The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-05-30
STATE PRESS VOID
OF BRAINS SAYS
SPALO|NG
The 1-want-a-Plum Reformer
Was Peevishly Inclined
at Larimore.
Special TO the Evening Times.

Larimore, N. D., May 29,-According
to this mornings Herald there was a
large and enthusiastic meeting of the
Good Government league in the opera
house in this city last evening. "The
large and enthusiastic meeting" was
composed of just seventy-seven peo-
pie, counting those who came and
went and when Mr.. Spalding closed
his address there We're by actual count
exactly sixty-six people passed out of
the hall including twelve boys. this
notwithstanding the fact that the band
played in front of the opera house
before the meeting was called in order
to draw large crowd which they
succeeded in doing, but very few of
them entered the hall to hear the Hon.
b. F. Spalding deliver his muck rake.
vilification of character speech.
When Mr.. Spalding began to speak,
he looked into the faces of not more
than forty persons. but the people kept
dropping in until the large (?) gath
ering of seventy-seven people had
passed in and out. while during his
harangue eleven men left the hall,
either tired or in disgust. One thing
noticeable was that taken all in all
there were not over forty voters pres
ent and these were gotten together
from McCanna to Northwood, included
five candidates for Office and seven of
the leading democrats of the county
and city and even as far east as Grand
Forks and Fargo had representatives
present.
Mr.. Spalding did not look to be in
the best of humor when he arose to
address the audience and the reason
was soon learned, he was sore, very
sore. He had just been reading a
copy of the Grand Forks Evening
Times and perhaps glancing at his
picture representing him in his true
character. he could hardly wait to
get his breath in order to jump on the
Times with both feet. He was SO
angry that he abused every newspaper
in the state and said ut requires no
brains to run newspaper. If the
test of truth could be applied to the
newspaper men of the state of North
Dakota they would fipd themselves
in the same fix as the man who had
all of his brains removed from his
head"
Referring to the Times he said: I'm
Grand Forks there is a newspaper or
something called newspaper for
which Hansbrough furnishes the
brains and other people the money"
He stated that the Times was pub
lished by Senator Hansbrough in or
der to have one republican paper in
Grand Forks county. you can't. find
a newspaper in the state where the
editor is not holding a post office or
laboring under delusion or deriving
a large income from final proofs or
legals in the western part of the state.
that is the character of the papers
that are calling us insurgents. sore
heads. ETC." But when he touched
upon Winship he could say nothing
too good of him the same way with
B. F. Spalding, the latter he claimed
to be man "of honesty and integrity"
He was continually pointing out
what he called specific charges against
Mckenzie. LaMour and Hansbrough
but not one thing did he point out
that had taken place. For example
he dwelt upon the capitol commission
bill. (there was no capitol built.) The
water main and sewerage question in
Bismarck, there was no water main
laid or new sewerage put in.) He
spoke of the lottery bill, there was
no lottery bill passed.) In fact lis
whole line Of argument was along
this same line.
The main object of attack was upon
the person of Mckenzie, LaMoure and
Hansbrough while the railroad COM
panies came in for their share.
He gave the democrats very little
encouragement and said that their
party was dominated and completely
under the thumbs of the three men
referred to.
1t was simply the same old story,
the same old wheat threshed over
again, the same old disgruntled popu-
list doctrine. put to those present by
man who had sore head, disappoint-
ment and anxiety written on his