The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-11-17

fbr libel, jumped on candidate and
Editor Benbow very bitterly. Ben
bow, in his last issue, comes back at
him. After citing the whole matter
as joke, he numerically sails into
Bro. Smith, calling him an lass FOR
considering the matter in any other
light" Continuing, Benbow says:
Now smith" do you remember how
YOU got your wedding suit?" Is it
paid for vet? Also read this in the
Merchants Retail Commercial Agen-
cy" p. IS of July 1899. Smith W. D.
tchr. (Adrian). Jackson, gro" You
we're black listed and posted. Have
you paid that grocery bill yet? In
deed you are a good judge OF cam
paign tactics. Bless you, Smith,what
filthy man you are. We feel
ashamed that your dirty fingers set
our name in type. We hope that you
are not black listed at the Republican
feed box. Of course the chairman of
the Republican county convention
ought not to speak the truth; he
ought to be such a liar as you are
Smith Maybe he would be if he
shared your editorial revenue. It is
too bad, Smith, that you are not bet
ter acquainted with Cottonwood coun.
ty Republicanism. Consult some of
the Republican leaders here before
YOU run your poor old mutton-head
into Cottonwood county politics again.
Don't you know 20 smith" that it is
against the Republican campaign
committees rules for its editors to say
word against Republican. All we
ask of you, O beloved and windy
smith" is, that before you come at
us again, you will pay that grocer in
jackson his $4.75. We do this in the
interest of the profession as it don't
look we'll to see an editors name in
such place.
The GAZETTE patiently waited for
Bro. Smith to come back at Benbow
in that inimitable style of his-that
STYLE wherein he dishes up rich
brown roost with gravy of the most
delectable kind. And last Friday the
anticipated came. Bro. Smith, after
calling Mr.. Benbow "a muslin Drained
imbecile," "low lived" "a species OF
CATTLE remarks that his wedding suit
was paid for nine years ago, and that
the grocery bill was also paid twice.
He then remarks that Mr. Benbow is
"knave and fool in politics, who
has resorted to the bum and ward
heller tactics. Continuing on Bro.
Benbow's tactics, Mr.. Smith says:
Canvassing the county with key
of beer in his buggy and a quart bot
tie of whiskey in his hip pocket, at
tending low dances and getting drunk
at the same, and then visiting Mt.
Lake where he filled his whisky
blotched skin so full of rot gut that he
could barely make the sidewalk an
swer for the trip, and ending up his
"bum" canvass with Sunday carous-
al at the town Of Rose Hill.
After stating that Benbow had been
buried by the respectable element on
Nov. 8, Mr.. Smith contends that the
Cottonwood man is rake, libertine
and base deceiver. He calls him a
shyster who claims to be all attorney
He thinks the newspaper fraternity is
unfortunate Gin having such a chump
as Benbow claim to be an editor
His legal lore, Mr.. Smith says, was
obtained at 10 cents drink in John S
saloon" After calling MIR. Benbow a
political cadaver. the Lamberton man
concludes:
May his brainless carcass rest in
peace, haunted not by the spirit of
the poor, unfortunate girl who owes
her ruin to this rake Benbow.