The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-12-25

Fgine. Tie: Law. does not use the tern
] .soaicial paper, but ..direc that what
q is called IN official .paper''' IN common
4 parlance shall be selected by the Conn
| ty Commissioners and that Il bond Of
$500 shall be required for the correct
publication of the tax list. The Coun.
ty Board Of this county selected the AID:
VANCE and required the bond, and the
county printer is county officer to tl'at
extent, and the ADVANCE is, de tacto
al official paper, whatever it may I've tie
jure OF lie Rohrer. But aside from any
legal bubbles the fact is that all adver-
Using for which the county pays, or up
OIL which the County Board passes, is
ordered to be printed in both papers,
with the exception of the Delinquent
Tax List, which goes to the ADVANCE
exclusively,
A PARALLEL.
The Democratic Governor and Coun-
Gil of Maine have taken advantage Ut in
formalities and technical shortcomings
in the Maine election and have counted
out enough Republicans to give tie
Legislature to the Democrats. The out
rage is thoroughly denounced 10y sucl,
independent Democratic journals rs the
New York World, the Boston Herald
and the Philadelphia Times.
Commenting upon the outrage, the
st. Paul Pioneer Press says;
The city Of Portland, for example,
was thrown out because 14O votes vert
returned lis scattering. though they did
not ut all aff' ct the result; other TOWNS
were thrown out because the initiAls OF
Christian names OF candidates We're
usel instead of the full lame; one was
thrown out because one Of the select
men WAS u,lnaturalized; another be-
cause there was Il vacancy in the Office
of selectmen; another because the no.
tice of the election was posted six in
stead of seven days. The plea is that
they acted in strict accortl:;ncn with law
and the decisions of the courts III TAX
ing advantage of these technical uuib-
bles to nullify the choice of the people.
to convert the large Republican major
ty in both branches of t.! Q legislature
into fusionist majority, and to hand
the State government over tOa party
which had just been repudiated by !,
large majority of the popular vote. 1t
is the plea Of a scoundrel, for it is only
the scountlrel who takes advantage of
the technical forms of law to commit
even y private, much less a great pub
lie wrong.
The Pioneer-Press comments apply
with equal force to the attempt made
in this county by r, hrer. Town and
Walker to defeat the expressed will Of
the people. ut is only the scountlrel
who takes advantage of the technical
forms of law to commit even Il private.
much less IL great public wrong"
This remark applies with special forc..
to the contestants in this county, for
there Is not Il single claim they make
which is not raised upon the very film.
siest technically or informally. Of
course the Maine case is not parallel so
far as the action of the canvassing board
is concerned, for in Maine the parties
elected were counted out, while in this
county they were counted in and the
mal-contents are endcavoring to Dust
them upon just such grounds rs were
used i'll Maine to count the elected CALI
didates out.
The Pionecr-Press says further: But
outside OF New England the Democrat
ic leaders plainly perceive that the
Maine infamy will be eventually tlsas-
trous to the Democratic party, not only
IN that State, but throughout the coun-
try. They understand what the Dem
ocrats in Maine do not-tl,at there j.
such thing as a public conscience,
aud that when called into especial ac-
tivity by some extraordinary exhibition
Of political iniquity it is pretty certain
to make itself felt rs Il retributiye Mem
esis at the polls.
The Ro!rer-Town party will find this
to he true III Mobiles Countyas we'll us
elsewhere. This "extraorlinary exI,i-
bition of political iniquity' has ARGUS
ed the people Of this county to such al
extent that Rohrer and Town have
hardly half dozen constituents left.
And they will feel this at the polls here
after.