The Worthington advance., 1876-07-27

For Vice President,
WIN. 4. WHEELER, Of New York.
rRHs1DENTIAb ELECTORS.
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4. j. EnGERTON, Of Dodge.
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CoNoDHsoIoNAL TICKET.
For Co~gress-First District.
NH. DUNNELI, OF Steele.
COUNTY FAIR
There were five members of the Ex-
ecutive Committee of the Agricultural
Society present at the meeting held on
Monday last At the Worthington Hotel,
viz: 1essrs. c. A. Barrows, J. II.
Cunningham, J. p. Vail, r. B. Plotts
and ". 8. StockdAle. The matter of
holding . County Fair was considered
and It was decided to hold one on the
first Thursday In September, the 7tll.
1lessrs. Darrows, Stockdale and Plots
were appointed q committee to prepare
premium list. Another meeting of
the Executive Committee is called for
August 5th, Mt the same place.
The matter Of grounds was talked
up. The County Commissioners think
it would injure the park, especially the
trees, to hold the Fair there. Captain
Mills suggested the grounds on the east
shore Of the West Lake near the trees.
This 10 already fenced on one side and
tho lake h on the other side, so that
fencing the ends would make an en-
closure. Mr.. Safer stated that the
grounds could he had.
We hope that the Fair will be held,
whether We have grain and vegetables
to show or not. We have some fine
horses, cattle, sheep and hogs to exllib-
It; our machinery men will make Il dis
play Of farm machinery, and if the
ladies get chance to adorn a fine art
hall, they will make a decided success
OF that. We ought by all means to get
started with our Fairs the coming fall.
Tie foundation once laid, it will be a
matter Of pride and pleasure to keep
them up. The farmers from different
parts Of the county need to come to-
xetl'er more frequently and get ac-
quainted. County Fairs and county
meetings of different kinds have much
TO do with making our people content
to remain, because they tend to produce
m interest in the county which soon
makes the settler feel at home.
THs COUNTY Il UDI70R AGAIN.
Auditor Bear appears in 4 column
article In last weeks Journal, the dou-
bic object Of which is to evade the
charges we have made against him and
to make personal attack upon us.
AS to the "personal part, lie init
mates that we are either ''insane - or
"depraved;" that we are not Il "high-
toned Christian gentleman" and that
we have published malicious - false
hoods against him.
We do not care to repay linn in kind.
We shall give facts and let them work.
Epitl'ets are paper wads. while facts
arc bullets. We leave the use of abu-
sive language to the Reverend VIM. NJ.
Dear. This language and these insinu-
tjous, o( course, comport more with the
character of minister of the Gospel
than they do with the character of an
editor. Editors should I've careful not
to use abusive epithets or indulge III
offensive language, while a minister Of
the Gospel has the right to call men
"insane," and "depraved," and to
charge them will, malicious - lying,
whenever they dare differ from him
abeat political or other matters. We
zas>eoaeavoring to live up to this idea,
ard hence we have not, in the last ten
years Of our newspaper life, used as
much abusive language as the Reverend
wu. n. Bear has used in this one arti.
c|e. We confess that lie las the better
Il - In the use of abusive language.
hut TO the points in his article:
I. Mr.. Bear says that the statement
No made last fall that lie had "held up
tho ADVANCE fer rejection" while
with the other hand lie held up the Cos.
pei for acceptance, is not only false but
malicious" Now Auditor Bear is
and has l'een notoriously unfriendly to
tl'e ADVANCE, as we could prove by
every member of the ring" to which
I've belongs, and by many others. lie
was one Of four men, every one of them
ring politicians, who stopped taking
the ADVANCE because we denounced
the disgraceful rowdyism of last win.
ter. The very article which he calls
"ma]icious - was written to ask the
people Of Mobiles county to vote for him
and to let It be understood that his un.
frtendliness to US should not stand III
the way d our supporting him.
2. lie charges US with stating a dou.
ble "falsehood when we said that lie
was ~ mere Clerk to the Board OF
Commissioners" and that lie was in
the habit of - obtruding his views - up
on the Board. But lie admits all W.
claimed when he says the clerkshil
OF the Auditor isex-office." Certainly
lie is mere clerk to the Board, has nj
voice in their deliberations, and ought
not to give hls opinions until aske.l.-