Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1890-05-02

and Who had brought honpEs and public
institutions to the half Of the territory
where they had homes and interests-thesc
men were the "black beast" of the young
immigrant from South Dakota. He has
constantly abused and villified them, and,
while he has not had sufficient respect for
public intelligence to attempt the formu-
lation of direct charges against theepro-
bity Of those he hates, and the preseuta-
tion of evidence concerning specific acts,
he has continued to chant the old South
Dakota refrain. supplemented by such
mastodonic intellectual efforts as "Big
Aleck is in town.. 'Alex. Mckenzie, of
St. Paul and New York, is In the city,, -
and 50 on.
~
In business, too, this contemplate crea.
ture has imagined that the only way to
upbuild himself was to pull down his ri
walls. The Bismarck Tribune has been
his bette noir. He has Intellectually sough,
to excite public opinion and direct II
against that paper And what relation
has the journal which has provoked Mof
fits hatred and jealousy borne to the set
tlement and Improvement Of the Missour
slope7 In the early days the patronage
of its weekly edition. owing to the new,
ness of the country, was hardly suiI1cien
to enable the preprietorsyto read thei
title clear in advance, toa weeks white
paper. In 81 daily edition was started
Why it was started no one but M. Fl. Jew
ell seemed 10 know he, in response 10 in
quiries said something about "the fu
ture" of Bismarck and the Mlssohr
Slope. The writer was employed on th
first number of the daily and for coupl
of months thereafter. and knows whereo
he speaks. He well remembers the tecep
ton Of the first issue on the streets of til
town. Everybody Bought copy, tn
business men, particularly, were pleased
but very few of them believed the ne,
enterprise would succeed. No one though
the paper, even if it lived, would he abb
to continue the taking of Assecjate
Press dispatches, But Mr.. Jewell was de
termined that 1t should succeed, and fo
the first month or two he worked at leas
twenty hours out of the twenty-four-
rustling locals. writing. setting type-an
hard work that was necessary in each de
partment. The daily, with the press dis
patches, in spite of mushroom rivalr,
slow settlement, losses by fire, and til
| general hard times, has been rtin rigl
along, some of the time upon the profit
OF the job-room. EARLY and late its voc
has been lifted up for the interests 6
North Dakota in general and the Missou
Slope in particular. Faster than Its pa,
ronage has grown the Tribune's publ
spirit, and its proprietor l. friendship fc
and accommodating disposition towar
his rural brother journalists have becom
proverbial. Year after year the Tribuu
has through wages paid supported moi
residents Of Bismarck-4ti,en, women an
chlldren-thau any ether private ente
prise, and the money paid out at once re
turned to her business men in cxchana
for goods. And this is the Institute
which the adventurer Mef1t and b
friends have sought to injure because
would not cry out against the men wi
have borne the brunt of battle for II
Missouri Slope, and champion the eau,
of "refOrmers" in whom it had no fait]
~
But in the realm of politics the most D
caliar efforts of this journalistic buzza1
have been witnessed. Every man IN loo
public office has been measured by Mof
solely with reference to the attitude
the former toward himself or his pape
He has at all times acted the character,
nauseating toad eater and sycopha
toward those whose official duties had n
yet clashed with his private interests. A
remember bow fond he was of Commi
sioner johnson while that gentlemt
| voted according to his way of thlnkin
and how all of Johnson's motives becan
impure ana venal when he came to vo
the other way. He was also very indi,
nant at harsh criticism of Judge Franc
until In following the line of his judlci
duty the judge did something to disple
the little whiffet. Judge Winchester to
has been the recipient of frcqent doses
Motifs emetic-like gush, but no one wi
has paid much attention to the course
the young Pecksniif in the past doub
that, if the Judge should rule or fiji
against him in the coming cases In wbi,
he and his pet official are interested, Nc
fit will at once seek to persuade hls rea
ers that Winchester and Necessity a
twin brothers.
| And this Mofflt is the 'bird" who &C
as the accredited mouthpiece at the Ca
itaT City Of the Miller Goodwin holie
than thou, prohibition, dollar-a- -busht
seed-wheat aggregation Of wonder
4 Ugh!
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