Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-11-02
WHAT BUDD THINKS.
Another Address from Budd Reeve
to the Members of His Lost
Democratic Party.
An Argument in Favor of Straight
Democracy as Against So
Called Fusion.
Various Items of Local News Picked
Up In and About the
Capital City.

Capital City.
Budd has another disquisition. We
give it for what it is worth. Budd be.
lieves in square work-and square work
only. He has nc more show for election
however, than a bob-tailed bull has tc
switch off flies.
BUXTON, N. D., October 81, 1894.
10 the Voters of North Dakota:
Do not take victory for a certainty and
stay away from the pollAs on the 9Th OF
November.
1t Is true the sun shines brightly now,
hut a dead sure thing may be the cause
OF defeat if not clinched by your vote.
The spirit of true democracy, which is
the spirit of the people, is aroused as
never before in North Dakota. Political
insult and outrage have reached a climax,
and the death knell of fusion and politi-
cal prostitution is ringing deep and
loud, long in advance of the funeral.
That there will be more than II funeral
on the 9Th of November is as certain as
time. Be sure that the right ones fill
the boxes. It makes a great and import
ant difference to the country who is
buried, as we'll as to the one who is in
tered. If a candidate is a true patriot
ne should not shirk from being inferred
as long as his interment elevates the
country. Any man who objects to Gle.
waiting the country ought to be buried,
at least at the ballot box. If I can't
help elevate, I hope the country will be
spared the misfortune of my election.
All parties are suffering from a common
evll-the want of common honesty-and
they are neither true to themselves or
the country. The sheet anchor of So
Getty is common honesty. If this is
abandoned, the compass is destroyed
and the rudder lost. All are common
sufferers from this evil in politics., or be.
cause too much is run by spoil hunters
and office seekers. The last legislature
of North Dakota, with a republican ma
]ority of thirteen over every combina-
ton, elected the caucus nominee of the
democracy, that only had twenty-five
votes on a joint ballot-only one quarter
OF the legislative assembly, or not II Q
half enough to elect. This election was
very Illuminating to every republican in
the United States. In fact they called
it a political disgrace. Republicans
would say, 1--WE have been betrayed,
sold out, and misrepreaented by a few"
Then they would drop their eyes and
turn away. Some would weep and some
would swear.
Take the fruit the democracy got and
s now raising from this victory, and
what Is it? The first 'pop out of the
box" the first time the senator elected
by democrats, ''pops" and false republic
cans, was called upon to vote, he voted
squarely against the administration, and
the national democratic platform on the
repeal OF the purchase of silver; but this
is mild, loyal and honest, compared to
what a c~onscienceless gang is up to
now; with a democratic president, house
and senate, a so-called democratic sena-
tor from North Dakota, including a dem
ocratic governor; with the entire federal
government, all the Offices and patron
age in the hands of democracy, the ma
tional democratic committeeman of
North Dakota, and others claiming to be
democrats, have entered into an open
bargain and conspiracy to deliver the
principal part of their party, bound
hand and foot, over to a weak and dis
honest lot of populists. They have gone
so far as to, undertake to deprive the
voters of North Dakota of the poor
privilege of even having a democrat to
vote for to represent them in congress,
and only through the petition of the
people has this privilege been saved
against their perfidy and traitorism,
Think OF all the democratic power and
machinery in operation, of the magnif.
cent majority given two years ago, and
the universal cry for democracy. Think
of the democrats having 10000 votes
and the "pops'' only 1000. Think OF
the great opportunities placed before the
democracy, and what was expected OF
them. Then think, in two short years
the return without even a candidate
and of Walter Muir-a wild, visionary
%scheming populist-as a substitute ..fol
democracy.
Honest democrats, think of this out
rage and insult! Think of your many
battles and hopes. Think of e~lectinq
Grover Cleveland president, and ther
think of the first election after it. You
are offered Walter Muir for a democratic
standard bearer. II this is democratic
victory, may heaven spare us the dis.
grace and humiliation of ever succeed
ing again. It was always supposed thai
democratic success meant the advance,
ment Of democratic men and measures
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