The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-02-21
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ndiiszs Isai1ll HxI,n.ss:
Aftst aing last weeks issue,
tho EMF homas Times; / know you
will excte0 one ID your county CORES.
pondents y ~ really feeling very soli-
citopss feea ding your condition. I
began ri fear that, like Othello,
my occupa tion may be gone. II you
have anrylvea shat grangrenous at
tack a spsSEs ven for your ,nvulner-
ability and viii stamp you as one Of
ye editors that can take a periodical
doseo Hagerism like a little man.
However, I believe you will come up
smAlnR q Ia Corbett or Sullivan.
Thee mild winters are conducive to
disorders Of one sort or another and
evidently Grants liver must have
been IA : horribly abnormal condition
70 helch forth such highly punRent
excrement as that article to his 81
subscribers. It must have been q
dainty morsel to roll under their tong
ues, and 1t goes without saying, that
such . load OF Grants stomach
must have resulted In a total collapse
g his tn'arda / never read screed
during my life that so completely and
trnthfully depicted the contemplate
characteristics Of his own moral and
mental make up, which he so labori-
i0usly endeavored to apply to yourself.
~ anyone in this or any other county
can, with search light, find man
With one half the egotism, domineer-
Ing manner, impudence, brass, cheek.
oossy characteristics and envy, which
mfnifests itself in Col. Grant Hager's
antercourse with men and things in
everyday life, then am a Dutchman.
He evidently thinks he is specially
called of providence in his editorial
capacity to regulate men ana things,
and it is equally evident he has a
herculean 0task on his hands, task
that would cause lots of little editors,
who. like himself, labor in narrow
confines, to die in dispair, but Grant
has lots of conceit, cheek. sand
/: and gall, which he mistakes for liter
sary: social and editorial ability. Yet
the fellow physically seems to thrive
and wax fat on the manv worriments
OF this mandane sphere. Such pro-
sblems as deposing Jud LaMoure from
the leadership of the party, wlping
out the populist party by merely a
wsve of the hand, adjusting that liv-
Ing issue the St. Thomas Times
school embroglio. ETC.. are all minor
matters with his royal nibs. He can
settle all these difficulties without
any shedding Of blood. He is one Of
J our modern colludes that don't be-
lfeve in bloodshed, and like the king
Of France, who marched up the hill
10000 strong, and then marched
down again.
Should anyone run counter to his
highly developed opinions on current
events, he will explain In the classic
terms of Bombastes Furioso "Who so
shall these boots displace, must meet
Bombastus face to face" I have
been delegated to conventions to
which Grant has also had credentials.
there, AS elsewhere, his peculiar cussed-
ness never forsakes him. by continu-
ally striving to impress upon his fel.
low delegates that he moves in q
higher ETHEREAL strata tosordinary de.
legates. the bucolic Col. occasionally
utters blast forninst bossism in
politics. These incidents are only at
lucid intervals; while we all know
that his sole ambition is to get there
himself with both feet. Nothing i'm
pedes his progress along those lines
except the ordinary common sense Of
US plebians. who know that If once
exalted to such position he would
outherod, Herod. Quay, Tom Platt
and the rest of those fellows whose
stars are now in the ascendant, would
soon pale into insigniflcance before
bib autocratic majesty. but when We
consider his age and experience it ID
4 not too late to moralize on q change
IN the doughty, Col. Heroic methods
would he necessary but while the
lamp holds out to burn the vilest sin.
nsfmay return.
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He certainly is a vile sinner to an
ply such approbious epithets to one
Who was party man in good stand.
aing NJ time while Grant wore dia-
pSfS ana was learning to walk, but I
have entire confidence you have e.
capped the charge from the colonel's