Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1912-11-01
THE FALSEHOOD
WIDELY PUBLISHED
COPIES OF SUN SENT TO
EVERY VOTER.
Circulating the Speech which
was Never Delivered in Morris
Because of Non-Attendance-
Spooner Gets Another Frost
at Herman.

Last week we exposed the false
ness of the Sun is publishing that
speech of L. C. Spooner's which was
to have been delivered last week
Wednesday. but which was never de-
livered because only about twenty
turned out to hear it, and Mr.. Spoon
eT abandoned the speech on account
of the small attendance and shut UP
shop.
We also exposed the falseness of
the Sun in speaking of the 'good-
sized audience" which turned out to
hear the speech.
But Mr.. Spooner knew that his
only chance of election was to make
the voters of Grant and Traverse
counties believe that Stevens county
wan ed him. and so he built his cam
paigh on the falsehood that he had a
"good sized audience" in Morris,
and after having had the falsehood
published. he then purchases 4.OOO or
more extra copies of the Sun and
mailed them t. every voter of the
district.
He we'll knows that the voters of
Grant county regard him as reaction
ary and unprogressive. and that they
blame him severely for the part which
he had in the organization of the
last House when he became a candi-
date for speaker for the purpose of
defeating the progressive organiza-
tion of the house. Mr. Spooner we'll
knows that the voters of Traverse
county have discovered to Sheirf sorrow
that ne has no god but his ambition.
So knowing his weakness in these
other two counties of the district, he
thought ha might still bolster his
weakness there by pretending that he
is wanted by the voters of Stevens
county. Courtesy entities both Grant
and Stevens county to a representative
and Mr.. Spooner tt ought that if he
circulated the falsehood far enough
and stuck to it long enough that he
could really deceive some of the voters
of the other counties into voting for
him in the belief that maybe the
Stevens county voters did want him.
But the Stevens county voters do
not want him. His meetings at
Chokio. Hancock, Donnelly and AL
berta have been very poorly attended.
and his meeting at Morris was aband-
oned, All this in spite of the fact
thgt he sent out over 500 special in
vitations to those meetings.
Mr.. Spooner pretends that he was
nominated by a spontaneous uprising
of The people on his behalf, and that
his candidacy was not begotten by
himself.
The petition by which Mr.. Spoonel
was nominated for the legislature af
ter his overwhelming defeat for gov,
,ernor contained 447 names. Of thes:
L. J. Schlattman took and acknow.
lodged 55 names, R. A. Johnson II,
John Geib II, William H. Cherry
81. J. H. Devenney 10Y, M. B Lord
l6, F. J. Mclaughlin Sc, H. J.
Gronberg 8, Paul L. Spooner 7, S.
A. Siverts So and E. ]. Bahe %. Ot
the men who circulated this petition
r. A. Johnson was the secretary O.
Spooner's campaign committee al
summer and had the use of Spooner':
automobile to gather in these names
William H. Cherry has heretofore
been associated with Spooner as Law
partner, M. B. Lord has charge O.
Mr.. Spooner's farming interests ant
is his brother-in-law, Paul L. Spoone
is son of Mr.. Spooner's. The other
who went about soliciting these n9me1
to the petitions are all politically O
financially associated with Mr.. Spoon
er. Not single one of these mel
would make political move in any
Way involving Mr.. Spooner excep
under his express direction.
For MIR. Spooner to deny the father
hood of his own nomination and fo
him to circulate by the thousand tht
speech which he never delivered il
Morris with the false statement tina
it was wei received here thes,
things put the voter upon inquiry al
to the amount of falsehood which ii
concealed in Mr.. Spooner's Legislative
record. When this man commits !;
falsehood under our very eyes, ant
sticks to it. how can we believe hin
when he tells us of his doings ISL