Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-02-18
PARTY WHIPS. :"

Brother Paradis, of The Midway
News, says that he is sorry to see such
able editors as Geo. N. Lalnphere of
the Moorhead News, II. G. Day OF the
albert Lea Standard and H. d. Hoard
of the Montevideo Leader gradually
drifting away from the republican
party in order to avoid boss rule.
They will find it more difficult to resist
the whip as welded by Donnelly, the
most imrerious dictator in western
politics. than that of the bosses in the
republican Or democratic parties even,
for Donnelly is the very personiE-
cation Of Rule or Ruin; the hero OF
more defeats at the polls, in the courts
and legis lative investi cations than
any ether man inthe state, who has
the courage to hold up his head.
Whether Donnelly drives or leads the
result is always that defeat is meted
out to all except Donnelly himielf,
who always wakes fat and saucy.
There are many other editors who
smart under the republican party
whip, but most Of them are not disposed
to run away, but stand their ground
and resist the brutal use of the party
whip right at home. If all the Mimi
esota journ alists, who are disposed to
leave the paaty, could see the advis-
ability ST standing by the best inter-
ests of one another's own communities,
instead of curling up at the crack Of
the party whip, in the hope of crust
at the hands Of the boss, the people
would be more prosperous, the press
stronger, and the bosses less tyrann-
ical.
Governments never exist without
parties, nor parties without bosses,
and even every boss has boss, hence
it is neither wise nor courageous to
attempt to run away from a boss, but
rather to band togather to resist the
blows.
The editor of The Atwater Press
chose to stay in the republican party
and oppose the rule or ruin policy of
certain would-be bosses, and in con-
sequence, has been subjected to every
indignity that his enemies could devise,
while endeavoring to make him submit
to their dictations, and could Editor
Paradis know to what extent has the
warfare been waged against The Press
and it's editor, he would fully realize
that there was another who has sutf-
cred all that he has experienced, and
more, even if he has not. been ''held
in durance vile behind prison doors. :"
Although even unsuccessful attempts
in that direction have been made.
Brother Paradis says:
- ''There is not paper in the state
that has + been more mercilessly
zs:''seourged"with the party whip than
has The Midway News during the past
two years. i Not only the party whip
but the boycott in business, the rack
OF mental perplexity, the thumb screws
OF deceit, the prison cell and every
other mode OF secret persecution mas
been empioyd against it, yet while. it
may have been observed to make more
or less su11g graceful notions from time
to time and to speak with more or: less
disrespect OF its oppressor's supe-
riors, who encourage the persecution,
it has never felt like DESERVING the
repHb lican party But even I've had
thought: Of such q thing it certainly
would not be to seek protection under
zDonnell s Will ~ tWa alter Press.
call the attentio on Of our
read rs to- the ha 81 cond itiono
our repu li;an rethren Of the