The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1894-02-02
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ISSUED FRIDAY MORNING.
OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PAPER.
ia. WARDwELL. THOMPSON
WARDWELL l. THOMPSON,
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TERMS, $500 PER ANNUN
FRIDAY FEBRUARY, 9 1894.

TERMS, 5000 PER ANNUN
FRIDAY FEBRUARY, . 1894.
| AN UNFAlRcHlLD.
In DEytou there lives IL person
who some years ago set up littl,
press, little type. and started a lit
tie newspaper. His politics were o
tile irregular and ragged nature pc
culiar to that independent" elias
whose course is best typified by tn
famous hog who attempted to wall
on the slippery ice. Nevertheless hi
slnuous course led him to Il trough o
republican buttermilk in the shap
of post-office, very much to the dis
gust off majority of his neighbors
When the change of government &C
cured, he lost his trough as Il matte
OF course. and oh, how he squealcd
and sulked, and quarrelled with hi
best friends because they could no
hold his trough for him in the fac
of a democratic regime.
| His course as a business man ha
been of the same sinuous, hcsitating
helpless sort, aud run ON the principl
that because he runs the local paper
that he is Therefore a sort of necessar
local barnacle or parasite whom tn
people of right should support; a sor
of public pauper, to whom should b.
given all the best that is going. A
may be supposed, such an individual
has few friends IN his own town, an,
the men who have backed him, no,
have little use for him; they ar
tired of his whining, his jealOusies
and sncaking, treacherous ways, hi
everlasting calls for help, and 0
whole chapters of the bible, served III
as news to them.
Though this man came in and &C
cupied a corner in which this pape
had almost the entire business, We
the PIONEER EXPRESS gave him vel
come, has treated him with genera
sity in business, political and pri
vate manner. and has by word an,
deed assisted him to make a livinI
and establish his paper. We hav,
never solicited a d.,llar's worth O
work in Drayton since the establish
ment of the Echo. we have refused t,
publish communications criticism,
him, from his own townsmcn, ",
have defended and excused him iron
the criticism of his ncighbors in pri
vate conversation.
And yet this man with his belly full
of republican buttermilk, says. tn
publishers Of the PIONEER EXPIRES
are hogs, who manipulate the pull
lie teat.''
This man who really don't know
the meaning of generosity, of graft
| tude, of common business reciprocity
calls for "fair play"
I his mar who says in one brcntl
that he has, and has not, the type sui
ticient to set up taX-list, says W,
lied to the commissioners when W,
said he did not have it.
This man, who December 22ntl
called the commissioners ''court hous,
ring" who said they were "influenc
ed" and worked ito fleece tn,
people," and wondered what kind o.
a dose they'll give us next" This
man, after discovering that the next
"dose" was pleasant one to the
Echo, it being named as an offlcia
paper, then on January Goth, says
1.-THE new board have mind of thell
own" and on January 18th, thanks
the board ''for their manifest spirit
Of fairness" and this notwithstand-
ing the new board and the old board
are identical except one member.
Still Mr.. Fairchild says we were un-
truthful when we said he had changed
his style Of criticism towards the
board.
This man, who in infancy may have
been fair child, but who has sadly
outgrown his patronymic, in last
weeks issue writes a column editorial
almost every assertion of which Is
contradictcd in his own words in the
same article.
This man, claims right to county
printing because The representa- local
tax-paying constituency" and then
Immediately says, location is a weak
and silly plea to advance as right. "
Something, by the way, this paper
has never claimed. 1t is only the
Echo and other public charges that
claim support from the public as d
fright
This man with y ghOulish amino
sity, even disturbs the memory Of
the dead by charging an otiicla. with
gross malfeasance in Office, aud in.
cidentally smirches the reputation Of
the present official who has the care
county commissioners business, and
makes charges of which he has not
one iota of proof.
But enough. We have already tax.
en- up too much space with the contra.
dictions Of crank, whose meanes,
and Jealousy is exemplitied, by hit
Jumping headlong into question il
which he had no business interest
for neither by word of mouth or other
wise did he make a proposition fol
printing the taX-sale: and whose OWL
contradictions in one article. are al
index to his craven spirit, and whose
only excuse for his mcancss is, thai
lie Elbows no better, and is ii creature
vi whins. aud eccentric ohilLisl,ress
| II.
The Wilson bill was to lie brought
to tinal vote in the house yesterday
The democrats claim thirty-tive ma
jUrity for it and it will doubtless pass
But when it comes to the senate ii
will find it pretty hard to run the
gauntlet of forty-three democrats,
four populists and thirty-nine repu'
blicans and one of the democrats Is
Senator D. 3. Hill, Of New York.