Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1912-04-25
Legal Advertisements at Legal Rates.
IT'S POLITICS, is 1T?

IT'S POLITICS, is IT?
Last week the Argyle Banner charg-
ed that "the Greenbush Journal and a
few other dinky sheets are trying to
make capital out of our fight against
the ditch bunch ., They claim, !"
says the Banner, "that we-and they
add the name of Donald Robertson
are knocking the eastern part of the
county Then the Banner winds up
its reply to the Greenbush paper with
this challenges: "but we just want
these papers to understand that if
there is any politics in this game, we
are strictly in it,
Why, of course, you innocent ap-
pearing little Banner and "clique" be-
hind you, there is politics in this
game as you call it, and very dirty
politics, too. Your whole fight
against the visionary so-called "ditch
bunch" was conceived in politics and
born in iniquity and is nothing but
politics clear thru, of the most rank
and reprehensible kind.
The fight against former county at
torney Brown was started by few
discarded and disgruntled politicians
partly for revenge and partly with a
view of establishing themselves
again in public favor. The Clique"
thought that discrediting drainage
would be more popular than it really
has proved to be. You, Mr.. Banner,
and your Clique" are the ones who
have tried to make political capital
out of this drainage movement by
misrepresenting and antagonizing said
movement. You have not hesitated
to assail the good name and character
of every person who has had anything
to do with the drainage work in the
county, including the judge of the dis
trict court, the county board, county
attorney, auditor, sheriff, clerk of
court, viewers, engineers, and all 9th
ers, who have had anything to do with
county drainage in an official capaci-
ty. You have called them "grafters"
and by CRATER is meant swindler or
dishonest person-one who steals.
You allude to your scheme of assail-
ing the integrity of public officials as
"a game" Thus lightly do you tramp
upon what most men consider Of
priceless value their good name and
character. And you have done this
without calling for any investigation
Of the charges or making any attempt
to substantiate them, although impor-
tuned to do So
Politics, you say? Why the Ban
ner and it's clique have wrung in
politics at every twist and turn of
this drainage controversy. They
have not hesitated to intimidate
everybody who has dared to stand up
in defense Of the men who have been
assailed. Have they not wrung into
the controversy the name of the gov
ernor, the congressman, postmaster
ships, reciprocity and what not of a
political nature. Because the editor
of the Sheaf has dared to defend
those whom we feel are wrongfully
accused, have we not been threatened
by the loss of the postmastership,
S11cf DC If fh1 nov ;o1 hos X,
the hollow of it's hand and could be-
stow it upon whomever it will? But
we have no fear that Congressman
Stevenson will do aught but what is
right in this matter. He is an honor
able man and he is lawyer, hence
knows that the burden of proof is up
on the party that makes the charge,
and that until proven guilty the one
accused is presumed to be innocent.
Mr.. Stevenson, we are sure, will
take the same view of the case as the
Sheaf has done.
Politics, is it? You, Mr.. Banner
and your Clique" are the ones who
have tried to make political capital
out of the county drainage question,
but the people of Marshall county are
intelligent, honest and fair-mindel
and can see thru your scheme, which
they will not be slow to condemn.
Lest all the people of this agricul-
tural county should not know of it,