has attained height OF nearly forty
feet.
The Journal, not content with its war
on me goat. COW and horse, now says the
SANFORD rat must go.
Animmense sword fish was caught near
st. Augustine afew days since. The sword
was nearly four feet long.
Capt. y. G. Shaw, o. Apopka, killed an
4 iigator in bis yard recently. The big
llzmd measured eight feet six inches.