The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-03-08

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prise of some others in the state, Mr..
LaMoure has, in this county, during the
last twenty years, been defeated several
times on certain lines, though only once
or twice might it be considered as per-
sonal defeat, and that in caucus and con.
vention without the aid Of primary law.
We make this statement simply to
emphasize the former statement, and to
show that if Mr.. LaMoure is elected to
succeed himself so regularly from this
county that the people know just what
they are doing. As an argument not
only to show how absurd is the Herald's
claim in regard to Mr.. LaMoure, but
also, incidentally, the fact that the peo-
pie are able to express their will intclli-
gently and forcibly under our present
election law when directly interested, we
will submit some majorities as given at
the last election in this county.
The average republican majority for
state officers was from 300 to 400. In
this first legislative district the majority
between the lowest republican and high
est democrat legislative candidates was
only 21 and for The other republican can
didate not much greater; but in spite of
this almost equality of party legislative
vote, Mr.. LaMoure was elected senator
WITHOUT OPPOSITION. On other county
candidates the people expressed them
selves as follows at the polls: Demo-
majorities; sheriff 348; treasurer 3O2;
register of deeds 239; superintendent of
schools II. Republican majorities; aud
itor 800; clerk of court 143; states attor-
ney 319, county judge 446.
expressions of the people as shown by
the above figures and say that the people
of Pembina county cont know what they
want and don't know how to express and
enforce it without primary law, why
that man is like the Grand Forks Her
aid. And the Grand Forks Herald in
suits the people of Pembina county when
it intimates that Mr.. LaMoure or any
other person can control the voters here
against their own wishes. The people
of Pembina county are proud of Mr.. La
Moure and his ability. They know, as
the Herald knows, that he takes the lead
ing position in the state legislature be-
cause of his ability and experience. They
know, as the Herald knows, that if he
| were OF the character represented by the
Herald, that he would not have the con-
fidence of the people, of the party or of
the legislature. They know and the
Herald has chronicled IN its Bismarck
correspondence, that Mr.. LaMoure as
chairman of the appropriation committee,
as mover of the appointment of the
smelling committee" has been the lead
er in the many reforms of financial and
other similar measures in the legislature
this winter.
MIR. EaMoure is not perfect The
writer has disagreed with him many
times in the past and with some of his
work in the present legislature, but be-
cause Mr.. LaMoure or any other person
dlsagrees with us we do not therefore be-
lieve him to be dishonest or possessed of
Interior or sinister motives. And that is
just the position in which Mr.. LaMoure
stands 60 the people of this district gen
orally. They do not always coincide
with all his opinions and acts, but they
do know that on the whole he is the best
representative that we can send to Bis
marck; that he is always loyal to his dis
trict, to his county and to the state, and
not only loyal, but has the ability, ex-
perience and power to carry out that
which he believes to be best.
If the Herald and some other people
in the state at large want to know the
secret of MIR. LaMoure's ascendancy at
home we will give it away. Brains and
ability to lead the people-in the way
they want to go. The mistake of the
average Grand Forks politician is in
thinking that the way he wants to go is
necessarily the way the people must go,
but the people don't always go that way.
When some Grand Forks statesman
can first find out what Grand Forks peo-
pie want, he will then find the fulcrum on
which he may rest lever that will move
the world, otherwise the fulcrum will not
be on the map, and the statesman will be
in hole.
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