The Sauk Centre herald., 1896-04-02
sAUK ENTIRE HERALD.
BY CHAS. F. HENDRIX.
SUBSCRIPTION $l.5O PER YEAR.
GEN. cATTERSON FOR MAYOR. I

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There is more or less well defined
and widely prevalent convicton that the
administration ofour municipal govern
ment has been too lenient if not too
loose during the past year. While such
complaints have not taken the tangible
shape of specific charges in individual
cases. yet the feeling exists that a more
vigorous policy would advance the
moral and material welfare of the city.
In expression OF this conviction, Gen.
Robert F. Catterson was prevailed upon
to accept the candidacy for mayor
against the present incumbent, N. H.
Miner, who seeks reelection as an eri-
dorsement OF his administration. The
caucus held two weeks ago determined
nothing, in that its nominations were
not in accordance with law, and both
candidates go into the field upon exactly
the same footing, and by precisely the
same means. by petition. Last year it
will be remembered Mr.. Miner was an
independent candidate against the eau
Gus nominee. 1fthere be any advantage
or claim arising from regularity, IN
an irregular caucus, the present mayor
waived it when he became an independ-
ent candidate in 1895.
General Catterson needs no introduc-
ton to our citizens among whom he has.
ived and transacted business for the
last decade. Clean, upright, vigorous
and yet decided and pronounced IN ms
convictions, he would make ain ideal
mayor. Furthermore he is no novice IN
that position. He once served us mayor
of Little Rock, Ark, receiving over 1oo
ofthe 100 votes cast. In civil life he IA
discharged every obligation resting upon
a citizen acceptably and well, and IN
view OF the prominence which will at
tach to the events OF the current year,
locally, he is pre- eminently the right
man for the place.
His military record IN not only highly
honorable, but brilliant. He enlisted as
a common soldier, carrying gun and
knapsack for three months, after which
promotion followed promotion tor meri-
torious service, with striking rapidity.
And they were in no sense polit1ca.
promotions-he had no "pnll" in poll
tics, as did many officers. At the time
of his discharge he held full commission
as Bngadier General. Briefly summed
mp his military career is as follows: En-
listed as private in the three months
service on April 22d 1861, five davs after
the firing on Ft. Sumpter, he was made
orderly Sefgent on May 18th, 1861;
Second Lieutenant on July 5th, 1861:
First Lieutenant. March 18th 1862; and
Captain, May 4th 1862-all in the 14th
Indiana. On October 18th, 1862 he was
commissioned Lieut.. Cal. OF the 9th
Indiana, Colonel. of the same regiment
on November 10th, 1862. served as
chlef of Gen. Logan's corps. staff in the
march to the sea and was mustered out
a Brigadier General on Jan. 18th, 1866.
serving hye years less three mont hs.
During that time he was in forty-one
engagements-some of the fercest OF the
was-and was wounded five times. After
the war lie was appointed United States
Marshal of Arkansas, and served during
the turbulent days OF reconstruction. He
was also brigadier general, and subse-
quently major general of the state forces
of Arkansas during 1863 and 1869.
He was department commander of the
Grand Army of the Republic for his state
in 1S71-at time and place when it
meant something to belong to that
honorable order.
Few men have won greater honor and
distinction in either civil or military life,
and Sauk Centre. while it cannot eontri-
butte any additional lustre to his record
by electing him mayor would certainly
do great creditsto herself by having such
a man at the head OF her municipal
affairs.