The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-03-17

| day is a bitter pill for the Orson Girls
sys and Comstocks to swallow. They
had little Barber out for a week trying
TO Xix up Il ticket; they had a. politica;
sermon preached on Sunday morning
last at the Congregational church on
the duty If church people to vote fol
''god-fearing and praying men," that
is, for church members of the narrow
gauge stamp, for councilmen; they held
Il political meeting at the Presbyterian
church on Sunday night; they held a
caucus On Monday night, and they
went to the polls on Tuesday with the
notion that majority of the people
were with them. But the result show.
ed that a majority of the people arc
with the moderate, sensible temperance
men who from the first have condemned
the brutal, overriding, and unfair meth
DDS of the fanatics. That vote says
that gang of church members shall
not band themselves together to perse-
cute liquor sellers who are not church
members, and shield liquor sellers who
belong to their church clique; that vote
says that the hiring of pious fraud
from abroad to come here and lie, de.
ceive and beg men to violate law, shall
be condemned at the polls as we'll as in
the newspaper; that vote says that
the narrowing, cross blowing. drag.
sing, dragoohing, and hulidozing OF the
whole town over few liquor prosecu.
tions must cease in Worthington; that
vote says, that in the Judgment Of this
peple, tie neil who have been unspar.
ingly denounced by the church-temper-
ance fanatics as whisky men" are the
true temperance men of the cemmuni-
ty; that vote says that the churches
which were largely built by the money
OF business men who are denounced as
'whisky nrn,'' must not hereafter be
prostituted to political purposes and
to meetings for sl;.nGering and abus.
ing better men than the higots who con-
troll the churches.
The fair and square temperance men,
seeing that the old Council were being
denounced rs "w!liS!<y men" by the ia.
natics and that meetings were being
held in the churches to make sentiment
against them, quietly determined that
the old council should be reelected.
They simply got out the tickets, hand
ed them to the people and the people
voted them, because they wished to
condemn fanaticism and Comstockism
in Worthington.
PERSONALS
A. NJ. Smith and wife returned last
week from an extended visit to Ne
braska.
G. W. Slayton stopped over Sun
day at the Nc Manus and left by team
on Monday for Heron Lake.
The Messrs. Watson, who have been
stopping for some time with I. p. Dur
fee, have concluded to join the Close
colony near Lemars. They are now
showed up waiting for the first train
out.
G. P. Hewitt is preparing to move
to Algona, Iowa, when the blockade
is raised.
|. p. Durfce is contemplating a trip
to Fort Pierre.
We hear that our pious fr-fr-
fraud, Orson Crissey, had hard time
getting home. 1.-THE stars fought a.
gainst Sisera, and he walked through
drifts, and rode on hand sleds, and
put in month getting home. Poor,
dear old soul. The way of the trans
gressor is blockaded.
EOREAS AND THE ADVANCE
Our Familiarity with our friend Bore
us has amused some and perplexed 9TH
ers. Certain 1t is, that he has generally
followed out the suggestions made in
the ADVANCE with remarkable CELEBRITY
and accuracy. Last week we announ-
ced that he would give us about one
HO1C So>u OtlL-tIN" 1Ao oODll ttS Ic wv
his paper and read 1t, he sounded his
bngle call, and the winds began to as
Semb|e, and by Friday morning the
blizzard WAS on. It lasted two days
and piled up mountains of snow. New.
er before did our old friend work such
wonders in front Of our Office, for he
built up arches and made us 4 grotto
and excited the jealousy of some fools
till they complained te the village mar
shall and made him break one of our
front windows.
Now they a:e asking us what Boreas
will do next? Just about what 1--WE
told you $" all along,'' as the editor of
the Rock County Herald puts it. There
will he no sudden and overwhelming
Spring, but Boreas is packing up for a
campaign UP North. The big billiards
are over, but there will be wind and
snow enough yet, and don't look for
regular trains before the middle OF A.
pril.
THE TILLIGE CHARTER.
In the classified list of bills passed by
the recent Legislature, we notice the
one to amend the village charter of Wor.
th,ngton. We announced last week
that 1t had passed the House, but had
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