New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-08-31
Two Souls With But Single
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editorials; whenever he takes up his
pencil it makes us unnecessary trou-
BILE, and this last spasm about a
Court House Ring" is SO hideously
bucolic that it is fairly verdant with
the growth of a month sold grain
field, and must lend a picture to a
reader, who does not know the rotund
editor of the Journal, of a man with
long whiskers and sharp nose who
thinks he owns the earth when all he
has is a mortgaged 40 acres, a garden
full of small potatoes and an ambition
to be path master of his district. We
have all met them they are known in
vulgar parlance as sore-heads.
Here is the peculiar part of the
whole thing: A short time ago Bro.
Green was calling Bro. Liesch (this
term Bro" is professional etiquette)
all the names possible to put in print
and circulate through the postoff1ce
and Liesch swore eternal damnation
on the body and soul of his neighbour.
But last week when the Review reached
our brother of magnificent proper
tions, he waxed unusually friendly and
we have a view of him visiting the
News Office.
'sDid you see it Bro. Green?'
sob Lord yes!" gasps the News edi-
tor.
''It's a ring. I know it," walls
the Journal man. IT used to get all
the job work from the court house and
now I am positive the Review was Civ
en- one job"
ST know it. The candidates don't
even put their cards in our papers.
And then these two great, big babies
1--WE can't dignity them by calling them
old women) sat down and agreed to
stultify themselves by making public
what they know to be false, knew when
they concocted the story that was as
far from the truth as they each are
from being what the creator intended
them to be: manly men.
It hasi been said that God never
made mistake but we have to make
an exception when we take in the crea-
ion of these two.
We have to presume, then, that
Liesch went back to his Office and,
after his English had been corrected,
sent proof of his article to the News,
for the two editorials are so similar
and that in the News SO foreign to the
general stagnant trend of that paper,
that one parent is only possible.
They both clip the following from
the Review, which is the only true
thing in the article:
"The Review will advocate the re-
turn of present officials, namely: Lou
is G. Vogel for auditor, Wesley c..
Miller for register of deeds, John
Schneider for treasurer. S. A. George
for Judge of probate, Einar Hoidale
for county attorney, VIM. j. Julius
for sheriff, John Cutting for superin-
tendent, George Book for surveyor,
L. A. Fritsche for coroner, and for
representative S. D. Peterson"
Then comes this pyrotechnical dis
play of crudity. Quoting from the
New York Sun: This hell broth of
aishwater and dynamite:''
Whether the the article Whether r this article
in the Review was in was inspired by the
spired by the county county officers en-
officials endorsed re- dorsed or not. it looks
mains to be explained tsusp icious, and the
In order to satisfy the News has right to de
Journal that the re- mand an explanation
publican county Off at least of the demo-
GERS above mentioned Gratis mentioned as
have not joined in a the favorites Of the
court house ring we Review. The News
demand an explana- further has right to
ton on their part. demand and does now
What we desire to and here demand to
know: Was the above know it a court house
announcement sanct- ring has been formed
toned by them? HaveltO control the Offices
they designated the Iof Brown County. to
Review as the organ bar out all but the old
of the ring? Unless alOfficerS, and if the Re-
satisfactory explana- view is the ring organ.
ton is given to the Ii such proves to be
Journal which will fact this paper
fully exonOrate them has no heSitancy in ad
we will be compelled Ivising all the voters
to take further steps of the county outside
to stamp out this in of such ring to vote
iquitOuS practice IN for the nomination of
republican county pol new men at the pri-
itics. We do not pre- maries, to free them
tend to call to account selves from the domi-
the democrats as it is nation of the ring and
not within our prov follow it up by voting
ince to do so. for new men at the
general election.
Who are these men to whom the
Democrats and Republicans must ex-
plain! Who is Liesch that he dictates
to the News its political policy and
"demands an explanation" when his
apologies were in better taste?
He would be a petty, political tyrant;
rich, because he has preyed on his
good-natured friends; strong, in his
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