Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-09-09
LATER DEVELOPMENTS.

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the two classes.
LATER DEVELOPMENTS. :
From further accounts of the demo-
cratic convention and its results, it is
safe to say that there exist in the
state of North Dakota, to-day a goodly
number of dissatisfied democrats. It
has been another case of the dead sea
apple, and the fusion, like the apple, is
very unsatisfactory to many democrats.
While there may be found a number of
half-hearted democrats who are willing
to fuse with anybody or any party which
promises to aid in the gaining Of a de-
sired end, there are many others, and
that the others are not in the majority
would be a statement to reflect great
discredit on the democratic party, who
believe that if democrats want to win
they must win as democrats, and not as
demo-indecrats.
DR.. Anderson, one of La Moure
county's prominent democrats, is a men,
Der Of the latter class, and the DOCTORS
| sentiments are the sentiments of many.
He says:
democratic convention. 1 soon found I
was in the wrong pew. The aspiring lead
ers of imitation democracy after a cOmbin-
alton of deception and bulldozing have
carried their point, viz: Tried to give
something for nothing. Walsh county
| with a good round democratic majority
will give Burke 1000 majority, as against
Shortridge; Pembina and Cavalier in pro-
portion. A microscope OF great power
! will have to be used to find a democrat in
La Moure county this fall, and if you
should find n he will not amount to any
thing, except in his " estimation. The
action of the ambitious and INSCRIPTIONS
Office seeker Of all parties will injure and
retard all reform, and those parties will
some time learn that democrats are not
like sheep, will not follow everything that
has a bell on it over rail fences.
1t does not require any great amount
of study to discover the trend of MI.
Anderson's opinion, and his last asser-
ton is the n which grinds upon many
democrats. For they are not like in
animate things, to be led around at the
tail of the independents, and the votes
Of many of them this fall will be evidence,
par excellence of that fact. It is a nasty
morsel, and it will stick in many demo-
cratic Threats. As democrats, it is but
natural and just that they should have
some representation on the state ticket,
and a careful inspection Of that ticket
fails to show the names of any of those
staid and staunch ones, who have fought
at all times for the party and it's princi.
pies.
Some of the convention expressions
are worthy of note. Brooke of Grand
Forks, exhibited some flowing eloquence
in behalf of fusion, saying he would cast
his vote for the entire independent
ticket and moved for it's Endorsement.
He wound up by saying it was a down.
right pity to throw away the opportu-
nifty at hand, the only n they ever had,
of defeating the republicans. He also
said if democrats placed a ticket in the
field it would not poll 5000 votes. He
said Shortridge was a good enough
democrat for him as we'll as all the can
didates IN the independent ticket. Mr..
Brooke's remarks evince the fact, and
clearly too, that Mr.. Brooke does not
care a continental for his party. When
he speaks Of it as a downright
shame to throw away the
only chance ever had of defeating
the republicans, he practically admits
that the democrats do not care to win
on principle. He admits that the sole
object of the democrats is to defeat the
republicans. He admits that the demo-
Gratis r willing to do anything, even to
the sacrifice of the democratic party and
it's platform, to defeat them. He tells
his fellow democrats, in open convention
and without any attempt at evasion, that
he does not care whether the democrats
win on principle OF not, 80 long as the
republicans be defeated. He says, too,
that Shortridge was q good enough
democrat for him. Good enough demo-
crat! How do you like it, democrats,
to have to content yourselves, not with
a representative democrat, not with one
OF the leaders in the expounding of
democratic principles but with the can
didate Of the independent party, who
combines with his independent beliefs
the happy faculty of being also "a good
enough democrat" for certain aspiring
politicians? Is this your ideal of q can
didate who is to be supported by ryour
party?
On the opposite side was Judge Burke,
that eloquent and fluent speaker Of
Rollette county, who responded in the
name of democracy, and said he did not
want to try to influence or dictate to
that body, but asked what assurance
they had that the three electoral votes
would be cast for Cleveland provided
the Independents got the cinch. Burke's
remarks were timely and characteristic
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