The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1921-03-04

crime, SLeIOnOWlcZ OF tue BURKE
County Appeal to Reason, belches
forth in last weeks issue and gives
some startling revelations as to the
character and record of the editor
of this paper. We find that after
reading the article in the Tribune
that our record, during our stay
here has been questionable, and
that we show a great tendency to
uphold persons in criminal actions.
We take all this, consider the
source and then wonder why a
man with the ability of Mr.. Stefon-
owicz as writer of this kind OF
news, is doing in Bowbells, bleeding
the farmers of their last cent, SELL
ing them gold bricks and then
pose as friend of the farmer.
No, Mr.. Stefonowicz, your place is
at the head of a great, scandal pa
per, say the. Twin City Reporter
or the Duluth Rip Saw, where you
would be given msny opportunities
to spread this vermin, for much
larger salary than you are getting
now. They are looking for men of
your calibre and principle. and you
would be treasure for either one
of the above papers.
LAS to our past record, will say
that we're not losing any sleep over
any offenses which you may think
we have committed. And if there
is, we are of the opinion that it
is not up to you to throw any stones.
People who live in glass houses,
etc. Maybe you will remember,
MIR Stefonowicz, the Burke County
Exemption Board, with which you
had SO many dealings with during
the late world war. Also you may
remember how county commission
ers used to be bribed with quarts
of whiskey. and many other little
instances of this kind. If you
wish to have your past record
aired, as: to your doings during
the war. your offers Of bribe and
the like to county commissioners,
why we are willing to clash with
you.
When we started the Hanson
controversy, we did not think We
would have to expose anyone, but
Stefonowicz entirely evades the is
sue of our article in regard to Mr..
Hanson and comes back with per-
sonal matters.
We would suggest that Mr.. Stef-
onowicz and Mr.. Hanson get to-
gether and frame up better
story than the one published in last
weeks Tribune. Politically, we
think they agree, and both are of
the same principle when 1t comes
to knowing which side their bread
is buttered on. Parasites, posing
q fr,inndc thu 70
AL of this bunk written by d
man of Mahoney's' caliber while
probably in a drunken condition,
doesn't interest The Tribune editor
in the least, but amuses us. We
don't know anything about the
dealings with the exemption board
that he mentions, and neither 10
we know anything about the brib
ing of county commissioners. with
whisky. We would like to have
him give Us more information on
these two items. The only deal
ings we had with the exemption
board was the filing OF the blanks
asking for exemption on the ground
of having a wife and two legiti-
mate children to support. We
learn that Mahoney lid not have
any legitimate children at the time
the war started or he would prob
ably also have claimed exemption.
One thing that we have noticed
about Mahoney, though, is that
during the last campaign he never
said a word in all his denounce-
ments of the Nonpartisan League
about "free love-, and we don't
know whether he favors this or
not. Other I. V. A. papers were
full of free love" talk, but Ma
honey never mentioned it. We
would like to know how he stands
ON this subject. He admits that
he is never on the fence on any
proposition, SO he probably isn't on
this one.
Y Again referring to States Attor-
ney. Hanson we will say that he has
done more toward keeping Mahoney
and the rest of the criminal e]e-
ment at Columbus walking the
straight and narrow path than
anyone else could do, and that is
the only reason the Columbus adi-
tor wants a new man put in this Of
ice to take. Hanson's place.