The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-06-16
.GRAfTERS' RECORDS.
ARE Barred TO
SUNLIGHT
Colonel Wardwell Deals Some
Telling Blows to the
Quartette.
lPembina Pioneer Express.]

me republican voter In this county
will next Tuesday be called upon to
choose between two sets of delegates
to go to the Republican state con-
vention at jamestown in July, which
convention will select candidates for
state offices. In the selection of these
delegates there is more involved than
the personality of the men. On both
sides there are good citizens, person.
ally unobjectionable, who are rep
resentative of the county and their re-
spective localities.
But 1t must not be forgotten that
they are sent to jamestown, not as
private citizens, but to express the
opinions of the voters of this county.
1t is not question whether this
friend or that neighbor. shall be hon
ored with the compliment of your
vote, but whether when he gets to
jamestown he will represent you and
your locality in his choice of candi-
dates.
What do these different candidates
for delegates stand for? That is the
only question that should influence
you when you cast your ballot.
One half of the thirty-two names
printed on the ballot stand for the
history of North Dakota and all that
history implies, in progress. No new
state in this union has better record.
There Is not citizen or the state but
is proud of that record and proud of
the standing of his state among the
states. These candidates propose a
continuance of this progress.
The other half of the thirty-two,
stand for a change in the administra-
ton of the affairs and government of
the state. What that change may be
can best be forecasted by the personal
records of the men VINO seek to make
the change. Not the local delegates
they are honorable, but mistaken, men
who will later discover their errors,
but the record of the men whose
schemes our local insurgent delegates
are expected to further and assist in
accomplishment
There are four or these and they
form quartette, each of whom have
fallen into the same political slough,
and from which they expect to crawl
over the heads and bodies of such
people as our local insurgent friends
whose names appear on the ballots in
this county. Each of these have the
common disappointment of being
elected from, or falling to get, fat and
high political Office. Otherwise they
have no likeness either to or for each
other. In most cases they have Wilt
fled each other in the past and now
have come together only through COM
mon misfortune.
First (the least, the unspeakable
Major Murphy of Ward county. A
political boss" of the most repulsive
type who narrowly escaped the
penitentiary last winter on a charge
of forging road district overseers' re-
ceipts, and who is still under bonds
for second trial.
Second, Governor" Joe Devine, who
took three salaries for one mans
work and stole parts of half dozen
Thanksgiving proclamations from gov
errors of other states and passed them
to the people of North Dakota as his
own.
Third, Hon. Burleigh Spalding of
Cass county. Mr.. Spalding has been in
congress from this state. His most
notable service was to vote for the
free importation of Manitoba wheat
for the Minneapolis mills, thereby de-
creasing the demand. for the wheat
VI ANOl III DdhOI1 ldl luCl ICISOudllN,
he was one of the representatives that
voted himself mileage from Washing
ton to Fargo and back, during the
closing of one term of congress and
the opening Of another; which jour-
ney took place, in his imagination, in
the space of time that it took the
speaker to strike his gavel twice on
the desk in front Of him. One ses-
c{a {vnr
closed.
Fourth, would-be but never-was and
never-will-be Governor" George B.
Winship. Mr.. Winship's forte is that
of an honorable" The domination of
the boss" is his fetish. He has evil
IDENTIFY learned the badness of the
bosses by his habits of Summing with
them in the sinks of iniquity. For he
has had no other associates in the
political arena for his lifetime ex-
cept the men whom he now denounces
as thieves and robbers. And now
comes the Grand Forks Times with
what 1t claims to be documentary evil
dence that this honorable" this tim-
maculate" is party to the creation
of printing monopoly through which
the state is made to pay exorbitant
prices for its public printing and the
proceeds shared among the members
of the trust. The procedure was as
follows:
Under the plea of patronizing home
institutions law was passed by the
legislature that all public printing
and supplies of that sort must be pur-
chased by the state and the counties
in the state, of printers and binders
within the state! The facts are that
at the time when the law was passed
that there were only four printing es-
adjustments in the state that could
furnish the bound books and ruled
blanks needed. Hence. it is easy for
the reader to draw his own conclu-
sions as to the parties who were in
trested In getting the patriotic" law
passed. Then these four concerns
formed trust and pooled the profits.
In q signed agreement printed In the
Times. the Herald company agrees to
pay to the other members Of the mon
opoly thirty-six per cent Of the pro-
ceeds of the share of printing that
came to 1t through the acceptance Of
Its tender" or Ibid" against the bids
of the other members of the same
monopoly. OF course, under such
circumstances the amount of each bid
was arranged by the parties at In
terest beforehand, and the share Of
printing that each should do and
divide with the others was also agreed
to.
We do not know how extravagant
the bids were to the state, but we
know that under the law the state had
no other thing to do but to accept such