Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-10-31
The Morrison County Banner;

The Morrison County Banner.
The Banner IS again before us.
Seven weeks ago it died, but the re.
vivifying power of Wash5urn's money
touched the corpse, and it has come to
life. We have concluded that the
Banner, viewed merely as newspa>
per, is Unworthy of our notice; but
since it has been revived for purely
political purpose, under a contract with
Washburn or his agents, we shall
briefly refer to a few >ef the glaripg
lies and absurdities that appeared in
the issue of Saturday last.
The date at which the arrangement
was fully perfected for Clark to start a
Washburn organ was SO near election
time that great haste was necessary in
order to perform Clark's par: Of the
contract, so he got three pages printed
IN st. Paul, and printed only one page
in Little Falls, and there was neither
an advertisement nor business card on
that page. No paper ever appeared
in that manner that was started on
legitimate business principles, and ii
any person had any doubt about the
paper being started by Washburn's s
money, that doubt must have been
dispelled as soon as they read the con.
tents of the sheet. In order to blind
Democratic voters, and catch as many
Democratic votes as possible for Wash
burn he changed the name of his pa
per so as to make it read, "The Nor
rison County Democratic Banner.'
For the same object, and probably by
the express direction of .Washburn,
he supports the Democratic State and
Legislative ticket, and small part Of
the county ticket; and, in order to
conci]iate as 'ihiany Republicans as
possible, he supports the Republican
nominee for County Auditor and for
Judge of Probate. The 'job'' is put
up little too sharp to have originated
in Clark's own brain ). but notwith>
standing that fact, this nice little
scheme can never be put in successful
operation through such an instrument
as the editor of the Banner. The
people are we'll enough acquainted
with him to know that he is mentally
incapable of advocating any measure
from honest conviction, and that the
sole purpose Of his life seems to be to
devise schemes to rob the people, in>
diyidual|y and collectively, without be.
ing incarcerated in the State prison.
He is a very suitable mouth>piece for
such a man as Washburn. But we
shall proceed to show what kind .of
"Democratic Banner" he is publishing.
In the first place there is, altogether,
in the issue of Saturday last, about
half column favoring the election Of
some of the Democratic nominees, and
there are 81 columns in which he de-
liberately ISLANDERS and malgns the
State, District and County conventions
that have been held during the past
thirteen months, and the nominees
selected. He says:
'sDonnelly is not Democrat--has not
been in the past, and does not propose to
be in the future. He was not nominated
as Democrat, nor was he nominated by
Democrats"
The lie which he seeks to make his
readers believe is that Washburn is
better Democrat than Donnelly; that
while Donne|ly's principles are not
sufficiently Democratic, Washburn's s
are and that If a voter really desires
to vote an intensely Democratic ticket,
he should vote for Washburn. Pretty
thin. When he says that Donnelly
was not nominated by Democrats, he
tells malicious falsehood, and wlllful>
ly insults the Democratic Congresslon-
al District convention. And, desiring
also to insult the Democratic State
convention, which nominated Hon.
VIM. L. Banning for governor last
fall, he denounces Mr.. Banning as
having been ''lately kicked out of~he
Republican party"
The Banner says that Donnelly
"does not have any interests anywhere
in the district That is another false.
hood. Mr.. Dounelly owns a farm of
five hundred acres in Stevens county,
and printing Office 10 St. Paul, and
these constitute, the most that be is
worth. And what the Banner states
about Donnelly's views and acts in ref
erence to the, currency question are as
notoriouslY false as the rest of the
statements in his paper.
The Banner says:
'"The leading Democratic papers of the
State denounce him as shameless fraud,
and his candidacy as crime against De-
mocracy. The leading Democrats of the
district utterly repudiate the idea that he
is the candidate Of the party or worthy
of any respectable consideration either as
a politician or a man."
Every word Of that is false, and the
editor ofthe Banner knows it, and he
also knows how much pay he got for
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