The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-19
LOCAL INSURGENTS
O|SGUST{O WITH
LEADERS
'Herding" Process Poorl,
Conducted by Johnson
and Winship.

There are still rumblings from the
state convention at jamestown and
not few of these are the disgruntled
expressions of the Herald. whose de-
feated editor finds himself unconsoled
and forlorn in his lost game of dis =
ruption. Devine has not been heard
OF since. Spalding is fishing some
where in a location where mosquitoes
have taken the place of the political
bee OF office aspiration. Major MUIR
ply, according to the delegation from
his own home town. is dead and buried
politically and the few insurgent
mourners go about the streets, for
lorn and depressed.
rankle so much with the insurgent
who found himself mislead and had
discontinued his pursuit OF strange
to be right. The sincere insurgent,
though duped and mislead, is In far
preferable situation than that of the
disruption leaders.
The Herald editor cannot swallow
the stinging defeat with anything but
a WHY face for 1t is bitter. Evidently,
the fact that Ward county got what
it went after and hung together like
one man realizing that in unity there
is strength. rankles upon the Herald
editor and he now claims that the
delegation was herded like sheep"
Along the line of discussion of
the work of delegations at the con-
vention. glance at the Grand Forks
delegation might be timely. Talks
with insurgent leaders and men of
prominence in the party leads to one
conclusion. A more dissatisfied dele
cation of men never returned from
state convention than the representa-
ton from this county. Not so much
with the results. for few of them hoped
to win, the foolish claims of the Her.
aid some time ago being discredited
and given little credence. It was not
that they were disappointed but that
they realized that they had been made
monkeys Of and by the men who posed
as leaders of the cause they them
selves conscientiously believed right.
Ask any fair minded man what he
thinks of the leadership of johnson
and of Winship at the convention.
What of the spectacle of Attorney
Frank Feetham, when with hair on
end and arms akimbo he rambled In
a shrill voice about this or that, i'm
material and silly, while his friends
in the delegation sat and prayed that
his paraoxism would soon be over.
Was the representative from Grand
Forks county lead to the satisfaction
of the insurgents themselves and were
they satisfied? No. the voice of a
majority of that delegation answers
emphatically no.
The writer has talked with many of
them. They are ashamed and they are
indignant at the folly so apparent at
that convention.
At the insurgent caucus on that
eventful morning. Mr.. johnson who
was willing to be slaughtered, object
ed to some Of the men present wear
ing Sarles badges. Men who might
have had an interest in the principles
they advocated were invited in SO
many words to leave the hall and they
did so. The insincerity Of the dicta-
tors was made evident right there
and they lost the support of the think
ing element of their following.
The Herald can no more stem the
tide of ignominous defeat to its editor
and his cohorts at least than it can
change the course of the sun in the
heavens and this verdict is the YER
dict Of the very men who attended
the convention as delegates from this
county. Insurgents seem of the one
opinion and that is that they were
made to appear in foolish light by
the Office seekers and that their lead
ership was but an effort to do herd
ing stunt which makes that of the
handling of any other delegation look
like the free and untrammeled liberty
Of the grzing grounds of the universe