Oakes Republican., 1904-09-02
THROW IT BACK IN ITS TEETH.

THROW 1T BACK IN ITS TEETH.
The Ellendale Record, with the
assistance of so.called Republican
allies, has started the cry of gang
rule and bossism. In it's last issue
it charges Messrs. Marshall, Nice
ney and Bodle with fixing slate for
the Republicans, and "all the dele
gates will have to do in convention is
to ratify the machine-made ticket,
and will then be told to hurry home
and whoop her up for the ticket"
The Record hazards it's guess in this
way, which it dubs as the machine"
ticket: Senator, Truman Thatcher;
representatives, George Rose and
E. F. Stevens; sheriff, j. G. Drew of
Keystone; Judge, A. D. Pennington
of Glendale; treasurer, Hans Lee of
Oakes; register, John Wirch of Spring
Valley; clerk of court. j. E. Baker of
Lowell; states attorney, Fay or Wick
ersham of Oakes; auditor, F. S.
Goddard of Glendale.
A splendid ticket indeed. Un-
doubtedly some of the present in
cumbents will be renominated. No
one at this time can correctly forecast
the result of the Republican conven-
ton. and it is an insult to the Repub-
lican voters of the county to state
that their right of suffrage is thus
wrested from them. The caucuses
have not yet been held-in fact have
not been called-but when they are
held every Republican has the right
to go to the polls and register his
choice. They are not bound and
gagged as the Record would have
people believe. The delegates have
the same right in convention, but
here the opposition organ charges
ALL Republicans with having sold
out, bag and baggage, to Messrs.
Marshall, Mccartney and Bodle.
Such statements are insults to the
intelligence of the Republican voter,
and are insolence to the gentlemen
who are candidates for position on
the Republican ticket. Some of the
aspirants this year are mon who have
never before tampered with politics,
men whose characters are clean, and
who are just and honorable citizens.
But they are none the less free from
the Records dirty thrusts.
This cry of bossism is the Records
only stock in trade. Its party's only
hope of success lies in keeping the
breach open in the Republican ranks.
Wherever there is sore spot it rubs
on little salt, and then stands back
and watches the dance. But this cry
of gangism it is working over time
so much that it is getting exceedingly
chesty. 1t has switched around so
often since it started out in '94 that
it hasn't the vestige of a principle or
record to stand on. 1t is puffed up
with its own egotism. It is the
great I AM of the local Democracy,
and with it's few advisers in Ellen
dale will put up q ticket for good
consistent Democrats to vote. It
gloats in it's own selfshness. It is
anything for Office. It is succored
by the aid of Republican votes, and
is continually gnawing at the same
hand that feeds it.
But we hope to see the Republi-
cans rise in their might this fall with
their votes and strike the Democratic
organ in this county right in the COB.
It has villifed and insulted them
beyond measure, and we cannot see
why they should longer aid or abet
it in it's undermining schemes. When
the Offices in the court house are
filed with Democrats it is joyful for
it means much chink for the Demo
what-not editor and shutteth the
door to we Republican fellows.
Hit the cuss a jail this year on the
COB that he will remember long after
Parker and Davis are forgotten.