Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-10-05
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going, or that she had thought Of it.
The first intimation he had Of it was
when he got home and found she had
left. He told how he had felt, and how
everything looked to him. The closets
and bureau drawers were empty. She had
taken the children; everything was gone
but some old shoes, q hat and a hair
ribbon. He sat down on the side or the
bed and cried over the situation. Then
he kissed and caressed the hair ribbon
in memory Of the love and days gone by.
Then he told how the past and the future
rushed together and met in his brain,
like surging pillows. How he left the
house and how the echo of his footsteps
sounded as he passed out through bare
and deserted halls. A great change had
suddenly come to him. He was left a
grass widower, perhaps for life. His tale
was truly touching; but this mans feel
ings were nothing compared to mine,
when my party went off and left me.
What is 1t to have a woman and a few
children go off, compared to a large
party of the greatest and Oldest party
men on earth? There is a big difference
where thousands take flight instead of
one. It is just a Thousand times worse
and harder to bear. I love democratic
principles, and every one who deserts
them sends a pang through my heart.
There is but one thing that will con.
sole and keep a man up when his party
or his wife run away, and that is, they
went off because he objected to their CO.
ing around fusing. If he would sanction
this, it would break him up anyway, SO
they might just as we'll 60 as stay.
Fusion with other parties is demoraliz-
ing; it has caused sorrow in more than
one household. If am not entitled
to sympathy and respect by having a
large part of my party wander away and
60 estray, who Is?
Think of a party over 100 years old
running off and fusing with an infant
party only two years old. This is worse
than an old grandfather running off with
a child. But such is the weakness of
human nature and political corruption.
But let us bear with 1t the best we can.
Let us be charitable and ~forgiving and
invite the old man to return.
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"Dear Old Fellow-You have made a
mistake and a fool of yourself; you have
listened to the voice Of the tempter and
had your head turned. Come home,
old chap. We will forgive, and not pros
ecute."
The head and heart is never turned
only through temptation, through the
hope of gain or love or pleasure. The
thing that seduced and turned the heads
of some of our democratic dwarfs in
North Dakota towards fusion was the
hope of gaining the state funds and hav-
ing the pleasure of making something
out of them.
Knud told them they could have them
for democratic votes, and when he did,
they transferred their democracy over to
him (he did not have any of his own)
and gave him a democratic nomination.
From this, Knud claims he is entitled to
democratic support by right of purchase
if not principle. Like some of our peo-
pie who go to Europe, Knud simply
bought a democratic title. His theory is
that when he agreed to deposit good
gold with democratic bankers, and there
by secured a democratic nomination.
that the contract having been made
with supposed bosses, the vote of the
party belong to him by right of this con
tract and purchase. That the valuable
consideration agreed to be paid the bos-
ses binds the transfer of the party the
same as paying part of the purchase
money down on a real estate trade binds
the transfer Of the property.
It Is said Knud read law in the old
country, before leaving Norway, and is
we'll up on political contracts and the
purchase and delivery Of political parties
and will sue for the delivery Of his pur-
chase if it is not forthcoming. And one
strong point, it Is said he will make, if it
M to court, is that, knowing the
character of the bosses who ran the con
vention, when the people sent them there
to act as their delegates and political
agents, it was notice to the world that
the people placed themselves IN the
hands of these agents as chattels, to be
disposed of as their agent might see fit.
And in support of this theory, many
strong cases are cited. For instance,
the notable, cease where Boss Lelstikow
converted 9 strong man like Judson La
Moure in q single night, used him about
IS minutes for political purposes to
elect Roach, and then turned him loose
again to 60 back into the republican
party to be converted over again if
needed. Six others were also temporar-
lily and instantaneously converted by
the same one, for the same purpose and
IN the same way. Knowing the ways
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