Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-02-20
THE BLUE-BOTTLE FLY.
WHERE THERE IS STENCIL IT CAN
BE FOUND.
The Incog Writer Assumes an Attitude
and Makes a Pass To Get Even With
The Teller.

Tie Teller.
EDIIoR HERALD;-A short and
somewhat incomplete article which
appeared in the HERALD some time
ago seems to have had tendency TO
..stir up the animals 1t made the
Teller man mad and caused him to
call some one ian ignoramus and a
liar With regard to the notice of
those Sovieski meetings, it is stated
on good authority and by a person
whose honesty cannot be questioned
that the notice 1eus taken to the Tel
Ter office, not by Mr.. Miles himself as
was stated, but by another person for
him. which amounts to the same
thing as far as the question at issue
whether the notices were denied in
sertion in the Teller-is concerned.
1t was stated in the hearing of the
writer that the notice was handed in
but MIR. Pollock misplaced it and it
was left oft by accident. Mr. Pol
lock is liable to accidents when they
serve his purpose Accidents saved
his life from the Newhall fire and the
ravages of small pox, and. in fact,
his entire life is one continuous round
of accidents.
He has built up the circulation of
his paper by his quarrelsome method
of writing; the darts from his pen
have stung many an honest heart and
murdered the friendship of many who
now shrink from him and sneer with
scorn and contempt. Week after
week his friends have been dropping
off, until now they can be counted by
the prattling babe who has but short
lv learned to lisp its mothers name
Hardened in sin and the vices of
journalism, he now, like Gagged rep
| tile, bites and strikes in all directions,
having little pity where his sting PEN
etrates or where his blows are aimed,
and like blue-bottle fly, he hovers
around the stencil of his own rotten
editorials.
The Teller man calls on his readers
to Judge, and wants them to believe
what he says is always the truth. He
boasts on his honesty, and would have
people believe that he is as pure and
virtuous as poets dream OF course
if he advocates principle he ALWAYS
stands by it. During the recent
Pullman strike, the people win re-
member his position. How Pollock
did roast" the railroad magnate!
Did he not take sides with the union
strikers Was he not a thorough adj
vocate of Unionisme Did he not con-
denim the .'scabs'' for taking the plac-
es OF union strikers2 Then il he al
WAYS backs his own principle, why
does he not employ union men? WHY
did he send to Milwaukee and employ
a non-union printer of that city.
when there were union printers hold
ing international cards and in rood
standing and who were out of employ
ment in his own city? Has he not
always employed cheap labor to turn
out his '.gimlet?" That's principles!
1t does not refer to record of fifteen
or twenty years back, but the present.
Again the Teller man enlightened
his readers on the existing evils of a
city to grant franchise for electric
lights works; told how the county was
in the clutches of corporations and
monopolies; stated that it would be n
crime for the city to grant a franchise
and the next week he turned about
and asked the city council to grant
him franchise to put in an electric
light plant. No inconsistency about
that, eh9
To prove that the Teller always
speaks the truth it may be well to re-
fer to the recent election for the pur-
pose of bonding the city to secure
money to establish a system OF water
works. In his issue after the election
| he stated that Steve Gilbert boosted
of being the second man to vote for
waterworks. The truth of the mat
ter is that Steve was about the last
man who voted and did not make any
boast whatever. He had been work
ing at the brickyard and did not cast
vote until o'clock in the afternoon.
Pollock did not he, oh, no, 1t was
simply an accident, that's all. The
HERALD editor some time ago quit
the fight. but Pollock thinking that he
had him whipped. kept on singing
his mud until the HERALD was again
compelled to pick up the quill in self
defense Pollock allowed several ar
ticles t. apeear in his paper. signed
by John NJ. Hurley, which made the
friends Of Rev. Soyieski indignant
There are still more people in Laneas-
ter to-day who believe that Soyieski
was what he represented himself to
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