The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-06-06


and especially the democratic daily
of the state-that it is clear the ar
engagements made by the state COM
mittee to reap the profits of the dis
ruption were made advisedly.
That party would not be so earnest
in its efforts to carry the state if there
was not something of party advant-
age to be gained. The inevitable con-
clusion is that the compact provides
for the probable election of disrup-
zionist candidates who will do the
bidding and be the plant tools of the
democratic party.
1t is easier to deceive the public
with this proposition. because they
would attempt to do the act while
wearing the garb of the republican
party unless they are unmasked.
But once elected. these men will
in national politics do the will of the
democratic party, voting and working
in the interests Of free wheat in COM
petition with that OF North Dakota.
and reducing the price until the farms
which are every year yellow with the
waving plumes of golden grain would
revert to the use to which they were
put before the white man came. be-
cause there would be no market for
the grain and no money to buy it.
Is that flight of imagination? Go
back to the last Cleveland administra-
ton when the democratic party was
in power and see what the conditions
WERE The country was flooded. not
with tramps but with honest and in
dustrious men begging for job to
earn a penny to send home to starry
ing wife and children. Could such
men buy the wheat produced in this
state at such prices as would repay
the farmer for the labor he was re-
quired to eXpend in growing it? Did
the starving women and children in
the great industrial centers during the
democratic rule, who lived upon a
crust of bread and a cup OF water and
accounted themselves fortunate 20
nave the crust, make market for the
wheat of North Dakota? There was
one market only and that was good to
the full extent of the resources. 1t
was the free soup houses established
all over the land to keep the skele-
tons of starved people from strewing
the land like stars in the midsummer
sky. Yet these are the times and con-
bending every particle of their power
to restore.
No wonder that honest men have
lost patience with crowd who in
order to realize a personal ambition
and gain an opportunity to feast and
fatten at the expense of the tax pay
ers of the state are resorting to every
subterfuge possible to bring about
such condition.
There is not man in the inside of
the disruption organization but would
do the bidding of the masters who put
him there. That is serious charge,
and would not be justified in the max
ing except the records of the men who
are leaders in the matter have in the
past been such that the conclusion is
Inevitable.
This does not include the honest
men who following the cause because
they are deceived, but means those
who have planned and organized the
disruption scheme and are it's leaders
and spokesman at this time.
There was but one opportunity
when Mr.. Spalding was in congress to
vote upon matter in which a return
Cleveland administration was possible.
to keep out the Canadian wheat for
milling purposes. Mr.. Spalding talked
and voted for proposition which was
to the conditions prevailing under the
and that was when an effort was made
worse even than the action of the
democratic party which gave the
country the disastrous Wilson German
bill. What is to be expected of him
now that his very soul is boiling with
rancor against the party. its members
and principles? Would he not take
a hundred fold revenge as he is try
ing to take revenge upon the party
whic, refused to longer tolerate his
conduct?
And this is the political John the
Baptist, the reformer crying out in
the wilderness that the era of reform
10 at hand and that he and those who
are with him are the Amounted to de-
liver the republican party to the coun-
try's arch enemy.
This is the platform Of the party,
for Mr.. spalding has not been able to
offer single proposition except his
personal grievances to the people Of
this state as reason for making
change.