Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1908-11-19

dirty election ever held IN the state
And it Will be some time before En-
mons county will regain the fair name
which she bore Every day brings is
reports from different precincts sbere
there were drunkenness. gun-plays
and money used galore.
Its dirty bird that fouls It's oma
nest.
AS matter OF fact, except in tso
or three precincts, it vas abou, the
quietest and most orderly election day
ever held 10 Emmons county.
We have taken the trouble u in
quire, and we find tina, in at least
twenty-five " the twenty-four pre-
cincts OF the county there Was no dis
order at the polls. Here in Linton
on election day 1t was so quiet that
stranger would hardly have known
that an election was being held
Ia one precinct drunken supporter
Of HeroIz and Storey imagined that an
other and sober supporter VI the
same candidates was for Stfeeter aud
Tuttie. The dunk became insult
Ing and boisterous and had to lie eject
ed from the polling place.
Instead OF throwing mud at the
voters Of Emmons county generally.
why doesn't Mr.. Pattersons paper
specify and give the names Of the pre-
cincts where there were drunkenness
and un-plays:-
So far as the voters are concerned.
IL was = quiet and orderly election
day.
But 1t was dirty campaign il
some respects right.
Mr.. Heroiz said tEat Streeter con-
Quoted clean primary campaign.
Then he said after election that the
circular against Tuttlc was dirty poll
tics.
Then it was found that the dirty
politics" in the shape Of dirty circu-
lar had been procured by dirty iyp-
ocrite with no fixed principles IN any
subject, who would stoop u make po-
litical capital out Of the domestic s9r-
rows and misfortunes OF people who
were almost total strangers to him.
Then there was dirty politics in.
the dirty deal by which, in spite
OF the wishes of three-fourths OF the
republican county central committee
men, G. A. Patterson usurped chair
maDship that belonged by every prin-
ciple OF right and justice to Wesley
Baker.
Then there was dirty politics when
the republican and tile democratic
county chairmen got together and
appointed judges who were supposed
TO be favorable In all cases 10 Rocks
and Herolz. That was s.dirtyn poli-
Tics enough, wasn't it, when it i, con
sidered that in q county where 50
many voters must have the help Of
judges the only guarantee that these
who cannot read the ballot can vote
as they wish liz that the Judges b.
antagonistic in politics? A ma jority
Of the judges were fair. Some were
not. But all sorts u possibilities fof
fraud were opened wide whcn Rocks
and Patterson met and appointed
judges.
IL was dirty politics when one 81
the candidates who processes TO be a
Christian used-in Linton store. IA
the presence Of several witnesses
prolane and obscene language regard
ing those who were working agains,
him.
IL was dirty politics when ore 20
the candidates who from boyhood lad
advocated prohibition, who was a, the
head Of the Sunday-school union az
the county, who had led the real hon.
est, earnest prohibitionists OF the
county TO believe that he was with
them, at a wedding feast in the town
OF Hague, during the campaign. time
ana again drank beer and schnapps
or at least put the glass to his lips ana
pretended TO drink-in order 10 make
the assembled resubmission voters no.
Iieve that he was zone Of the bboys !,
1t was dirty politics when. lust
before election, a candidate issued a
German circular headed street a.
LIGHT lStreeter Lies, and vet tho
contemplate moral coward djdn,,
dare to circulate here In Linton .na
- The other English speaking NM
cincts, for fear prohibtionists mi,ht
see " and ascertain that he wa, scar.
rylng water on both shoulders.
1t was dirty politics when in III,
circular he said: "Vote for tho MOI,
who are for OUR German people-e;
A. Herolz and John Storey .,,ns
striving to enlist race prejudice Ii his
favor.
1t was s'dirty' politics when ~,