Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-10-10

Republicans, Tor, 81; Democrats, Tor,
81; Independents, 2. Prohibitionists,
l. Total, 81. Republicans, against,
8; Democrats, against, l. Total, 10.
Republicans not voting, AZ. Demo-
Gratis not voting, 10. Total So.
HAS NOT CHANGED POSITION.
From the first the Republican Ca
zette has upheld and advocated the
election of the people responsible for
the mess in which the city finances
have been found. Last week we mild
ly suggested that recent developments
have caused the paper to slightly
amend it's former opinions. To-; this
our contemporary makes this retort:
The Republican Gazette, has no
apologies to offer the Tribune, or to
anyone else for what it has said or
failed to say bearing upon the ''inan-
cial fairs OF the city. That the Tri-
bune should be filed with a ghoulish
delight over, the possible crimins atty
of city official, and that it should
diligently seek to include in the pos
sible wrong doing every republican
who has held official position in the
city during the past half dozen years,
is only natural. The editors were
probably born that way, and nature
il only asserting itself; they prefer to
believe evil rather than good of their
follow men, and to make the evil,
whether proven or not as prominent
as possible.
We hasten to correct any impress
sion which we may have occasioned
to the effect that the Gazette had
changed its opinion regarding the
management of the city affairs. We
pay no attention to the personal
charge of total depravity which
the Gazette always uses when it has
nothing else to say. 1t is not only
the TRIBUNE people whom it slurs in
this. Listen to the abuse heaped by
the Gazette upon those Republicans
as we'll as others who dared to ques-
ton the published condition of city
finances year or two ago. In an
editorial in last years city campaign,
April II, 1902, the Gazette said:
"Facts have been distorted, the
truth has been but half told, carping,
chronic critics, by nature too narrow
to, reason, except in the most hide
bound fashion, have told their absurd
and ridiculous stories so often that
they have about convinced themselves
that they are true. They have criti-
cised without due investigation and
it is to be regretted that they have
succeeded 10 befogging others into the
same belief.''
Now, who criticised without iavesti-
eating? But the Gazette has no apol-
ogy to offer. 1t only regrets that 9TH
ers are becoming befogged. And
their number is growing rapidly.
Another sample from the same edi-
torial is this:
"Another equally absurd charge is
one to the effect that the council dur
ing the past year has not even COM
PEELED the city clerk to keep books.
AS to The books of City Clerk o.
mundson, let the truth be stated, etc. I"
The Gazette now knows, as it could
have known then had it investigated,
that there was no record kept in the
city books for ten months during that
year. But it has no correction to
make nor apology to offer.
The same editorial stated that there
were no bills of any consequence out
standing of that time, although there
were many thousands of dollars due.
But the Gazette has no apology, to
offer for any of these fragrant mis-
statements, with which it deceived the
voters of: Willmar.
j. But what of it?, The Gazette may
complacently say what it pleases. It
it, secure in the position it occupies as
the organ of the dominant party in the
county, No attention is paid to it's
lack of consistency or any other fault,
just 80 the label Is right. This seems
to be the reasoning of it's editor and
his political friends. Probably it is
good reasoning. Perhaps II il: not.
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