The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-06-05

in their boldest moments dare specify
or make in clear cut and honest
style.
Finally when their own followers
| refused to be longer deceived they
shameiacedly admitted by their ig-
nominiOus silence and inability to
| produce the facts to show wherein the
state had been robbed or the liberties
of the people encroached upon or
their trust betrayed, that they had
been the promulgators of false claims
put forth for the purpose Of disrupt
ing the republican party Men who
were in the matter because of princi-
pie and whose love of justice and high
integrity were above the selfish
motives of leaders, refused to be fur
Their led and have turned from the dis
ruptionist party as they would from
any other scheme which was tinged
with dishonesty and deception.
1t is admitted that the scheme was
closed corporation in which five OF
six persons undertook to tell the vot-
ers that they must tn n the state over
to the democrats in order to prove
that this close corporation was able
to do so and at the same time give
those who SO sought an opportunity
to hold Office. All this was done un-
der the guise of republicanism. for
p, even the disruptionists knew that to
attempt to seek an endorsement from
the majority OF the republican party
in this state to an open democratic
platform would be political suicide
and oblivion.
They therefore set up the claim that
it was an issue of men. not measures.
however untenable that contention
might be. 1t is we'll in view of this
contention to inquire of the kind of
men it was proposed to substitute for
those whom the republican party had
placed in positions Of honor and trust.
The disruptionists proposed to re-
form by placing other men in Office
men OF their own persuasion and be-
lief Then the public demanded to
know what manner of men these were
who taught this new political faith
They have found out. They have found
they were men who had lost credible
ity and standing in the republican
party because of the betrayal of their
trust or else men who were a-hunger
for the loaves and fishes.
Some of these leaders have had their
records made public and they have
brought the cause they advocated to
shame. Those who are yet staying
with the sinking ship have known
these men for years and must have
been familiar with their public records
and the only conclusion possible is
that they are of the same faith and
order. and that the leaders through
out the state are accessories to the
fact along with the principals. In fact
no man who is friend to the farmers
and wheat growers of this state could
conscientiously support the man who
has been most ardent in his advocacy
of disruption.
| n uyha 1o
measures the issue is the same If
ne fight be made on the contention
nat men are not in Issue, then it must
be remembered that it is the policy
of both the descriptions and the demo-
Gratis to unite and elect men upon a
democratic platform who will carry
out democratic principles. If it be
men, then if the merits of the cause
be measured by the records of those
who have made their personal griev-
ances the platform and who have been
recognized as leaders of the disrup-
tionists. there is nothing in such re-
cords to justify the tax payers and
wheat growers of this state in giving
them scintilla Of support:
The republican party throughout the
state. even these members who have
represented their communities and
neighbors as delegates in former state
conventions. and who have been
charged by the disruptionists with
having sold their honor and integrity
for mess Of pottage: and those who
have served their constituents in the
law MAX ng halls OF the state and
have ,een charged by these same dis
ruptionists with having violated their
oaths and sold their sacred honor as
willingly as they would have sold
! their grain in the elevator, are dis
posed to view them more in sorrow
than in anger. Even when they have
failed to even attempt to produce one
fact to substantiate their insinuated
charges, the republicans have not
sought to follow them with personal
attacks and abuse. They have dealt
in cold blooded facts not insinuations
and abuse.