Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1892-07-29
EMMQNS COUNTY RECORD.
By D, r. STREErER.
WILLIAMSBURG, NORTH DAKOTA.
Pioneer journal of the County.


The RECORD 10 entered at the WiLiamport |
PostoRce as second class matter.
TO WillY-A Few Remarks.
Willy Moffet seems to take considerable
interest in things political down this way.
In his last issue he intlmates that Streeter
goes to Fargo by courtesy of State ]
Senator Worst. If Willy had been here
on convention day he would have known
that the editor had lively fight all day
against an opposition led by the county
board, the Williamsport postoflce, the
needy-poor bosses. the county auditor.
treasurer and the Campbell sheep ranches.
Willy would have found that Streeter re.
ceived forty~ave votes out of possible
sixty-fve and that of the twenty votes
against HIM ten were cast by Commis
sioner Van Beck and his proxies from
Baker and Selz, two by the Glencoe
sheep ranch. and three by the sheep ranch
IN Cherry Grove. In other words, that
fifteen of the twenty votes we're cast by
three men. Willy might have learned.
also, that for two months past the Van.
Beck Campbell Waldruff Armstrong,
Connor combination had been striving
to send Many Offices Armstrong to the
state convention to be held at Fargo. He
would have found out that the whole
fight was against the editor OF this paper,
and that 1t failed utterly, the fghtee re-.
ceiving a larger vote than either of the
other two candidates who had opposition;
The antagonlsm to the editor, led almost
entirely by men who were unfriendly to
Worst when he was comparatively un.
known, had, when they learned that the
two old-time friends had quarreled at
Bismarck two years ago, quickly gath
cred to assure the senator how much they
loved him, and how they had always
loved him. 1t was this outfit that sought
to prolong the estrangement, hoping
that through 1t they could use one
man for the purpose of downing the
other, and thus keep their pet, Armstrong
for years bitter enemy Of Worst
on top. 1t did not occur to them that it
was possible for men to differ over a
minor matter, and yet agree as 10 the ne
cessity for the Republican party of the
state placing in its platform only such
principles as were test Of party loyalty
throughout the nation, They did not
wish to believe that men who had had a
personal disagreement could work to.
gether for the advancement of measures
in which they both had faith,
And the whole fight against the editor
of this paper has been made in Worst g
name, though, as the writer believes, en-.
tlrelY without his sanction. That at first
he should have listened to the assertions of
the editors political enemies to the effect
that that individual was trying to down
him Is not strange, when We take into
consideration the fact that such ASSERT ons
were constantly poured into his ears, both
in Emmons county and by the Mofetltel
in Bismarck. They wanted his aid the
writer and the writer's friends wan tod him
to remain neutral, and assured him that
there was no opposition to him. He be-
lleved 1t and kept out and the Armstrong
Campbell aggregation went IN the soup.
Now, Willy, you know how 1t was
done. Andcandor oompels us to say tha,
y our assertion that Senator Worst allowed
the Emmons county delegation to stand
as it is is nearer the truth than you usu.
ally get in the matter Of politics. For II
Is certainly true that the convention, al
though composed Of the writer's political
friends by large majority, would nol
have sent him or any other chap to the
state convention II they could have beer
made to believe that Worst was seeking
something on the state ticket and suet
delegate would antagonlze him, They
did not believe 1t, and, should events 81
shape themselves, 1t will be clearly dem
onstrated that their faith was vel
founded. But az matter Of fact Mr.
Worst is not candldute for position OF
the state ticket, and tho talk about any,
body wanting to 60 to Fargo to oppos'
him was all wind.
In conclusion we will say to Willy tina
he would better tend his own knittin'
for the political clouds In Burleigh lower
and it may require all his ripe experience
profound wisdom and three~ply sagacitl
to avert catastrophe.
Furthermore, we beg leave to ASSURE
him that, whoever may be on top pollt
ically down this way, very few in elthe
faction have sympathy for Moffet or hi
methods.
And, still further, that, whatever loca
antagonisms may exist on the part of tw'
or three members of the delegation fron
the free and independent borough of EN-
mons, it ls quite likely that, at Fargo
they will get together in opposition tt
most measures dear to the Moffetia
heart.
!. Sell your Butter and Eggs to Georg