The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-06-04

what dlHerence 1t makes whether
man be in Office himself where his
power could be SO used. or whether
it be another who is cheek and jowl
with him and who is merely placed
in the position because the other could
not secure it because of his record.
To Illustrate. If Mr.. Spalding voted
in favor of the free importation of Can
adian wheat in competition with that
of the farmers of this state and in the
interests of the mill trust, and the
imaginary wrongs done him by the
republican party in refusing to longer
trust him with the interests of the
wheat growers of the state, constitute
the political platform upon which the
disruptionists are seeking the over
throw of the republican party, the
man who would be elected. should
such calamity happen, would most
certainly be bound to carry out the
policy and the platform upon which
Mr.. Spalding has made his campaign,
else the very campaign itself is
falsehood and a deception. No other
candid conclusion can be drawn.
What, then, does it matter whether
one man or another be elected so long
as the one elected stands upon the
platform of the other. and when that
platform, regardless OF men, is ruin
Gus to the interests Of the people of
the state?
The voters of this state will not be
deceived by these false pretentions.
The wheat growers have learned far
too we'll and from a far too bitter
experience not to trust their interests
in the hands of political party whose
great rallying Cry in the only cam
paign it has ever entirely won in
half century of the nations history,
was free food stuffs. They know what
the price of Canadian wheat is COM
pared with that of our own state, and
they know that in the event of demo-
cratic success in the national house of
representatives that such measure
would be the first one introduced, else
| the record of the party counts for
naught.
The wheat growers of this state
know, too, that one of the places where
the national democratic party is
planning to secure part of it's hoped
for majority is North Dakota Why is
this so? The reason is clear. For
months few misguided and disap-
pointed politicians have been proclaim
ing to the country that the republican
party of this state must be beaten at
all hazards. The fact that these dis
ruptionists were assuming the guise
of republicans in order to accomplish
their purpose gave the matter stand
ing in other places.
When to this was added the open
attempt of the democrats of the state
to join with these disruptionists in
their attempt to defeat the republican
party, it offered decidedly inviting
field for the concentration of the eff
forts of the national democratic party.
1t needs no argument to convince
the people of this state that this effort
has been made and even now is being
made-though the exposure of the at
tempt to deceive the people has had
the effect of shower bath on the dis
ruptionists-to elect either a demo-
cratic congressman or one who is
ready and willing to dc the bidding
of that party.
1t is no wonder then that the farm
ers of this state-the sturdy yeomen
who are the bone and sinew of the
nation-have arisen in their might and
smote the common enemy hip and
thigh. They know who has fought
for their interests in the past and
what party has given them the pros
perity by which they have become
wealthy even beyond the dreams Of
avarice.
They will not forsake the party
whose principles have enabled them
to become an important part of the
wealth of the nation merely to place
those in power who have already prov
ed recreant to their trust The issue
is clearly drawn. On the one hand
it is the republican party with all it's
principles which have made the ma
ton great during the time it has been
charged with the administration Of
it's affairs, together with the servants
of that party who in state and nation
have challenged the disruptionists to
show one instance wherein they have
been false to the peoples trust. And
on the other hand the democratic
party with its record of national dis
aster and ruin yet fresh in the minds
of the people, and it's accepted allies,
those disruptionists who have on every
occasion where the opportunity came,
proven the plant servants of alien
interests and the open and active