Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-11-13
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that not only communities, but rla.
tons, are nngrateful for faYors le, m
ceived, and persecute their benafaot,
ors. Sol am not greatly surprised atbe.
ing hard run by : stranger for i small
office in Morrison county, where 4
tlv have spent the best. part Of my life,
never ne 70 my knowledge letting an op>
Ipo,r'tnnity pass without improving ii to
work for the public good as I undsr>
stood it..
! feel it my duty to pay my respects
to the fourishing town Of Motley, on
the Northern Pacific railroad. That
they are a generous people up there,
and highly appreciate favors, will aps
pear from bare statement Of facts.
A little less than q year ago I received
letter from my old friend, Fl. B.
Morrison, of that place, asking my as
slstauee and cooperation in getting
that place set off and organized into a
pew town. Immediately went to
work, drew up q petition asking for 4
large slice of Green Prairie and looked
after 'Itl the matter until the orga anization
was completed vi! lhout eharge sser
the nominations were made 'thiafall, I
dropped a line to friend Morrison, ask
Ing him about political matters, and if
| should send up some tickets. ! He
wrote me to the effect that he was still
a Republican, but that he would prob.
ably be away on business on election
day, and that 7 should send Messrs.
Hartshorn & McMiIlan, merchants of
that place, some tickets, which they
would distribute to the voters, etc.
[ accordingly sent them a package of
Republican tickets and letter, be-
sides | wrote to some other parties
there Of the subject Il tie o,cctiou
Two or three days previous to the
election, a gentleman from here was
up there, and brought back good re-
port as to prospects, stating that my
tickets had reached Messrs. Hartshorn
d NJ McMillau, that they appeared to be
fine gentlemen, were staunch Repub,
llcans, that a majority Of the voters
there were from Iowa, and could be re-
lied upon to vote the Republican tick
ct straight this year, as they were not
acquainted with any Of the candidates,
and they declared their purpose to do
so. You can imagine my surprise to
learn that out of twenty Republican
votes, | got but one of them, if any, as
a Democrat from there told me that he
voted for me, which I have good reas-
on to believe is the case, as Demo-
Gratis seldom lie, and generally vote
for the best men. thus far the only
thing I have heard in explanation of
their magnanimous action is the fact
that Leon Houde was there on the
night previous to the election. In
mentioning the names of the defeated
candidates IN the outset of this letter
l DO not intend to slur or detract any,
thing from their good name. ANY Of
them were, as far as know, we'll fitted
to fill the positions to which they as
pired. Some of them I regard as per-
sonal friends, and while I might have
been glad if they had succeeded, l
could not take them aboard of my
craft, as I was loaded near to the
waters edge.
ln con opclusion I desire to thank nv
friends in all parts of the county for
their free and generous support, and l
will say that while | make no pretep~
tions to great legal attaiDments, feel
confident that [ shall be able to ill the
office satisfactorily to all fair minded
people, and it is my intention to 'let
no guilty man escape"
Yours with much regard,
N Richardson.