Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-03-12
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OUT OF AMMUNITION, GRANDPA FoLLOCK
TRIES TO SAVE HIMSELF FROM ami
HILATION BY A GRAND DISCHARGE
or BLANK CARTRIDGES.

Defeated and Driven From the Field the
Guerilla Warrior Attacks Private Cores
pondence in order to Bury the Memory
| of Defeat
The guerilla Teller man last week
made new movement in ms lght on
the HERALD. To one who knows how
the information came to him and how
nicely he was worked to make an
exhibition of himself. the matter has
its humorous side. 1t is as good as
the joke going on Pollock about the
whereabouts OF Mr.. Tom Webb the
night Of the serenade But Of this
enough at present. If necessary We
can "explain afterwards.
And so the Teller man believes he
has found something open to criticism
in our private pondence. He fears
the HERALD is not run gust for fun
and so turns auctioneer to cry the
news abroad. Hoping to turn public
attention from his humiliating defeat
in all points Of controversy with the
HERALD he quietly retreats to new
position and makes grand flourish
of trumpets and pretense OF battle.
Poor old Pollock. Twenty years ago
he would not SO easily have taken the
bait dropped to him. For then he had
cunning. But now old age or disease
or both have so weakened his mental
faculties that he shows symptoms of
insanity and idiocy.
Why do we make these sweeping
assertions? Because the very course
the old man so dolefullv bemoans he
himself has repeatedly pursued.
We submit the following questions
to the Teller man: First, have the
columns of the Teller ever been used
to announce the candidacy of an aspi-
rant for the nomination for county
office2 Second. did the publisher of
the Teller ever make charges or receive
pay for such announcements?
We assume that the answers to these
questions must be yves because the
old man is hardly so weak minded vet
as to deny squarely what all the lead
ing citizens know to be true. He will
probably evade direct answer and
hide behind the tattered curtain of
There is only one Teller" What
| does the reader think of an editor who
will brazenly attack a practice that
he has himself followed for years9
But this is not ALL Besides adyertis-
inc candidates for nomination in
business way (Which is entirely prop
er and honorable) Pollock has been
| little variable in his editorial support
of candidates.
We might if it were at all necessary
call attention to his untiring efforts
to scare money out of honest men who
run for Office by threatening to turn
loose upon them his libellous and
scandalous insinuations: or ask Teller
readers to please state how many times
! through his columns he has told John
Eplett and other honest county Off
cials that if they did not give him the
county printing he would everlasting
| ly disgrace them by publishing neatly
constructed lies against their good
names.
But what more needs to be said?
The Teller's positions on this and
most other questions are so insincere,
so inconsistent and false as to hardly
merit notice.
A few words on the question of
campaigning in our county and the
part newspapers do and ought to take
in it are in place.
The custom prevailing quite gener-
ally in this and neighboring counties
is open to serious objection. 1t seems
to be necessary in order to get NOM
| ination on the ticket of the dominant
part to canvass the county personally:
to take weeks and even months of time
setting up the pins" and extorting
promises. most of which will be broken;
and spending hundreds of dollars paw
ing expenses and contributing to all
sorts of charitable schemes laid for
the helpless candidate. Not only that,
but if he wants to .'stand in with the
boys" the office seeker must be liberal
in furnishing cigars, soda water and
other liquid refreshment.
The custom is pernicious: the men
who have gone through the expert
ence, almost invariably condemn it.
1t is the most Objectionable feature Of
our county politics, expensive to
candidates, demoralizing in its in
tiuence and tending to drive the best
men out Of politics.
The HERALD offers no apology for
being out Of sympathy with this prac-
tiee in campaign work
The newspaper is the natural and
proper medium through which ~
reach the people When q man opens