Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-02-10
present and addressed the gathering as

as United States senator. In justification
thereof | need only to point out the fact
that my candidacy has stood for orderly
as practiced since parties have
existed, having been nominated in a eau
Gus attended by thirty.seven members and
in which all republicans were invited to
participate. Those OF your number who
have distinctly opposed me, not only re-
Trained from such participation but |
have failed to unite on any
nominee as against me. Their
combination offered nothing definite to re.
have felt that to withdraw under such cir
cumstances would hut contribute to COM
plete Discrimination ana hOpelessly open
the way OF success to a democratic opponent. |
Logically, l should feel called upon to cor
tinue a candidate and go down, if need be, |
in honorable defeat. But logic seems to !
nave given place to passion and prejudice.
My friends and advocates have sought
to discover a reasonable explanation of
the determination of q minority not
merely to defeat me but to forbid united
party action until | should cease to be cOn
sidered as a candidate.
So far as they have been able to ascertain
l am proud to say that determination, ex-
cept it be in minor instances, does not rest
on anything l have done or have left UNI
done nor on any lack in my personal
qualifications.
AS to grievances: 1t has been inev-
liable that some body should ex-
perience displeasure from my official acts.
In the nature of the case, for example,
federal appointments made IN my recon-
mendatiOn have displeased a greater num-.
Der than otherwise. Of people whom l
would have been glad to please. For any
one position, as you are aware, several
candidates with their friends are sure to
be cla,MorOus-claims and counter claims
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takes must sometimes ehsue. In any case
only one can be appointed and the rest
must be disappointed. But | have found
that in the majority of such instances the
thinking men whose wishes or Judgment
have not been followed, have broadly re-
fused % allow resentment to pursue me on
! such account.
In the main my friends have continually
met the declaration that so far as1 was per-
sOnally concerned, objection to MT did not
exist. Opposition has taken the form of
objection to my supporters, or to my friend
ships or to my supposed or real assOcia-
lions. One objects because l I'M chairman
OF the senate committee Oh railroads. In
securing that place l was vain enough to
suppose it was a service to my constituents
that l. a farmer, and like them a man nee
essarily dependent upon n a patron OF
railroads should hold that place rather than
a stakeholder in a railroad company.
Others have opposed because they disap-
proved of methods pursued in the conven-
ton nominating a state ticket last fall, a
matter for which l am no more responsible
than the IMAM in the MOON" Others dis
like certain men who have valiantly
labored for my election, transferring to my
shoulders the burden Of any otfenses they
may have committed. These with other
even more intangible objections which can
have constituted the objections my friends
have been called upon to meet.
Meantime the assertion has been coll
stantly brought to me that l am alone
standing in the way of republican unity.
| will not dwell upon the ahsurdity, the
u%nfairness, the almost cruelty of such q
charge, while l have been supported by
tw~o-third, of the republicans OF the legis.
lature-a large contingent of whom nave
avowed their willingness to vote for me to
the end.
But, gentlemen, the interests of the
party are very dear to me, l am not will
ing to leave n single excuse to those who
l prefer to suffer wrong rather than to lei
my personality stand in the way.
Therefore, loving the party as | do
aware of the danger of the election of
democrat while a quarrel goes on in the
republican ranks, and careless of myself
as against party interest-after much re-
Election l have determined to withdraw and
to appeal to you to choose s0rne other can
didate than myself on whom republicans
can agree by methods recognized a
Orderly.namely, by full aucus nOmina
ton.
Seeds of d~issension are now being sown
which threaten TO- bear bitter fruit,
subdued, will spread abroad and cover
every political pathway of the future in
the state.
Meantime our friends and allies the
nation over are filled with wondering
chagrin and modification, watching with
eager fear u inharmonious party action
No man can justly charge me or my
friends with responsibility for the situa,
ton. but my removal may open the way
for something better.
| most fervently hope all republican.
can unite and quickly elect a republican
senator. II they will do so they will viii
the applause OF their party far and wide
A cry OF joy will 20 up from threats o
paralyzed by fear of an impending faul1
which would surely inure to our per
manent injury.
Gentlemen specifically withdraw as &
candidate with this condition only, that {
nomination be mode in full caucus under
rules ordinarily prevailing in the party.
do this under protest on the part of many
faithful supporters who nave but just
renewed their pledges to me. do it. as
hope, for the party's good. l trus' thes'
friends will not condemn my course.
l desire to leave them free to act to thu
same endI seek-the party'S gOOd-and
retire with earnest desire that wise actor
may follow.
And now, gentlemen, will you excuse on
word more OF appeal in the name of thu
party. Whatever may happen do not LEI
Impotence or passion lead you or II OF
you to WAIVER in your loyalty to the party
Parties are a necessity to the success .
popular government. and are always a par
of it. A sense of fealty to party should br
second only to loyalty to country. Grea
principles can only be maintained by a con
scientiOus union of these who hold them
No permanent victory is ever won b.
guerilla warfare. Its mOmentary success
disappears before the oncOming of discip
lined soldiers. marching in orderly ranks
Strength lies in the elbow touch.
This is as true in politics as in wal
There is nothing so much to be dreadet
where the people rule as loose ideas 81
this subject. There is nothing afford
, such opportunity to the manipulation AM
the d~cmOgOEue.
You, gentlemen, are entrusted with
charge. You have been commissioner b.
republicans to act and do for them. | pra
each one of you charge your conscience