Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1922-08-17

The crime Of the ages has been per-
petrated. And right here in Linton.
too. The Observation-Disclosures
Press gang allowed themselves to be
defeated in the central committee
fights. They put up the bitterest
kind of fight to win both chair
manships, and they got beautifully
licked. Now, they are emitting rau-
cous squacks, and believing at the
Record because the Independents beat
them at their own game.
Certainly the Independents went
out to make fight to control both
central committees. Certainly the
Record man did his level best to help
secure such a result. And most
doubly, certain is it that we are glad
that the other fellows are doing the
squeal act instead of US.
The committee fights in either
camp were not won without real
struggle. Every possible pressure
was brought to bear by the other fell
lows. Every ounce Of political in
telligence. in the whole Lynn gang
was conferred on getting control Of
those committees. All these old-time,
so-called political wise-heads went to
it. and they went down to defeat.
Now, to hear the Free Press rant and
rave about the Record man mixing up|
with the democrats is funny, sure
enough. Certainly we've been mix
ing up with the democrats ever since
the league started to run things in
1916. And what's more we have
found them to be pretty good bunch
OF fellows to mix up with, too.
Let US add right here that the.
league, in all its history in Emmons
county, has never been able to con-
troll the democratic committee, either.
And when democrat with socialistic
proclivities was put at the head of
the republican committee by the
league forces, the democratic chair
man at once rendered his assistance
to the Independent county committee
in securing independent judges. And
that policy has been followed to date,
AS the officially-chosen county cam
paign manager Of the independents, it
has been the duty of the editor of this
paper to take care of just such de-
tails. Further, it was our duty to
organize a fight this year on the
committees. And we did our best.
That our best must have been pretty
good is evidenced by the horrible yells
emitting semi monthly from the Bat
Cave.
We have a fine life-sized vision of
just where any of the independents
would have got off if the other
bunch had been successful. And we
can assure them that they will get a
much better deal this fall than thew
would give if they ware in control.
When they howl that there is a plan
to steal the election. it is simply an
indication that they think everybody
else is like themselves. The Free
Press and all the rest Of their gang
can rest assured that every voter that
wishes to vote for them will SO vote,
but there probably won't be any
Judges on hand to make them any
as has happened IN the past.
The two county chairmen are sub
stantial citizens, and we believe that as
substantial, honest. square-minded
men. they will stack up pretty well
with such birds as Miller and some Of
the rest Of the bunch who ore doing
the squeal act.
The coming camraign promises to
be lively one locally, with the main
drive centered against the Record.
The way this paper is run doesn't at
all suit some Of the men who have
been cleaning up small fortune on
county bridge business. Every pos.
sible story and yarn that might pos
sibly inference q vote against this
pape- will be peddled between now
and Nov. 9Th. Anything from q
baseball game to the cut Of the ed
itor's wife's hat will be seized mon
in he hopes IT pettine vote. Some
of their stuR will apnssr from week
TO week in The altered 4ffarnners' pa
rer !" But most 81 it will be resided
by word Of month with no Witnesses
around Samples 81 the lies that