Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-04-01
The HssembIBman Speaks.
MADISON. wls.. March so. 1897

feeI compelled to accept your gen
erous offer OF the use OF your columns
to reply to sundry remarks and insin-
nations in the last issue Of Your paper
concerning myself | cannot help
feeling, however, that ifyour kindness
were as genuine as YOU would have it
appear you would have excluded from
yonr paper the malicious and nonsense
cal statements ven invite me TO reply
%. desire inst 10 notice the article
in your last issue in which il is stated
that have agreed to turn over to MIR.
Goodsen 900 republican votes. The
charge made against me is grave
one. and it seems to me that any hou-
orable gentleman in putting it forth
would have done tvo things ~ would
have signed his name to j, and would
have furnished some proof that il is
true To my way of thinking il is
cowardly and entirely discreditable 20
anyone 10 attack another ii such
way. 1t Will be observed that this
communication states that have
agreed to turn over to Mr. Goodsell
900 republican votes and upon this
suppositiop he deduces number of
interesting conclusions the first state
ment being untrue, it is plain there is
no accaSior 90. -, =, f, - =, So, = Il, ,...tIg
further. No denial ought to be re-
quired to an unsupported statement
made by one, who coLceals their iden-
tity, but as some may expect it from
me, | will say that never made such
an agreement and never thought OF
such thing. A man. who would
deem himself the possessor of such a
power, would be nothing short Of
fool. The fact is ! have only one vote
but mean 70 cast it like free man,
and now that YOU ask me, | will state
that | shall not cast it for Judge Car
ter. opposed Judge Carter momi-
nation from the start, not because OF
anything personal but because | con
sidered him unfit for the office and
that It would be discredit to the re-
publican party and to Grant county
10 retain him in It. But by trickery
and disreputabe means. ii is said, and
believe it, he was nominated. But
because Of this am bonnd to support
man whom honestly believe to be
unfit? After doing what little / could
to prevent the calamity of this nomi-
nation, is there no escape for me?
Must ! now turn in and support him2
As it looks TO me. have the good of
the people on one hand and partisan
ship on the 9th !, and | believe the
best interests of the republican party
can be best subserved by refusing 10
sanction such nomination. am
bound to say that believe the rights
Of the people in this county are super
Tor to blind obedience to party lam
further confirmed in this decision
that this is not political Office and is
not SO considered by the great political
leaders Of the state There is no party
measure to be carried out in this OF
lice. The only question involved and
n issue IS. Is the applicant capable3
Is he upright; will he preserve proper
dignity and keep his conduct clean be-
fore the world2 Now everybody
knows that Judge Carriers habits have
been bad. He himself frankly admits
it, 30 we want man for i Judge
: who has frequently been in condi-
J ton which disgraced his official call.
: iug, and /, unbecoming gentleman
, and who but short time since, While
III this condition, assaulted peaccable
citizen in one Of the saloons in the city
J OF Lancaster. People Of other coun-
ties are watching to see what Grant
county viii 10. BecauseI am re-
publican must help perpetuatc this
/ state Of things Yes. he has taken
the keeIey bat not until the last mo-
{ ment. lie has reformed but not uutI
the eleventh hour and he has reformed
before. am reminded Of the old say
) ing when the devil was sick. the
devil monk would be; when the dew
il got well devil monk was he.
The Office IS responsible one and he
aho holds it should have other Gre
dentials beside having graduated from
the Keeley Twist them how you
VIII. both YOU and your correspond
ence know these things to be true. 50
did the people Of Lancaster when they
refused to support him in the caucus.