Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-07-20


rectly at any time or in any way, eyer
sought the political aid of u democrat
That some democrats voted in the First
Ward caucus We do not deny, and it would
be strange if such were not the case, for
Jack" Kaiser spent days before that eau.
Gus treating men of I'LL shades OF political
opinion whom lie could induce to drink,
and peddllng tickets among them and Civ
ing instructions 10 work with HotcAkiss
Meigs& Co., when the time should come
We do not know that democrat voted
in accordance with our interests,-there
certainly did not at our suggestion, nor
was there Us matter Of fact, any partici-
patton of democrats in any of the caucuses
except such as was procured in the inter.
est Of the Page faction.
1t is charged that we have sought to use
the party for the promotion OF our person.
al interests and the Resolution concern
ing US, adopted by the convention last
fall is instanced in proof We will state
the facts. The convention held on the 23d
ofJuly 1875, was Page convention, and
it passed a Resolution as follows, viz:
RESOLVED. That the course pursued by
the Editor of the TRANSCRIPT during the
past two years, has been disOrganiZing,
and has caused disaffectiOn in the repub-
lican party Of this county, and that the
TRANSCRIPT should no longer be consid-
cred the organ of the party"
This was done because we would not
allow a few men to dictate our political
course. After that convention they told
Hon. j. 8. Irgens, who was q candidate
for the Office Of Secretary of State, that if
he would help to kill HARDWOOD, and sub.
scribe literally toward the establishment
ola new paper here, they would support
him. This fact Mr.. Irgens stated IN a
public speech made in Jones' Hall on the
evening of election day. ....
On the 9Th OF October, the Republicans
of the county represented in convention,
adopted the following resolution, viz:
REsolv ED, That the action of the late
county convention whereby Judge Har-
w0od and the TRANSCRIPT were voted out
Of the Republican party, was hasty, iniu-
dicious: and unjust, and the same is here.
by condemned"
It thus appears by the record that our
personal controversy with Page was
dragged into politics by him, and that his
convention was used 10 aid him. In the
fight, and it further appears that the Re.
publican convention rebuked him and his
tools for their attempted prostitution of
the party to the promotion other person.
al schemes That resolution refers to us
only as member Of the party, and as
such it is wholc-henrtcd and complete
vindication of what we have done.
Hotchkiss says We have been "fed and
warmed by the men whom We now oppose,
that they gave us more property than we
ever before owned" The fact is we paid
too dearly for the TRANSCRIPT, and then
relying upon Pages statement that il was
unincumbered, which was falsehood,
we did not examine the records aud were
afterwards compelled to pay q mortgage
of 800 to save the Office from sheriffs'
sale. That's the way Hotchkiss's ..noble
men picked US up and took us i'm
II Hotchkiss is depending tor living
upon the noble men of whom he speaks IL
Is no wonder that his oncssportly form, Is
rapidly becoming lank and lean. In :
year more II he survives at all on what he