P. 4.. General Hermann Lieb... wrote to "The Open Court," a local periodical publication, in order to protect Governor Altgeld against the rantings of the Know-Nothing element. The Washington Post uses such vituperative terms as "Greenhorn" and "Henchman of Anarchists" in referring to this matter.

The Washington Sentinel, Schade's paper, had a most appropriate reply: "Obviously this blast is the work of the Republican head of the Democratic Post. He and several editors of a similar tribe indulge in a war-whoop about the genus Greenhorn of late. It behooves us to give a little information to Mr. Hatton as he displays such a lack of knowledge.

"Long, long, ago, when Hatton was a little urchin, playing with marbles in the streets of Burlington, Iowa, Hermann Lieb was fighting in the bloody battles of his adopted fatherland and as a sequence of his heroic conduct was honorably discharged at the end of the war with the title of Brigadier General. This much about Lieb, the "Greenhorn."

"In regard to his anarchistic affiliations, suffice it to say, that he is an 2old conservative German-American Democrat, and one of the most capable Democratic speakers in the West. We suggest that the editors of the Post and other Know-Nothing papers peruse our American history - at least the period of the last 40 years. We mean well; it may be possible that thereby their empty heads may yet be cleansed of this indigenous conceitsdness and Know-Nothingism."