The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-10-30
A Manly Explanation.
The state Journal Of the 25rd.

The State Journal Of the 25rd.
The Madison Democrat can be hon
est on occasion. Friday morning
there appeared in lis telegraphic col
umns vile screed against Gov. Rusk.
promulgated from the Democratic
headquarters in Milwaukee, The dis
patch claimed that proofs had come
to light" that the alleged anarchist
mob" in Milwaukee last May was
simply a peaceful religious procession,
that it was fired into by the militia
without warrant Of law or excuse Of any
kind whatever, and finally that Gov.
Rusk entrenched himself behind an
array of bayonets in the cavalry ar
mory, and really had very little to do
with the affair, anyway. The editor
in-chief Of the Democrat has good
political digestive organs, but this was
altogether too much even for him, and
this morning he squarely and manfuily
repudiates the whole business, in the
following article, which could not
have been in better tone it it had been
written for republican journal as an
argument for the endorsement ofGoy.
Rusk:
A Milwaukee special published in
The Democrat Of Friday morning, did
not come to the notice of the editor
until it had appeared in the paper, or
it would haye been transferred to the
waste basket. Ofcourse no newspaper
is responsible for statements in its tele-
graphic columns, but it is not the pur-
pose of The Democrat to haye mis-
representations in its Geographic col
umns nor to permit the advocacy of
questions in the telegraphic columns
not approved editorially. This dis
patch can easily be construed into y
criticism Of the course Of the governor
of the state during the riots in May
last, and rs easy into a defense of the
iawless gang marching to the Bay
View iron works. The Democrat has
always commended the governors acts
and condemned the mob Chat is what
it was 1t does 50 now. The cor
respondent probably knows, or he
ought to know, that it made no diff
ference whether it was a mob or IA
Sunday school picnic, it had no bust
ness out there. Then it Is not true
that the mob had no notice not to go
there. Still more, it is VIGOROUSLY
true that it started rs mob with the
ayowed intention Of cleaning out the
militia" 1t got exactly what it
deserved volley. 1t had notice
then and just the notice it needed.
1t IS hoped The Democrats cor
respondent will no so far again so far
mistake the position of the paper
on that subject as to offer any excuse
for that mob. When the militia shall
be called out to suppress lawIessness
no matter whether it is due to a
weak and cowardly mayor or any other
eason-it is the business of quiet and
peaceable citizens, Sunday school
picnics rs well as mobs, to keep out OF
the way. Too much contempt cannot
be expressed in any language for the
cowardly misuse Of militia If there
was any mistake at Milwaukee it was
not in shooting one day sooner. When
the militia shall be used in the only
way that soldiers ought to be used, the
militia will not be called out to sup
press riots, or if it is it will not get
near enough to shoot anybody with
any gun yet manufactured.
One word more. This dispatch dis
cribes the governor rs being at the
armory surrounded by cavalary That
was just where he ought too have been
as the correspondent ought to have
known if he had known anything OF
military service.