Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-03-11
z. ". McGillic of Mandan Gives
Father Perrault Another Rib
Rooster.
He Will Choose the POtter's Field if
Perrault Will 20 to
the Cemetery.
The Coming Spring Election-The
Officers Elected at Wogansport
Town Election.
p. W. McGillic Replies.
from Fridays Daily.l


EDITOR TRIBUNE: 1 cannot ask you |
Mr.. Editor, to publish in your columns, as
Father Perrault requests, the language
which he uses, which l style vile, and
which he challenges me to quote. All l
have to say on that score is this: Messrs. l. |
Cummins, E. W. Read, B. w. Shaw, R. NJ.
futile and Chas. Wilson, heard Father
Campbell, several times, which epithet |
never saw printed in full anywhere, and
which no newspaper in this state would
print. l did not hear this vile language;
the gentlemen whose names are given
above did hear it.
l have taken no rock that l am not will
ing to pay for, and which l will not pay
for at the proper time. 1t is false that
Bishop Stanley ever requested me to pay
the money to him or anyone else. l have
had no communication. verbal or other
wise, with the bishop, in regard to it.
When l gave Father Perrault my final
shot, about the money that he %wrongfully
claimed-when l told him that l would
buy sheep with it before l would give it to
him to buy booze with, l did it to get him
out of my place of business. In common
with every other business man in town, l
realized about that time that if j desired to
hold my best customers, l must make my
store uncomfortable for him as a loafing
place. l succeeded, 1 am thankful to say.
Other business men have adopted other
successful methods to keep him at a dis
lance; that was my method. l may say
before l quit the rock question, that the
parties whose money bought 1t, are much
more satisfied that l should take it and put
it into the basement OF my house, with the
assurance that the money for it vii: be
forthcoming at the proper time, than they
are that he should give it away to dead.
beats who never pay for anything. II he
would show as much ability in church
matters as did his successors, who &C
quired this rock, the church which did not
owe a cent when he assumed the pastorate
would not now BIZ 500 in debt.
The church has never voted me out of
Office, nor has it ever instituted a suit
against me. 1t is Dictator j. e. Perrault.
l have for years been DESTROYS of re-
linquishing the Office of treasurer OF the
church, and have repeatedly requested him
to have the church elect my successor.
Blu as he is so decidedly technical, l want
to see an election and not a dictation. He
claims that l never was elected treasurer
of the chnrch. If this be so, why is it that
he went to the subscribers to the fund l
now hold, and said that if they did not turn
over to me within t~wenty-four hours the
moneys, he would have them arrested and
put in Jail.
1t may be that my life is in his hands.
Our lives are, in one sense, in the hands of
any highwayman who. with his pistol or
knife, may be lying in wait for us. Per
haps he to-day carries a French ~stiletto,
DESTROYS OF introducing iJ among my ribs.
1t is certain that that will be the only way
he will ever get of reaching my heart.
am charged with being a grog-shop po-
litician. There are no liquor bills standing
out against me. Can he say the same?
MIR. Perrault is very anxious to know
what piece l will play in the the band
While that question IL under discussion, l
might remark, as a matter Of church his
tory, that the ladies of the church have be-
come so disguised with him, that for
months past he has been unable to get any
one of them to play the organ in the
church, and they have no music but such
rs he makes himself, and, tina. is pref
ty generally regarded as being too rasping
to be good.
1t is true that I asked the bishop to send
Father Perrault to some other field. l
thought that he had Outlived his useful
ness, and 1 told the bishop that 1 would
like him to have a better parish than tais.
Those of my n%eighbors who know the
Reverend Father the best, won't dispute
the fact that in my request to the bishop,
Twas trying to do something for The good
of the town-yea, the entire Missouri
slope. 1s
IN Father Perrault threatens me with the
SSSptter's field when l die. In common with
hit true Catholics, 1 hope that when, the
Time comes for me to die, I shall be duly
buried by the representatives of the
mother church, and that my remains will
be cared for in the way and in the place
ordained by that church. But if to secure
this kind Of burial it becomes necessary
for me to lick the boots Of Father Perrault
to sacrifice my manhood to him-to bend
in obedience to his matchmaking threats
then l will take the potter's field, as
sured that the potter's field to myself will
be preferable to the finest, cemetery with
Father Perrault. Yours truly,
P.W. McGILLIC.
Mandan, March Sd, 1892.
vigilance is the Price of an Honest Ballot,
EDITOR TRIBUNE: "The world do
move" and as spring time comes again.
tongues thaw out and begin to MARBLE,
sweet songs. The music we now have is
not from the swelling throat Of the little
robin red breast. 1t comes from a larger
bird and one Of a different feather. The
municipal Office seeker is now singing
sweet songs Of old-"redeem your prom
isea, = .we delivered our goods and now
weldemand aashcw down.
Three mayoralty candidates and many
aidermanic aspirants are awaiting the full
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