The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-08-09
ANOTHER FARMER SPEAKS.

Below we give another letter from a
farmer upon the subject Of our county
politics. This farmer, like the three
who spa!ze before has watched theru
ming Of the machine for three or four
years, and knows whereof lie speaks.
lie was not originally particular
friend to the ADVANCE, but he knew
from what he had seen of the Ring ma
nipulation and Ring conduct of our
county affairs that there was ~ a Wor-
thington Ring; (2) that no man could
disagree with that Ring as to candi-
dates or conventions without being
prosecuted by the Ring; (s,) that they
were all Wo'thington men bent upon
keeping all the paying and important
offices among themselves. Seeing this
for himself, he knew the ADVANCE
was right in it's warfare upon this ma
lignant, prosecuting, spiteful Ring,
which, as the three farmers who spoke
out before said, is bound to destroy ev-
cry imam in the county who has any
Influence against them.''
We stated last week that the Ring
slate was already made up. This came
straight from farmer who is in the
confidence of the Ring, and the state
ment was in substance as follows: That
during one of the recent visits of Char
ley Goodnow to Worthington there was
poW-Wow and the slate was arranged
Our informant could not give us all
the names Oh the slate, but he under
stood that Peter Thompson was to be
their candidate for Treasurer; Elder
Bear for Auditor again; J. A. Town
for Sheriff; Frank Crandal for Clerk of
the Court; a Mr.. Walker, from Grand
Prairie, for Register of Deeds.
Now we know nothing Of this our
self, but it comes to us straight, and
We believe it to be true. We know
that several are very busy getting a.
bout the county just now, and that
their organ, the Infamous Journal, is
piling up fulsome praise of the Ring
officials.
The farmers will please notice that
the important offices are again to be
given to Worthington men and the
Ring is to have I. majority and keep
control. Notice also that one man Sc
lected is a Democrat, Mr.. Thompson,
with the hope Of getting the help Of the
Democrats to run through the Ring
ticket. These very Ring manipulators
used to curse us for being willing to
support a Democrat for a local office.
And the bitterest maledictions were
poured upon our head because we would
not make the ADVANCE a red-hot par
tizan paper, lampooning every body
who was Il Democrat and bespattering
with praise, as the Journal does, every
one who was q Ring Republican.
We could support Mr.. Thompson, or
any other equally good Democrat, if
the circumstances justified our doing
so. We mention this to show how the
Ring politicians are doing just what
they cursed us for doing.
The farmers will also notice that G..
G.. Goodnow. who has never done a
thing for Mobiles county except to hold
fat Offices and manipulate caucuses
and conventions, is not to be gotten rid
Of by the Presidents order. lie dare
not take an active part in our conven-
ti0ns but he will he on hand to make
up the Ring slate and try to carry IT
through.
In conclusion, we say to the farmers:
!. Spot every man who is found going
about the county asking you for office.
Let the office seek the man. 2. Attend
to your own caucuses and come in de-
termined to make the Ring officials
step down and out and give place to
better men who have suffered four years
OF grasshopper deprivation. 8. Fear
hot the wrath and the hate of the Ring
politicians, for if the farmers will SIM
ply stand up in their manhood and kill
the Ring off with their votes, the poll.
ticians will sink down like so many
empty bags.
But here is the letter of farmer, a
genuine letter every word Of which is