Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-05-07
4N5sssIHazzl,
THE REAL MEANING OF
"MACHiNE.''


"MAcHlNE."
The Herald of Sunday, in it's &C.
customed lugubrious vein, dilates up
on the dreadful conditions that shall
come to pass if the machine" is not
at once curbed and driven into the
Winship garage for overhauling and
repair. The Herald, as usual, is
throwing dust in the hope of deceiv-
ing some of its readers into the be-
lief that the machine" in this state
differs from that in other states, and
in this state where the real truth is
appreciated, is known as organization.
The Herald makes use of the word
machine because it would have it's
readers believe that there is some
thing sinister and menacing in the
word. Just how any political party
is to be maintained without an organ
ization the Herald should be good
enough to explain. The Herald's
comments upon the machine" is in
connection with meeting at Grand
Forks for the organization of a self
STYLED good government league"
Now a series of "good government
leagues" or of any other kind of
league" in any state or county has
Tor its end an organization and an
organization is machine in the
mouth of its critics. 1t is necessary
to the maintenance of a political party
of whatever name or nature that
there shall be a central organization
and that this central organization
shall have subordinate organizations
through the different political sub
divisions of state or of nation.
The republican national organization
is a machine" as much as the re-
publican state organization. And if
the elements in control of an organ
ization would be still not less a
machine" In the days of free silver
agitation it was customary for the
silver orators to paint gold as huge
and dreadful dragon deyouring what
ever it came across, and silver was
pictured as fair and radiant maiden
being attacked and devoured by the
Ubiquitous golden monster These at
tempted personifcstions of two life
less and feelingless elements were
I'D Ia
nature disposition to sympathize
with a lern and fossaken maiden and
to hate and despise a dragon of
whatever sort. It was kind of de-
'oeption that might appeal to children
or persons of little perception or in
sight. The same thing is attempted
in the. Herald's fear. of what the
machine" in this state: will do If
undisturbed. The machine, or organ
izatton in North Dakota, is merely the
different central bodies of the republi-
can party, working together. It's per-
sonal element lies in men who are
good citizens, and who have the same
good and bad qualities as the men
the Herald is seeking to align in self
styled good government leagues
Differences of opinion do not make
differences in men, and we apprehend
twill be admitted that the average
OF humanity is much the same. Hence
it win be difficult for the Herald to
I make intelligent readers believe that
there is essentially vice in the MAORI
ty and virtue in the minority.
The Herald admits that the loss to
the state through the control of the
majority has not been in dollars but
in the corrupting of seekers after
spoils Of Office. To reform and re-
generate office seekers and to uplift
them from their benighted condition
Is the mission of the Herald at this
q time. This is indeed a humane and
B snnobling mission. Having long
sought political preferment unsuceess-
4 fully at the hands OF the machine
Editor Winship has come through the
ire pllrged and cleansed and, con
seious Of the happiness that comes
through q simple desire for the eleva-
ton Of the whole human race, is
anxious to spread the good tidings
and let others be giofriiaed as he has
been
It IS, we may observe at this time,
b curious and cogent commentary up
on the capacity Of men for Office
holding, that many Of those who have
been honored BIT their own behest
and solicitation, by the machine In
this state, having exhausted the posi-
Dillties ~ cfics holding, have gone
Into the camp of the opposition, III