Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-03-24

DlSuAhCh, NUhIH DAhUIA
that no one will expect it to support
that which it has condemned. =
George B. Winship of the Grand
Forks Herald is on old acquaintance
cf the people of North Dakota. Per
sonally, socially, politically, mental
ly, in more or less of these qualities,
he is undoubtedly the superior of
many who claim af1iliation in the re-
publican party. In more or less of
these qualities he can and does meet
many republicans who are his SUI
periors. He is neither better or worse
in general, or more or less politically
honest than the average politician;
to which estate he is undoubtedly a
serf, and of which he has always will,
ingly worn a collar when he could
manage to get one. Mi. George B. w.
has always been a delegate to state
conventions and has always done his
best to get Grand Forks and himself
into the successful combinations, and
if not often successful it was not be-
cause he wasn't willing to trade, but
because the others were better traders.
And yet this man Winship stands
like the Pharisee on the Herald corner
and prates of his own goody good
ness. He thanks the Lord he is not
like the majority of republicans are,
He assumes to be a political boss. the
great it, and the party shall do his
bidding, or, like blind Sampson, he,
will pull down the pillars Of the house.
He is the man whose paper during the
last campaign spoke evil OF the state
party as far as it dared, and very lit
tie in support of anybody on the ticket
He is the reformer who prates OF
the purity of the primaries and rem
ders referendum rot-he, who couldn't
he elected poundmaster by direct vote
OF the people of his own city, and
whose appetite for office can only be
satisfied by the favor of the political
machinery he condemns. He is the
unselfish and free hearted Individual.
who is willing to provide places for
other Grand Forks ; friends-by first
filling fat office himself-and thus
increasing the opportunities for the
others. s s5 sss
Mr.. Winship lacks the foundation
principle of party organization. He
declares he will not abide by the will
CT the majority if it is not his ma ma
jority.
He is therefore not republican, he
is not eligible as delegate to a re-
publican conventio but seems to be
eligible to a republican office.
A few of the lower animals make
progress through the world backward.
Mr.. w. in emulating this sort of pro-
gress has backed into a nice berth. He
certainly got there in no other direc--
ton. Blessed are the kickers-for
they shall have jobs. 1T will be res
naembered that the brother OF the
plodigal labored in the field--and got
nc veal. But Mr.. w. is no prodigal
son. 1t is true he kicked on the ways
of his fathers house. and that he went
into q far country, that he was the
chosen leader of a drove OF hogs, that
for a time he chewed political husks-
aud that now he is willing to return
and take a servants job at a good sal
arysbut the prodigal was patient and
humble. George proposes to be the
whole thing and make the old man
and his brother a minority.
We have always admired one trait
in Senator sMcCumber. We have seen
him lead hopeless minority several
times in state conventions; he made
a glorious fighter on the floor OF the
convention, and when at last the vote
came and he was defeated, u he went
back home and made just as grand
and glorious fight for the ticket nomi-
mated. @ &
We don't admire Senator Mces
ber's choice for the u. S. land office
at Grand Forks.
AS the Herald has avoWedly run as
as independent kicker in the past, and
now declares its intention to pursue
the same policy-as it has yillified
every prominent republican who did
not swallow the Herald's idiotic-syn-
crazies and preferences, and it still
proposes to do the sarne-We cant nj
see why the choice was made. .
# The Herald and Mr.. Winship has a
perfect right to independence, It is
guaranteed by the constitution, but
such independence Of right and de-
cency ought to be independent OF of
fee holding. for the sake OF consist
ency either on the part Of the ap-
pointer or the appointee. .8s.
Emmons County Record: People In
town from various parts OF the coun-