The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-15
PEACE RE1GNs IN BRISTOL
Letter From well-Known Citizen
Shows 1t ConclusivelY.

Shows 1t ConclusivelY.
The following communication was
received from j. B. Subway anent
the new postmaster at Bristol 1t is
quite evident from the tone of Mr..
Shumway's letter that there is no
bitter feeling over the appointment:
BRISTOL, Wis, July Il.
Editor TELEGRAPH oURIER-In
your issue of the 9Th you give as an
item Of news that Will c. Bacon has
been appointed postmaster at Bristol.
In said item we note several errors.
First, he is a compromise candidate.
Who asked for a compromise candi-
date and who signed his petition?
and who recommended it who asked
for his appointment? Second, there
was bitter fight for the place. There
has been no bitter fight for the place.
There has been friendly strife; there
were two candidates as there usually
are for nearly every office. Did you
ever attend a primary or convention
where there was not? and did you
recommend dropping all candidates,
and taking up some new man that no
one had ever asked for, for fear of a
little strife? Don't you think that
statement little thin? The powers
that be seem to be awfully afraid of q
little strife all at once. We voters
were not advised py these office seek
ers during the last hot and bitter cam
paign to drop them and take up some
compromise candidate. We were
advised, yes ordered, to stand shoulder
to shouldery and march to victory, and
we did it without fear of little bitter
strife.
The electors of Bristol exercised
their constitutional right, guaranteed
by their forefathers of '76, the right to
petition and the right to have their
petitions respected. The electors of
Bristol sent in a petition praying for
the appointment of Mr.. Jackson. This
petition contained l04 names, all pat
rons of the Bristol postoffice. 1t was
recommended by some of the best re-
publicans in the county, but what
rights have we grangers, that a politi-
clan is bound to respect?
Bristol has always been loyal, and at
every election we are expected to form
in line and at the crack of the office
seeking politicians whip. we are eX-
pected to march in solid phalanx to
the polls and deposit our votes for the
political bosses, who, after they are
elected, think they own the earth, and
that we have been sufficiently honored
in being permitted to vote for them,
and are entitled to no further rights
which they are bound to respect.
Perhaps we ought to be thankful to
the three or four political bosses in
Kenosha, who assisted Mr.. Bacon, and
seem to have so strong pull over our,
or their, Congressman Cooper, that he
thinks them entitled to more consider
alton than the 104 grangers who petit
toned him for what they were justly
entitled to. The congressman will
find if he ever comes up for reelection,
that l04 votes count for more than
four minus the 100.
1t has become customary for Keno
sha to interfere in our post0ffice affairs,
ana dictate what and who we can and
cannot have. The parties in this
affair are known, and if they ever
come up for office, neither they or their
dollars, which the congressman seems
to have so much respect for, will ever
get a vote from the 100 granger repub-
| licans.
You say everything is harm0nized.
Do you think so? Do you think this
kind of boss dictation just suits us?
With us this is matter of principle, OF
right, Of justice; a right of majority not
of minority rule.
Mr.. Bacon is a good. man, a.popular
man respected by all who know him,
but he will not leaves his farm to
attend this little postofice. He does
not need it, and does not want it, only
as he can farm it out to some friend,
and add to his political prestige, as
we'll as to his Kenosha friends who
seem to own the postofice pull at
Washington.
Our genial county official who
claimed he had string to pull which
was a sure winner, must have neglect
ed to pull that string at the right time,
or would it not stand the necessary
pull9 Or did his greatness vanish just
at the important time?
He will learn that there are grades,
even among the great politicians.
Some are in the INFER ring. They
have the pull at patronage, and dictate
to the small fry, while the next are
permitted to view and admire their
greatness at a distance, while we COM
mon trash exclaim what fools we
mortals be. y and pray how long, dear