Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-11-21
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 81, 1906
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THE. ABUSE. CONTINUE !.
DEGRADING BUSINESS.

sheriff calls attention to the fact that
his election was doubtless the result
of a paid-for electioneering of~a GER
tain man who had been sent into this
county for that purpose. This pre-
sents serious aspect of the people of
one community interfering with the To-
cal politics of another. Here we will
have sheriff by virtue of the work OF
a man who is not even q citizen of the
United Estates. Does that look like
American politics? Are the people of
Kandiyohi county SO ignorant that
they need outsiders to tell them whom
they should elect? To us the business
looks degrading in the extreme.--New
London Times.
There may be some excuse for
,tommy-rot and misrepresenta-
ton before election, particularly
if there are no better arguments
available, but to keep up the
howl on such lines after the bat
tie is over cans the fullest
measure of contempt.
The TRIBUNE did not care to
notice the mass of campaign arti-
cles of questionable nature with
which the opposition papers
were filled just before election.
The vote in the county showed
emphatically the contempt of the
people for such ''argument. %
But in case Of the continued
abuse of Chris. Rowland by a
bread-and-butter politician like
Henry Feig (for it is generally
understood that Feig writes the
political editorials for the Times)
we believe that silence ceases to
be a virtue.
Chris Hovland is a true-blue
temperance crusader. He came
to this country several years ago
to- make it his home, in the same
manner that all the Swedes,
Norwegians, Germans and Irish
Of this county came here. He
became a student at Augsburg
Seminary and is working his
way thru college. The fact that
the faculty recommended him to
the Prohibition state committee
as a young man qualified to act
as field worker was to his credit
rather than otherwise. He
would earn no more in that capa-
city during his vacation than if
he had taught p4rochial school,
the usual manner in which an
Augsburg student spends his
summer. To our positive know
ledge he drew upon his own
slender resources to stay in the
fight to the end, when the state
committee by reason of unpaid
pledges failed to provide the
small stipend which was pro
missed him. The only fault that
has been found with him by the
opposition is that the boy was
born in Norway and has not yet
secured his naturalization pa
pers.
His character was above re.
proa CHI; his arguments were
sound; his principles were right
no act that was unbecoming to
"American politics" has been
traced to him; he advocated
nothing seditious nor inimical tc
American institutions in de e d
quite the reverse; he was Jealous
for the cause he represented and
he earned well the slender salary
which was given him by the
State Prohibition com mittee,, and
which had been contributed by
the people Of the state for just
such q fight as he put up: Not :
cent Of this money was an as
|sessment@ upon an. ofic Older
as a contribution for stayiing 5ir
office; not a cent came: from the
railroads, the telephone trust, q
any special int erest; not a cent
from any corp ST OF j; not 8 cen
from the :Whis IS key trus not 4
cent from tn. reWing combine
Yet such a camp aign us attacked
as being ding, & Ism !sl,.
that enough TO prov ke. Their
eous ~ wrath q. any. dec sat citizen
. The amo punt paid How land for9s
month nor u; Work 81, on 4 q not havt
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