Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-02-19
manac that Major Picker died last year
and that he Jolly was elected to sue
coed him.
DISREPUTABLE TACTICS.

DISREPUTABLE TACTICS.
Moffet, Gray & Co., are a sweet
scented outfit to preach reform and law
and order. After working up a good
case for States Attorney Register-in
order that one of their bright and shin
ing lights may gain a few unholy votes
for a county office-the attempt is made
to pull the u~nderpinning out from unner
the Jealous states attorney by securing
the absence of the principal witness and
informer when needed in court to give
in the testimony that would convict.
That is what was attempted, and in his
efforts to bring the deep-dyed Williams
and double-crossers to justice, the states
attorney has met with tho most I'M
scrupulous undetermined opposition
imaginable. Every day the columns of
reputable papers like the Pioneer Press,
Minneapolis Tribune, Minneapolis
Journal and Grand Forks Herald are
being prostituted by this little coterie of
Irresponsible, non-taxpaying s%elf.consti-
tuted censors and hypocritical guardians
of the public morals. They resort to the
most outrageous misrepresentation and
stoop to the lowest level of dishonest
journalism in their eagerness to e%ncircle
around the head of their little tin god
Healy a halo of righteousness.
The degree of their desperation is only
%equalled by their cussedness, and the
avidity with which they pervert the
truth is only equalled by the magnitude
of the crime they are committing, not
only against individuals, but the commu-
nifty that harbors and tolerates them.
The article in a recent Issue of the Miu-
neapolis Tribune, advising settlers to
keep away from this section,' was a
part Of this bureau" work and SO are
the articles appearing in the Grand
Forks Herald, dated Fargo, in which
Bismarck is spoken of as a "festering
cancer" and "dilapidated moral lazar:
etto''-an "atmosphere of corruption" in
"Il1CA I'LL uOhCoU A1ldl CuuuOU i've duu ~
avoid which Honest John Miller refused
a denomination and election'-'a cess
pool of iniquity," from which the capital
should be snatched, because "men that
have gone there with honorable inten-
tons have been overcome by plausible
chicanery and false public sentiment"
Motfet, Gray Il Co., "bureau" correspon-
dents, are the Judases, the ]treacherous
ingrates, the characterless scoundrels
who are engaged in the systematic sland-
ering CT this community and holding
up to scorn some of it's Oldest and best
citizens-men who have put in years aud
spent thousands for the up-building of
Bismarck and The Missouri slope
worked day and night and sweat blood, So
to speak, in trying times, in battles waged
against this little community-men
through whose generalship this city
his won in battles fought against awful
odds. These are the d~isreputahle
character assassins, who are, il the
interest of pure selfshness, applying the
torch of destruction to property Of men
whose loyalty to Bismarck has been
tested on a hundred occasions. There
may be an honest difference of opinion
regarding who shall hold tho political
offices in this county, and the TRIBUNE
comedies to every man the right Of his
W opinion and free expression, but in
the name of common decency, let our
dirty linen be washed and hung out at
home, and the stamp of disapproval put
upon treachery end d~isloyalty to the
community at large.