Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-17
Thursday Oct. IT, 1889.
ATTACKING GOV. HOARD.

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that such faults exist. Nor is it an
enjoyable business for US to notice
what to US seem to be glazing and
unexcusable faults of the Evening
Wisconsin, in its unfriendly and
unfair attacks upon the Governor.
Many of our friends know well
that we have always held and
expressed a very high opinion Of
that paper. When appealed to by
any of our friends, as to what
state paper we would recommend
to such Of them as wanted to
subscribe for some able city paper
containing more state and general
news that we could give them in
the Eagle, how often have we
recommended The Wisconsin.
How often have we recommended
it for its fairness and candor on all
public questions? Though per-
haps hardly radical enough to
suit some readers, yet we never
hesitated to dwell upon it's great
reliability-never going into any
unfair or unreasonable extremes
on any question, Always clean,
conservative, truthful, just and fair.
Always reliable with all questions
it treated upon, Such were our
opinions of 1t; and often were they
SO expressed.
We are sorry to find that some
thing has come over the Wiscon-
sin, recently, change, that makes
it differ so much from what we
used to believe and assert of it
formerly. It's extreme and unfair
efforts to injure Gov. Hoard and
to lower him in the estimation of
the people of the state, have of
late been carried to such extremes
as to compel the Governors
political opponents even to con-
denim its course.
We wondered greatly last
summer, in view of its past
fairness, how The Wisconsin could
stoop to publish the pretended
Especial kilograms" attacking Mr..
Hoard as a candidate for a high
office and as man, which appear
ed in its columns, a day or two be-
fore the holding of the convention
that nominated him. However
we could have forgiven that, upon
the assumption that the Wisconsin
had for once lost its temper, at
seeing a rival papers candidate so
far outstripping all others in the
race for nomination. This attack
though undeiensible upon any
grounds, was perhaps forgiveable
under the circumstances. But the
absolute non-efect of those
attacks, to either defeat or to
injure with the people the man
lied about, ought to have taught
a paper Of the age, experience,
and good sense Of The Wisconsin
that, while it could not hurt the
Governor to any appreciate
extent, there was a great and
serious danger Of its hurting itself
1t could not help seeing that it
failed to hurt Mr.. Hoard, and its
knowledge of human nature
ought to have taught It that he
who tries to destroy another's
popularity and fails, stands in
serious danger of destroying his
own.
But The Wisconsin is evidently
willing to run that risk. For
after the Governors order for
troops to prevent strike riots in
Superior, lately-an undoubtedly
wise act-he was assailed in all
possible and ridiculous ways for
it. It didn't hurt the Governor;
for we believe that nineteen-twen-
tieth of the people approve of
what he did.
Its latest excuse for attacking
the Governor is the recent resig-
nation of Col. Carter, as State
Prison Commissioner, and the
appointment of Mr. Weeks to the
place. Although the appointing
power in the case is the State
Board OF Supervision, The Wis
consin has invented a complete
theory whereby the Governor is