The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-12-16

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''The Pioneer Press is either ''naive-
ly" ignorant of methods in the First
District, or 1t assumes to be so in order
to repeat it's admonitlon to Mr.. Dun
nell. We desire now to 60 upon 1.-THE
record as predicting that every. federal
Office holder and every newspaper hav-
ing any federal patronage will be ''pun-
ished' in due time. Ofcourse there are
their positions to Mr.. Dunnell and have
held on in spite Of him, having the sup
port OF Senator Window. but the bulk
are his servants as much as any clerk
is the servant of his employees,
This is true of the federal oflice-hol-
ders i'll this vicinity. Already the
Worthington Land Office has ''pun-
ished" the ADVANCE by withdrawing
the Land Office printing, which before
the election was published in both
papers. This was done the moment it
was known that Dunnell was elected,
and without any notice to the publisher
Of the ADVANCE.
We can stand this cheerfully in the
interest of ''civil service'' reform and
we need no better vindication Of our
position"
We hope the prediction of the AD-
VANCE Will be realized, for by no other
method can the people realize the celer-
lty and accuracy Of Dunnell's machine
as worked by such satraps as Mons
Grinager. Look at the servile attitude
of the man! AS long as there WAS the
least doubt of Dunnell's election he
divided his patronage between both of
the Worthington papers. Had Dunnell
been defeated he would have with
drawn entirely from the Journal, mass
ed his patronage upon the ADVANCE,
and probably would have sworn that he
opposed Dunnell.
Very few people have any idea of
the money pressure brought to bear to
influence newspapers to take this or
that position, or the large proportion
that succumbs to it. Take the election
of judge Of this district last year. We
know and can prove that large sums of
money were paid directly to newspaper
editors for their support. The same is
true OF the election Of congressman just
passed. The success of Dunnell did not
cost less than twenty-five thousand dol
lars, which was contributed by federal
otlice-holLers, pine land thieves, In
dian ana government contractors, etc.
Much Of this money WAS no doubt paid
directly to newspaper editors. The
demoraliZing effect of this kind Of bri-
berry upon the public mind is far-reach-
ing in its effects, and saps the founda-
ton of public morality. The evil eff
ects are incalculable. and the man who
manages newspaper upon this pri1cl-
pie is dangerous enemy Of the people,
no matter how circumscribed his intlu-
ence may be-Alhert Lea Standard.
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil says
that when the w. G. Il. U. visited that
place it
Extended every possible news
paper courtesy within it's pOWerto the
peripatetic reformers, and upon urgent
solicitation decended from its usual
course, and became Il beggar for open
doors and free lunches for these travel
ing female Pharisees, who forget that
for each Of them there is near and
withju home circles /, wide field for
work, and that the woman who at
tcmpts to gather the inebriates of a
whole state under the folds Of her Grim
oline, is playing the part Of a hen try
ing TO spread herself over a two bUshel
basket Of eggs instead Of limiting her
expansive abilities to III ordinary
Matching.
The Nonpareil is sarcastic and it's
hit is no doubt deserved in some cases
but not in all. The W. G.. 7. q. is Il
church Temperance society, organized
to give the credit Of temperance WORK
to the church. Let them work. But
let not other temperance people ;bate
their efforts because the church as
sumes to do and to control all the NOR
al work.
Here in Worthington we have churc:,
Temperance societies, both male and f.
male, will, tile usual amount of narrow
ness, seliishness and humbug, but many
OF them have no doubt all honest de-
sire to promote the cause of temper
ence.
Their work has been execrably man
aged and has Disguised many of the
best people of the place. They have
arrested persons for spite and have
allowed their church favorites to go
untouched. They have arrested wom-
en- where they should have arrested
men. They haye hired boys to act as
informers, against the will of their par
ents, and have to a great extent become
the laughing stock OF the town.
We heard Il good temperance man re-
mark the other day that if this church
temperance society would take the
money they are raising to hire some
boy to inform on a poor woman, and
give her the money to help support her
family, they would do much wiser
and better act.
Our good friend Miller, of the Wcr~
thlngton ADVANCE, whose versatile
genius compartments in addition to a re-
markable gift of hindsight, literary tai
ents of more than ordinary excellence
and equal skill in misrepresenting facts,
| declares through the columns of tile
Big ADVANCE that the editor OF the
Herald is q bolter and ''hasn't been in
this end long enough to know that we
never were in his party" In rs much
as Bro. Mlller's own professions con-
stltute the Uera!d's only authority for
supposing the ADVANCE had once
| been republican, it is probable that the
Herald was wrong. Bro. Mi]er's def
milton of his relation to politics makes
| it easier to understand why he has al
ways been on the ''Off'' side of every
question, but we are correspondence
at 4 loss to conceive how the repuhli-
can party has been able to maintain it's
supremacy without the mighty influence
OF the Big ADVANCE. However. we
are content to wait for further explana-
ton from the ADVANCE man who
doubtless KNEW it beforehand'' and
could have told us 500 long ago
Rock Co. Herald.
And you won't have to wait very
long, either. 1t seems to be tacitly adj
mitted by the Herald that the AD-
vANcE's foresight is about equal to the
Herald'S ''hindsight." So that makes