Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-10-26
Letter from q Bellevue Demo-

The Democratic county conve ntion
having been held and nominees for
the various Offices placed in the field, it,
ofcourse, is the privilege Of all voters
in the county to express their opinion
concerning the fitness OF thescandi-
dates of the two parties and, when
they go to the polls, exercise the right
to vote for those whom they prefer
irrespective of party ties. and atflllia-
tions. ~ -. $x~ts*1z ..-,H|#&&E. A..
| am Democrat, and always have
been, aud, when conscience and
sense of duty do not forbid, vote the
straight party ticket, local as well as
State and Nationally: Thia year com m on
sense and every other motive will COM
pei us to 'scratch'TT,th .1ocaa ticket,
and we are not alone by a large. mum
ber, nor should the Democratic 1nana-
gers of the party in this county be sur
prised at such d result. Let us look at
and consider for moment the various
candidates, their fitness for the re-
spectiYe Offices which they aspire to
fill, and their claims upon the citizens
and taxpayers of the county. ..
&First comes the candidate for the
office Of county treasurer. The Repub-
1ican candidate is Jonathan Taylor,
resident of this couaty for the past
twenty-eight years, gentleman of
varied and extensive business expert
ence, and reputation tor honesty,
straight t-fnrward dealing aud upright
ness in the discharge of his duties,
both in .n official and private capacity,
tnat any man might point to with hon
est pride. His record az a public
Off GER is unhler1isheL and unimpeach-
abe, and if he is not elected to the
office of county treasurer, for which
he is candidate, the people OF this
county will have cause surely to regret
their foolishness in not putting him
there. With two such men at the
helm Of county afflirs as j. y. La
Taylor, county treasurer, the people
need fear no defalcation nor crooked
ness in the administration Of county
affairs. Opposed to Mr. Taylor is S.
Stoll, the Democratic nominee for the
same Office. Or Mr.. Stoll we know
nex} to nothing, which is the case
with most Of the people Of the county,
nineteen out OF twenty Of all the vot-
ers having neither seen nor heard of
HIM, except as knowing that he was
an unsuccessful candidate for register
OF deeds last year. Indeed, stolI
seems to think that the average intelli-
gence Of the people Of thsatounty!ia of
very low standard and that the i'm
portatiun Of such men az he is of tho
greatest Importance for the welfare
and regeneration of the business ele-
ment of the county. Perhaps it is, but
We fail to see it. County affairs were
run very successfully and satisfactorily
managed before the egotstic Stoll con-
descended to take up a residence
amongst US and do us the honor of
tlling an important county office, the
most important in the county in one
sense Of the word. What possible
claim he thinks he can have upon the
people OF this county, we are at a loss
to understand. parstively speak
ing, ri utter stranger, he has shown a
greed for office and a disregard for the
claims of others that places him in
anything but an enviable light. He
has his reputation yet to make in this
county and if lie will allow sugges-
ton from me, it is, to advise him to
show d little more .motiesty and to
hold himself little more in the back
ground and not to crowd out those
who are more deserving of nomina-
ton than himself, for the position he
aimed to fill. He will probably find |
upon the day Of election, that there
are not az many idiots in the Demo-
cratic party AS he had counted on.
When the party managers will deliber-
stely pass by staunch, old-line Dem
ocrat like Nicholas Meyers for the pur-
pose of putting up stranger like
stol], they must not expect the. party
to endorse their action, and if the
thing is repeated too often, they need
not be surprised to wake UP some fine
day and find their majority gone like
the dew under rising sun, gone
where the wood -bine tWineth. i. This.
county has had it's fill Of strangers for,
official POSITIONS ,Fandawe drge the DEM
ocratic voters Of this county. to send
Mr.. Stoll to the right-abeut face and,
keep him in the rear untif'he has aesal
tablished his claim to their, sufrages,
upon better foundation than it:nom
stands. When you are less asstrangerE
and have demonstrated your. right to,
our confidence, we may under proper
conditions, be inducedto vote for you
until you do we cannot. 7, for one,
like to know for whom and what kind
Of a man, we are voting -, = : ,;'..' .@;,.,'
The next in order are the candidates
for sheriff, ,',.>AVe are aunqualifedly a
Rastcot man. &Hissrecord for The past
year has shown him to be the right
man in the right place, and we predict
that not only win he receive the full
party vote, but draw heavily from the
ranks Of the Republican party and his
excellent record as an officer entities
him to that1compliment. =zs.s II .Sss + Il: ].
/ The alrne may be truthftllly said Of
Dir. Guernon for school superintsnd-
ont. Both gentlemen have maderec-
ords for which they reed not blush.
= : As to the county attorneyship, it is
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