The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1906-05-18
.HOWLERS OF
..NEW GANG
WHY Some Of the Insurgents Are Sort
at the ''Old Gang They
n Couldn't be Boss.

/. jamestown Alert: Colonel NOD.
I, inson Of Mayville was a west bound
passenger today to the Hunters
Hot Springs, Mont, where he will
spend week or more. He says
that seeding is we'll along in Trail
county, and except some OF the
4 lowest spots, the prospects'are very
fair for this time Of the year.
Colonel Robinson is one OF the
heaviest lumber men in the state
having business interests in Fargo
and the Red River valley, but is
surprised to note the growth Of the
central part Of the state and the
evident movement of population
westward. He says jamestown
has greatly improved since his last
visit.
Colonel Robinson is a member
of the republican state committee,
and while personally in favor OF
holding the party conventions in
the Red river country, can see the
force of the demand for the loca-
ton of the conventions of the state
at a more central point, and be-
lieves that from now on Grand
Forks and Fargo will have to get
up and work if they want to con-
: troll locations of state conventions
as frequentlysas heretofore.
Colonel Robinson is in. touch
with good many business and
farming interests in the Red river
valley, and does not believe that
the so-called insurgent movement
( will over turn the present political
organization of the party OF the
state. Theresis note ough . merit
in the attempt. The main argu-
ment Of the insurgents, he says,
seems a Il t to 5 be senseless but often re-
p peated ! ted CRY Y. against the gang
This is merely term intended to
cast reflection on the state t + II re- e
publican organization, With NO
good ground or argument to back
it up. Without an organization,
SAYS the colonel, where would the
party be.
The insurgents use the word
s.gang' in an offensive. sense, to
create prejudice against the older
organization and at the same time
to cover up their own secret work
Of selecting candidates for the var
ious Offices; giving the rank and
file no voice in the choice and
domineering over the faction of
the party they are trying to re-
form, for purely selfish purposes.
Everyone who knows the insur.
gent leaders is we'll aware that
they are not men who would cheer
fully become martyrs in holy
cause or who devote their time and
efforts to their fellow men for
purely humanitarian purposes.
The term gang" can be equally
as we'll applied to the insurgent
opposition as to the regular repub-.
lican organization Of the party; in
fact considering the tactics the in
surgents are at present employing
to building up an organization,
the term can be more properly u.s.
ed to refer.to them than any other
descriptive term.
The present state administration
has been run along good business
lines and the insurgent leaders,
having failed to point out any
real grievance or mismanagement
Of the party.affairs are compelled,
IS resort to q -ory agaitst the
!. gang. With this sole argument,
the, leaders are striving to get oons
troll 81 the state convsntio 81 tol EJ,
nominats certain aspirants OF
chiefly mon who have failed
tdseours reno limitations, or have.
not yet teen ecognized with nom
nations by the party in its bienni-
al conventions.
In some states and cities it be-
comes necessary to turn down.
what are in realty gangs Of politi-
. cal freebooters who get in Office.
and assume right to plunder the