The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-05-17
THE JURY'S VERDICT.


Times contained under 1.-The Pulse Of
the Press" a long list Of editorial
comment taken from the leading
weekly papers of this state on the
sentiment of the republican party
anent the proposed disruption of the
same and the turning of the control
of state and national affairs over to
the democratic party by means of this
disruption.
Those excerpts have caused much
favorable comment They showed
that the party in this state as whole
is still true to the principles enun-
ciated by the immortal Lincoln.
1t is we'll at this time to take can
did and fair view of the political Sit
uation: to study it. not in the light
of factional prejudices and personal
ambitions. but in the calm and DELHI
crate light of reason.
For months the disruption press of
the state has teemed with implied
charges of breach of political trust
on the part of those who have been
selected by the masses of the party,
with the administration of public af-
fairs. Covert insinuations have been
made and vague references to what
could be disclosed if only the writer's
chose to do SO have been waited on
every breeze.
The people of the state have long
since been summoned as the jury to
determine the truth or falsity of these
insinuations. The charges have been
read and this jury has patiently await
ed the production Of the facts to prove
them.
They have demanded to know
wherein those who have been in
trusted with power have been derelict
in their duties. They have asked for
the proof of corruption in Office They
had been told that those who made
the charges could produce it and
they had a perfect right to expect it.
The evidence has not been pro-
duced. and the jury has been COM
PEELED to accept the only conclusion
possible.-that it never existed.
Driven from this position by the re-
fusal of the public to accept the in
situations without the evidences of
their truthfulness. those who were
bent on disrupting the republican
party at all hazards. next contended
that the party machinery was used
by few to control the selection of
officials, and that the great masses of
the people-the sturdy and intelligent
members of the party-were traded
in politics. and had been traded in the
past like slaves in the market. and
that men who were selected by their
neighbors as delegates to conventions
because of their high standing in the
communities and who would resent
to the utmost an insinuation that
they had wronged their fellowmen of
one cent, came to the conventions and
voted like SO many vassals by those
under whose yoke they bowed. This
contention upon its face had the ear
marks of falsehood. That men would
be willing to do the bidding of others
to whom they were under no obliga-
tons and sell their manhood. honor.
and integrity for nothing was prepos-
ferrous.
Still the public was willing to hear
the evidence of the charges. Not one
case has been cited where a delegate
was bought or sold or coerced. Those
who had made the insinuations did
not dare name man.
The public was again driven to the
conclusion that the insinuations were
wholly without foundation and that
no evidence could be found to SUBJ
stantiate them. else those who had
proclaimed these things to the world
would have furnished 1t rather than
stand before the public as false accus-
ers.
But the public sitting as a.jury dis