The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-08-14
Emmons County Record.

The Record editor believes That the best
way to settle differences of opinion is by
argument. This paper has always been
differ from it, provided the matter there
of. But it. would be the height of folly to
attempt to argue with the brace of jack
asses who launch the Bismarck Settler
each upon a suffering public. Who ever
saw anything IN the shape of argument
in the shape Of argument in the Settler?
That Daper's whole stock in trade is abuse
and misrepresentation. 1t has nc arg
mentatlve articles that are not clipped
from some other paper. 1t was conceived
in hate aud born in malice, and exists as
the mouth piece of as worthless a crowd
of kickers "a ever proved a drawback to
any town. 1t never misses an apportu-
nifty of ma;igniny Bismarck and the Mis-
souri, Slope. and it's filings are frequently
printed in the Grand Forks Herald and
other papers unfrlendly TO the Slope. Its
two editorial worthless bitterly hate Judge
NIhJNl i opuCtSoh5 oUssUO . nb-
torney Allen and nearly every other man
who has Of late years held office in Bur
leigh county, ana it's criticism of public
men has invariably been based on the
proposition as to whether the person crit
1clsed was getting or was likely to get his
printing done at the headquarters of the
truly good. Its gems of journalistic
ability are modelled after the frequently
given announcement that "And yet, while
Moffet has little regard for the feelings of
Others. there ia nv doubt that he would
.cons,der himself wrongfnlly dealt with
should some truthful scribe refer to the
Settler MS a big aIeck. No; 1t would be a
waste of tin.et t., cirque with such reptiles
as Mof1iet, Hog Bug ct id genus omne.
Therefore. the Record will use only such
language in dealing with them as the ver-
min feeding hounds can understand and
appreciate. 1t would be a wasteiof words
to speak Of being perso nally responsible
to the hungry. lcnn and prematurely-born
brace of scahs that exc a scanty subsis-
tence from the ratty pi-snOp en- Third
street. But IN this unprincipled II
NANCY skunk Hog Bug--this Mclean
county fraud VIII" hates everybody, and
the friends of everybody, who has kept
him out of office--we will state that we
are personally responsible for anything
that we have said or may say of his
skunkship.
That thing called Moffet, who doesn't
like personal abuse, is the same thing
chat referred to Congressman johnson as
.'The Wild Ass of the Prairie" It. is the
same thing that accused l.. N. Griffin of a
h%ei,ous crime-said to have been com
mitted years hefore, and with no effort
whatever to produce a shadow of proof.
It is the same thing that never fails to
print insultiug personal paragraphs re-
0arding Alexander MeKenzie-a man
who has done a hundred times more for
Bismarck. than a vi 'la ontit of moffet-
tie backcappers. OF course measly Mof-
let doesn't like personal abuse when he
is the subject.
Xxx
The editor of the Record knows moth
ing of this Nc l. can Ounty h o &
bug until a Mclean county man who WIS
visiting in WilIiu,nsw'rt stated that there
was no other person in hln county who
was mean enough to- attack the judge of
the district court through the m ,diuIn of
an anon, mons letter. Our informant
said that the hog bug most likely never
wrote the Letter that appeared in MOfet's
horse thief ,rgau-as he isut welt enough
educated to write for the press--hnt th"t
he probably sat al ,ngside OF M '1et r
old Uncle Ora and puked the tale into has
willing ear.
The writer has been informed by two
men who we're present during tbs recent
term of court in McLesn county that Hog
Bug and Moffet lied in their statement
that Judge Winchester had treated an al
legged horse thief unfairly, etc. A cores
pondent IN the Washburn LEADER, also
denies the charge at length. Editor Tut
tie and Attorney we're present. The Rec-
ord would tike to see something from
these gentlemen as TO the truth or falsity
of the Moffef-H ogbne charges.
TxT
Measly Nofet printed that "Tuttle and
Streeter may attempt to shield Red Cald-
we'll and Winchester" and then whines
like the chr that he ia when the Record
painted him in true colors. He and his
fellow skunk. Hog Bug. of Mclean coun-
ty. are two such creatures as may be
found. with their trouser knees we'll worn,
prowling around city parks after nfghtfail
accnstine strangers. Ia 1t not STANCE
that such vermin and their teachings are
repul Hated bv the people of their respec-
connties at every election.
***
Wild and Wnlly Wood, of the Steele
Ozone. a paper noted for its words OF
wisdom being liz inverse rario to its typo
graphical errors. vOuches for Hog Bug
the Mclean county stinker who is at the
IF the last lying attack upon
Judoe Winchester. Now who will vouch
for Woody.
Measly Moffet has been repeatedly
rspuiiatei by the voters OF Bur
the hog bug can't get office in
NcNesn; Bass Wood got laid ont faid ont
n Kidder last fall, No wonder the holier :
outfit are sore"