Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1893-10-13


going to Winona aud told him to an.
nounce. if necessary, that he (Brindle)
would not be candidate for any office.
This was done. Then the combine took
hold. They needed him for use. They
pounced upon the convention like tigers
They threatened one delegate with loss
of his job, while another was coerced by
the man who held his mortgage. They
nominated HIM by majority of q couple
of votes. and then they started man
post. haste to Williamsport to get him TO
stick. They showed him ralnbows In the
distance and they filled him with prom
ises, that they might use HIM to further
their ends. They drew him INTO the con-
spiracy and they kept him there. They
put him on an island and they took away
his boat. Brindlc, like Van Beck, was
used
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The Record has but little more to
say on this subject. One year ago the
editor of this paper was Informed of the
fact that bribery would be attempted
that the objective point was the Russian
settlement, and the editor was one of the
lambs marked for slaughter. Another man
now an officer Of the county, but at that
lime candidate-was on the same day
Informed by the same gentleman of the
same facts, only that full details US to the
plan were gwen. Ourinformant was then,
but not now, county officer, and nothing
but q promise on the part of the editor
| and the other candidate who was in
formed stands between the public and the
giving Of his pane. Well, the attempted
bribery took place. The Record. as in
duty bound if 1t hoped to retain the con-
fidcnce Of the people. made the matter
public, the editor knowing that the max
ing of powerful official enemies would be
the result. Then came the returning
boards throwing out Of votes. The Rec
ord fought that. Right prevailed in the
case. the men elected got their offices, and
$50 in costs were put upon the board.
And, finally. a jury of representative
citizens of the county, brush away the
well-spun web of defensive "evidence"
and render on the first ballot verdict of
guilty. Now, was the Record TO blame
IN fighting the brIbers and the returning
board9 What would have been the result
had those twin schemes prevailed? Could
any poor man have asplred thereafter to
'un for office IN this county? AS soon as
the fight against bribery began, instead
of coming out in one of the county pa
prrs and explaining or denying, the cry of
The bribers and their friends has been
that ''Streeter has done the same" Now,
| several months ago, we announced that
these columns were open to any charges
against the editor that any one desired to
make. The proposition was not accepted
1t is now made again. The writer has
never expended d cent illegitlmately IN a
cnuvass since he came here. That is the
proposition. During the past year he
has had no time to pay attention to il
bells. Now there will he some leisure
For the next three weeks our columns are
open to charges of bribery against the ed
Itor, to be met only in the way of refuta-
lion. Then our detractors-those who
hate the Record bccausc of the stand it
has taken against bribery and disfran-
chisemcnt--niust either show up. close up
or put up. Two or three OF them have
property above their exemptions, and
we serve notice that the writer is liable to
he after some of il soon. We have never
feared anything but perjury, anc Register
has demonstrated that the most carefully
concocted stories are easily demolished
under the cross fire of an able attorney
The writer has been here for nearly ten
years, and has tried to guage his private
and public methods by the same rule
When he has had any charge to make. be
has not sneaked around and hidden
under the cloak of ''th,y sny;'' and all he
asks is that when his enemies attack his
political acts they do it with some regar,
for facts, us known TO them, and not al
low the wish to be father of the thought