Daily globe., 1879-03-20
is TO Il LIAR.

4S TO Il LIAR.
Bill Window keeps fellow in the Vino
ma postofice who nominally edits paper in
that city called the Republican,. Bill Win
dom is in reality the controlling spirit, as
he pulls the strings, and the postofics edi-
tor faithfully dances to the music set before
him. Bill Window is nominal resident of
Winona, but in reality his interests are all
at Minneapolis, and he retains his pretended
location at Winona as matter of political
policy purely. He and Bill King hunted in
couples in the palmy days when swag
was abundant and members of Congress not
only received cash in hand but directorships
in railroads, with fifty thousand dollars or SO
of the stock thrown in. Bill King has
accordingly called on his pard, and
Window has ordered his postoffce editor to
insert lying editorial on the State Fair,
which bears internal evidencepf being the
handi-work of Bill King in person. .--....
AS sample brick we take the following:
Long before the directors of the State Aeri-
cultural society fixed their time for holding
the years fair, the Minneapolis society had
publicly claimed the first week of September
for their exhibition. Then, desiring to avoid
future contests, the president of the latter So
ciety, Col. VIM. s. King, as is we'll known to
those who have kept the run of the proceed
ngs, went to st. Paul and proposed to certain
of its representative citizens that future con-
troversies be avoided by holding union fairs.
ST.. Paul should be given the post of honor;
that, if the people of the latter city desired it.
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might be adopted; or, that Mr.. King would re-
sign the presidency of the Minneapolis asso.
citation and permit st. Paul man to be chosen
in his place while he would take subordinate
position and do the work: that Minneapolis
would stand the brunt of the labor and paw all
expenses; but, that if there was any surplus,
it should be applied to make good the de6cien-
cles of last year, while the loss, if any. should
be borne exclusively by Minneapolis.
For good, round, able bodied lying the
above bears the palm. There is nothing
consumptiye in the falsehood. 1t is as
healthy and husky series of lies as any one
could desire, and ought to make both Bills
happy as well as gladden. the heart of the
sycophantic postmaster.
In 1877 the State Fair was held at Mime
apolis the first week in September, with Bill
King as President. It was general under
standing that the fair of 1873 would be held
at the same time and place, but no formal
decision could be made until the annual
meeting in February. Meantime the
st. Paul Chamber of Commerce for
mally resolved to cooperate with
Minneapolis in holding the State Fair for
1878 at that point. When the day for the
annual meeting arrived, Bill King notified
the State society that he would pay them
$4,000 for the use of their name, they to alb
rogate all claim to management. Very nat
urally the State society did not wish to sur
render to Bill King, especially when the
payment of the promised $4,000 was prob
lematical. Whereat he announced his de-
termination to run fair of his own
during the week chosen by the State Fair.
The State Fair society having been driven
away from Minneapolis came to St. Paul un-
invited, and St. Paul accepted it as a State
institution. That is the way there came to
be two fairs last year the same week. This
year King comes in again, knowing that the
first week in September has been pre- -empted
by the State Fair, and announces his private
show for the same date.
1t is nonsense to reply to these lies in de-
tail, but VIC may say in passing that Bill
King never proposed harmony and "union
fair" It came from other sources. and he
persistently threw every stumbling block in
the way of a union. Whelk the committees
met at the Nicollet House in Minneapolis,
he button-holed the Minneapolis members
and urged them to consent to no union
which did not fl the fair at Minneapolis
this year. No such offers, financial or abdi-
catory, as alleged, were proposed-in fact,
only servile postofice editor would have
published such tissue of falsehoods even at
Bill Windom's command.
The GLOBE only notices this to reiterate
that there is no war, SO far as st. Paul is
concerned, on this fair question. The State
Agricultural Society is State institution
and st. Paul endorses it as such. This city
has relatively no more interest
in the matter than Winona.
Lake City, Rochester, st. Cloud, or any other
town in the State. minneapolis rather
Bill Kingg-seeks to destroy the State organi-
zation. The war is being made in that
quarter on the State, and it remains for the
State to decide what it will do about it. The
interest which St. Paul has is simply what
she has in any State matter. Only that aud
nothing more.