The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-06-08


public life prevent him from becom-
ing candidate, the men who will be
urged for nominations as the candi-
dates of these disruptionists, will carry
out the wishes and desires of Mr..
Spalding and his political associates.
should they be elected. If they pro-
pose to do so it is evident to the
ruptionists SO urge if the opportunity
comes to vote for the ruination of their
business. those men would do so.
The people are learning, if the senti-
ment of the state press is any criterion.
that it makes no difference whatever
who the man is who is elected. he
will be the servant and tool of the
crowd who have been leading the fast
losing mob of disruptionists. They
therefore want to know why they
should discard men who have been
tried and who have proven true to the
peoples interests for men who are
afraid to let the public know where
they stand.
This last proposition is becoming
a decided factor in showing the dis
disruptionists up in their true light.
They are afraid to let the public know
who their prospective candidates are
and hope, if they should be able to
nominate them, to do so before there
is time for investigation of their
records and ascertaining how they
stand on any public question. In a
word, the whole policy is to keep the
disruptionist movement in the dark just
as much as the inquisitive public will
permit The plan was to do every
thing in star chamber so that the
public would take the dose with closed
eyes.
| 8. This the people are emphatically re-
fusing to do, and the disruptionist
leaders are not honest enough to give
the public even at this late date any
idea of whom they propose to attempt
to make candidates.
But wherever the leaders go in their
frantic attempts to defend their
records or seek to have the public ac-
cept their statements against the re-
publican party without question. they
are asked why they are afraid to have
the voters know whom they are ex-
pected to support. If their pretensions
are so good and purposes so pure, why
need they be afraid to tell the people?
If they are the reformers why do they
seek to accomplish their ends by the
most secret political methods?
The truth is that it makes little
difference who the disruptionist candi-
dates are. 1t is no longer a question
that they will be the creatures of the
! disgraced leaders and every thing done
by them should they become the Off
Gals of the state-fortunately for the
reputation of the state a far removed
possibility-they would do exactly as
their leaders have done when the op-
portunity presented itself in the past.
The only thing they were ever manly
enough to speak out freely upon was
that they would carry out in Office
the things which were represented in
their leaders. a,-
But that was before the public was
Informed as to the character and
records of the leaders. Now they are
keeping the candidates in the back
I ground and will ask the public to sup
port them without question and with
out investigation.
Later they will attempt to claim,
that the men they are Offering have
never been subject to criticism and that
nothing derogatory has ever been said
Of them. They will claim that the
charges made in the Republican press
that the men whose records are dis
grace to the state anr against whom so
much Of the fight has been made are
not an issue. and therefore the cam
paign against the disruptionists has
missed the mark. They will claim that
they have been prosecuted and appeal
for sympathy. the ready weapons of
the coward and the egotist.
The people will not stand for such
deceptions and trickery. and they will
demand I rat the purposes and inten-
};itfohs Of the disruptionists be made
knowa OF else that their leaders cease
attempting to further assail by in
situation the integrity of the republic
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