Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1890-03-21
E UNIONS COUNTY RECORD.
BYD. R. sTREETER.
W1LL1AMsPoRT, NORTH DAKOTA,
Pioneer Journal of the County.
The RECORD Is entered at the WiLianlport
PostoNce as second class matter.

lshed goody goody sheet at burlington
until the people tired of Mr.. Wired
and he was fired, and who is
now engaged in reforming" the sinners
Of Park River, seems to be able to lie as
easily as the attorney general or the Pio-
neer Press. In recent issue he says thar
the editor of the RECORD is ga stanch
democrat" because this paper suggested
opposition to the blue law crowd in state
matters The RECORD disllkes to enter
into discussion with Mr.. NJ. Jerley
Wired, of the P. River Witness, or any
other dampheol that parts its name in
the middle. But we don't mind telling
HIM that the editor of this paper has not
one blood drelative-paternal or maternal
who IS a democrat; that the editors
father, OIL abolitionist, was with jim
Lane IN Kansas in '56. If Mr.. Wired
doesn't understand this reference to Jim
Lane, let him seek information from
some one who has lived in this country
longer than himself. That his father
gave up his life in '63 while helping the
republican party to put down the slaves
holding democracy; that the editor him-
self, though boy, put IN six months Of
twoyears' term on a Mississippi River
gunboat fighting gallinlppers and demo-
cratic methods, and failed to serve his
full term only because the democratic
party surrendered that he stood in line
before the polls fer four hours in st.
Louis, in drenching rain, to cast his first
vote for General Grant and negro suf-
frage; and, finally, that he has never
voted for democrat for anything outside
of county office. Now, let G.. Morley
give US his own political record--not
as between Grit and Tory. but as re.
CARDS United States politics. Yes,
the writer has always been republican
but he confesses that he is heartily sick
Of such republicans as Miller, Goodwin,
Jordan, Winshlp, and = Wired. Let's
look at 'em: Miller, who made speeche.
for Greeley and against Grant in New
York, superintendent of fancy farm be
longing to politician of that state,
and whose money helped to nominate
Miller at Fargo; Goodwin, the con.
temptible sneak who has been the prime
mover IN the attempt to blacken the char
acter Of every member of the legislature
who believed that chartering a lottery
was better than begging old clothes ane
cold victuals in the east; Jordan, who
went to Bismarck and solicited number
of legislators to vote for the lottery bill
and then, when he found 1T could no
pass over the. veto, turned his coat ant
abused those who were steadfast :; Wiz
ship, whose brazen forehead and ada
mantine cheek have not yet deserted. him
who for years took money for the Louis
lana Lottery advertisement, Whose news.
paper has taken the first knowledge O
the lottery into hundreds Of homes, ant
who rolled his hypocritical eyes in hol,
horror when an attempt was made to CIV
the suffering people of the state, as wei
as himself, an income from the lottery
Last, as we'll as least, is the lying Wired
who was, fguratively speaking, kicket
out of the strong republican county o
Foster and whose regard for the party
measured entirely by its support of pro
hlbition. Bah what nice crowd O
humbugs! Is it strange that honest re
publicans do not want to train with them