The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-06
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is far removed, but which does not
change the reason advanced in behalf
Of it-would he attempt, or would his
party attempt to change the heads of
the state educational institutions in
the plan of his great reforms which he
is so willingly promising the people
at this time? The Evening Times
simply desires to call the attention of
the voters of the state to the fact that
in the election OF Burke such thing
is possible. True, it could not be ac-
complished entirely in the beginning,
but if the saving of the state can only
be accomplished by the election of
democratic governor, as that party and
its cloven footed helpers who pretend
to be republicans claim, why should
not the plan be perpetuated?
The controlling bodies OF the edu-
cational institutions could and UNI
doubtedly would be changed so that
men in harmony with the political
doctrines of the party in control might
have their places. If these great insti-
tutions, which are not only the boast
of the state but which demand and
receive a large share of the attention
of the legislature and which handle
the largest portion of the states taxes,
have been SO conducted that they do
not need change in the great reform
work which MIR. Burke has taken upon
himself, surely the party and the men
who have stood by those institutions
and have built them up to the high
position which they occupy in the edu-
cational world, are not so very danger
Gus to the welfare of the state.
Where is the farmer or the farmers
boy who would tolerate for a moment
any Interference with Worst, the
great giant who has directed the des
TIMES of the Agricultural college and
has sent out from its halls young men
and women to engage in the agricul-
tural work of the state who are the
peers of any in the land? Can this
state afford to be rid of his masterful
power over the rising generation
which has carried hundreds of boys
and girls who have come under the
magic of his personality to the highest
planes of noble and upright living? ,
Not man could be found in all the
state but would rise in righteous in
dignation at any attempt to remove
Merrifield, the man who has built out
OF the chaos of new field, UNIVERSE
ty which stands today the proud equal
of hundreds of it's kind which have nut
many times its age behind them.
The same is true of Bangs, who has
made the school for that class of chill
dren who by some mysterious act of
Omnipotence have been deprived of
the sense of speech and hearing.
Would any one who has witnessed his
earnest and successful work in giving
the children who have come under his
care the ability to communicate with
their fellows and changed the deserts
of their lives for a paradise, tolerate
for a moment his removal in order to
accomplish reform which consists
in giving few offices to a few ME
hunger democrats who happen to be
affiliated with political party with
record so disastrous to the welfare
of the nation that the people refuse
to fntrust to them the management of
its affairs?
If these State institutions and their
kindred ones have been so managed
by the republican administrations that
they command the high positions they
do, and If the men who have written
their lives into the very history of
these institutions are such that there
Is no need of change, in the name of
sense, what reason is there
for giving Burke chance to do with
them as his party might dictate?
The democrats of this state are sore
because the state republican platform
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