The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-13
B. G. SKULASON WILL
SUPPORT COP,
TICKET
Local Attorney Who Favors
Fisk Is For All the
Other
REPUBLICAN NOMINEES
Assigns Reasons For Opposing
the Election of Judge
Knauf. :
REPUBLICAN, NOMINEES
Grand Forks. N. D.. Oct - 1915

Grand Forks, N. D., Oct. ~ 1906.
10 the Editor Of the Evening Times:
Ever since the launching of the
lawyers movement in the matter Of
the judiciary campaign in this state,
! have from time to time heard it in
tlmated and in a few instances charg-
ea openly by the friends of Judge
hnauf, that the republican attorneys
VINO are supporting Judge Fisk for
the supreme bench, have abjured their
fealty to the republican party, and
that they intend to throw overheard
the entire republican ticket. my
self have been asked several times
since l became connected with the
FISK campaign, whether l had turned
democrat and whether I intended to
support the entire democratic ticket.
Until now, | have hesitated to make
any public expression of my atti-
tude, chiefly from sense of modesty,
as l feel that my attitude is of no
greater moment to the public than
that OF any other private citizen. But
for the purpose of preventing wrong
construction of this lawyers move
ment," / have decided to state publicly
Just where l stand in this matter, be-
heving that my attitude is, substan-
TALLY, that of all the other republican
attorneys who have taken a stand for
Judge Fisk.
am advocating the election of
Judge Fisk because l am firmly con-
WINGED that the public welfare de-
mandS that the republican nominee
be defeated. not because he is the
candidate of the republican party, but
because of his unfitness for the office
and of the disintegration of the SUI
preme court which would inevitably
follow upon his election. Politics has
nothing to do with this matter. Other
things being equal, would support
the candidate of my party for a jul
dicial office, the same as for any
other Office, in preference to the can
didate of any other party. think
that l may say that this is true of
every other republican lawyer who
has joined this movement. With the
single exception 0f Judge Knauf, I
shall vote for every candidate on the
republican ticket, and do what little
| can in the future until election time,
as have done in the past, since the
convention. to insure their election.
am satisfied that the men nominated
at the jamestown convention by the
republican party are good men, COM
petent to fill the respective offices
and in every way deserving of the con-
fidence of the people, with the eXeGp-
ton above named
The method by which public officers
are nominated in our state. believe
to be essentially wrong, and believe
that the political convention should
be abolished as soon as possible. The
dictatiOn by a few men, which is the
inevitable result of such system, I
have no patience with But because
the voter believes that the naming of
men for public Office should be in the
hands Of the people, as Il whole. and
because he detests bossism in it's
every manifestation is, to my mind,
no reason why he should bolt the
ticket placed before the peca!e by his
party. 1t is rather his duty to labor
patiently within the ranks to eradi-
cate the evils Of which he complains.
The republican party of the state of
North Dakota Is as party, both safe
and sane" The party cannot properly
he charged with the blunder of NOM
mating John Knauf. 1t still deserves
the hearty support Of every patriotic
citizen and is receiving it from every
republican lawyer in the state so far
as | know
-Bardi G. Skulason