The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1906-12-14
FRIDAY. DECEMBER IA, 1905.
On November 20 The WASH

with reference to an attack on
Prof. Olson claiming that the pos
ters issued and circulated through
the campaign we're published
through the Garrison Independent
and Staley, O'Hara and company.
We have been watching the In
dependent to e what explana-
ton it would make and find that
its silence gives consent. We
stated then that they had it set up
in the Independent and the forms
all ready to print, in order to
spring the stuff just before elect
ion, but after Editor Cook looked
it tower and took legal ad7ice from
an attorney at law he decided not
to publish it under his name. Sta
ley and O'Hara stated that just as
500 as it was published Prof. o.
o would take to the woods and
that would be the last heard of
him, but neither OF them dared
publish the matter over his own
name so they decided to issue pos
tiers and scatter them broadcast.
The people know how this was
done in the darkness before elect
ion day and it would be interest
ing to know what these mischief
makers said after the election. We
quote from the Garrison indie
pendent:
Despite the fact that a large
number of circulars We're distrib-
uted over the county with the in
tention to defeat HI. @. Olson, the
republican candidate for county
superintendent of schools, the
people did not take any stock in
its contents, and especially SO
since it Was kept quite until the
night before election, and the
county was then flooded with pos
tiers. 1t induced more people to
come out and cast their vote for
Mr.. Olson, and in Washburn
IClson's home town. he received
81 out of the 66 votes cast by
women of that town.
The Independent is owned by
Staley, O'Hara and company and
we wonder how these mongrels
feel after seeing the result and
how little influence their posters
had in the election. The people
know who was at the bottom of
these dirty methods and Prof. o.
son carried Garrison precinct for
all their efforts at blackmail.
Our readers, and the few that
read the Independent, will remem-
Der how it roasted Auditor O. b.
Wing about Blue Hill precinct
No. 36-stating that he threw the
poll books in the woodshed and it
was necessary for an inspector to
60 to Washburn and find the poll
books there. They will also re-
member Malloy's letter to the
judge. Compare that with Staley
and O'Hara's statement in the
Independent. No man for the
quarter Of a century that O. B.
Wing has been in the county, he
having settled here in 1882, has
ever accused him of c~rokedness
or a dishonest act, except Charley
Staley. We wonder how he felt
when he heard from Blue Hill.
Those who are posted know that
Wing never went there and no
effort was made at the polls and
yet he got every vote in the pre-
cinct. There are sensible and
good people in that precinct and
they know that Wing never
did a wrongful act. If any body
there thought a wrong had been
done by Wing he would not have
got the solid vote Of the precinct.
Charley Staley always CON-
plains that he has never been rec
ognized. Ask him if he was not
recognized when he was appointed
custodian to Fort Stevenson, We
would like to hear him give the
story of his custodianship. We
intend to do it in the future and
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