The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-05-23
jurins the party itself. The fallacy
of this argument has been exploded

1uring the party itself The fallacy
Of this argument has been exploded
Men who are republicans from prin-
ciple and who are intellectually able
to rise above the selfish and covetous
desires of men, have refused to be
Willingly lead into the democratic
party merely that few men who have
been found unworthy to bear aloft the
standard of true republicanism, may
satisfy their enmity against the party.
The motives Of the leaders in the
disruption movement have been asked
to specify the charges against the
party and the party organization which
are inimical to the good OF the people
at large, and they have been unable to
ing men-and there are plenty of them
in the republican party-have by this
inability to explain been convinced
that the claims of the disruptionists
are the rankest receptions, and wholly
without foundation.
They have also asked why the state
central committee of the democratic
party should in fixing the time of its
state nominating convention, discuss
the proper time which should elapse
between it and the nominating con-
vention of the republican party, and
take into consideration, as it did. the
fact that the country press would have
time to Gcuss the result of the republic
can conventions work before the
Minot convention. so that the demo-
cratic party could shape it's course
accordingly.
1t was evident to these thinking
republicans that the whole purpose
was to use the disruptionists as a
means of electing combined demo-
cratic state and congressional ticket,
and thereby turn the state over
politically to the democratic party.
Nor did the plan stop at this. The
fight was to be made ON the republican
representatives in congress as we'll,
so that the work Of the disruptionists
would become Il part of the national
democratic plan to secure control OF
congress.
The fight has been especially strong
against the republican candidates for
the legislature, and in order to pre-
JUDGE the people against any of these
who might not be willing to destroy
the party organization, the disruption
list organs have repeatedly declared
that the legislature was composed of
political hirelings and personal tools,
They hoped by this means to so pre-
JUDGE the voters against any man who
was loyal to his party that he would
not be able to receive their votes.
This would insure the election of
democratic legislature part of which
would in turn elect a United States
senator
1t must be thought, however. that
many of the republicans who were
| willing to join the efforts to Dust the
party organization in the state were
parties to this deep laid political
scheme. for they were not. Many of
them had been told so often by the
leaders and bosses that the organiza-
ton was corrupt that they were will
ing to make an honest investigation.
They demanded proof of the charges
made by the leaders and when these
leaders were compelled to admit that
1t could not be given, they turned away
in disgust.
These men were loyal republicans
who have placed party principles
above men, and have been true to the
organization which gave the nation
a Lincoln, Grant, a Garfield, a
Blaine, Mckinley and a Roosevelt,
and have refused to assist in placing
the power in state and nation again
in the hands of the democracy.