The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-10-25
THURSDAY, OCTOBER Is, 1888.
TO THE VOTERS.

electlOn VIII De neIO, ana tne 11te OI CIlo
candidates will be decided by your
votes So far rs the county election is
concerned, it is simply matter of
choice between a regularly nominated
ticket on the one hand, and i few inde-
pendent candidates fighting on their
own hook, a sort OF G,urilla warfare,
to break in upon certain nominees on
the regular ticket. Now we wish to
say this
l. If you believe in conventions and
regular nominations and party ties,
vote for the regular ticket right
through, for it WAS fairly and squarely
nominated.
2. II you do not believe in giving
the Auditor a third term, vote for
Fred Bloom, even tloHgh you uay be
personally friendly t" Mills.
3. If you believe in having a County
Superintendent who will give her
whole time and attention to the office
and not have any other business to call
her attention off, vote for Miss.
Graves.
4. If you are an independent, re-
member that the regular ticket is made
up mostly of independents and that
nearly all the leading independents are
supporting the regular ticket. Mills is
about the only one who is kicking and
he is trying simply to kick his way in
to Office again.
5. Pay no attention to cries of
"'traitor' and villano,,s attacks upon
individuals. Yeu all know as we'll as
we do that if the ADVANCE is a traitor
80 are nearly all the leading indepen-
dents of the county. This is simply q
campaign cly. They might with equal
propriety Call you all traitors for sup
porting one man one year and another
man another. Neither the ADVANCE
nor any of you are bound t" support
Mills always. and especially are you
not bound after you have helped him
i'm twice.
s. Mills is competent for the office
in many respects but he is no mole so
than Bloom aud is very much inferior
to Bloom in clerical ability.
Now, you have pulled with us in a
good many campaigns and you knew
we have always spoken out squarely
from the shoulder, even when it was
to our hurt. You know as we'll as we
do that the talk about our being {.
''traitor'' and being ''bought" is i lie.
We know that You have confidence in
us still Notwithstanding the hue and
cry Of the desperate. ''Blessed are the
peace makers.' yet we are cursed for
thrOwi * our influence to allay strife
and to make peace in the community.
You know this, too.
If you know all this. sit down hard
on the men who have inaugurated Il
campaign OF strife and abuse for no
other reason than to get office away
from regularly nominated candidates.
Il EHEEzA FNJ.n FARGO.
FARGO. d ,k., Oct. 1G.-Word reaches
here that the bust ,ess men of st. Paul
and Minneapolis have held Il meeting
regarding the completion Of the Fargo
Southern branch from Fargo to Orton-
vile. They decide that the completion
i5 detrimental to their interests, as it
would afford u connection from Fargo
to the south and west without going
througl, st. Paul. A proposition has
1)een made to the Chicago, Milwaukee,
& St. Paul to build this connection. 1t
IS said that ST. Paul and Minneapolis
merchants threaten the Milwaukee
road with the withdrawal Of patronage
if not helped along with the new enter
prise as proposed. Merrill's, general
manager, answer is not yet promul-
gated. 1t is said these people are en-.
sdeavOring to make the Manitoba and
Northern Pacific recede from the agree
ment about carrying supplies for the
new road Officers Of the Fargo South
>ern decline rs the romOnStrance is too
late to injure them and the road will be
built the same as though nothing had
been done by st. Paul people.
What difference would it make if the
st. Paul and Minneapolis merchants
scared the Milwaukee off. The Rock
Island would bu Id the road, and the
probabilities are that this IS. after all,
the power which is backing up the
Fargo Southern.
1t is ridiculous for the St. Paul and
Minneapolis people to think they can
turn all the business between Chicago
and the Northern Pacific country over
their mill wheels. Even if Chicago and
Chicago roads consented to it, St.
Louis would have half dozen north.
west lines tapping that country.
St. Paul and Minneapolis business
men are evidently taking the alarm
and we down this way have no regrets.
For years we have had to depend large.
ly upon those cities and in return fol
our trade they have given us the cold
shoulder and turned everything to de-
veloping the country northwest OF
them. Now we are having outlets
opened to Chicago and st. Louis, and
our section of the west feels the good
effects in every fibre.
Our life, our development, our whole
future turns on those railroads which
are passing through our country from
Chicago ard st. Louis and bearing
northwest to reach the great Norther,
Pacific empire.
AS an offset to the meeting held b,
the St. Paul and Minneapolis busines:
men, the towns down this way ough
to hold meetings to encourage thu
building of the Fargo and other roads
and to inform st. Paul and Minneapolis
that il they interfere with the buildin,
of our railroads. we shall withdraw ou
trade from them.
NO GREASE FOR HIN.
''When Greece her knees-Greece he
&nees-Greece her knees" stammeret
an embarrassed schoolb"y, forgettin,
the next line Of his recitation. Ether,