The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-11-01
THIN R0IrEPN


THE BOLTERS.
Mr.. Thompson is man very gener-
ally respected and has many, personal
friends. For this reason We regret all
the more his sunfairness in politics.
Having accepted the nomination for
Treasurer from the Republican *Con=
vention he was in honor bound,s if he
could not personally support the whole
ticket, to refrain from active warfare
upon any of the candidates who are on
the same ticket with him. Instead of
this he is working actively and persist
emily against some of the best men on
the, ticket. Being upon both. the Re
publican and Democratic tickets, he
would be entitled to every vote in the
county, if he were acting fairly. lie
has been twice beaten as a candidate
for office, once for Treasurer and last
year for County Commissioners, and
that, too, by the very men whom he is
now trying to bolster up with his in
tlucnce, when they have no strength
left of their own. How he can now
Join the corrupt combination which
has so persistently worked against him,
must, we suppose, be explained by the
old adage that ''politics makes strange
bed-fellows. So far us we know,
there will be no opposition to him.
His election is conceded, but we know,
from conversation with the people, that
very many of them wisl, to protest a.
gainst endorsing the Influences under
which he is working. 1t is therefore
proposed that all who do not wish to
support the County Ring by which he
was brought forward, and which he is
now leading, should scratch his name
from the ticket before voting, thus
voting blank OH Treasurer. If he re-
ceives but 25 votes lie will be elected.
This would be saying to Mr.. T. 1--WE
are wi Hing, under the circumstances,
that you should he elected, but we are
not willing to endorse the County Ring
nor the unfair and treacherous bolt
which you have organized. We wish
to rebuke tins conduct, by withholding
our votes from you.''
With Messrs. Town and Barber, the
case is different. They are both Re-
publicans, both holding offices from the
party, both took an unusual interest in
working up the Republican Conven-
ton, and both were, by accident, nom-
mated. Then, because they could not
dictate the makeup of the rest of the
ticket, they bolted, and are ut work a.
gainst every man whose name was put
there without their own especial Coop
Grafton. This is case Of political
treachery and meanness never cqua}led
i'll this county. It is aggravated by the
fact that the two men whom they are
especially trying to defeat are honora-
bic and competent, well qualified to
discharge the duties which the Conven-
ton proposed to assign them and have
always been true to the interests OF the
Republican party. Not only this, but
these two men gave them hearty sup
port wien they were up for office two
years ago.
Heretofore they have always beate !
us by political ms.neuveriag and ma
nipulating the Conventions, and al
though it was hard pill to swallow,
we have always supported the ticket.
We would have done so this time. re-
serving, as we always do, the right to
scratch the ticket we vote, but the Ring
have ignored the ticket and declared
that Conventions have no binding force.
Why should the Republicans be called
together to hold Conventions, if, after
all, they are Il farce, and four or five
men may repudiate the nominations
and defeat the will of the peoples del
egates?
AS we said last week, these boilers
have set the exa nple, have broken the
contract into which they entered at
the Convention, and no voter is in the
least bound by the Convention to sup
port them. They should be defeated
because they are members of the >Vor:
thington Ring; because they have spit
upon the Convention and some of it's
best nominations and because their o.
ponents are vastly superior to them as
men and in qualification for the Offices
to which they aspire.
CAPT MILLS AND THE COUNTY BOOKS.
If Capt. Mills has, in complying with
the plain requirements of the law, been
able to discover and point out errors,
and to rectify mistakes in the county
books, which our present County Au-
ditor had failed to see, does it 90 to
show that Mills is not capable of hand
ling the bookss
That this has been done is matter
of record. That it has been done in
the face of 4 protest from. every one of
the Ring officials is matter of fact.
That it was by the friends of certain
officials, characterized us Il base and i'm
potent attempt to impeach the county
books, and that such action on the part
OF Mills was sneered at and derided by
the full posse of; Ring attaches in Wor
Ellington, lis a notorious fact. That he
persevered and, with the assistance OF
Mr.: Condo. the investigation was ear
ried through when many Il weaker man
would have yielded, az Messrs. Durfee
and Robinson had done before him, is
also fact. Notwithstanding the solemn