On This Day | The Politician That Got the Editor

Then he goes on to smear the individuals, one by one, so that it is perfectly plain to his friendly audience that he does not really think anything of the Republicans and doesn't stand behind them any more than the man over in McHenry county who bought a new car and a new manure spreader several years ago, and got into a pet because the Velva newspaper reporter failed to report his purchase of a new car even though it was a better car, he said, than one which had been purchased by some neighbor and reported the same week; the reporter apologized for the sin of omission, said she was glad that he was proud of his new car, and wondered if he would also stand behind his manure spreader.

December 10, 1953 | Ward County Independent