Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-06-25
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

were to victory in the county,
and at what tremendous odds
we had fought with the limited
, resources at our command, and
as the excitement of the cam
paign subsidized and we were
able to deliberately take in the
Situation, we all agreed that a
party organ was a necessity to
our cause in the future. We had
hired the columns of an opposi-
ton newspaper at exorbitant
rates to enable us to in a meas
ure bring our views before the
people, but no sooner was the
campaign over than that very
paper that we had patronized
took especial pains to heap Ohio
guy and abuse upon u.s.. This
particularly fired us all with in
dignation at such unheard of
baseness and aroused us to &C
ton at once. We all felt that
without some means of defense
no populist was safe from the
most foul and vile SANDER at any
time, and that those who took
any prominent part in our move
ment were there after to be hunt
ed down by any means no mat
ter how vile. You delegated the
Editor of Willmar Tribune to see
what could be done about start
ing newspaper of our own. The
Editor with some reluctance
took hold of the matter. He
need not tell you that it has been
a herculian task. You all rea-
lizc that. And the Editor will
here testify to the cordially and
liberality shown by Mr.. Crosby
of the Republican Gazette in
helping the enterprise along.
Mr.. Crosby has proved himself
to us to be q man of honor and
principle and above petty party
preiudices and deserves, and
will, we doubt not, receive the
appreciation from populists in a
business way that he truly de-
serves. However. to make the
Willmar Tribune a permanent
success. a practical printer of our
own faith, so to speak, was alb
solutely necessary. The Editor
is in the active practice Of a lab
orious profession, and while he
can, and has in fact for years
done considerable of writing on
economic questions in his leisure
moments, more as a recreation
than anything else, and while he
will of course continue to do SO
as long as health and vigor per-
mits, he could not attend to the
multiferious duties of a general
editor of even a small newspaper.
Hence Mr.. Victor E. Lawson
was induced to enter in the en-
terprise. We had known Mr.
Lawson for years and knew what
he could do. We were not mis-
taken. Look at Willmar Tribune
now Correspondents from ev
rywhere. Full of county and 10
cal news. Without desiring tt
detract one iota from the abilit,
of our able editorial brethren il
the County, you must admit tina
Willmar Tribune rivals, if no
surpass, any of them as gener
al newspaper. The credit of thi
is Of course wholly due to MI
Lawson. We Populists have
paper now that we may truly b
proud of. Willmar Tribun
is a go, and a success
Our opponents now hav
to admit that populists can stat
and run q newspaper. News an
editorials from Willmar Tribun
are quoted by contemporaries
on every side. We can now k
! heard in defense of our principles
and we will be heard in the futur
and be listened to with the r
spect that we deserve.
The TRIBUNE has a large Giro
lation especially among the farr
" ers throughout: this section j
country, a larger bona tide Giro
lation we believe than any 9TH
paper in the county. It has a ia
advertising patronage for it's az
:. and you should duly apprecia
S. the liberal and nonpartisan spi1
of our business men who patr