The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-10-17
OUR COUNTY TICKET.

Various matters conspired to prevent
our giving the Republican ticket that
support last week which naturally would
be expected from this paper, the princi-
pal thing was t! at the Editariul manage
ment was in the hands of others than the
Edtor--the latter having been out of
the Sta:e, which, combined with the
''Prize Banner" demonstration made
Banner" Edition of the paper.
We have the pleasure now of hosting
at our mast head the regular nominees,
and shall heartily give them what sup
port aud Influence it is ours to give.
We have no doubt at all that the en-
tire ticket will be elected by a majority
of nearly ifnot quite 900. We are con-
fident of triumphant success, for we
know of no desire or even opportunity of
division Of the party forces which are
vastly superior to the oppostion.-Pres-
eoH transcript.
Say, CHARLEY, we wish to give our
opinion of the first paragraph of that ar
ticIe, and we will characterize it by two
words-untruthful, contemplate.
You give two reasons for not hosting
the County ticket 10 your first issue af-
ter its nomination
1st.-Your absence.
2nd.-The pressing demands of the
prize Banner" demonstration.
In answer to TIE first we wish to say
the County ticket was nominated on
Tuesday; you arrived at home on We'd
nesday and your paper was published on
the next Saturday. Now if during the
time intervening between your arrival at
home and the publication Of your paper,
"the Editorial management was in the
hands of others" as one of your readers,
we would like to know where your hands
vera, and ag6en the editorial manage
ment" Is en- yoatr hands.
Your next reason is that the Prize
Banner demonstration crowded out the
ticket. This is contemplate. You know
that any boy in your office could have
set up the ticket and inserted it in the
paper in twenty minutes, aud the agri-
cultural interests of Pierce Co. would not
have suffered Gerry much, if the said boy
had given the specified amount of time
to the work of putting the ticket in the
paper. With regard to the implied as
sertion that your absence contributed to
make "Banner Edition of the pan"- -
we have not word to say.l
an ,,,~,, .I ..rley. that you
,:.:-, 49,, real reason Of your not
that - ''0No'' '''O' 60 tn"' l'Ne
sniftless and irresponsible individual
known as Wilkins Mcawber, you were
waiting for something to "turn up"
You were dissatisfied with the nomin-
atoms; there was prospect Of peoples
ticket being put in nomination, which
you might wish to support, and so you
left ''the Editorial management in the
hands Of oti ers" until you saw "no de-
sire or even opportunity for division of
the party forces" and then you raised the
ticket and gave it the rousing endorse
ment which we are commenting on.
We 60 not question your right to re-
fuse to raise the ticket, but We do pity
you for making such feeble and trans
parent apology. Why not have been a
man, and told your readers that The tick
ct was a good one, but You did not like
it and SO did not support il until convnc-
ed you could do nothing better. In this
way you could have swallowed the "bil-
ed OWL" and still retained your own
respect and that of your readers.
Be virtuous, Charles, and you will as
suredly be happy, but don't think that
such miserable, untruthful pettifogging
as you have descended to in this instance,
can possibly be productive of either ter
restrial or supcrnal bliss.