The Northern Pacific farmer., 1881-11-10
"The Mountain Labored and
Brought Forth a Mouse"

Brought Forth a Mouse"
We copy the following from the
Terndale Journal, which we take to
be complimentary (!) notice of the
senior editor of this paper:
THE REPUBLICAN TICKET.
The NORTHERN PACIFIC FARMER
of last week contained the republi-
can county ticket, and made the fol-
lowing comment upon it:
s'Above are the names Of the sever
al candidates presented by the county
convention to the voters of the
county for the county Offices
Immediately below this, and in a
separate paragraph, is found this in
dorsement:
u. II. Montgomery is an independ.
ent candidate for the office of sheriff,
and Mr.. Asher Murray is an indie
pendent candidate for the Office Of
clerk of the district court. These
gentlemen are good men and true,
and if elected, will undoubtedly per-
form their duties well. 1t is the
duty Of the voters to exercise the
right of suffrage for what they be-
lieve will he the best interests of the
county, and we have no doubt they
will do so. The candidates are all
well known to the people, and need
no introduction from us, and the
electors know how to vote without
any instructions from u.s."
The republican electors of the
county had a right to expect more
hearty endorsement of the ticket they
presented to the people, through
their representatives, from 4 repub-
lican newspaper. whose editor was a
member Thy proxy of the convention
which nominated it, and was also =
candidate refore it. We know that
the editor himself has not always
deemed it necessary to receive the
endorsement of the republican COIL
vention when he was a candidate for
office; but lie claims to be Il republi-
can, and has twice sought a nomina-
tion for u county Office in the conven-
tions Of the party, and has taken an
active part in republican caucuses
and conventions, He has not made
public any reasons why he can not
support the ticket nominated, or any
individual nominees upon that ticket,
but simply throws his influence in a
half hearted manner in favor of the
independent candidates-(We have
no reason to believe that he would
not favor independent candidates for
all the other Offices outside of the
sherifr's ana clerks, if there were
independent candidates.) Then why
is it? Can it be because he has twice
failed to receive nomination by the
republican convention of this county?
or, is it because he is afraid of
wounding the feelings Of some of his
fellow-townsmen? 1t must be; for
he has not given one word of hearty
praise to any candidate upon the reg
ular ticket, which has come to our
notice.
For our part, we also believe
Messrs. Murray, Montgomery, and
ingalls, are ':good men and true: and
were they candidates upon the re-
publican ticket, we would gladly sup
port them; but they are not. With
the editor. OF the FARMER we believe
shat "electors know how to vote
without any instructions from us"
still we consider it the privilege of
every newspaper to urge it's readers
to support those candidates which it
believes ought to be elected.
The Journal supports the repub-
lican ticket, which may he found at
the head of it's columns
We would thank the editor of the
Journal when he finds it necessary
in order to get a little good sense into
his paper, to quote from the FARMER,
to print it just as it appears in these
columns, without interlopating any
Of his own vaporings between the
sentences. We would gently suggest
to our dear brother, that he is not
responsible for anything that appears
i'll the columns of the FARMER. AS
to the candidates, the most that Our
brother has had to say about them,
was that they were regular. But the
editor of the Journal is nothing if
not regular. He is so veru regular
indeed, that he finds it necessary to
20 out of his way once in about six
months to make personal attack on
the senion editor of the FARMER, and
we have no doubt that when he was
Il little barefooted boy. going to the
district school, and happened to stub
his toe against a stone, that he regu-
larly returned to that stone at the
same hour of the day for at least a
week, and just as regularly stubbed
that poor little toe in the same place,
and we should Judge he had stubbed
it again, in the matter of sheriff.
When we said that all the candidates
were we'll known to the people, we
did not have in mind the fact that
the editor of the Great Family
Journa; and Regular Republican
newspaper, was candidate for of.
flee. We were thinking OF the 9TH
ers who were well known, and we
must beg pardon for our forsetful-
ness of him. We trust that when
our brother is troubled with mental
jaundice, he will relieve himself of
the bile that doth so annoy him, at
our expense if need be, because it
does us no harm and seems to do him
Il great deal of good. We are some.
times troubled during the warm
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