The Worthington advance., 1880-09-23
OUR POSITION AGAIN.


THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER g. 1880.
OUR POSITION AGAIN.
Is the WorthingtOn Advance pawn!
the way to hoist the names or aancocl
and ENGLISH? Miller is accused of it b.
Democrats of this district, and we hav'
been watching closely to see the Ad
vance espouse the Democratic cause
hut it still roosts high. Every way ex
cept politically it is a mighty good pa
ner Int A. p. has been fairly kicked
ont of the party III Mobiles county by
the ..rine. 81 as he calls it, but our ''good
brother'' should remember that the par
tv in general outside OF that county
doesn't endorse all the political cussed
ness bestowed upon him.-Wmdom ke
porter.
The ADVANCE is not paving the way
to hoist the names of Hancock and
English. The ADVANCE is an 1nde'
pendent Republican paper still, as 1t al
WAYS has been. The ADVANCE does
lust what Greeley did when he had the
N. Y. Tribune and scored his own par
ty often more severely than he did the
opposing party. Greeley endeavored to
reform the party which he did more to
make than any other editor, by joining
in the Liberal Republican movement,
and it is a pity he did not live to COM
plete the work he had undertaken. OF
course he was cursed as traitor by the
partizans and machine men of the Re-
publican party us every independent
man is.
The trouble with the Reporter and
the machine politicians is that they ex-
pect us to jump down and help the ina
chine" through again. The ADVANCE
for six years has been fighting the ma
chine' and now, when men all over the
district are coming over to our side, TAX
ing the same ground that we have al
ways taken, and even using the exact
words in describing machine rule in
in their respective counties that we have
always used here, does the Reporter
think that we are mean enough to desert
them? The ADVANCE does not claim
to be a leader in this anti-machine move
ment, but it does claim. to have led off,
or to have been the first paper to begin
the fight and to keep it up year in and
year out. We tried it at first, of course,
in our own county and we won here last
fall, as the Reporer knows. Now come
Judge Wakefield, Gen. Baker, Senator
Freeman and host Of others, and re-
peat concerning their localities just
what the ADVANCE has constantly said
for SIX years concerning this locality.
Why, the Reporter announced not long
ago that even Charley Goodnow had be-
come disgusted with the machine and
had come over to our side. We can cer-
tainly claim that all these Republicans
have come over to us and that we have
not changed particle in all these years
so far as opposition to the crushing and
grinding ''macl1ine" is concerned.
AS to our being ''kicked out" Of the
party, the Reporter can say it in that
way if it prefers. But to us it looks
very much as though we had kicked the
.lty, that is the machine, - out n this
county at least. 1t was kicking on both
:siles and the ADVANCE won and kick
led the ''machine" men out
AS to Ward and Dunnell> each claims
to be the regular nominee. And there
is more proof that the Dunnell men are
, boilers than that the Ward men are.
We accept the fact as settled beyond
doubt that the Ward delegates were in
a majority on the morning Of the con-
-vention and that the Dunnell men, see
ling this, determined to seize the Con-
' vention at all hazards and that they re-
: sorted to several tricks to do so. We
never yet knew them, that is the ina
-chine," to he fair at any Convention,
unless they had sure thing before
hand. Mr.. Ward can go before the peo-
pie claiming to be the regular Republic
can nominee and do so honestly and
with 4 good conscience.
The Reporter knows that from the
~d,y of the Convention we took no stock
i'll any schemes for putting this or that
candidate out of the way. We knew
beyond any possibil ty of being mistak-
en that there was hopeless split in the
Republican ranks of the First District
and that the only fair and square way to
settle it was to go before the people and
let them decide between Messrs. Dun
nell and Ward. This is our position
now.
Tie ADVANCE is happy enough po-
litically. 1t carried this county last
fall against the ''machine" 1t sees in
this campaign that such Republicans
as Gen. Baker, Judge Wakefield, W. Il.
Ward, S. P. Childs, Senator Freeman.
and a host Of others have come over and
are occupying the very ground we have
occupied for six years. It sees that the
split in the Convention has resulted ex-
actly as we predicted it would from the
first and rs we wished it might. 1t sees
at last that the tyrannical ''machine"
which has endeavorel to run every
county office, school board, agricnltu-
raj society and village council, must
either change its domjneering and all
aevouriDg policy, or lie ''kicked out of
the party'' from this campaign forth
and forever.
IA ATRER SIMMONS NPE.AES FOR DUN
NELL.
EDITOR ADVANCE: The time has
come that the good people of this dis
trict are to make up their minds as to
the choice of the two candidates for
Congress, the Hon. NJ. II. Dunnell and