Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1875-07-29
I,MPUDENT.

At the late convention held in this city,
and after the delegates to the State con
yci1,ion had been chosen and the most of
the members had retired from the hall
Mr.. Wheeler reported some resolutions,
which were adopted, we believe, by the
dozen or so men that had not gone home.
We have not seen them yet, but learn that
one declares the TRANSCRIPT shall no
longer be considered the "organ" of the
republican party. That reminds us of
the old bible story. The devil took Christ
up to the top Of a high mountain and
showed him the Kingdoms Of the world.
The devil wanted to I've worshiped, and as
summing the ownership of all creation Of
iered it to the lowly Nazarcne for single
act: Of homage. So at this day, and here,
the devil wants to be worshiped, and bav-
ing failed to secure for his clovcn foot
any expressions of admiration from us, he
says VIC are not Of the Pluto family, lash
es his tail, lets loose his three headed Ger
berus, and barks us ont of the internal
(r oliticaD regions. No longer the "organ
of the Party" A half dozen men under
the direction Of Page assume to fix the
political Status Of the TRANsCRIPT! Until
we; undertook the control Of this paper. it
wins never anything but a personal organ,
and most scurrilous and abusive one at
that. We lifted it from the mire of filth
in which we found it, and secured it a
recognition in the field of respectable
journalism Under our management the
paper has never assumed to be q party
''o:gan,' but it has been a constant adhe-
rent to- and an advocate of the principles
Of the republican party, not hcsltating to
ADVOCATE good men nor to <lcnounce bad
ones when either course seemed to be re-
Quircd in the interest Of just government,
and we take pleasure now i'll telling the
few men who thus impudcntly pronounce
against us the sentence of party ostracism,
that in numbers they are insi gnificant :;
that in political integrity they are bank
rupt: that in respect to favors received
they are ingratcs; that as an organization
they represent no principles, but little in
tluencc, and less brains; that they are 4
close corporation of political stock-job-
bcrs, maintained with the sole view of
keeping their leaders in the market where
offices are distributed among those best
able to pay for and least competent to fill
them; that they represent no interest but
their own, foster no friendship that has
not IL money basis, and requi,e no favors !;
that they arc to the party of this county
what "AnGy" johnson, in 1866, said con-
grcss was to the country-"a mere excres-
cncc,' sappi!g its vitality from year to
year without rendering it any value in
return, or ln,parsing to it either character
or valuable service, and these are the men
who do not "rccognize' the TRANSCRIPT
as the "organ Of the Party" We are con-
tent. and hereafter, as i'll the past we have
done, we shall advocate faithfully those
eternal principles which undcrlie all good
government, and with which the practice
Of the dozen rcsolvcrs in the late convcn-
ton has been ctcrnally at variance. Here
after then, let it be understood either that
Page, Meigs, Ct al. arc not the republican
party, or else that the TRANSCRIPT is not
its "Organ.'