Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-08-22

down tic house. When he said there
were forged names on the list, they cried,
Name them, NAME" II will give them
as soon al I can he patient, and treat me
with the respect I give TO YOU" Tho
respect" which hc..paid the committee
of eight was fresh in mind, and the audi
cncc got off a terribly cutting laugh and
cha! Aa."
At last he gave the name of "Ancrew
D. Brown" Short had taken this name,
and as it was an imputation on Sho rtt's
honesty, he promptly informed the audi
ence that that name was not A. d. Brown,
of Brownsdale. There was another
Brown, that signed. That was one fiat for
Page. He then mentioned G. w. Robin
son. The name signed upon the petition
was "G. w. Robinson, BY God" Geo. W.
Robinson, of Lansing, no one expected
would sign the petition, and he, being an
old citizen, undoubtedly knows that "Geo.
w. Robinson, BY God" exists, for it is
thought by gentlemen of Austin that
they have met him at the latter's house.
And yet he would sign an affidavit, hop
ing to throw US IN disgrace by SO thin a
deception!
Page also mentioned the names of
Powers and johnson, residents Of Mona.
But the refutation of this lie came un-
der our own eyes The johnson referred
to sat just in front, and turning round
said, II never saw the petition, never
signed it, and the johnson whose name
is on there is another man." /!
But we forgot. There is no use in at
tempting to answer each individual mis-
statement, for nearly everything he said
can be as easily overthrown as these just
given.
He asked why the original petitions
were not placed in his possession. The
reason of it was that it was talked up,
and it was concluded that, as he had done
a like thing before, so he would destroy
these, and then say that the certified copy
which We kept was largely forged. And
so We kept the original that we might be
able to PROVE every identical signature
to be genuine. Had the committee dared
| to expect common honor from him, they
would have sent the originals. But they
knew HIM of old.
He then paid his respects to the House
and Senate. claiming that in the House
he was thought and sold on county seat
and school-book and railroad questions"
He paid tribute to "those 80 Represen.
tatives who refused to sell their votes"
Hear, We other
! Is REPRESENTATIVES,,
did you sell your vo:es?'
And then came the very thinnest, most
childish, demagogic slush in the whole
mess. He used up one more of his sup
ply Of "tributes," on those men who did
not "vote by nationality" And then he
begun to slabber over Paddy in a way
which would make an honest Irish
man puke. BE CORA, he almost fill Until
the brcgue, an wus it dheir honor or dhell
Oirish dignity ur dheir relagion or
phwat wus it? 1t wus dhe Oirish luv Nv
honor, God rist dheir sowls. You see
Page has been fishing tor influence
among some few saloon keepers of Aus
tin, and insulted the intelligence of the
Irish among his hearers, by attem pit
ing to slime them over with any sucl
dose as that, especially when 1t Is a fac
that nearly every Irishmaa in the Senate
voted against him.
He spoke flatteringly Of the Senate
when he said its members came into tn,
House and constituted themselves into 1
lobby. He said the Senate refused to al
low any testimony on Art. 5, but yet vote'
on it.
He then attempted to cast q slur OF
Cameron, and quoted from Cameron''
Monday night speech, but made no poin
visible to the naked eye. A little dive
sion now came IN, and section of til
bible, including the golden rule Of tire
and the mote and beam story, was repea
ed. This was only intended as sermon t
|put his enemies to sleep while he got Of
his next falsehood. But it CHANGED that b
could Go it this time with impunity, fo
Harwood, who was the victim, was afa
at Clear Lake. So Page Drowned hin
on one side, and then basted him an
crisped him on the other, using affidavit
and proofs that are old and time.worr
> and which four.nfths of his audienc
knew to be deceptive, and have so know
them for years. He made the sam
charges against HARDWOOD which he mad
three years ago in caucus, during Hal
woods absence, and for which Harwoo,
denounced him in the TRANSCRIPT as
:. LIAR AND WILLIAM AND A COWARD!
His treatment of Harwood has Away
been that of a poltroon. He never ha
F revlled him to his face. Even last Sa
urday night, he satisfied himself of hi
3 absence, and said he did not see hir
t (Harwood) before him, before he ventu,
e ed to abuse him. "Tell me
t THE OLD, OLD STORY" -
r When asked to read from q documen
t which he only abstracted from and rea
e enough to give color to his assertions
. there were cries of :"Read the rest, rea
. on" But he said, "Resd it yourself, I
you have book" This was u bad spe
| for our orator, and he didn't get O,
e gracefully.
8 Some time before this, Senator Cloug
!. GOT INTO HIM BAD.
# Some one said that Senators had sine
expressed sorrow for voting to acqu
d him. He pompously replied that it W.
Q q ''libel on the Senate, and we could NJ
/. name them" A voice cried, "Armstrong,
!, and then Senator ClouRh, "Senator Me-
ly, also, and I can give you his words.
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