The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-10-18
RING ran GRE NUSSflBER TWO.

= RING FAILURE NUHBER TWO.
f. Ihe Democratic eeh1 convention
which met ilt this Iallag on TIN sixth
wafa stuRendo uss affair, theN bei6f
fifteen Iperaens inS atte1d ancestenA t1
whom reside in Ortkingt T7ie
convention was ostensibly run by w.
Il. and L. 3. Bennett, in reality it was
run by A. P. Miller, and the mark: Of
his stealthy work is everywhere visible,
The first officer nominated was county
Auditor. James Walker, and Scion 0.
Morse were spoken Of, as it was the de-
sire of the unterrifed to head their tick
Fet.W1th but ille1
said let 3. 5. Mills be nominated, and
it was 50: Peter Thompson was upan.
lmously nominated for Treasurer, lie.
cause the BENEFITS and Miller were
powerless to oppose him. The next of.
ice to be disposed Of was Register oil
Deeds, and Joseph Chadwick was nom:
mated. "A candidate for Sheriff was
next nominated Mai. b. F. 'Thurber
was put In nomination, but Miller said
let IS. f. johnson, OF Seward, be nomi.
mated and it, was 90 AN unknown re:
publican was nominated over cOmpe.
tent democrat. B. n: Carrier WAS then
nominated Clerk of Court, and Nelson
Jordan for county superintendent OF
schools. L. B. Bennett and A., II. Mill
6r were, then. put in nominations for
coroner, but the latter Withdrew. Ills
name in favor Of the former, and so the
work Of the great democratic, t'mass
convention" ended.---Ring Organ. :. ~, :
The above is another bowl full Of pus
exuding from the sore head , of the Ring
organ, It lis ''soreheadn1 over with
scabs extending down the back. The
Ring made desperate effort to control
both conventions and failed, and a
more exasperated set of Office. and, job
hunters, we have never seen. 2u1:y
They charge us with having controll-
ed both the Republican and Democrat
ic conventions, "a pretty large under:
taking, by-the-way, for one editor but
the facts are that the Ring worked DIES.
perately to control the two conventions
and miserably failed, because the peo-
pie had made up their minds, for, once,
to run their. own conventions. Before
the Democratic convention, they were
constantly running to the Democratic
leaders trying to1get> up a bargain-and.
sale arrangement, to have certain Ring
men nominated on the Democratic tick
ct, and Offering to sacrifice one or two
of their own men who are now on, the
Republican ticket, if the Democrats
would agree to their proposals. But
the Democrats would have none. of
them, and in this they acted wisely.
Mr.. Thompson worked with all his
might, urging, threatening and can
wasting to control the convention in
favor of Walker and the Ring, but he
soon found that the majority of the
Democrats were against him. In the
convention, he controlled six votes and
these were steadily cast for Walker,
but without avail.
Having failed to control the conven-
tion in the interest of the Ring, what
did Thompson do? He at once wrote
to Walker and asked him TO come out
as an independent candidate for Audi
tor. Walker bluslled assent, the nup-
tials Vert arranged, and walker is an
nounced as an independent candidate.
Thompson hopes to carry the Scandina-
Wan vote for his man, and thus elect
him. Then he will oppoint Walker
Deputy Treasurer, and Thompson will
control both offices.s
This movement is entirely unworthy
OF Peter Thompson. He. should have
been content, when the people had hon
ored him with the nomination for
Treasurer from both conventions, to
let it rest at that. But feeling perfect
ly secure of his own election, he sets
on foot movement to shoulder broth
er candidate off the track, and give
himself control of the Auditors office
also. The people will defeat this
scheme of his at the polls as decidedly
rs they did in the convention.
."INCOMPETENT"
Didn't we tell you so? Didn't we al
ways declare that, from the Ring stand,
point, no man was competent to fill a
county office, unless he was a Ring man
and brought out by the Ring? They
declared Mr.. Chadwick incompetent
owing to his misfortune in having been
crippled by harvester. lie never
could lift the books, they said. We
suggested that he might use derrick
to raise those ponderous, immense, al
pine, mountainous masses of blank
book work to the Registers desk. Blu,
no, this didn't satisfy them: HE was
incompetent anyhow. On general :ant
particular principles he was fincompe
tent-because he was. not, brought out
by the Ring. His family physician ant
the people said he' was competent. but
this didn't satisfy them. No, no. The
facts might all be in ChadWick's favor