The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-24
THE HERALD JOLLY
DOES NOT FOOL
THE PUBLIC
Pembina Citizen Takes the
Winship Organ to Task for
Questionable Methods.

Pembfna, N. D., April 24.-The
residents of this place are fast
learning that it Is necessary to avoid
strangers who approach them for in
terviews upon matters concerning the
political situation in the state. That
is to say, providing they wish to be
quoted in truth or in manner at all
resembling the truth. But few days
ago. a strange individual appeared in
town and put out feelers to ascertain
where he could obtain an interview
which would please his master, the
editor of the Grand Forks Herald.
1t has been said that this young man
sent out on Childe Harold pilgrimage
or like Norval in search of strange
adventure, is a harmless fellow Of
somewhat varied newspaper expert
ences, not always bright and shining
examples of success, but giving him an
insight into the methods of blackmail
and Misrepresentation which qualify
him, an measure, to fill the mission
on the Herald to which he has been
assigned. We're 1t not for the fact
that people are inclined to resent
falsehood and villification, the indi-
vidual might wander up and down
this broad state for time to come, writ
ing his fancied interviews and taking
an occasional subscription for the
Grand Forks organ. However, the
satellite of the boss has committed a
grevious blunder in his attacks upon
reputable citizens of this place and his
absolutely unauthorized and false So
styled Interviews" with them.
1t will be noticed that the specials"
to the Herald from the territory visited
by the envoy of King George" are all
of one tenor. namely an arraignment
of prominent men who have long been
identified with the growth and pros
perity of the state. men who enjoy
the respect and confidence of the peo-
pie of their community, men who the
Grand Forks dictator pleases to style
the gang" The individual from Grand
Forks must disabuse himself of the i'm
preston that his work is being fruit
full of any results desirable or pleas
ing to his master.
Admitting that Winship and his
Herald are affluent and well-to-do
financially; admitting that he has en-
joyed a long reign of. unmolested SUI
premacy in. field he seems to con-
slider wholly his own, one thing is
certain to the minds of any fair-think-
ing person. This forcing upon the
people of Northern North Dakota So
called newspaper writer" who comes
into this town and that town like a
thief in the night and after chattering
to himself in imbecile glee in the re-
mote corner of some shed or. livery
stable proceeds then to write up "in-
terviews" with respectable citizens
wholly unwarranted and unfounded,
will not go far to remove from the
Herald certain odium and smell
which has of late become very nauseat-
ing and disgusting to the public.
The interviews" should be written
and censured In the home Office of the
wouldbe reformer of North Dakota
politics, thus doing away with the bad
smell left in the wake of too Jealous
though well instructed servant. The
Herald. with its little pleasantries
about John Jones raising premium
beet" or "Josh Blake is successful
business men," all leading up to the
sterreotyped interviews" does not
fool the public in the least.
"A Citizen and Republican.