Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-04-05
Letter From Seattle.
Seattle. Wa.h March 25th. 1894

spond 10 your good letter of the 18th
nit. before this tine. but you know the
best laid plans Of mice and men gang
oft agIee .
Your letter which left you in the
grip of the winter king, found me ~
the clutches of old La Grippe himself.
and YOU may know by experience that
il is equally as hard to break off an in
teryiew with him as with the average
life insurance agent. Yes, know
what the term winter" means 10
Wisconsin, but am glad to learn by
recent reports that its power is broken,
and that, on the whole, the winter has
been rather better than the average.
| Our winter has been the most unpleas-
ant of any we have seen here, as we
had more high wind during the past
month than we had had before since
we cane to the state. all put together.
Still that wind was doubtless necessary
to purify the city from tho stencil OF
the outgoing administration. and
it is to be hoped that it may be dissi-
pated on the broad expanse OF the Pa
cific.
The new administration was inaugu-
rated on the 10Th inst and the weather
changed with the administration, and
has since been as pleasant as could be
desired by the most faslidious. The
old administration is past and gone,
though its memory is kept green by
numerous indictments still pending,
and by heavy burdens bequeathed To
the city.
The late city treasurer has been
found guilty on one indictment and
there are some half dozen more pend
ing against him, simply because he and
his confreres relieved the city treasury
of some 100000. OF course they
thought they had right to it, as tEey
had been brought up to believe in the
old democratic doctrine so tersely ex-
pressed by Gov. Marcy, ito the victors
belong the spoils;" and being the
''victors'' and regarding the treasury
as .'spoils.' they simply took the mon
ey as their own
But you will soon have politics
enough on Your own hands to forget
all about ours. / have little doubt
that you will reiterate the cry for a
''change" upon which the changes
were rung with such telling effect two
years ago. and will relegate GOV. Peck
oack to private life where he can busy
himself with getting up Irritation with
,wo of has favorite characters in his
old newspaper days. 'Bige Esus" and
s'Helen Blazes" But who will be his
success sore How much good material
you have there for state officers, even
in your own little city. Shall we call
the roll alphabetically? Abrams, Bax-
ter, Book, Carter, Carthew, Clark,
Clemer tson-but hold. we are omit
ting many, and in this manner we
would not reach Ryland until some
future generation, and Schreiner and
Showaltsr will come even later. o,
il is IA lottery! The s,a e's first COVER
nor was a Lancaster man and gave the
state a good, economical adminislra-
ton. As | remember G. w. Ryland
came 10 the state at that time and went
/ 10 work for Gov. Dewey at the good
old democratic wages of a dollar day
in haying and harvest The lessons in
economy he then learned. and the ex-
periepce he has had in the governator-
/ ial char ought 10 make him model
/ governor, when taken in connection
with his well-known executive ability
and strict integrity, and ia saying this
am certainly saving nothing in dero-
cation OF the many other aspirants.
| am not as thoroughly posted on
Wisconsin matters AS | would like to
be- for "a my paid up subscription to
the other Wisconsin papers expired.
they were discontinued instead Of being
sent on suspicion" as you continue
the HERALD. | 90 into Erskine Me-
Cows and read the TELLER, and sup
pose shall have to continue to so econ
omize as long as my finances continue
so democrat c. But it seems that |
must keep myself somewhat familiar
with old associations, and old friends
who still occupy warm place in my
memory and affections.
How often have the words of our
mutual friend LaFollette, written me
from Washington when he heard | was
going to leave the state: You will
find it hard indeed to sever the associ-
atoms and friendships of lifetime,'
occurred 10 me i'll the intervening years,
and how much they savored of proph-
ecy. for / have indeed found ii hard at
times to reconcile myself To the change,
although in the main, have never re
GREETED 1t. Still everything is so differ
ent here. Country climate, resources.
occupations. society and the people
generally. There is not the diversity of
resources here that you have there, and
if one thinks he can better his condi-
ton financially BY coming 10 the coast
ut the present time he is seriously mis-.
taken. Here the lahorer is brought
into competition with class that is
practically unknown there. Chinese.
Japs, Greeks. Italians, S, rians. and
orientals generally. No, | don't call
Italians 'orientals," but the average
OF those we have here are far inferior
to the Japanese
thought the old population Of the
lead mine district cosmopolitan but
soon learned after coming here that l
had made mistake had heard but
comparatively few foreign languages,
and was even deficient in the provin.
rialismS Of orr nwn Trra we had all