Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1886-11-12
A Political Fraud.


really feel ashamed of the ridiculous fig
ure you have cut in the recent campaign i?
Although you assert that you have no re-
grets, yet we will not do you the injus-
tice, OF believing that you can, in the
cool moments of reflection after the gall
and wormwood of defeat shall have left
your system, be otherwise than ashamed
of your overbearing, inconsistent and
treacherous course.
Did you have any good reason for this
policy of "rule OR ruin?" Come, let us
examine the record.
You claim to be Republican. BY a
Republican convention you were chosen
q delegate to Yankton. That Was all
right--you had your way. Many Repub-
licans believed you were not the proper
man to send; but, no one else wanting
the position, you were chosen. There
was no boiling by your opponents. On
the contrary, you were sent on your way
from your colleague in your pocket Your
star was in the ascendant-every thing
was lovely.
Then the county convention came on.
You were a delegate thereto. 1t is charged
by good citizens of Winona Township
that you used unfair methods in your
election, and that by u too early closing
of the primary many good Republicans
were kept from voting. Yourself and
your co-workers had tried to control
matters in two adjoining townships One
of your friends had made frequent pill
grlmages abroad, and had dispensed
liquid refreshments with free hand,
But it was of no avail.
You came to the convention cooked and
primed as q candidate for delegate to
Bismarck. You took your seat in the
convention. You had equal privileges
with the other delegates. The men you
desired were not chosen, and your ambi-
ton to go as a delegate to Bismarck Was
blasted. This Is liable to happen to any
man. No one, either in politics or pri-
vate life, Can always have things his own
way. Mind you, not "a word of protest
did you make in the convention against
its nominees, not a charge did you form
ulate against the men--any of thcm--who
were chosen TO bear the standard of the
Republican party in the coming election.
What was your course thereafter? Did
you go back to Winona and strive for the
election of the ticket which had just been
nominated? Did you say to yourself, as
others have said before. "These are not
all my choice there are men in the party
whom should have preferred. But am
Republican publish Republican pa
per; the nominees were fairly chosen by
a Republican convention. 1 above all
others should subordinate my personal
wishes to the will of the majority. This
is the essence of party politics. Without
it successful action is impossible
No; you sulked in your tent you had
not word of good to say for the ticket.
You did not even, until the last issue of
your paper preceding election, give it the
customary standing location in your col
umns. At the eleventh hour, believing
that the men you wore opposing would
be elected, you came out for the ticket
which you had before attacked. You
said Vote for every man on the Repub
lican ticket" Did you mean 1t, or was
1t in the nature Of blind7 Let US see.
2. A gentleman sends us from Winona one
of the tickets you peddled on election
day, and which shows how much honesty
there was in your printed paragraph,
Vote the Republican ticket" We are
Informed that the subjoiued Douglas
ticket was printed in Bismarck and sent
to George by express from that city
There is one erasure, in Douglass hand
writing-the name of Miss Ella Brown,
who was ineligible and declined to rur,
being marked out and that of J. II.
Worst substituted: Thus, the ticket or
dered by George Douglas, Republican
editor, Republican delegate to Yankton,
Republican delegate to the county con-
vention, read as follows before the sub
stitution of Mr.. Worsts name for that of
Miss Brown: