Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1894-10-05

would have made elections IN TINS county
farce hereafter, and have caused a con-
dition to prevail in Which the English.
speaking voters might as we'll have staid
at lrome on election day, as the purchased
voters would have held the balance Of
power The Record opposed the bribcrs.
and did its level best to bring them to
justice. A grand jury and petit Jury
passed upon the matter, and all know the
result. Was it unrepublican to denounce
wrong and rascality, even if all but one
of the rascals were republicans!
Well, the bribery failed; and there was
great danger of the combine, with hcad-
quarters at the county building, being
broken up. Two men not on the gangs
slate we're elected on the face of the re-
turns. Something desperate had to be
done. One precinct was thrown out. with
no opportunity for the men defeated
thereby 10 be heard. Although the two
men were on the democratic ticket, the
writer failed to find any law that author.
lied the robbery of democratic citizens
simply because they were democrats, and
he again opposed the outrageous conduct
of the gang. Would he have been bet
ter republican if he had stood in with the
returning board2 Certainly be wot,ld not
have been better citizen. And did not
the court Uudgc Rose, at Bismarck J
promptly sustain the position taken by the
Record2
We now come to the most outrageous
violation of INV that was ever perpetratcd
in any county. In the face of IL statute
peretnptorlIy ordering an exemption of
5000 worth of property to every taxpayer
Auditor Armstrong and Deputy Treasurer
KurtE for two years set aside the law and
collected an illegal tax on exemptions
from those who we're ignorant of The law
and therefore made no protest. while
those who did protest were allowed such
exemption1 1t is hardly possible to be.
!icve that in civilized community, near
the end of the nineteenth century, such
an outrageous act wuuld be attempted;
and by i tt,ah learned in the law at that.
The writer has also denounced this fraud
ulent collection of taxes. But in his con.
science he does not believe that he is less
republican ur an honest man for so
doing.
And we can tell the editor of the Times
that he is pursuing forlorn hope. His
masters cannot defeat the editor of this
paper at the polls, unless they Gun show
something against him as an honest man,
or against his CON potency us an official.
The motive for the gangs malice is too
easily seen by the people. They want re-
| venge. They want to establish their
Braddock, and their kurtb, and their
Klynstra-the same conditions that ex.
listed in the county building up to the
election of two years ago. In regard to
the charges made against them, they pre-
! serve "a dlgnified silence because they
| know there is positive proof at hand, and
they dare not deny the charges of the
| Record, They know that the writer
and bis republican friends will vote and
work for the republican state ticket.
! They know this we'll. And they also
know that their only hope is In lowllng
about their superior fepublicnnism. be.
lieving that they can make the people
forget or overlook the fact that the
bribery gang is again in the saddle and
shrieking for revenge.