Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1902-06-27
REPUBLICAN TICKET slS'l,
"A VILE ISLANDER.

For weeks and even months prior to
the Ramsey county convention the OPP
ponents Of Senator H%ansbrough travel
ed over the county from township to
and from house to house
telling the people how to vote at the
3 ucuses and why they should lend
themselves too a preconcerted scheme
to deprive the northwestern
portion of the state Of a United States
senator. The most infamous and
slanderous falsehoods that unscrupu-
lous and designing men could invent
were poured into the ears Of those who
would listen.
The were held there was
an unusually large attendance Of cleo
tors; the chosen delegates came to the
convention, sized up the situation,
conferred among themselves, talked
with the opposing candidates and their
friends and then did their work in a
manner to command the admiration of
both sides Of the case. II. was a thor
eughly representative convention,
composed of clean, honorable and in
telligent men, everyone Of them fit
to sit in q national party gathering or
legislative hall. There remains no
doubt in the minds Of any fair-minded
person that the delegates werefamiliar
with the issues and knew precisely
what they were doing, and that the
majority large majority, ttoo-car-.
ried out the wishes Of those who sent
them upon the important party mis-
sion. There is not the slightest room
for dispute as to any of these PROPOSE
tions, and the. defeated faction openly
acquiesced in the result.
It is greatly to be regretted, how!
ever, that since the convention there
has been found a certain individual,
outside Of Ramsey county, who
evinces a disposition to continue the
remarkable warfare that preceded the
convention. At Lakota an alleged
Republican paper, whose manager has
Just finished q four year term as a
federal official, BUT WHO WAS NOT
REAPPO1NTED, has printed a vic,
ions assault upon Senator Hansbrough
charging him and his friends will
bribery and corruption in the Ramse!
county convention. This charge j
! based upon ar anonymous communi
cation, which, the Lakota paper says
it cannot print for very good reasons
but adds that it believes the charge
made are true. The following j
given as an extract from the CON
munication referred to:
ssThey-the delegates-were
offered money and money in
bunches---they were bought like
cattle and herded like sheep"
Among the prominent purchasers
were Messrs. 60 Of La
kota, Mr.. ----, Of Bismarck, the
senator, for federal---s from
all over this and adjoining coun-
ties, and the local boosters.
Money was no object, some of
the delegates received as high as
$500, and two to my knowledge
were offered $5O$to stay away
from the convention. VII
II must at once be agreed that
denial Of any chargethat il predicat.
upon such cowardly and libegltlto'l
statement as the above is calledsSsfo
n 4; there were any truth iiln Y
writer of the communication won
not have taken refuge belinda lot
dashes; he would have given i
names Of the individuals he seeks
smirch. We cannot believe that t
I alleged communication came fro
anyone in Ramsey county. t is ali
gether probable that it is fgment
the malicious mind Of the manager.
the Lakota paper, whose disappoir
ment in not being given another fo
year term in the Grand Forks la;
Office out weighs his gratitude for p,
fayors and prompts him to origins
and circulate q contemplate falseho