The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-19
MEN WITH MUCK RAKES.
bismarck Tribune.)

President Roosevelt delivered a
highly interesting address at Wash
ington Saturday, with regard to the
lie servants and indeed of all men
who have risen to that height in any
kind of business that they are consid-
cred legitimate subjects for the pens of
critics and reformers. The keynote
of the presidents address is to be
found in the quotation from Bishop
Hooker. the EliZabethan divine, who
wrote:
He that Eoeth about to persuade Il
multitude that they are not SO we'll gov
erned as they ought to be. shall never
because they know the manifold de-
fects whereunto every kind of regimen
is subject; but the secret let's and diff
innumerable and inevitable. they have
slider.
This statement is apt and applica-
bic to Il number of "reformers" whose
principal business at this time is to
persuade the people of this state that
they are not as we'll governed as they
might be, and that the remedy lies in
ousting from Office men who have
been concerned with the administra-
ton of affairs in the state and elect
ing to office other men, who have been
long and consistent candidates for Of
fee but have failed to read the goal
of their ambitions.
In the campaign that is beginning
in North Dakota it is we'll to keep
clearly in mind the facts that the
outs" in any state or organization
are continuously if not always con-
sistent critics of the "ins." This is
due to a certain quality in human
nature that it is neither necessary nor
important to explain. The condition
has always been and perhaps always
will be. The criticisms that have been
leveled at the administration in this
state are of a general nature, such as
the outs" always employ against the
ms The terms "old gang" and ma
chine" are arbitrary terms and when
that class of "reformers" of which we
have already spoken is at loss for
specific instances of maladministration
with which to bolster up its general
charges it can always fall back upon
these characteriZations as means of
attempting to cast discredit upon men
in office who have been as careful of
the public welfare and as honest in
the disposition of public funds as any
man who might be selected from the
ranks OF the most blatant of the
shouters.
The leaders OF the Much Rake Brig
AIDE in North Dakota have begun upon
the campaign that they rely upon to
tear down and discredit the present
organization of the republican party
in North Dakoa. 1t will be we'll for
the voters of the state to analyze the
charges made by them and the influ-
ences that urge them to attack the Or
ganization from every bush and by
way. 1t will be we'll to study the polit-
ical history of the state and discover
what has been the attitude of these
"reformers" at various stages of their
career; at times when they have been
candidates for Office and at times when
they have been disappointed in the
pursuit for office. 1t will lie we'll to
remember that at the times they have
been in office they have found nothing
discreditable in the administration of
the organization. Their Judgment Is
warped and fretted by disappointment.
They are making final and desperate
effort to tear down an organization
they have been unable to control Will
ing at all times to be the recipient of
favor. they have turned upon the party
at the moment they have failed to re-
ceive what they desired These are
the men of the Muck Rake Brigade
who are SO busily telling the voters of
the state that they are not so we'll
governed as they should be-