The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-11-12

leC4sAStir4ss6 WITNESSING " Clle4 tu4ty USAOACa
land took exceptionsa4to Our statement
that the :slleayy vote polled fol, she OPP
positionis protest against the office
holders and oiiice-seekers' ripg,,,, This,
lie said, was "a Nellc' aa we undertook to
show that jtwas not a lie, but this only
made linn the ,nadder. We assured
him that we<preferred not to get angry;
that Major Bell jlst before the election
land Major Bell just after the election
were two very different men, and that
when q man BECAME "a candidate for
Office. lie seemed to lose all conscience
and all temper: Then the Major "went
for us'' .andassured us that we ''had no
Independence as an editor that, we
have refused the Republicans hearing
and that we had said and done all man
ner Of MEAN things against ''the ticket"
He left daring and defying us to IS peak
/ out'' against him or title ring.'
This is the substance or what &C.
CURED, as we can prove by three wit
! nesses: =. -. u. / ri j.. >, 4; 49,
So it seems that Major Bell, WHO be-
fore the election went about, disguised
as q gentleman, throws off Ills cloak
just as soon us lie is safely elected, and
lets off the wrath: which, has been, wor-
rying him through the campaign. Now
let us look for "a moment at his state
ments: ,'1.( : -, '...' ...' :
]. lie says. st is a lie'' that the light
Republican vote is Il protest against
what has been so freely called tl,roug GIL
out the campaign 1.-The office-holders'
and of ce-seekers'' ring. D." Whether
!! there is any such ''ring'' or: not we
must leave to those Republicans who
voted. the Reform ticket to decide.
They declared there was II ring"
formed to hold and parcel out the
offices, and they were dissatisfied. Or
this we were assured by i number of
Republicans, especially: from Hersey,
WorthingtQn and Bigelow Townships.
According to Major Bell they lied "
when they. said there was a ''ring'' and
that their vote should he Il protest
against it. g.. .i.ri..
2. He says we have mo independence
as an editor,'' and that we: lave ire
fused to give Republicans 4 Ihearing''
through tile ADVANCE. This is proba-
bly, because we refused to,publish one
paragraph of a communication Which
Major Bell brought us in reply to the
communication upon Office-Seeking."
That paragraph was wholly personal to
Us and was untrue. Therefore because
we did not allow Major Bell to attack
lis and accuse us falsely through our
own columns, we ''l'ave no ihdepend-
cnce" and Shave refused Republicans a
hearing" Our files will show whether
we refused anybody a .,hearing.a; We
published tive communications favoring
the nomination of Mr.. Durfee, and
gave every man hearing who asked it.
3. lie charges us with saying and
doing ''mean'' things against the ticket.
We suppose one Of these mean things
was to publish the following in our
issue Of October /: go.
ut will he seen that Rev. VIM. NJ.
Bear was re-nominated for Auditor, II.
y. llumiston for Treasurer, and Major
II. g. Bell for Register of Deeds. They
have umqucstiomDly been faithful and
efficient officers during the past term,
and are deservedly popular. If there is
II man in Mobiles County who can say
anything against their official record or
their Christian character. we do not
know of it.'
This was the first ''mean'' act toward
the Major and the ticket. And the last
''mean" act was to vote for these gen.
temen Oh election day. Here is arec-
ord of meannesss which should bring a
blush of shame to the cheek Of Ma
jor Bell for his violent, ill-telnpered and
ungrateful charges. -,
Others, less violent than Major Bell,
have told us frankly that we did not
give the ticket the hearty support
which they expected CT Republican
paper. But in no case have we heard
any complaint from one Of the people as
distinguished from the politicians or
the candidates. The stereotypedl idea
OF political paper is that it must laud
every man Oil its own ticket, whether
good or bad, and abuse, every man or
the opposite ticket: whether bad or
good. We do not prosose to pursue
this course. MA1or Bell evidently ex-
pected us to do so, for he called on us
the morning after our article ON the
Reform Convention appeared, to take
lis to :task'for the respectful manner in
which we treated the matter. Beyond
doubt he expected us to treat it with
bitterness and contempt.
So long. rs the people are satisfied with
the ADVANCE, we care little what the
politicians think. Some of our friends
among tile latter have said to, us that
we ought to have more of !. political
paper here, but the people have never
complained of this department.. They
know that the material development of
this region and the advancement of the
whole Colony III education, temperance,
morality. and religion, is of far. more
consequence than what, local ticket
shall he elected. We say this, kro wing
that politics must not be neglected, and
that a pubic journal should give no un-
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