The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1892-05-21
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Recent (ss.i.cr.9Su.

One q tIr~ delegates to the recent
congressional convention went home
full Of Superior and good things and
wrote for tsss Pierce County Herald
lie following entertaining AM coiarlt-
nentary articl..:
THE MIRACULOUS CITY. The dele
gates from this county who attended
the congressional convention at SUI
pcrior came home feeling first rate and
rooted in the belief that the finger of
Isestiny is not only pointing It the
phenomenal Wisconsin city, bat that
Destiny's Who'll. hand and even arm .
actually III it clean up 10 the shoulder
int. We have been somewhat back
wand in admitting il. but tie cony9c-
lion IS forced u;,s1; ~ that Superior is
the coming city Of the old northwest.
St Paul and Minneapolis will ii 4
short time live only in reminesence-
sit breoiing or the raled up ashes of the
past
and Dnluth We suppose will be a sort
vi JIiS1s slls Al tttftil
small part-but not III ii. There is
more vim. git, push, gall and gump-
tic'i in Superior III one day than can
be squeezed ont OF any other north
western city treble its size in dogs
age. The average Superiori.e is as
wise rs Soloman has 4 better know
ledge Of philosophy than Seneca, IS
craftieF than Henry the Eighth, is a
better master OF courtesy than Ches
tertield, and as genial and good natured
as Frank Ross.
lie understands each vile and art
That captivatcs, the human heart
lie may not be able to convince you
that white is black, but he will make
you swear that it is 1T least a very
dark dIab, and what is most wonder
full Of al, he las actually convinced
himself that the climate 1T tie head
Of the lake is salabrlous, and that a
nor by nor cast blizzard IS simply
hracing-ss LonG Jack Murphy puts it,
a little ozonc III motion. lie will look
you in the eye without Winking and
tell you that the soil IS adapted 10
early gardening and that they can
raise anything on earth up there. It
does LOOK as though they coulI raise a
good deal on earth, providing The earth
IS located within che INCORPORATE Inn
its. jihis last sentence comes high
L., ~, t.,r-
Pierce county statesmen as they TO up
there. seod Lord, There is Il hen on
The nest IL Superior now lowering on
the biggest settin Of political eggs
ever incabated i'll Wisconsin Just
wait until they hatch out and begin to
i'y up onto the porch--thcre Will be
fustling Of wings and cackling galore;
And it they will take warning from
the sad fate Of Eau Claire, Will roost
on the topmost branches.
We glory III Superior's success,
Pierce county g.arlcs in its success,
for malsy of its original hustlers used
TO Fish on Lest creek and dig ginseng
within two hours journey of the
county seat AMI Notwithstanding
most of Them are bloated with capital
and now Wear shoes the whole year
round, they viii take their old friends
by the hand and shake for Aud Lang
Syne- Jack Murphy, Knox Lewis,
4 i. Thayer, Graham Rice, Charley
Smith. Frank Ross, Will Strickland,
Hank " cod, Morris kimball, A. \.
johnson, Bill Miner, 5. L. Fay, andy
Gilmore and a dozen others, including
Barney Casey. are all up there to stay,
and most of them have their eyes 'sot'
on the CLINT Of the almighty dollar.
We started out to record the c3urte-
sy and hospitality Of Superior TO the
republican congressional delegates,
IN t we cant do the subject justice
We will only say that they departed
with their stomach-lulckenea hearts
hulging with henedictlon for their re
publican brothers 1t the head Of the
lake