The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-10-11

own way, and yet when the Convention
was good enough to concede them sew
eral of the bitterest Ring mensthey are
determined TO- bolt and smash things
because they can no. Compassionate all
the candidates Let the people go in
and finish these Ring ofics hunters for
good at:the coming election. >ss~'
TOWN POLITICIANS vs. THE cUUN-
TRY
We clip the following article from
the Mankato Review:
The country towns have good! cause
Of complaint against both the Republic
can and Democratic conventions, for
the complete manner in which they
have been ignored in the nOminatiOnIOf
candidates for offices. Though the
country towns contain two-thirils the
population and an equal proportion. of
the taxable property of the county, not
a single candidate for any county Office
was nominated by either party outside
of Mahkato.9 This might be excused if
there was not suitable persons to fill
the positions in the rural districts, but
we believe it to be q fact that in point
of merit in every instance, the rural
candidates were at least the equal and
sometimes the. superior of the success
full city contestants. The Republicans
gave the senator to the country, not be-
cause they believed it was entitled to
| ~ hapf r.f thor q fcnin s,,ox,ho,orf
to secure for the city far more lucretiye
Gratis did not do this much, for they had
the strength in tie city. and. adjacent
delegations to carry their points with
out resort to strategy. We take this
occasion to call attention to the.matter
that the offense may at least not be re-
peated. MankatO cannot afford to act
thus greedily. Such u policy tends to
create a prejudice against her and al
jenate and even provoke hostility from
those who should feel a common pride
and interest in promoting her prosperi-
ty. OF course, the business men are
not responsible for these things, but
they are done by the politicians, and
hitting it to be done without interpos-
ing an objection.
This is precisely the ground we have
taken all along. A Ring of office-hold-
ers and of1ice-seekers, nearly all of
whom reside in Worthington, have so
manipulated our county politics as to
give all the Offices, with an occasional
exception, to Worthington men. We
protested against this, and urged an
equitable division between town and
country. In return we received the
curses and the redoubled hostility Of
the Ring, the individual members Of
which worked upon our business men
to convince them that the ADVANCE
was endeavoring to array the country
against the town and was. thereby in
juring Worthington. From the first,
this little Ring has assumed to be the
county. All the interests of MOBILES
county, in the estimation of these men,
centered in and around them, and men
who have expended thousands and tens
of thousands Of dollars in building up
the town and the county, were of no
consequence compared to the Ring of
Office and job hunters, who have meyer
done thing for the community beyond
fattening at the public crib, nosing out
jobs and mercilessly bounding every
man who dared to differ from them up
on county politics.
The Review points to the fact that
the Republicans, who are not in 4 ma
jority in Blue Earth county, conceded
one Office to the country, while the
Democrats, who are in the ascendency,
did not give single nomination to the
rural districts. This is just the way
the Ring worked here, and if they had
continued to hold the county, they
would have gone on, as the Mank.to
politicians have, concentrating all the
offices upon men who live at the coun-
ty seat.
AT the recent County Convention
here, the People had selected list of
candidates so arranged rs to make an
equitable distribution between town
and country and also properly distribu-
ted geographically. And while the
power of the Ring was broken, and
while they failed in their pet schemes,
yet they had sufficient power III the
convention to force a ticket made up
Of Worthington men with one excep-
ton.
The sooner the people right this
wrong the better. Mobiles county has
nothing to expect from the Worthing-
ton Ring and the people should speak
out in such decided manner that even
the conceited Ring men will Ike made
to understand that they do not carry
the people of the county in their vest
pockets.
WEAKNESS or THE RING or ORGAN.
The recent County Convention ex-
posed, as nothing else could. the imbe-
cility of the Ring organ. 1t began ear
ly last Spring series Of venomous and
slanderous attacks upon about every
body who was supposed to he friendly
to the ADVANCE, doing the bidding of
Rohrer, Town and the Crandals with
an alacrity worthy Of it's inherent dev-
ilislness, and all this with reference to
the fall campaign. A month or so be-
fore the Convention, it raised great
hue and cry about Spiritualism, set
ting up this man of straw and then