The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-06-07

vention were sold outright without
protest. The same crowd who charged
this is now making life and death
struggle to destroy the republican
party, and it is not unfair to con-
clude that they will rehash the old
charges. There is but one thing which
will prevent them from so doing. The
records of the principal characters in
the former assailants have been so
gtaringly exposed to their eternal
shame and disgrace that they may be
compelled to remain silent.
In its final analysis, the charge goes
back to the people. 1t means that the
masses of the republican party are so
devoid of honor and so politically
corrupt that they are willing to elect
with their votes men who have no more
conception of integrity and principle
than the most illiterare savage.
Why is this charge made? Because
the men who under the guise of
republicanism are attempting to place
the democratic party in power, have
been refused recognition by the re-
publican party in the past. These
disruptionists not having been ac-
counted worthy because of their dis
honorable records, to be favored by the
men selected by the masses to chose
the party servants, aid they have
declared the party was not run in the
interests Of the people.
If the statement we're made in truth
there would be no serious objection,
for the people who know that it was
merely the reputation of a few dis
appointed and disgruntled men. But it
will be made this year for different
purpose. The disruption ranks have
been SO sadly deserted in the last few
weeks by the men who have given it
credibility that in their desperation,
the leaders will attempt to claim
not prove-that the voice of the masses
has been stif1ed in the selection of
delegates to the state convention, and
that the men who have been so selected
are ready to sell their honor and in
tegrity.
These selections will not be COM
pared with the ones used by the dis
ruptionists when two or three of their
bosses met in secret and selected the
delegates they demanded their fellow
ers should blindly support. They
will say nothing of their own despotic
and bossism methods but will claim
that the men who have been selected
by the masses of the republican party
in the several localities are not men of
honor and are willing to sell out the
men who elected them.
With the present record of the dis
ruptionist leaders fresh in the minds
of the people of this state they will
not succeed to any alarming extent
in making the people believe that all
the political virtue and political
honesty to be found in the land lies
in their own souls. 1t will take more
than their word or their combined word
to get the people to believe that story
in the light of recent exposures.
The delegate who will be elected to
re state convention at Jamestown.
Then they have been nominated by
The republican party, and not by the
disruptionists. will be men of unblem-
ished characters. high integrity and
unquestionable honesty. They will not
be men who have carried out contracts
to rob the tax payers of the state
while parading under the guise of
honesty, nor will they be men who
have brazenly asked the people to sup
port them for Office and indicate their
records after having voted in congress
to rob the people of this state Of ap-
proXimately twenty-five cents on every
bushel of wheat sold. in order that the
mill trust might acquire millions by
the steal. Neither will they be men
who have voted to themselves a public
graft of six hundred dollars for mile
age which they never Travelled and then
attempt to excuse the matter b. saying
others voted for it too No. they will
not be men of that stripe. They will
be men who are trusted and respect
ed by IT, peGo|e Of their own COM
mum = who know them best and who
therefore are best able to Judge
They will not suit the disruption
lists who like no one except he who
is willing to be blindly led into the
democratic party at their bidding in
order that these leaders may secure
the Office and use their power to rob
the tax payers Of the state through
extortionate charges for which they
could and would secure as the price
Of their perfdy, and fasten upon the
nation the devastation and horrors
Of another democratic administration.