The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-05-28

in the journalistic field that the facts
had been concealed from the public
before and that an attempt had been
made under the guisc of reforming a
state administration against which
they We're unable to lay single speci-
fic charge, to turn the followers over
to the democratic party and accept as
their pay whatever Offices the leading
disruptionists could secure. Under
these conditions those who believed
in Il campaign of truth and right and
justice have refused to be accounted
longer blind. and are now advocating
the support of the republican ticket.
The desertion of their cause by these
men has had decidedly depressing
effect upon the disruptionists. Those
who have refused to longer train I'M
der their banner are the men who bv
their honesty and integrity have COM
manded respect. and who have given
the cause of disruption the only stand
ing it has ever possessed.
Deserted by these men and the press
which they control. the only remnants
of the party left are those who are
seeking to satiate long settled and
deadly hate against the party because
they have been weighed in the bal
ance of public integrity and found
wanting, or those who have the hope
OF riding into political power on
democratic launch.
The papers which are as yet lend
ing their aid to the lost cause are
about as full of enthusiasm and optim
Ism as was Lees army the next day
after Appornattox.
Some of the disrubuon leaders are
even urging that the charges against
the state officials which have been
given to the world in the form of in
uendoes be abandoned. as they were
reacting on the movement when the
proof to substantiate them could not
be produced. These leaders have
even intimated that there was never
any truth in the charges any way.
All this is not the result of wave
of political sentiment sweeping over
CtCta ~
the calm and sober Judgment of the
people. They have reached the con-
clusion not because of any personal
abuse INDUCED in by the republican
papers but because these papers and
the republican leaders have presented
facts and reasons.
Probably nothing has had a greater
effect in turning reasonable men from
the disruption cause than the ex-
posure of the records of the men who
assumed the leadership of that crowd
with nothing to discuss except gang
they repeated that every day in the
week and probably on the Sabbath.
But the people wanted to know what
constituted the gang. And thereupon
the disruptionists were compelled to
admit that it was nothing but the
party organization and was created by
the will of the masses of the party
and subject to their power at all times.
Then these same people wanted to
know what the republican party,
which the disruptionists designated as
the gang had done that was displeas.
ing to those who sought to overthrow
1t, and We're told that it had placed
North Dakota in the very front rank
or republican states and that it should
be reformer by turning it over to the
democrats. And yet again the people
wanted to know what the disruption
lists had to offer instead. of the repub-
lican party. The answer was a crowd
of office seekers who bad proven false
to the trust reposed in them by the
people and who desired to be again
given the right to vote away the in
terests of the people Of the state in
favor of the mill trust and the print
ing combine.
These answers have not been satis-
factory and the people have refused
longer to follow the trailing banner.
The leaders confronted with the proof
of their false playing do not dare
make new assertions and are allow
ing the whole scheme. to die by the
use ofH'self administered chloroform.