Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-10-06
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TO REcREANT ,REPu9LlcANs.
In q leading editorial devoted to
"recreant republicans" the st. Paul
Pioneer Press, says: ;.s..
= "some people. including men WHO
have been highly honored by the
republican party and the recipients Of
some OF Its choicest fayors, seem to
think that the party exists solely for
purpose Of putting and keeping them
or their immediate friends in Office;
and that il it fails to meet their views
in this respect they owe 1t no allegiance
and no support. But they will learn
in time that the republican party has
not degenerated into the mere person
al machine, with no higher purposes
than the mercenary aims OF the place
hunter, which seems to be their idea
of it, It is organized and maintained
by the best elements Of American citi-3
Szenship to promote the great principles
and policies, the lofty ideals Of gov
eminent and achievement, which have
made 1t the instrument Of the most
wonderful all round progress ever wit
messed in the history Of the race. It's
candidates come and go with each sue.
cessive season like the actors on the
stage. Its principles are permanent
and It's ideals imperishable. To pro-
mote It's success is, therefore, to the;
good republican the noblest Of patrio-
u tic duties; and Its success Is only pos
sible through the maintenance Of it's
organic unity. Therefore it is that 1t
+ is q fundamental law Of party ethics
that the defeated candidate for a nomi-55
nation before the party convention
shall yield unreseryed submission to
the decision Of the tribunal to which
he has appealed, and give as loyal
support to his successful opponent as
he would have expected from the latter
under like circumstances. The gem.
eraI observance of. this law, which APP
plies as we'll to the friends of the can
didates, is so universally recognized
as essential to the organic integrity Of
the party and by all sagacious polite
ians to their own possible political sue
cess that the exceptions to it are very
rare The motion usually made in a
party convention by the leader OF the
defeated forces to make the nomina-
4 ton unanimous is a graceful recogni-
ton OF this fact NJ s5 I. !. ~ ~
@ This is sound logic and voters Of
Burleigh county can well apply It to
( the local situation. For years and
years the Bismarck Tribune has con-
sistently and persistently supported
4 the republican ticket. It has believed
4 that in the caucuses and in the con-
ventions the various factions and.
friends of candidates should fight out
their battles and abide by the results.
3 Two wrongs do not make a right.
Two years ago for instance, for rea-
sons personal, r. G. Patterson and his
newspaper, The Palladium, refused to
support the regular republican ticket
in Burleigh county. Ed Allen, Patter-
sons old partner. was one OF the re-
publican nominees for the legislature
and Patterson didn't like Allen any
more. That's all there was Of it.
Allen was entitled to republican sup
port and did receive the loyal support
of the Tribune and the leading parti-
sans Of the county. However he went
down to defeat BY a narrow margin.
Now, after a. republican ticket has
been fairly nominated In this county
by one Of the largest and most repre-
sentative conventions in the history Of
the county. and good men and true
have been nominated for; the legisla-
ture and other Offices some Of them
4 who spent time, money and energy to
elect M. Allen two years ago now,
A Just because Of the falling out Of old
8chums and the enmity existing be-,
tween I'd Allen and Ed Patterson. Mr..
Allen turns on his party and Is out.
not only for ONCE for himself on the
emocraticindependent ticket, hut Ii.
9 working 10 effect the downfall of re-a
utlblfcafsA Tor ti,A faeiala tnra VIM have