The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-10-21
That Bargain and Sale.


the Independentsh had secured \ victory,
leading men in the movement, prOmIn.
ent among which was the two MillelS,
Nelson, Wigham and others, formed 8
coalition with the Worthingt0n ring,
in which it was bargained and agreed
that county offices and official llOn0rs
should be divided equally between the
two factiOns-the ADVANCE to beef
fetal paper, with the Guardian Per-
taker of the fruits in equal shares. All
the wire working fraternity were In.
cluded in this arrangement.-E.sS ).
Mills editorial in Globe.
The story of ''bargain and sale''.
was freely peddled over the county
during the last campaign and OF course
this campaign. Then, however. Mills
sons simply told the story to suit him
self, signed his name to it, and then
lied it through.
There never was any bargain and
sale beyond the fact chat leading Re-
publicans came together and agreed to
, agree. The only condition exacted
by the editor of the ADVANCE was that
the Independents should hereafter be
recognized, and at the next convention,
Independents were nominated for ev-
cry important Office, except one, and
only two of the ''old set" were put on
the ticket.
Now as to the ''sale" part as told by
Parsons: II was said that the ADVANCE
received $500 to compromise the mat
ter and heal over the breach, in short,
that we were bought for $500.
| Tins WAS a lie DOint blank The old
Journal was on hand then, the
''Straights'' were anxious to abandon
it. and Peter Thompson, a Democrat,
who owned the press and material,
came into the conference and agreed to
send the press and material out of the
county if we would pay him $500. We
agreed to do this, the conditions being
that the material was not to be used to
start another paper and was to be sent
out of the equity.
We paid Thompson 500 and waited
to have the press, ETC., sent away be-
fore paying the other 500. Thompson
sent several times for the balance, but
we declined to pay it until the materi-
al was sent away, for we believed and
still believe, it was the design to keep
it and use it again, rs it was afterWar.l
used for the beastly and ill-starred Rec
ord. Finally, Thompson met us on che
street and said two men were here to
start q paper. They would start ut all
hazards and would buy a power press
if they did noJ get the old Journal
press. Thompson said lie did not like
to lose 1. chance to sell and he wonld
release me from paying the other 500.
We found afterwards that Day and
Thompson were chiefly instrumental in
bringing the two men here, one of
whom was the penitentiary candidate,
r. j. w. Bloom, now under indictment
for perjury.
And we notice further, that always
inthe spring before campaign Day
and Thompson manage to get some
body to come and start Il paper. 1t is
always "Republican" paper till it
gets foot hold. When the campaign
opens it is Prohibition-Democr
Republican-1ndependent paper for the
use Of Day and Thompson first, and
anybody else afterwards.
These are the "bottom facts'' con-
cernins that $500 purchase about
which so much was said last campaign.
It is Of course doing dnty again, for ~
lie we'll stuck. is us good rs the TRUTH ,
according to the old maxim.
This time we hope the people will
give it no heed. Onr business now is
to break the Mills Ring. Manv farm
ers whose lands have been sold for tax
es have applied to Auditor Mills to re-
deem. and lie has uniformly put them
off till he ''could write to Miller &
Thompso.' the rich bankers. Whv'
, Because Mills is tie agent of the bank
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