The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-23

expressions of the members of the
committee and the other republicans
VINO attended the meeting as an in
dication of the political sentiment of
the state, 1t will be found that nine
tenths of the party are republicans be.
fore they are factionists.
This Idea was we'll expressed by a
gentleman concerning the political
conditions In his country, replied that
the people in that part of the state
were republicans first and that diff
ferences OF opinion must be governed
by the will Of the majority. This opin-
ion In modified form was expressed by
half the men Intercepted, and the ma
jority OF those present were inter-
viewed.
Take LaMoure and Bottineau coun-
ties, for instance, where live and reign
two of the avowed champions of party
disruption. In Bottineau it is said the
two factions will unite to carry the
county. In Lamoure there will in all
probability be elected a "go as you
please" delegation. This delegation
will he advised to go to the convention
and act in the selection of state candi-
dates as their judgment may dictate.
These things do not indicate dis
position on the part of the rank and
file OF the party to turn the govern
ment over to the democratic party and
its allies. the rule or ruin element of
the insurgent gang.
Another county which is indicative
of the sentiment of the reasonable in
surgents is Benson. The county is not
insurgent, but there are insurgents in
the county, one of whom is an office
holder at the hands of the crowd desig-
mated as the gang. The member of
the committee is not a member of the
Good Government league, but is in
sympathy with its principles, and will
in all probability be a candidate for
the nomination for the lower house of
the legislature. But there will not be
more candidates for the Office than
can be nominated. The fight does not
seem to be so very strenuous as the
cry of the few political Ishmaelites
would have the public believe.
AS for Ward county, the most ex-
pert mind reader in the world would
be stumped in an attempt to figure out
what the conditions are. There is but
one thing upon which the people there
are certain to be united, and that is
any proposition that will boom Minot
and Ward county. Fights like that in
McHenry county, where one of the
candidates has after being defeated in
the convention, made an Independent
race'against the regular nominee, and
the conclusion is inevitable that the
fight is not made in the interest of the
party. On the other hand through the
central part of the state are a num-
Der of counties in which the doctrine
of insurgency is almost unknown, and
the tendency of the people is to leave
we'll enough alone.
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The same conditions prevail largely
on the slope, and dissentions there are
hardly heard of except the probability
in the twenty-sixth legislative district
where the editor of the Emmons Coun-
ty Record occasionally takes shy at
the head of some would-be statesman.
The condition in the counties along
the Northern Pacific is sucll.as to give
assurance of republican victory with
the possible exception of Barnes,
where the insurgent sentiment has
taken hold and where a fight will
probably be made for the state dele
gates.
The attempt to create insurgent SEN
timent by the publications of false
statements and Misrepresentation is
either ridiculed or aroused indigna-
ton. For instance. business man
from Pembina who happened to be in
the city on private matters. stated to
the writer that the story recently pub
lished concerning the political condi-
tons in that county was rank mis-
statement of facts. and characterized
it in language that would seem more
emphatic than elegant, and a refec-
ton upon the people of the county.