Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1896-10-08
Communicated.

lfreehOlder ana taxpayer, 70 give
expression through your valuable
paper to . few thoughts as they.
passed through my mind.
When tile good old party, known
as the republican party, assembled
| in the Village of Milton, in Cava
lier county, of this state, for the
purpose Of placing in nomination
republican nominees to fill the
various county offices us contem-
plated by the laws of Our state;
now, not being candidate myself,
nor wishing 10 be considered by
either party as a political sore
head, nevertheless, being citizen
of the county as above referred to
1 claim the political and civil
rights to do and aid in seeing that
justice is being done in politics as
we'll as in any other business trans
actions. Now being a Republican
as l am, still l am constrained to
say, that with my best efforts and
honesty and integrity, that I am
| not such a blind partisan that I
can stand idly by and allow that
august body assembled at Milton,
to be controlled by demogogues
a I'D machine politics. When I re-
fer.to demagogues aud machine
politics, I simply mean Dan bMc-
MILAN, P;stiMcHugh and company.
Those parties have been posing,
and successfully so, before the
eyes of the public, as political enc
mics in order to feotller their own
nests; but when it comes to a
showdown, aud they, or any of
their friends are in any political
danger, then those great moguls
get their defunct brainy heads to-
yether aud say: "The spoils IN ast
be ouls at any hazard" This was
the way IN which the above moguls
treated and expedited the political
career in said convention of man
who is the friend of the people,
and in whom the people, and es-
pecially vast majority of the de-
Eegates of the convention above
referred to, left their homes and
5Iie bosoms Of III eir families with
The: honest intention of nominating
for Tire Office ot county Judge.
Had this man been beaten by the
honest sense Of that convention,
then I would gladly chow to the
continuation ,'lb, but he.delegaete;s Of
that conyention;wil bear me out
{ , e
in: saying that the moguls above
referred to did mot, in theirinfiuite
political wisdom, dare even to al
low this mans name to go before
the convention for fear that their
political pet and cohort, MI. Power,
might suffer defeat at the hands
of said convention, which the
a oresaid generals we'll knew would
result in an overwhelming defeat
for their aforesaid pet; hence, i'll
their snid wisdom, they procured
tie Houorable(?) Torger Torgsr-
son, for :, pecuniary consideration
to withdraw the name oeour friend
from the convention, and the com-
mander- in-chief Pat McHugh by
and With the consent OF his lieute-
nant, Ian Mcmillan, in open cou,,-
SCI of war, ordered that our said
Friend Banlick Erickson be rele-
gated to the rear and Joseph
Power be the republican nominee
uf the admiration society. Prior
I" the converting of this admiration
society, a major fraction of all the
delegates entitled to seats in said
convention met in caucus in Room
No: 2 of Delling's hotel, 10th
lnoguls being present, and then
and there in presence of both g-s'-
erals, the worthy delegates of sa''
convention aud u big majo.'i'y -
same squarely, unequivncal'y ;.'r
in no.unceitain sound unani,"u.
~ decided that our friend, Bcndi'.i
Erickson, should be the republic
can nominee for the Office of
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