The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-02-17
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY17, 1898.
GAZETTE BUILDING DIRECTORY.
MR.. M'CLEARY'S CHOICE.

followed by his confirmation, last week,
will probably lead to Mr.. Hughes
taking charge of the Redwood Falls
postoffice some time between now and
March LIST.
The appointment is a remarkable
one to be charged to the representative
of this district in Congress, and while
it may have passed without newspa-
per comment and remain a fixture in
the minds of those who know the
candidates best, the remarks made by
Mr.. McCleary to a Times reporter just
after the Mankato and Redwood Falls
postal announcements, have made it
the subject of newspaper comment.
In his interview with the Times re-
porter Mr.. McCleary states that it is
but natural for popocratic papers to
stir discomfort over his selections, and
that he is satisfied that time will
vindicate his action in the postoffice
selections.
Mr.. McCleary came to Redwood
Falls in November, and held parlor
reception or voting contest in private
room of Hotel Francois. There he
announced the rules by which he
would govern the contest. The first
rule was personal character,th second,
fitness, the third, politics, and the
fourth, numbers.
Mr.. McCleary disregarded every
one of these rules laid down by him
self in the selection of his postmaster
at this place. Taking personal char
acter, for instance, where is there che
among the three defeated candidates,
who has not a better personal char
acter than the successful aspirant,
whose name is peddled about in .rdi-
cule on the streets. From the stand
point of fitness, any one of the three
we're superior to Mr.. Hughes; from the
standpoint of politics one certainly,
and we believe, any one of the three
has done more for the Republican
party than Mr.. Hughes. From the
standpoint of numbers voting at the
parlor reception one candidate had
from five to ten times more hackers
than Mr.. Hughes, another had three
to four, and third twice as many, at
least. There is not a single principle
set fourth by Mr.. McCleary at the
outset, but what he openly disregarded
in his selection at this place.
In reference to Mr.. McCleary's
popocratic thrust the writer is as we'll
acquainted with the course of The
GAZETTE as is probably any other one
man, it having commenced year af-
ter his birth on soil which has been
his adopted home for 20 years. 1t
has been Republican when other pa
pers, and when men have shrunk
from Republican duty. He has been
acquainted with James Aiken for a
period extend over eighteen years, and
served his apprenticeship under him
during Mr.. Aiken's first years in Red
wood Falls. Those first years we're a
continuous cry of hard times, when a
newspaper man was forced to show
his steel to survive. Mr.. Aiken then
fought aggressively for the Republi-
can party, and he has fought for it
ever since. He made mis- fight as a
Republican, without reward, ever con-
tinuing in the path of true Republic
canism, National, State, Congressional,
and it was the The GAZETTE, more
than any other influence that held
Redwood county in the Republican
columns during those years, notwith-
standing successive onslaughts from
other parties.
| It is a fact that no one can deny
that whenever the Republican Ma
tional, and National congressional
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