Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 5, 1904, Page 1

— ) A remarkable offering of fine’ fasbion- able laces and embroideries. Just at the right moment too—right in March, when all the spring and summer, dresses are being planned—what can be more attrac- tive to the ladies than this early show- ing of beauties at 25 per cent less than than you have ever bought them before. The finest showing of imported goods in these lines to be had anywhere, and at such low prices as to make them move promptly. Laces are in greater demand this spring than ever, and we are there- fore displaying a much larger line than usual, including many novelties, and selected with care and discrimination. When you bave a half hour or an hour tospend, come and look at them. You will tind the pattern: uck more beauti- than we have ever shown before, the assortment severa' times as farge, and the cost 25 per ce: S$!uwer than ever. g Beading 3 All-Over Laces $ 3 3 The Difference in Figures If you just “rubber” around at what the other dealers have to offer vou then come and see our line ef COOK STOVES and RANGES. and the price for whieh they can be obtained you will uever yo elsewhere to 9 When you think of your wife toiling over that old fstoye don’t you feel guilty? Well you ought to—if you don’t “You know that we have just putin a eemplete line of these neccessary things So why put up with such a condition of affairs when you can have a new stoveatso small a price Lbat your pocket book will hardly feel it. ; Just givé us a chauce to prove our assertions. f Come in and have a friandly chat,—you need not buy if yoa don’t want to. W. J. & H. D. POWERS. Pern aeE eI you should always try to get the best goods in the market at the lowest prices. You should bux Fresh and Salt Meats, gan. They always have on hand at the Market of Theos. Finne- the very best — at lowest prices. f Thos. Finnegan, _Thos. Finnegan, Proprietor. | Fish, Game etc., BA na 4 PP SLSLSOSE SLESLSWSLSOS FH SLSLSISLSESLSS SLSWISSSVSLISISE SLSSSLSVSE WM. C. TYNDALL, Agent For A. FITGER & CO’S., Fine Bottled Beer and Malt Extraet. j Valenciennes Laces, without end in patterns, and prices Re, So, de, Be, Se, Ze, Se, Se, 19¢,. 26e, 25, SQ, S5c Torchon Laces, an extensivé line from E mbroeries and Inserting, and separately, in endless variety and a good range of prices from Itasca Mercantile Co. {servation for several years. Ge to SOc in sets 5 cents up Novelties 3 James Makes a Sneak. “ "The editor of the HeraldsReview the peace without his knowledge or 50 ee scoutoe a consent, and he indignantly decines no politics inyolved in the ticket -| there are~rumors~against™ the gpresent. | ou berihe it-presepts ta the public: council,” says the Magnet. crawfishing, Brother James; you're trying to sneak out of what you did say; trying to do just what the Her- ald-Review thought you would do, viz: trying to escape the consequences of a lie by telling another lie. You're This is what the Herald-Review said you should be ashamed of: It is ramored that certain mem- bers of the present council.do not dare to let a new council get hold of matters until after the fall election fur !t would prove dis- ‘Minn., SaturDAY, Ma-RCH 5, 1904. : Two Do.iars A YEAR, NEW TICKET AND ITS AIM A Scheme Finally Decided Upon Whereby It Is Intended to Defeat Trustees Clair and Rassmussen. / IT Is ONLY A POLITICAL JOB OF THE GANG A Few Retired Politicians Seek Revenge on H. D. Powers Declines Those Who Have Brought About Their Downfall. BUSINESSMEN ARE USED AS CATS’ PAWS the Presidency—Aiken Will Not Affiliate as Treasurer—Weitzel Repudiates the Gang. A “businessmen’s ticket” has been announced. The businessmen seem to be th unwilling vicums of scheming polit: cians. H. D. Powers, announced for the presidency: emphatically declines the honor. F. P. Sheldon has been forced in as asubstitute. Charles E. Aiken, present village treasurer, refuses to allow the gang the use of his nauwe. Wilham Weitzel resents the liberty taken in nominating him for justice of a*% The “Iam holier than thou” ele- ment has been brought outand placed on exhibition by the Magnet. After skirmishing about for several weeks a fraction of a village ticket has finai- ly been put together and her- alded to the public as au ideal busi- ness proposition in which no element of poisonful politics shall be allowed toenter. Piety and purity shall be the motto of their morals as public servants. According to the political astrous to their ambitions; it is asserted that they positively must be re-elected or at least *dictate who the next council shall be.— Magnet. The toregoing is a complete sen- tence and embodies: al} that was ex- pressed on that subject by the Magnet of February, 24. When’ the Magnet editor says the quotation was garbled or distorted in any manner ‘he knows better, He knows the above quota- tion from his paper. is complete and eminently fair. Now, James, if you wish to Co the gentlemen in question justice tell us why they ‘ positively must be re-elected or at Igast dictate who the next council shall be.” Give us your authority forthe rumors if you can produce no actual facts, A Suggestion, But— That genial gigger of the Magnet. | Mr, Stuart, seems to feel sad because the Herald-Review failed .in its last issue to give any consideration to his, fool proposition ‘that an aksolutely new set of men be elected to the couucil so that both councils accused of things have a chance to becleared.” If it were not for the audacily of that sugzestion it would be about the silii- est thing that has come under our ob- When public officials are “acbused of things,” and the accusations are made plain and provan to the people they gen- erally know how to decide such mat- ters. This was demonstrated in Grand Rapids iast March, To be charitable and make it mild, we will say that the 1go2z council was charged with in- competency. The c.se was tried and the defendants were found guilty But the present council has had no charges preferred against it. The members thereof, collectively or individually, have nothing to submit to a third party for settlement. They are going before the people to whom they have submitted a complete report of their offici:| doings for the past year. If the 1go2 councilmen felt as clear in their consciences as do the present body they, too, would submit their past stewardship toa decision of the tax- payers. Before making another such sage and seer recently imported from Duluth, who stands sponsor for the newly discovered constellation, they are “almost ideal.”” They need no laudations or certificates of character from any source. The only trouble that confronts the astronomers who have made this iatest and most re- markable discovery is the finding of a satellite that will play Sirius. * * * , In Wednesday’s issue of the Magnet the following fraction of a ticket was | brought out and recommended ‘for public approval: President, H. D. Powers: trustees, F. P. Sheldon, Juhn Beckfelt and C. H. Dickinson; treas- urer, C E, Aiken; justices. H. S. Huson and Wn. Weitzel. They were uab'e to find any material fora recorder. J.S.Gole was importuned to go un the ticket but he flatly re- fused to haye anything to do with it. Several other gentlemen were inter- viewed and urged to accept the re- cordership, but they all refused to be led to the slaughter. Mr. Powers! called at the Herald-Review office} Thursday morning d stated em- phatically that he would positiyely refuse to be a candidate for the office of president; that he had consented to allow the use of his uname as one of the trustees. C. E. Aiken also called and informed the Herald-Re- view that he had not been consulted as to the use of his name on the Powers-Sheldon ticket, and that he would not permit the use of his name in connection with it, Williaut Weit- zel writes the Herald-Review as fol- lows: ‘Some one,without consulting me-and without my kuowledge, has put my name on a village ticket as justice of the peace, whick was pub- lished in the Magnet. I wish to say that I am not a_ candi- date and under no circumstances would serve if elected.” It had been decided that F. P. Sheldon should head the ticket and play Sirius, but after the backroom caucus had ‘ad- | journed Mr. Sheldon reconsidered his rash act and hastened to the Magnet political proposition, dear brother, we would suggest that you locate the fool- Highly Recommended by Leading Physicians as T I ary it. “Best Nerve Ton Telephone No.—— aud Have a Case Delivered to Your Home. PLSLSISPSLSLSLS® BLSLSLSS.S few days. + ae transfer of positions agreed upon be- position of a ticket will be u & | lars. visement until Monday morning when {a special edition of the Magnet may be issued and the taxpayers advised as to what they are expected to do. everal daily and nightly conferences have been held during, the past two _ weeks by the leaders of the ‘‘Defend- /ants” in a vain attempt to arouse en- i thusiasm of sutticient proportions to ; Warrant putting up a ticket ~that might be elected, without avail. In their final desperation it was decided to cast away all hope of success at the polls with the exception of possibly two aldermen to take the places of Rassmussen and Clair. This is where the gang show their bands and teeth at the same time. The Magnet as- serts in bold headlines that there is Magret knows that polities and poli- tics only are at the bottom-of the effort to defeat certain members of the present council. In the first place it is for political reasons vnat members of the 1902 council desire to see a set of men elected who will un- dertake to convince the taxpayers that it was right and proper to ex- pend $40,000 for a twenty-tive thous- and dollar eleciric plant. The un- contradicted facts that. have already been presented by the Herald-Review should alone be sufficient to pol cical- ly destroy those who were responsible for allowing this village to be de- frauded out of several thousand dol- They want a council that will officially vindicate them. The Mag- net knows it is also politics that prompts the ** Defeudants” to under- take the defeat of Alderman Rass- mussen, because it was he who set his face like flint against the machina- tious of Engineer Burch when ‘he realized what that oily individual was doing with the village. Single hand- ped he fought Burch and ihe other members of the 1902 council, but without avail. He realized that the village was being defrauded and he raised his voice and recorded his vote in protest of that: which he knew to be wrong. It was these protests that first attracted public attention to the fact that the interests of the people were being brushed aside that private interests taight be served. By thus attempting to conscientiously dis- charge the duties imposed upon him hy the public he created the lasting hatred of a certain clique and they have determined to leave nothing un- done that is calculated to politically destroy him. It was because of his knowledge of how business was trans- acted by the 1902 council that Alder- man Rassmussen refused to accept a nomination on their ticket last spring, and thathis action was endorsed by the public was evidenced by the fact that he was the only member of that council re-elected. Mr. Rassmussen is a republican and holds tie office of clerk of. court as a republican, and therefore the Herald-Review caunot be accused of speaking in his behalf for political reasons, The Magnet knows it is politics, and only politics, that inspires the opposition of this same clique to A. B.Clair. Mr. Clair’s personal popularity. renders him en- tirely independent of these would-be dictators of villageand county affairs, and because of his in@epeudence, his uprightness, his efficiency in office and their inability to use bim toad- marked him for defeat. The clique killer and-keep’out of his way for a tween himself and Powers. ‘The com- realiges that Mr. Olair is a power of | : 3 der ad- political strength in this county, and sometimes do. DEFECTIVE PAGE as he has laid bare many 9f their well- lanned schemes they have agreed bat he must be retired from public life. These disgruntled politicians argue that if Rassmussen and Clair can be defeated at the coming village election it would have a tendency to weaken them next fall should they be candidates for re-election. Is this politics, Mr. Magnet ? * *” * Now we will tell you why the clique is putting upa ticket. Desiring above all things else to weaken the political strength of Rassmussen and Ciair, they will use—if they can—all of their ticket, except two trustees, as trad- ing stock. Everything is to be sacri- ficed to accomplish this end. Is this politics, Mr. Magnet? * a & ‘The Herald-Review has no criticism to offer on any of the gentlemen named in the Maguet as aspirants for municipal office. They are all repre- sentative business men who should have the interestsof the municipality first in consideration. But we cannot understand why they should permit themselves to be used as cats’-paws to pull political chestnuts out of the fire for one or two political schemers By so doing they have not raised them- selves in the estimation of the people of Grand Rapids, 5 THIS.IS THE TICKET That Will Be Nominated Tonight and Elected Tuesday Next. THEIR RECORDS WILL WIN All Indications Point to the Re-Election of the Present Village Council By the Largest Majority Ever Roll- ed Up In Grand Rapids. - | : For President-- George Riddell For Trustees-- I, D. Rassmussen A. B. Clair H, G. Becker For Recorder— J. S. Gole For Treasurer— C. E. Aiken For Justices of the Peace Hugh McEwan Thomas Sims S96 ee eae ee ee ae a ae ee eae ee eae ae ‘She se ae ae see ae ae ae ae aha ae a ae ne age a EE SRE A Ae ee Re he ae ae Oe Rm a The ticket printed above is that which appears to be the choice of the taxpayers, and it is safe to predict that the names here presented will be placed on the ‘Taxpayers’ Ticket” at the regular caucus to be held at Vil- lage hall this evening. That the voters of Grand Rapids have been sizing up the local political situation is evidenced on every hand where men congregate about town in places of business or on the street cor- ners. Our special political reporter finds that there is more interest taken in the contest. that will take place next Tuesday than eyer before in this village. And notwithstanding the unusual interest that is showa it is only here and there that a voter is found who does not emphatically pro- nounce in favor of the re-election of the present council. This sentiment bas become more pronounced since the appearance of the financial state- ment issued a week ago. Business men have been studying it and they find that never before in the history of Grand Rapids have the affairs of the village been handled with such excellent business judgment as has prevailed during the past twelve months. It was the intention, evi- dently, of the opposition to make a campaigo of insinuations and intima tions against the work ofthe present council, and which they could not sup- portin a single instance. They hoped, however, to thus create a feeling of suspicion against the council that would aid them to elect men who were pledged todo their bidding. The published financial statement most effectually stopped this plan as it set forth the facts in such concise man- ner that every man who can read printing office, where he ordered a|vance their selfish ends they have, knows the financial condition of the village and cannot be deceived by falsehoods Figures don’t lie, but men ESE ESE ae A eae ae ee ae ae ee ae eae ae a eae ae a ae ae ae aa ae ae