Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1910-11-17

A short horse is soon curried !"
The eminent attorney, H. A. Arm
strong, had a screed in his organ.
the Hazelton Republican. the last
issue before election. One could
tell it was written by Armstrong
without looking at the signature. for
the reason that there were so many
words taken to say so little. The
method Of his article reminds one of
Mexican bull-hght. The bull
PUSHES out to tackle the matador.
Then he sees the banderillero and,
leaving the former, he charges the
latter. Armstrong begins his at
tack on Lynn; then in his mind he
sees Streeter and veers. He alludes
to his defeat by George Register in
1898, and states the well-known fact
that Streeter was downed by Pat
terson in 1900, but he doesn't accuse
US OF being defeated becaue of brib-
cry. robbing a widow of her COW.
taking both sides in criminal case
in court. leadership i'm trying to
bride the voters of an entire pre-
cinct by contribution to church,
and shamelessness as to the sexual re-
lation. He bewails the fact that for
many years Streeter fit" Patter-
son, but says nothing about the fact
that Patterson Eft back" just as
hard. And he might have added
that Patterson left Linton with bit
terness against only two residents
of Emmons county Heroic and
Macdonald-both of them political
side-partners of Armstrong. When
Armstrong says that Streeter pound
ed harrington personally in his
newspaper. he is just a plain
prevaricator. The Record said i'm
clear words that Harrington was not
responsible for the tricky beating of
Lynn out of the states attorney
nomination at the Hazelton con-
vention in 1904. Mr.. Armstrong
says that twenty-five years ago
Streeter picked up AN AK. a wagon
standard (perhaps it was wagon
tongue) and stove-poker for the
purpose of counting coo" ON him.
Evidently, from the nature of his
armament, Streeter was second
Don Quixote and was out to fight
windmills-or windmill. But
good many old-timers will wonder
why battery of ferocious weapons
should be necessary in making des-
perate charge upon man who had
had his face slapped until he had
corns on his cheeks-once by Stephen
WEIGH, an old soldier, and again by
young Robinson at Uncle Ben
Corbin's dancing party. He also tells
how Streeter has abused him.
But he neglects to say that it was
mutual. and that, while the editor is
proud of the Records large circua-
ton, he makes no claim that the pa
per is able to compete in the matter
of circulation with Henry's mouth.
And during recent campaigns
knowing as he did that we possessed
the friendship and respect of prac-
tically every member. insurgent,
democrat and republican, of the va
rious legislative sessions we have
attended, and that the house journal
shows that we have been at all times
true to the people who sent us there
he has gone about the county Ii
belink US by asserting that we were
"a machine man. owned by the
railroads. etc. Mr.. Armstrong,
being a political dead duck himself,
speaks feelingly of his friendship
for young men. Twenty-odd years
ago Armstrong; friendship trended
more toward young women And
that's about all there is to answer
in Armstrong; literary jim-jam in
the Republican. So we will close,in
language of the Armstrongian type,
by saying that, owing to an indis-
position to circumvent unilateral.
hyperbolical ebullitions emanating
from the cerebellum of literary
giasticutis by means of controversial
counter-accusations, we rellnquish
| further consideration of his news
paperial conglomeration which was
launched upon a startled world
through the transcendental medium
of his Incompatible journalistic or
gazette, the Hazelton Republican.
The Record desires to congratulate
Col. W. p. Tuttle Of Dawson on his