Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1916-07-12
EXTRACTs FROM THE AUTO
BIOGRAPHY OF
ZANE GREY SWISSF1ELM
First Newspaper Woman Of
Minnesota.
A Remarkable Woman Of Ante
bejIum Dayo-1815-1865
CHAPTER XXXVII.
Another Visiter.

George Brott was proprietor of low
or St. Cloud and had started a paper,
The Advertiser, to invite immigration.
There we're two practical printers in
town, both property-owners, both in
terested in It,; growth, and when the
resources of The Advertiser had been
consumed and they had had union
rates for work done on It, they fell
back on their dignity and did nothing.
They had enlisted in the wrong army,
did not belong with this band of p1o-
neers, making it's way against savage
beasts and men. They were soldiers
of a union whose interests were all
opposed to those of St. Cloud, so they
were looking on, waiting to see if the
great, need of paper would not COM
pei their neighbors to pay tribute to
their union.
Mr.. Brott asked me if I would take
charge of a paper and take town lots
for salary. told him l was an abol-
Zionist. He laughed. and said:
"A lady has right to be of what
ever politics she pleases," and went
on to say, that if 1 could recommend
Minnesota to emigrants, and St. Cloud
as town site, he cared nothing for
my opinions on other points. He
thought we might unite all the town
proprietors, and so raise money to pay
the printers, so l wrote to each one,
asking his support to the St. Cloud
Visiter, as an advertising medium. All
save Gen. Lowrie, were prompt In
making favorable response; but from
him l had not heard, when there had
been three issues of the paper. Mr..
Brott was in the Office, and l said:
"There is one thing more. l feel
that some day 1 will attack Gen. Low
RE, who is your friend. He will set
Shepley on me; will make short
work of him. Then we will have a
general melee, and l will clear out
that clique. Shepley is your lawyer,
and l do not want to use your press
in that way without your consent"
While l spoke, his jaw dropped and
he sat staring at me in literal open
mouthed wonder, then threw back his
head, laughed heartily and said:
"Oh, go ahead! bake no bread in
any of their ovens!"
Very soon 1 had a letter from Gen
Lowrie, saying:
II myself will give the St. Cloud
Visiter a support second to that OF
no paper in the territory, if 1t will
support Buchanan's administration
Otherwise l can do nothing"
had not finished reading, when the
thought came: "Now have you" Yet
still l knew it looked like, ah, very
like a man catching a whale with a
fish hook secured to his own person.
when there were hundred chances
to one that the whale had caught him
l replied that the St. Cloud Visiter
would support Mr.. Buchanan's admin.
istratton, since it could not live with
out Gen. Lowrie's assistance, and
such was his ultimatum.
On the second day after that con
tract was made brother Harry came
all trembling with rage, and said:
"Lowrie is telling all over town that
he has bought you, and that the Wis.
tier is to support Buchanan"
1T is true" was the astounding an.
swer, when he said bad words, rushed
from the room and slammed the door.
Then followed ten days, the only
ones since he became my brother