The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-04
TO WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN.

In the democratic demonstration
held in front of the Antlers hotel last
Monday night several of the speakers
saw fit to attack The Evening Times
and the 500 citizens who voted the
republican ticket at the municipal cleo
ton Monday. In justice to these 500
tax payers, who exercised their con-
sututional right of citizenship, and
voted their honest convictions, and to
correct a misapprehensionc concerning
this paper, a few words at this time
seems necessary.
1t is stated upon good authority that
there are 800 democratic voters in the
city of Grand Forks. From the face
of the returns it would show that there
are 1,166 voters who would be classed
as republicans. 1t is conceded by
those who kept close tab on the vote
that Mr.. Duis, democrat, secured the
almost unanimous support of his
party. Mr.. <Dinnie. republican, re-
ceiyed 500 votes which would indicate
the number of straight republicans
residing in the corporate limits of the
city of Grand Forks. 1t is also esti-
mated that Mr.. Duis secured the sup
port of at least 200 republican voters,
n Hryh0 9th
occasions. can safely be counted in
the republican column. This would
leave 166 republican insurgents who
participated in the election and who
represent the Herald's personal fol-
lowing. Granting that the entire 366
the difference between the demo-
cratic voters in the city and the re-
publican vote cast for Mr.. Dinnie-
have been alienated from the republic
can ranks by the herculean and per-
sistent efforts of the Herald to turn
the republican party over to the
democrats. Is that a following to be
proud of after quarter of century
of existence?
The Evening Times is proud of those
800 gentlemen who went to the polls
last Monday and placed the seal of
their condemnation upon the hypocri-
teal Herald and its me. to" democra-
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1t is proud of them because they
refused to be stampeded by the vapid
mouthings of the opposition papers
which tried to inject into this election
matter wholly foreign to the local
campaign.
1t is proud of them because they
voted their honest convictions in the
face of the open threat of personal
and financial injury by boycott. These
800 republicans have just as much
right to live in Grand Forks and pur-
sue peaceful avocations for a live
lihood as have the 500 democrats and
Mr.. Duis.
A final word as to the position of
The Evening Times. This paper was
started for two reasons: First as
business proposition. Nobody knows
this any better than the publisher of
the Herald, who has had no business
opposition during the past Is years
until the present time, and of course,
the Herald people consider it an inter-
loper, and are using dirty business
methods to prejudice the minds Of the
local business men against an honest
competitor. But these tactics will not
prevail in the newspaper business any
more than they will between mer-
chants. We believed there was bust
ness opening in Grand Forks for an
other big printing establishment, and
the large volume of work turned out
during the past month from The Even
ing Times establishment fully justi-
fles our faith in the future of this city.
This institution secures business from
every county in the state-has four
travelling men out constantly solicit
ing legitimate business for its job,
blank book, Office supplies and sub
scription departments. 1t employs
thfrty-five people-mostly all heads of
families-who receive from $500 to
500 week and who disburse it
among the local merchants. Are
there many other manufactures in
Grand Forks equal to this one? The
business done during the past month