The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-12-14
PLEADING THE BABYACE.

Committee, this time because We
charged him with drawing money from
the county for making entries in the
Reception Book, to which he is not en-
titled save by a stretch of the law. nor
by general precedent throughout the
State. The Church Committee met
and promptly laid the matter on the
table, where we suppose it will rest.
This is the second time that Bell has
provoked a meeting of the COMMITTEES,
in his efforts to injure us in the church.
He has often charged us with unman-
illness through his paper, Tut We GER
tainly have never been so unmanly as
to ask the church to take up difficulties
which we provoked. Bell is wholly to
blame tor all the bad blood and trouble
which exists between us. II we should
complain to the Church Committee, we
should make our statement against Bell
about as follows:
l. He called US ''liar" for saying that
the reduced Republican vote in Hersey
and Bigelow was due to the Worthing-
ton Ring.
2. He stopped his subscription, called
US fool and tongue-laslled us gene
rally for denouncing rowdyism.
8. He told US in almost so many
words that he would ''run us out'' of
the county and that he and his children
would be living here and flourishing
when we were ''gone where the wood
bine twinetl,'' the quotation from Fisk
being his own.
4. He engaged in the publication Of
the Journal with the avowed object,
the boldly-expressed purpose, of de-
stroying our business and our influence.
S. He has frequently denounced US
on the street to members of the church
as a ''liar,"a ''fool,'' and ''scoun-
drel."
6. He has charged us through the
Journal with petty hatred,' "spite
and malice" intolerable bigotry,"
"unmitigated falsehood," and as being
''devoid of truth and honor" and has
made the most direct and bitter pey-
sonal attacks upon us through his pa
per, while claiming in the same article
that he had not made any personal at
lacks.
Now we submit to a candid public
whether it is not unfair, unmanly and
babyish to be always giving blows and
then, when they are returned, to go
whining to the Church Committee
and expect the Church Committee to
take the matter up.
Over a year ago we said to prominent
members of the Union Congregational
Church that the clique which Bell rep
resents through his paper would en-
deavor to drive us from every position,
business, social or otherwise. That
our last refuge would be in the church
and that they would follow us and as.
sail us there, though nearly all of them
are non-church members or members
of other churches. This prediction
they are doing their best to literally
fulfill.
1t rests with the true men of the
Union Church and the f:,ir-minded men
of the community to say wlethe: they
shall succeed.
The Journal says we didn It come with
in Al, 1000 acres of the truth when we an
nounced that F. e. Taylor had made a
purchase of land in the National Colo.
ny. This is pretty rough on Mr.. Tay-
lor and Prof. Humiston from whom we
obtained the facts. But the reason
why the Journal claims there was ITO
purchase, is because Bell didn't get to
record tile deed. 1t must be under.
stood that unless things contribute to
the pocket and the Qualification of Bell,
there are no things. Unless tho sun
shines on Bell, there is no sun. Unless
the Mississippi pours water on Bells
mill wheel, there is no Mississippi
Unless the people of Mobiles county keep
Bell in Office, there are no people in No.
bles county, and these beautiful prairies
are a bowling wilderness. Unless a
man subscribes for the Journal, there
is no such man, and he either never
was born or died long since. AS Mr..
Poe says: 20 the bells, bells, bells,
bells, bells, bells, bells! o the everlast.
ing jingle of the bells, bells, bells!'
A postal card from the agent of the
Illinois Type Foundry, at Minneapolis,
says: "Look over your office and see
how much old hell there is that may be
turned into something" "Old help
among printers means old type not fit
for use. We have very little of that
kind, but some days after the ADVANCE
comes out, we could raise a good deal
Of the other kind if we were inclined
to quarrel with all the fools who want
to dictate to us what we shall publish.
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