New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-04-04
Twice He Breaks the Compact.

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gence Of reader Of this issue of the pa
per long enough to devote these few
Ines to his good friend and brother
up the line, for his manly article in the
last issue of the Brown County Jour-
nal. Such exhibitions of brotherly
love and such spirit of fairness and
justice is SO rare, and men of the char
acter and disposition of Mr.. Liesch
are so seldom met with, that it is only
becoming that they should occasional
~ be noticed, SO while the writer pays
his respects to him this once he trusts
tn at those who do not care to read it
will just pass it over. 1t is about of
and may be very tiresome to some of
the readers of the paper.
Two things are very evident from d
reading of the last issue of the Brown
County Journal, one is that Mr.. Liesch
possesses a spirit Of intense hatred
and the other is that he is inordinate-
ly jealous. A gentleman would have
hesitated a long time before he would
have stopped to methods such as were
used in the Journal to make it appear
that the writer was guilty of a crime
which calls for severe penalty, and,
If there was anything to the story, a
man living apparently on gall and bit
terness would have seen to it that the
law was invoked and the criminal
punished.
The writer has no compunction i'll
admitting that he wrote the name of
Fl. w. Childs as a reference on the APP
plication sent to this office for him to
fill out, and was not aware that it was
necessary that the reference should be
a member of the association MIR.
Childs had personal knowledge as to
whether the writer was connected with
the Review or not and would have told
the truth or refused to say anything.
If that is forgery then make the most
of it.
| The article in the Journal is evident
| ly a creation of Mr.. Liesch. The
gramm atical construction of it is so
! wretched that the ':real editor" of the
paper would scarcely be guilty of ad-
hitting that he could possibly be the
father of such an immature child, and
this. too, in violation of the compact
which was urged by Mr. Liesch that
the editors of the county cease their
roasting each other. It is a fair
sample of the truth and veracity'' of
Mr.. Liesch which he. so loudly pro-
claims, when he tries to make us be-
lieve that he, only, of all the editors
| in the county keeps his word.
In this instance it is very evident
why such an uncalled for and unmanly
attack was made. Mr.. Liesch was in
attendance at the meeting of the edi.
torial association and was active in
his attempt to defeat Mr.. Hodges for
the office of president of the associa-
ton, he failed. He was humiliated,
and more than this he was compelled
to stand by and witness many of the
editors engage in pleasant conversa-
ton with the writer Notwithstanding
Mr.. Liesch tried to make it appear
that he had no friends at home and
was an outcast from society, so he
"got busy" with his dirty pencil and
| gives vent to his spleen in this abor.
ton Of English in which he attempts
to show forgery.
70 be just in the matter and fail
with this monument of virtue and pro.
pagandist of editorial ethics we hon.
estly believe that the article was writ.
ten after he had made strenuous eff.
fort to see whether or not the LID
which Mayor Jones said was on in the
city was so tight that he could not get
under 1t. Of course it would not do tc
come out openly and say this but then
as he says in his forgery article;
1T appears 500.
It was not so long ago that Mr.
Llesch came within very narrow mar
gin of being expelled from the editori
al association for unprofessiona con
duct, and was only saved from it BY
the interference of the one or two
friends he had in the association. Ht
seems to remember this and is Jealous
of any person from his home city OF
county who is in position to attrac
more attention than he. At any rate
he has demonstrated that his word il
matters of honor is not worth consid.
ering and there dwells in his soul {
! Jealous hatred that only legal restrain
refrains him from developing into
something worse than words.
J 81. G. Hays formerly of Sleepy Eye
but now located in st. Paul, has gon.
into the drainage question with all hi:
energy and is making the question