The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-06-01
Winship's Ambition.
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Notwithstanding the attempts that
have been made by leaders of the So
called reform" movement in the
state to becloud and befog the minds
of citizens as to the issues in the pres
sent campaign within the republican
party of the state, the nature of the
issue is clear to all intelligent voters.
Unable to find anything to charge
against the administration of state
affairs by the present administration,
that faction of the party which is
seeking to destroy its organization out
of either private hatred or private in
terest continually seeks to bring into
the campaign elements which have no
place there and which do not at all
have to do with the issues before the
voters. Mr.. Mckenzie has been fire.
quent object of attack but Mr.. Nc
Kenzie is not candidate for Office be-
fore the voters. Neither is Mr.. Hans
brough at this time. He will not come
before the state convention. since his
campaign for reelection to the senate
will be in the legislature two years
from the present time. On the other
hand, there will come before the state
convention at jamestown as candidates
seeking Endorsement of the voters two
congressman and governor, with
other state officials who have served
one term and will naturally be candi-
dates for denomination. since it has
come to be agreed that one good term
deserves another. The issues before
the people of the state. therefore. is
whether these officials have done
their duty we'll and are deserving of
Endorsement.
In all the glib and gruesome
prophesies of evil that have been
made by the Grand Forks Herald in
type and by ex-Congressman Spalding
on the stump we find nothing but the
extreme of "muckrakeism" which has
been the fashion of certain news
papers and magazines to serve to their
readers. There has been no belief in
their minds that there has been any
maladministration of state affairs for
the past year and half. They have
not attempted to declare or prove
any such fact except in half hearted
and shame-faced manner. Whatever
specific charges they have made have
been met and proven false The
statement that state funds were loan
ed to individuals or institutions with
out interest to the state is a pure
and simple falsehOod SO far as the
present state administration is con-
cerned. The statement that there have
been needless extravagances is an
other false statement made out of the
same cloth. It is agreed wherever
fairness is held to be moral virtue
that the present administration is and
has been conducted ON a purely bust
ness basis. Whatever may be the
friendly personal relations existing
between men and men has nothing to
do with the issues of the campaign
and it is only shriveled soul that
would argue that it has at all to do
with the matters In issue.
The object of the anti-administra-
ton campaigners is too plain to de-
ceive anyone. 1t is known that Mr..
Winship has had for years an over
weening ambition to be governor and
notwithstanding what candidates may
be groomed in various counties and
what inducements may be held out to
them to become candidates for COVER
nor in behalf of the fnsurgent faction,
when the final test comes the Grand
Forks editor will be found. in the
lists as the simon pure "insurgent"
candidate. The same will be found
true of ex-Congressman Spalding,
who is seeking to align forces that
will boost him back to congress. Mr..
Tinglestad and Mr.. Steel are useful
only in SO far as they can furnish
local strength to the overshadowing
ambitions Of Mr.. Winship and Mr..
Spalding.
So the issues narrow down to the
plain question whether the state ad-
shall be Endorsed. The
insurgent organs admit that the adj
of state affairs has been
clean and business like. That being
the case. do the voters Of the state
believe in the Endorsement of men
who have applied wholesome business
methods to the conduct of state af-
fairs? The other issues that have
sought to be dragged in by the Gin
surgent" campaigners are merely for
the purpose Of concealing the entire
OF the main case of the in-
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