New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1892-02-03
!. SENSELESS AAUSE.

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SENSELESS AAUSE.
Now that the convention hustling is
| over with Gov. Merriam has found
| time to settle down on still hunt for
I the scalp of Dr.. G. Z. Bartlett. Super
intendent Of the st. Peter asylum for
| the insane. I am glad to be able to
point to something which can hearth
" commend in the business administra-
| ton. DR.. Bartlett has been severely
censured for carelessness, inefhciency
| and negligence in a half dozen cases,
until the people of all sections of the
state are clamoring for change. They
don tcare much who is put in and will
rest secure in the assurance that the
governor can't find anybody who will
make a worse mess of it than the same
DR.. Bartlett. Hence say I am pleased
to commend the action of the governor
in demanding DR.. Bartlett's resigna-
tion.-lshmael in Anoka Union.
The Review feels somewhat like beg
cling to be forgiven for deyoting SO
much of it's space to the whims of this
man Ishmael, who writes so much
about everything, but his opinions so
generally represent those held by a
great number of people throughout the
state, that 1T is well perhaps to take his
utterances as samples of the current
mistakes OF the political gossipers.
In singing out DR.. Bartlett for his at
tack this week, Ishmael has hit upon
a victim, much easier to hound than de-
fend. Not that DR.. Bartlett has laid
himself open to censure, but so dwarfed
are the minds Of the people as relates
to an insane asylum and SO ready are
they to believe anything that smacks of
sensation that exaggeration and stories
OF cruelty are taken up and believed
with an appetite that is voracious. A
few politicians, as we'll as newspaper
men and personal enemies, have taken
advantage of this weakness on the part
of the people and they have laid to the
door of DR.. Bartlett all the crimes and
shortcomings imaginable in connection
with an institution Of this kind and sins
that would better grace fend than a
human being. Very little, if any, of truth
has ever developed in connection with
these manifold charges, but still they
have been harped upon so spitefully and
dragged into public notice so often that
many no doubt are tempted to believe
that DR.. Bartlett is nothing more or less
than a living specimen of the devil him
self, with whom it would be supreme
delight, to use the style of Bill Nye, to
pour hot rozzum upon the patients
and occasionally turn them over so that
they may be we'll done on all sides.
OF this manner of attack, Ishrlael's is
a fair sample. He accuses the manag-
er of the st. Peter institution Of care
lessness, inefhciency and negligence,
basing his conclusions on common cla-
NOR, and yet he fails to point to a sin
gle instance wherein DR.. Bartlett was
ever confronted with direct charges and
did not come out clear and trustworthy.
He further commends Gov. Merriam for
demanding the resignation Of man who
is honestly doing his duty and in the
same sentence speaks ofBartlett as as a
worthless and bungling officer whom
anyone might easily inn prove upon, but
never stops to think how little he really
! knows about hospitals and how
little he really knows about DR..
Bartlett. Both to him, it IS plain from
| the manner in which he writes, are like
Greek to child, and yet he rushes in
to print with serious charges as if he
knew it all.
The hospital at st. Peter cares for
one thousand lunatics, some of whom
are imbeciles. some of whom would com
NIT suicide, and some who would kill 9TH
ers in their madness, but yet this news
paper writer from his office in St. Paul
| is willing to 60 on record as saying
| that anyone could run the institution as
| we'll as it has been run for twenty-five
years. Perhaps, if he would stop to
think moment, he would write differ
emily. And if he could but learn to
know DR.. Bartlett, and understand how
delicate is his position, perchance he
would not be so quick to malign him.
SENATOR DAYIS' CHA Noes.
a Washington correspondent to the
Minneapolis Tribune sizes up politics
in Minnesota as far as relates to the
Senatorial election in language as fol-
lows:
There is a great deal of discussion in
the Minnesota colony regarding Sena