Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1894-04-20
4. EDITORIAL NOTES.
And Other Matters of Interest
to the Readers of the
Courier.
Kicks HARD.
Jessie, N. u. Ar ril 10th. 1894.


Jessie, N. d. Ar rl 10th. 1894.
ldid not suppose, that to mention the fact
that there was come talk of an independenS
Ed,tor IN Griggs county shoald give cause fcr
Sour heated article in laet issue, while in all
Yuirnees we conccde he COURIER the right to
lts own views, aud with all our hearts, 10
publish q paper according to the Editors
tTfshcs. while we can see nothing wrong, in
Tic populis,s fayor.ng a publication represent
Ing their views. or at least, not fighting them.
Rna believe the COURIER is fair enough to
sunuede this as to to"McCuilech being appo nted
\ committee" neither u populist Or any other
f,,nn knew one word about the matter till the
Editor of the COURIER gave it out and this
hitter attack of misrepresentation was CO.
mi :, q uncnled for, as the writer denies the
rhsr-r of a threat in any shape or form, or
To ",rnq" the COURIER, and the Editor OF the
J7,,.,,rp shOuid concede to the pOpUiistS the
sirht he claims for himself. without getting
t,iz tck up you say. "if he thinks he can ride
into the state senate, by putting gag on the
Cnt.n1sR he is mistaken" McCul!och is rot a
ean,lidate for the state senate, or any otner
bo-ition. and il you wait till Nc sticks hlih-
SELF upon any people, McCulloch detes's, oe-
iIoyinw that the people have the right 10
Choose their servants. without being monkeyed
with, MS was too often the case in the old
parties. Again, "while we have always treated
McCulioch fairly not always. your memory
IL little at fault, after pledging yourself to
publish Mes reply, to false accusation IN
The COURIER, what did You do. merely men,
toned that such a reply had been received
Then jumped on Nc. with both feet yourself,
You know This is true, and just imma.ine your
self, people stand 10y ally by paper. yet in
thoir hour of need, being checked off, even
from replying to false accusation, would you
blame them for wanting fair treatment, is the
Coun1En generous enough to give us this, as
well, when wading through the slough as upon
high dry ground. in times OF battle, as In times
Of peace We have no quarrel with the Editor,
And are a Thousand times obliged to the
COURIER for the past favOrs.
Respectfully
W.T. MCCULLoCH
The sage of Jessie seems to have
sealized that he has stuck his "foot
Ia it" judging from his letter pub
lished above. The COURIER is glad
that the Hon. gentleman comedies US
the right to our views, and as we
stated last week we concede the same
fiE hit to the pepulists. Mr.. McCul-
lsch says he is not candidate for
The state senate or any other position.
That is all right. We have always
conceded the gentleman to be good
representative and all that, but we
doubt his statement very much about
being candidate. We presume he
Is simply in the hands of his friends.
The fact of the matter is he is 50 sure
Of the nomination if he wants it that
he don't have 10 be a candidate. He
simply presses the button, the
machine does the rest. Mr.. McCul
loch is mistaken if he sticks to it
Ahat we misrerressnted him in our
article last week. We did no such
thing, and when he limited that an
other paper was being talked of he
thought we would cast ourself at his
feet and kiss the hem of his garment,
hut he got fooled. We haven't got
his craze yet. He meant his "bluff"
nll right and now tries to crawl out.
We do know that the populists at one
Of their meetings discussed the news
paper idea and we know pretty near
who they are figuring to get to run it,
and whether he was appointed COM
,nittee or not, it looks to a man up a
tree as though he was advised to put
out few feelers in this direction.
The whole trouble with the gentle
.nan is that his head has become en-
lurged and he thinks he has a string
around the county and that he holds
both ends of the string in his hands.
We plead guilty to not publishing
one article he sent in three years ago,
on the ground that in that article was
1 pack of wilful lies about Mr.. Bart
lett, accusing him of being a carpet
bigger, etc, and as we were support
inG Mr.. Bartlett we did not think it
right to publish such rot. Mr.. Bart
lett is a native born American citizen,
head and shoulders Mr.. McCulloch's
Superior in ability, and was per.
manently located here, and we saw
no good reason for abusing him to
profit the gentleman from Jessie.
We, too, have no desire to quarrel
with Mr.. McCulloch, but when he
he accuses US Of Misrepresentation he