The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-05-03

Cavalier Chronicle: So long as there
is politics there will be leaders who
will want to have their own way
about political management and will
use their best endeavors to carry out
their points and preconceived plans.
They will make orders and susges-
tions and while some few of the peo-
pie may demur. the majority will be
falling over each other to obey these
orders, even more freely than they
are given. Whatever may be said tn
the contrary, history proves that the
great rank and file of the people in
politics as in everything else. like
good leaders and depend upon them to
blaze the way for intelligent. political
movement and action. Now as to
leaders, there are some who are COM
petent and know how to lead; they are
born leaders in any sense Of the term.
but they usurp the place for what
there is in it for them. and their lead
ership is a snare and delusion to the
masses of the common people who be-
come Caught" by their sweet words
and delsartan movements and put con-
fidence in them. Bossism and leader
ship are not synonymous terms. AS
soon as natural leader assumes to be
boss, he ceases to be leader that
has following. for while the people
will readily follow a good leader,
while he is leader. they will re-
nounce Immediately when he deteriOr-
ates into boss.
That leaders should have minds of
their own and know how to express
them rightfully is we'll and proper. AMI
if any leader is not thusly strong
minded he has no rightful place in the
ranks as leader of other minds
That strong minded. Intelligent leaders
should insist on carrying out their
ideas and plans concerning the well
fare of the state and country, is only
natural, and if they are not supported
by the people in such plans and ideas,
what is the use of their leadership?
That, too, they should seem to be
somewhat selfish in their contentious
for the success and supremacy OF their
ideas and plans is nothing against
them. For if leader has convictions
about statecraft or a successful gov
eminent policy. it is right and proper
that he should contend rigidly and
selfishly too. in some measure if need
be, for the promotion of those ends
that will harmonic to bring about Il
crystalization of his mental visions
Otherwise. he is no good as leader.
and the people will soon leave him to
his own weakness.
North Dakota has several political
leaders: some of them are at the head
of affairs in the republican ranks,
where they have been in successful
leadership ever since the state was
born. and no state in the union has
expanded more widely nor become
more PROSPEROUS in material things
than has our own state under their
leadership. Other men in the state
who want to become leaders in political
affairs, so as to swing things their way
are now engaged in crying down the
old leaders and using their best en-
beavers to delude the people into
breaking away from their leadership.
Then they call them political bosses. .
"usurpers of the peoples rights" and
misapply other epithets to them to de-
lude the people. What nonsense. Ii
these old leaders had ever placed them
selves in the position of bosses, the
people would have left them years ago.
North Dakota would not have become
the banner republican state in the
union, nor have reached the highest
prosperity OF any state according to
population. nor be able to maintain
the best financial provision for it's
schools and institutions of learning
in the world. Moreover, if these same
old leaders had not been invested