Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-10-07

HAULED OFF F.!
AND PLACED UNDER GUARDIANSHIP.

That poor weakling, the Yale DEM
ocrat is indeed in sorry plight. No
one who has read the political COM
ments in the last issue will fail to no.
tice change of front, and that
the matter of the false statements that
has been heretofore persisted in, has
been suddenly dropped like hot
potato, and now the county candidates
are being attacked.
This may be accounted for from the
fact it is said that committee of local
democrats has been appointed by
those in power at Port Huron for the
purpose of acting as censOrs of the
Editor, and to try to keep him some-
what under control hereafter.
Unquestionably this accounts for the
milder utterances toward local repub-
licans in the last issue.
A democrat recently said, "We must
do something to stop him (the Editor
of the Democrat) or he will knock
down all the pins we have put up.
Why, he is so fresh that he don't even
know what the candidates are running
for. In his last issue, he credits Will
lam O'Connor with running for Cir
cult Court Commissioner, instead of
Register of Deeds, and he has made
so many false statements in relation to
State taxation, etc, that are even worse
than this that we shall have a hard
time of it,"
Then again IN TRADE of abuse
which he heaps upon the republican
candidates he proceeds to speak of
them as those "whose family name
savors of rascality" etc., etc.
Republicans should keep these
things in mind. We have placed IN
nomination candidates who have been
lifelong citizens of our county and
who are known by those who know
them best to be honorable, upright
citizens.
This is the first attack upon the
character of a candidate by any paper
in the county-Democrat or Republi-
can-and it would seem to come with
poor grace from source whose right
to criticise the honesty and integrity
of any of our respectable citizens is
very questionable.
In fact it might be well for him who
thus judges our citizens to first clear
up an unsavory record for u very
questionable transaction in "sTRoNG
PORK" which is well known to several
good citizens of this place, as well as
several other matters which might be
mentioned.
This or any other attempt to belittle,
seattle, or malign "the family name"
of any candidate and TO try to make
political capital in that manner will
be resented by republicans and dem
ocrats alike.
Then the Democrat again proceeds
to score Wilson, not because he
abused anybody; not because he was
untruthful, but simply and solely be-
cause he is not College educated.
The editor seems to think that
man is not fit for Office who had the
pluck and energy to hew n home out
of the wilderness by his own hand ;
and who afterwards made that home
one of the best farms in Sanilac
county; who, Notwithstanding the fact
he had very little opportunity to at
tend public institutions of learning,
did have the grit and determination
to so educate himself by night study
that he has become one of the best
posted men in Eastern Michigan. Mr.
Wilson may not be up in grammar
and rhetoric, but he is as well edu-
Gated in broad sense for he has
most thorough knowledge of men; of
business transactions, and of the
rights, duties, and responsibility of
cltlZenS as well as the character ana
needs of the government. and he
also has another valuable adjunct for
a representative of our people in Con-
gress, and that is an unimpeachable
record for honesty and fair dealing
with his fellows, which is to some ex-
tent evidenced by the fact that the
people of his county for t,Celce gears in
succession elected him County Treas
urer, thus giving expression of their
confidence in his honesty and integrity.
Republicans will have little to fear
from these violent attacks upon Mr..
Wilson for it is the universal verdict
of those who heard him speak that he
is an able man and worthy of universal
republican support.
So far as the Editor who makes the
above mentioned unprincipaled at
tacks is concerned we recommend him
to the tender mercy of the guardians
who have been appointed to bridle,
manage and control him, but we pre-
dict that they will have their hands
full and that he is liable to break loose