Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-11-04
AT HIS OLD TRICKS.

Inc eultOr OI tne DoueV'"O WV o'''''
Bourbon. like, never learns anythingand
never forgets anything 1t this were
not true he would never have repeated
his experiment of last fall, as he has
done in his paper Of last week The fol-
lowing article compares well with his Ia
NOUS effuson of n year ago, which was
printed in that part Of the edition circu-
lated in the northern part OF the county,
and omitted in those sent to the southern
part and which defeated two or three of
the Republican candidates, himself among
the number;
How Is Ir?-The Mineral Point Tribune
fails to place the name Of Archibald, Camp
bell, for Supervisor of the I'd District OF
this county, in the Republican County Tick
ct. at the head OF its columns, We have
noticed this before, but thought il might
have been an oversight, but when the last
issue before election comes out without
hosting his name, and without ever hav-
ing given one word of support, we are
are inclined to think there is niger in
the fence All that has ever been said in
the Tribune about this Office is just the bare
announcement that he was nominated, and
that his opponent was David Mcfarland,
"said to be a very good man." How ls
this? Does the 1rlbuae intend to boHy III
so, the Republicans of this District would
like to know it. If the publishers of thel
7rib,ne had an objection to Mr. Campbell
and did not wish to support him, they sho'dl
have come out and instructed us who tol
nominate. But as the circulation and in-
huence of the Tribane in these three towns
is very limited, their course may not have
much effect, and we will elect him without
their aid, and if need be in spite Of them
The nomination of Mr.. Campbell we
thought to be inudicious, and we were
not alone in that opinion, as the Chron-
icle man we'll knows More than (rac-
ton of the best Republicans of the I'd
Supervisor District openly bolted the
nomination and averred it to be a swim
die upon the people, perpetrated by the
Chronicle and its c.,que. These facts
however, we considered no reason why
we should meddle in the matter, and
purposely RETAINED from doing so. BY
this course of leaving the people of that
District to manage the matter for them
selves, we hoped to avoid touching any
chord that could arouse the sectional
feeling between the north and the south
which is known to exist, AVID is so easily
awakened. Our motive was the most
pure, and we believe the course pursued
was the proper one, and though u pusil-l
luminous editor may ;not appreciate it,
the people will understand it.
In the Chronicle article above, it will,
be seen we are represented as not only
being silent in regard to the matter, but
as having spoken fayorably Of Mr. Me-
Farland, the Democratic candidate-to
have endorsed him as "a very good man.
To show where the Chronicle got these
words, it is necessary to give in full our
remarks upon Mr.. Campbell's nomination,
which were as follows
County SUPERVISOR - The Republicans
of the I'd Supervisor District of this couu-
tv, comprising the towns of Dodgcyille,
Highland and Ridgeway, held a conventions
at Dodgcyille last Friday, and nominated
Mr., Archibald Campbell, as their candi-
date His opponent is David Mcfarland of
Highland, said to be very good man but
II very bad Democrat.
In quoting from the above the Chron-
icle began and ended in the middle Of a
sentence. Had he finished the sentence
there would have been no ground OF
which to base complaint. The closin.
words, "but n very bad Democrat enl
tirelv nullifv what we said about him AS
Il good man and made the whole sem
tence uniavorable to him. The nGli,
cious sneak dared not boldly lie, but pur
cues the more cowardy course of imply
inS it, Any one unacquainted with the
facts, reading his article would conclude
that tho Tribune had ut least given n
quasi support to Me Earland any
one reading our article from which hel
quotes will see that he is guilty of inten )
tional ialsehood. /