The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1893-03-11
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able class oil all these Is liidt tl'sflS wiz
90 about the country looking for bo-
muses. and bleeding politicians. The
citizen, a sheet published at the est
End. is a sheet published for revenue
only if that saying will apply to any
paper in chrlStendom. 1t claims 10 be
the friend and protector Of The labor
ing man, yet it cares no more Tor the
lab0ring man than il does for Canton
heather Chinee. 1t has been a ll.l
Democrat, a Cleveland Democrat, a
Harrison Republican, Peoples Party,
Prohibition, Tariff Protection, and
Free Trade, all within the past six
months,
I'd TO last week its editor has, on
the street and in his columns, damned
the Land & River Improvement Com
pany up the hill and down again, and
opposed that company Oh the bridge
question, on the p0st0ilic2 fight, on the
courts and court house questions, Ill
short wherever that cOmnanY's head
appeared there stood the editor of the
Citizen with Il club to whacll it, and
he has h0asted the fact that that was
Just where he would always be found.
During all this time the Citizen pro
prietors were imP0rtuning Mr.. BaIdon
and other leading Democrats at the
East end, and the Consolidated Land
Company to give them a fat bonus TO
move their plant to the East End, and
bolster up its waning energies by
a substantial guaranteed fund. These
negotiations utterly failed, and presto,
last Saturday it comes cut III Its
Eighth Flop Act, (heing an average Of
just one Top month under the pres
ent management, and this time an
advocate Of the Land & River I'm
provement Company which It has been
so roundly bclaboring all this eight
months.
The flop Of itself does not surprise
anyone at all acquainted with the
"organ, and we should never have
paid any more attention to this flop
than we haye to its seven predecessors,
had it not been for the particular
article announcing this ti2p entitled
The Man for Mayor No journal
ever published III the city Of Superior
ever concentrated so many damnablG
lies, 50 much Billngsgate and con
temptible language generally, in the
same number Of lines, as that article.
Martin PattiSOn is an honOrtd cIti-
zen of Superior. lie and his family
have lived here for twelve years and
word of reproach has been uttered
against him or his by any decent and
honorable man. He does not pay as
much taXeS as the Land & River I'M
proyement Company, neither does he
own us much property as they. lie
has not been buying land at five dol
lars an acre, cutting an acre into nine !1lte
at an average OF $1,000 each, as the
Land company has been doing. Bat
what Of all this tWaddlc about taxes?
Martin Pattison pays as much tax "a
Jack Scott, the gamblers friend from
Dakota, ana Jack Scott is plenty good
enough for the Land < River Improve
ment Company. Mr.. Pattison has
been mayor OF our city twice and he
is the only mayor we have ever had of
whom it was said by all people, that
lie was impartial aud just 10 all parts
Of the city. And that is just the rea
son why the l.. Il Z. Imp. Co, does not
want him That company wants ii
man who is all West Superior, and
Tower Avenue IN particular.
During his last administration Mr.
Pattison made some appointments we
could not endorse. They were &bon-
Unable and brought our city into dis
grace, as we view it, and we have
never attempted to conceal our opin.
ions on thlt point, but 50 far as his
own Judgment and acts on current
questions = administration they We're
I'LL right, and we believe his acts have
been confirmed where they have been
passed upon by any court. We have
not been included in the ranks of the
"PdttiSon men" this season. We adj
yiscd him not to run upon the cali
proposed, and we did not sign the sad
call. But when such scurrNuus at
tackS are made upon any respectable
citizen OF orr city, we deem it part
Of decent journalism 10 resent the in
suit But read the article, evidently
bought and paid for al 50 much a line
by the enemy of Nh. Pattison, and pass
upon it your own condemnation, and
consign this bounty jumper to the
place prepared for all such.
few narrow minded fault finding
people seem greatly alarmed lest the
Land \ River Improvement Company
should have 4 voice in The selection OF
the next Mayor Of Superior. The
Morning Leader is one Of the group.
10 he fair and just to al the interests
of Superior. let Us 90 to the bottom of
the question "Who pays the biggest
taxes i'll Superi0r?" Why the Land
X River Improvement Company. How
much2 " ell, SO 900 this year. Who
is there, then, who VIII attempt to
deny their right to have a voice ana
interest in who shall be the next
mayor OF Superj0r2 No man who is il
free citizen capable Of staud,ug alone,
with the ability and finances 10 be
part ana parcel of the one future me
trnpolls OF Superior. 1t does not seem
possible or probable To the Citizen that
the line Italian hand OF eN Mayor Pat
t!Sou and his hackers can he 50 played
aS to hoodWiuk the voters OF " est ana
South Superior ana the Steel Plant in
10 electing him mayor for the sole pur-
pose Of promoting the interests 0f the
East end at their expense. The pro
position IS both reckless and foolish.
The Morning Leader openly boasts
that il is in The hire Of the CONSOLIDATE
ed Land Company, ana that it IS for
Martin Pattison Tor MAYOR is part of
its East end development scheme 'CAe
citizen c.unot help but admire the