Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-04-11
Also Or ystal Lake, Fergus Falls and Several
Other Good Towns.

We have won all along the line in Tuesdays
elections, except at Willmar. There we were
defeated by 81 majority, but it is reduction
OF the prohib vote of a year ago, and we feel
satisfied. We win Albert Lea by safe ma
jority: Crookston stands pat and Fergus Falls
is whopper, 40 ma ority being the record
The other towns are given in detail.
Blooming Prairie, Tracy, Pine City, Newton,
In Wisconsin we have done the best ever,
retaining several towns. In South Dakota
| the story holds good. Huron is on deck with
an excellent board of officers.
Isn't it strange that the only town on the
| whole list where ''pernicious methods were
used should be the one to go dry: And still
| there are few temperance people who think
they best serve their cause by uniting on can
didates who are satisfactory to the saloon ele,
ment. The way to win the fight is to fight
1t is folly to pretend to fight and then go to
battle under generals furnished by the opposi-
| ton.
| The following cowardly, threatening contri-
button appears upon the last page Of "Both
| Sides over the signature of "Smiler:
| have recently learned that up at Willmar
| there is a good industrious editor who thinks
your friend smiler should be in state prison:
| l wish to state that I have not incriminated
myself at any place nor anywhere, that my
| best game has been to see that prohibitionists
|
a few stories OF leading prohibitionists who are
now working for the state in prison and seve-
raj outside the jail yards who are continuously
trying to break in.
| story to recite to himself when he wishes to
| don his wifes shoes to go down to prayer
meeting.
| I hear and I may be mistaken, that the
! dOugh-head who placards himself as an editor
thinks that my name ought to be in the Grim
inal calendar
| Bless his good heart, have met suckers like
| him before-men who fight at long range, who
| shoot off their mugs in the timber and never
put an eye on the prairie.
1t is very easy to shoot man from behind,
but it is more pleasant, when you're fighting
| Tor a good square cause, to meet the enemy
face to face, and think that Wimar is about
| as tired of prohibition as they are of the al.
| legged editor in question.
At your place-Willmar- good man, we
| are industriously trying to give you a liberal
government so that you will not be compelled
in the early morning to go to the cornfeld to
| provide prOvender for the breakfast table.
We don't wish you to go out in the early spring
and try to shoot dickey birds or sparrows to
give yourself q chicken dinner.
We wish to open up the avenues of liberal
Ftrade in Willmar, to reduce the taxation OF
property holders that is now too exorbtant
but which probably does not affect your per
sonal purse: and we also wish that man can
meet his fellow men hand in hand and induce
more fellowship.
Now I'll tell you story: A young Reuben
| threw his scythe in the fence corner and he
put his head into his browny hands and
guessed.
He says to himself, says he II wish I was
better than am Then a lady shot her eye
over the fence, and remarked: "We'n have
that changed So will you and
| SMILER.
How is that for outside interference? Some
of our good politician friends who voted the
so-called republican ticket were vexed be-
cause people from the surrounding country
who are directly affected by the saloon issue
at Wilmar made known their preference
| What do they now think about the paterna