The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-10-11
CAN'T GET UP 4 FIGHT.

We sat down the other day to make
! slashing attack on the So called cppo-
sition ticket. We started out some
thing like this ]
The ticket nominated at the sO-called !
mass convention is made up Of men
whom no man who has the good of the
county at heart can consistently sup
port.
Here we came to dead halt. It
occurred to US that we were making an
attack upon men the majority of whom
we were already supporting as they
were on our own ticket also.
We then hauled off and tried to at
tack it as q movement. We started
out something like this
The movement inangurated by the
so called mass convention OF the 9th
is an attempt to foist upon the people
of this county Il set of county officials
WhO-WhO-
Here we brought up again with a
bump We discovered that so far as
there was any movement, it was de-
signed to place in Office set OF men
the majority of whom we were already
supporting, and the leading ones among
whom we have worked for years to
place in office.
So we couldn't make fight in this
way. We then tried to get the two
tickets apart in some way so that we
could strike out without hitting our
own men in the face. We drew our
chalk line, chalked it we'll so that it
would make big white mark and
snapped it.
Well, sir, we left big chalk mark
right across the faces of Wigilam.
Johnson, Miller, Peterson and Warren.
The two tickets were so mixed that no
chalk line could divide them and we
had to give this up.
Seeing that we could neither find an
opposition ticket nor an opposition
movement to attack, we tried again.
We took our editorial scissors, (the
scissors are mightier than the sword,)
and cut the two tickets all to pieces.
We then threw out all the candidates
who were on both tickets and found
several men left whom we could attack
rs independent candidates when we
see fit.
We therefore concluded that there
was really but one ticket in the field
and several candidates running indie
pendently. The independent candi-
dat es are:
For Treasurer-Azom Forbes, not
nominated.
For Auditor-E. ). Mills, nominated
on the 29th
For Probate Juhg.-Emory Clark.
| nominated on tie 29:h
| For Supt. OF Scl,nnlS DR.. Craft. nom
mated on the 10Th. Geo. Gale. N. :.
>Merris and G.. r. Pope. not nominated.
Among the candidates for Commits
sioner, there are James GOWN, Emil
Graf and Henry Nelson, nominated on
the Goth, and L. G. Long not nomi-
mated.
The campaign therefore is ciphered
| down to this
| There is one ticket in the field, which
is the one standing at the head Of our
columns.
There are number of independent
candidates in the field and the voters
can take their choice.
SLOPPY TALK
The ADVANCE is now supporting a
county ticket made up of men for whom
and with whom we have worked for
years in political movements. One or
two men on this ticket, we have op-
posed in former campaigns, but the
bulk of the ticket is made up If men
with whom we have always been iden-
titled.
What more could we ask and why
should we not be satisfied?
Yet there is considerable sloppy and
foolish talk about the ADVANCE ''selI.
ing OUT and turning "traitor." Who
did we sell out to. if we are still sup
porting our own political friends fol-
office? Who are we ''traltor' to if we
are still! standing by men whom we have
done more than any other ten men in
the county to bring before the public
and to place in office !?
This is singular kind of treason
It is the same kind exactly that stood
by Lincoln and his administration dur
ing the war.
Dyes, they say, but you claim to bt
independent and you are not support
ing the independents. We deny it
Wigham, Miller. and johnson are in
dependents and have been so for years
But of those who claim to be independ
ents now, who shall we support
There are at least three Independent
candidates for Supt. of Schools
not one of whom has any claims upot
the ADVANCE for support, either polit
ical or personal There is one indie
pendent candidate for treasurer VIII
has no claims upon us either politica
or personal, having always opposed us
Well, they say, there is Mills for Au
ditor, you have always supported hin
heretofore. Certainly, and we did
, good job. We have done more TO
Mills than for any other man in Noble
< county. But the fact that we helpe
him into two terms of the Auditor
= Office does not bind us to help him int
the third.
t This talk about ''selling out" an
l "treason,' ETC., is all the sloppies
v kind of bosh.
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