The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-02
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REPUBLICAN |: | [ VIEW.
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POLITICS
Minot's Municipal Campaign
There Similar to That Of
Grand Forks.
Special to The Eveninx Time..

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pose Of this article to reflect the local
conditions of Minot as they may re.
late to the municipal conflict which
is now in progress. However. il
might be well to say that the present
municipal campaign has bearing in
an indirect way upon county and state
politics.
1t has always been held that the
fundamental principle of state organ.
izations, from the date of the signing
OF the declaration of independence to
the present time, has rested upon
local organization. Local organiza-
ton, we take it, consists in the bind
Ing together of number of people
whose object is to delegate their
power and influence to a higher
power. Destroy that influence, take
away that power, and would like
to have you tell me where a better
political condition could be obtained.
speaking from state or national plat
form.
Minot,, like Grand Forks, has in
jected into the municipal campaign
an element that borders upon social
ism as against the principles laid
down in the republican platform that
has controlled the political destinies
, of this union for many years. l don't
know whether social democracy will
win In MinOt or not. l do not know
whether the same principles will pre-
dominate in Grand Forks or not, but
do know that regardless of individ-
ualtty, If they do, two links have been
broken in the great chain that has
bound for a number of years the peo-
pie of this hemisphere to one of the
grandest forms of government that
has ever existed under the sun.
Now let US pass for a moment from
local conditions, as they relate to city
governments and take up more in
teresting subject. The political rec
ords of this state, as published in the
blue book, will bear out the state
ment that Ward county stands today
before the people of North Dakota,
regardless of political faith, the ban
ner4 republican county of the state.
Whatever may have been the extent
of its internal troubles, it has stood
nobly by the choice of the republican
convention. It may have taken time
after time delegations that have been
divided among themselves and in con-
sequence Of that division not been able
to receive single crumb from the
convention table and yet.it has been
faithful to every obligation and true
to every trust.
/. Conditions lin Ward county during
the last few years have been peculiar.
The S6ntr0ling influences have not
at all times reflected the disposition
tof the republican party, but on the
other hand the disposition of GER
tain element whose emain object has
been to disrupt.
Another element that seems to have
existence in q faction who think that
Alex Mckenzie is posing as die
tatOr, all of which is not true. Alex
Mckenzie has never been in Ward
county, he has never associated him.
self with anyone who controls the
political destinies of the county, or
ever expressed a desire to do So. The
only man who has ever. done anything
for Ward county is H. c. Hansbrough,
who recently secured the location of
federal court at Minot.
The location of this court means a
whole lot to Ward county inasmuch as
1T amounts to a recognition, by the
general government that Minot and
Its associated country has reached q
point In it's commercial history where
it is entitled to something out of the
ordinary. We take it that the people
ofsour country who have received this
gift cannot afford at this time 10
smite the hand that offered.
Minot and Ward county have duty
to, perform, and that duty consists OF
Anwavering fidelity to the principles
OF the republican party and in the
event that neglect marks their dis.
position they alone will be responsible
for whatever result may follow. 1t is
too late for Ward county to expect
to succeed by building up new party,
by toying with the democratic cat
that for years has been mewing n
the pathway of every republican that
has been capable Of casting a vote
since the organization of the county.
Ward county cannot succeed under
any circumstance in the political
sense except by assisting in the
maintenance of the principles reflect
ed in the national platform.