Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-05-15
Things that Spring Brings.

AS the warm spring rains rein Wig
crate the earth from the torpidity OF
a long and uneventful winter, the
candidate being recognized by all
botanical scientists, as the earliest
shrub to sprout, the juciest while it is
growing and the most insipid when it
decays, already is putting forth its
peduncles for the early blossom. At
present the entire political garden re-
mains as when the SHOWS of 1900 COW
cred it, but as the mercury rises it
seems to draw up the candidates with
it, and not infrequently when the
thermometer registers Is plus, the
candidate is fully up to 10 and ris-
ing. The candidates for sheriff are
devoting their talents to the study of
the technlcalities of the law OF service
and returns, as we'll as to a critical
examination of the bolts, locks and
bars of the jail premeditating the
possibilities of REIN bursements from
the county board in case of an unex-
pected jail delivery.
The treasurer is weighing his
vouchers. nickles and pennies in the
scale with his ledger to ascertain their
relative weight, and testing the text
ure of his conscience as to the effect
upon it during the strain of the past
term.
The clerk is also engaged in a re-
view of his past official acts in regard
to the issue of license for hunting
coons and catching Cupids, and re-
lies principally for his claim for re-
election upon the fact that he has
let no opportunity escape for confer
ring authority upon persons to join
their fortunes in matrimonial unity
whether they really wanted to or not.
The clerk of the court devotes the
greater portion of his time to dis
charging the obligations of mis- bond
which require him to tax costs and
insert them in the judgment and
when this is done he has nothing to
fear except that the attorneys for the
Judgment creditor will forget to call
for an execution.
The register of deeds is the acme OF
placidity in the entire regime OF
court house habitues. and has no fear
of committing errors in his work, as
his bond only requires him to make a
correct transcript of all the mistakes
made by others, and he too has moth
ing to fear except that when he has
spread his labor and ink over several
large pages of record, that the party
who owes him for the service will for
get to bring his pocketbook with him.
! The district attorney is always calm
and collected in the midst of his BUSH
ness hours, as he can always defer
any portion of his duties at any time
long enough to draw his salary and
his clients are more numerous than
any other attorney of the court as
they embrace all the people of the
state of Wisconsin, and Grant county
pays the retaining fee whether it be
tor the vindication of broken law in
cagine the culprit away from doing
further harm or handing him over in
charger to the tender mercies Of
some charitable society for gradua-
ton in the degrees of moral ethics.
The superintendent of schools, of
course has charge Of all things which
other people don't know, and in cases
where few stumble on to the same
things that the superintendent has
fallen down on, then mutual admir-
alton society is at once organized, and
literature becomes common property
and the assets are auctioned off to the
county for whatever the county board
think the inventory is worth.
All these officers and agents of the
people1are absolutely necessary for
the conduct of public business and
from the fact that the present ones
have ably discharged all the duties
connected with their offices, the peo-
pie are not worrying about the future
and in the mean time the candidates
are smiling IN anticipation and the
outlook for the coming struggle is
really full of promises even if it fail
| in fruition.