Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1895-02-22

The Record has kept its slurs and fab
ricatlons quite well suppressed for some
time but it coulG resist no longer, and
its last weeks issue came with its col.
umns full of slurring criticisms of Repre-
sentative Armstrong who now holds the
seat which Mr.. Streeter expected to get.
Mr.. Streeter's attacks eminate Temanate1 i
from nothing else but jealousy, and be
cause Mr. Armstrong does not endorse
[indorse] Streeter' ideas.--Winsna Times.
The Times seems to have come to life
again. 1t has been in comatose con-
dition since the close of last falps cam
palgu. But its editors boss, who always
gets some one else 10 do his dirty work,
has probably written to Corky, from Bis
marck, ordering him to say something,
and reminding him of the saying that
men Of certain class should stand to-
gether.' The Record has no desire to
awaken the Times from its sleep, or to
call the attention of the people of the
county TO the fact that it still possesses
the breath of life. But, once tor all, the
writer wishes to deny that he did have,
or will have, an ambitious eye on the cap
itol building. In the first place, he could
not afford it, because, to a man who has
not the bump of acquisltiveness sutfi,
GENTLY developed to enable him to save
ninety cents Of every dollar he gets,
or whose abilities as an orator are not first
class, membership in the legislature
should have no charms, especially il he
has business that requires his close per.
sonal attention. We will again assure
the Times that citizens with legislative
aspirations need have no theught of
the writer in that connection, now or at
any time in the future.
While we would gladly see peace and
quiet prevail IN the politics of Emmons
county, we will not IN order to obtain
that boon, throw up our hat and shout
for the political accident who misrepre-
sents the people of this county. Our
first fight against his methods was in
1884, when he was attorney and chief de-
tender of the man who robbed Cherry
Grove-a robbery upon which every
property holder in that district is to day
paying taxes. And, from that day to
this, there has not been a single public
wrong committed in the county (and some
great private wrongs, too) that has not, in
the struggle for its rightlng found Mr..
Armstrong working IN opposition to the
effort for such rlghtlng. And II is for
this, and this only, that the Record has so
energetically opposed him.
Knowing him as we do, it Is not
strange that We would rather have seen
some other man represent this county in
the legislature. But he was sharp enough
to see that his only chance was in that d.
rection. The vote of '92--when he ran
away behind his ticket--showed him that
his hold on the public tsat was gone un-
less he could capture the county conven-
ton, and thus control the delegates to the
district convention. He knew that the
republicans of the county would not en~
danger party supremacy IN the legislature
even if they had to vote for a blatherskite
and political fraud, and that, even if they
did oppose HIM, the three other republic
can counties of the district would elect
him.
SO he went to work. In order to
capture the caucuses 1t was necessary
that the ambition of prominent men in
close precincts should be played upon. In
one precinct a citizen was assured that
Armstrong was strongly for him for
sheriff, while in other precincts Arm
strongs chief lieutenant was telling the
people that he would be dropped on con-
vention day. The same methods were