The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-02-11
IT is singular how people always scare

Ii is singular how people always search
for selfish motive in an act. Last
weeks editorial on Judge Schmidt has
been construed Is % bid for the politi-
cal support of Mr.. Schmidt, and ca az
bit OF fattery designed to secure prob-
ate printing. The present Judge is no
doubt. like most men, susceptible to
fattery, but he is not apt to extend ia
vors for anything 30 insubstantial, nor il
he easily placated. This paper neither
hatters nor woos him. The editor of this
paper does not aspire to political leader
ship nor has he any of the elements
which give success in that line. Judge
Schmidt knows this and hence has no
feelings of jealousy. For all that, there
is 10 person in the county whom he
would rather see permanently shelved
than the writer, and he will improve the
first opportunity which offers to accom-
plish that end. 1t is not fear, it is dis
like, and Mr.. Schmidt may let his enmi-
tics sleep but they never die. The Pilot
has deserved his enmity because it has
stood out against him VIZ IN others were
fawning upon him. When has The Pilot
or its editor evinced any disposition to
court Mr.. Schmidt? When the editor
Of this paper was first candidate for
superintendent of schools and every
county officer but two were actively en-
gagged in opposing him, when leading
democrats canvassed the county in OPP
position to him, and clergymen preached
from pulpits that his eleetion would be
inimical to private schools, no attempt
was made to win the support of Mr..
Schmidt. He was told to bolt when he
threatened to do SO and to dc his best at
it, and be did, and showed his strength
then IS he has shown it many times since
And now. nothing is wanted of political
nature which comes through the grace
of Mr.. Schmidt. 1t is an easy matter
to refuse it for any amount of pleading
could not secure it if it were solely the
gift of Mr.. Schmidt. Does this look
like begging the favor of any one? If
every one in this county showed as little
inclination as the editor of this paper to
win the friendship, or the political sup
port or the official patronage of Judge
Sahp,5II he l. I.
sycophants. He is as free as the air to
do just as he pleases in those matters
with The Pilot or any one connected
with it, without a word of remonstrauce
or depreciation.
So far as printing is concerned, The
Pilot never solicited It from any county
officer except III enc single instance Mr.
Falge was asked for the court calendar.
Not for six years has person been asked
to subscribe for The Pilot even, for the
reason that many persons look upon
patronage of that kind as q donation and
there is satisfaction in telling them if
they don't like the paper they needn't
take it, No one has approached Judge
Schmidt for printing and if he is justified
in discriminating against any paper it is
The Pilot, as it has never been afraid of
him, has never bent the knee to him and
never will. So much for that. Will
those seeking for mercenary motive in
The Pilot article speak with equal frank
ness to Judge Schmidt?
Had there been another issue of this
paper before the convention, The Pilot
would take occasion to offer some COM
ments upon The Nordwesten's attack of
last week upon Mr.. Villas which would
show to what extent the friendship of
The Northwestern is sought. But 60 good
purpose can be served by that now aud
purposeless newspaper wrangling should
be reprobated.
The Pilot meant to state fact and if
there was anything complimentary III it
to Mr.. Schmidt, it was not the manner
OF the statement but in the fact Itself.
Being county judge would weaken him
as candidate for congress-. But if he
had not been elected last spring the truth
of The Pilots statement would be amply
demonstrated. This is opinion formed
from actual acquaintance with the exist
ing condition of public sentiment. Carl
Schmidt's opposition to day is more to
be feared than that of any other man in
the county. Invite it and you will DO
fully convinced of the truth Of the above
statement. And, good friends, give
man credit for telling truth without at
tributing any unworthy motives. No
person is more sorry that Schmidt is SO
strong; no person has done more to pre-.
vent it; no person stands more in danger
ct 1t; and no person will de less to win
his favor, than the writer.