Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-04-26
THAT TAX LIST.

| The Ninocqua Times in its last issue
| contains q very bitter Gbelons personal
attack upon our present County Trcasur-
or, Ole SwenSon. This attack Eliminates
for the reason that Mr. Swenson gave the
tax list this spring to the Villas COUNTY
News to publish. The Times says Mr..
] Swenson promised the list to them. 1t
says the Villas COUNTY News is q demo.
cratic paper and for that reason should
not have the list to print. Personally
| we know nothing about the promises
spoken OF by the Times, and rs Mr.:
SwensOn is out Of town and haA been
since the aforesaid article was published :
we leave that part OF the article to be
answered after Mr. SWenson returns
which will probably be in few days
but that part Of the article which attacks
| Mr. Swenson'A right to print the lat in
the Villas COUNTY NEWS because it IL u
Democratic paper VIZ wixl, to answer
now Sec 1880 of the Revised Statptsn
makes il the duty Of the County TrUasur-
er to publish the tax list, and gives him
the absolute right to publish it in any
paper in the county stlat has been pub,
| lsIled for two years. that lie may see tit
to select regardless OF what political
party the paper represents. So much
for his legal right.to publish it iii the
Was COUNTY News. Again from the
very organization of Villas county the
county printing has been placed by the
county officers and the county boards in
whatever paper they saw tit to publish
| 1t, without amy regard for the politics Of
the paper. The first county board of
Villas county GncIudng the County CLERK
who then had q vote ON the county
board) was composed OF two democrats
and one republican, notwithstanding
a majority Of the county board was then
democratic, his very paper the Min
ocqua Times, which was then owned
and edited by the same man who is now
wailing like all int;tnt because he dldn't
get the tax list to publish this spring.
was made the official paper of Villas
county and was given more printing by
| that democratic county board, than any
paper in the county has since received
from any county board in the same
length OF time. Then it was all right
with the Minocqua Times. 1t didn't
grumble then. 1t didn't call any hard
names then. It didn't twit a llnman
being OF some deformitv to his person, :
nor OF receiving paltry sum-" 1t Just
kept right on receiving printing from q
democratic county board. and every
thing was lovely. Neither did the Villas
COUNTY News (Which was then called :
The EAGLE RIVER DEMocRAr) gFnmble
or call the county board hard names. 1t
struggled along, doing what It
could for its party, and the county, and
patiently awaited time vixen it might
receive some of the municipal printing.
And SO, Mr.. Swenson i'll placing the tax
list this spring with the V1LAs COUNTY
News, is simply following one OF ths
duties which the statutes require OF him.
that is to print the list III some paper ip
the county, and he is also following .
precedent well established in this county
and Others, namely that the municipal
printing is placed without regard to the
politics OF the local paper in which it IL
published.
In conclusion we wish to say, that we
believe The Minocqua Times or any
other paper which will use it's columns
to throw mud, call names, and twit
respected law abiding citizen OF some de-
forrnity of person such as iii his eyes had
been put in his head straight deserves
the censure, and condemnation ofall clu
zens.