The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-05-30

party with its confidence is honorable
in the fulfillment of his public duties.
The members Of the state government
have been the plant servants of I'M
known powers-for those who have so
declared have not been able to specify
Il single particular case. The mem
bers of the legislature have been false
to the interests of their constituents
and have betrayed the tsGst reposed
in them. The people who lave bv
their votes placed these public SER
wants in power are corrupt because
they have elected men whom they
could and did trust to positions of
responsibility and honor.
Nor has the insinuating charge of
the disrnptionists stopped at this point.
They have gone further and by in
uendoes attempted to make the pub
lie believe that the great masses of
the republican party in this state, men
who come from the pillow and shop and
counting room, who would scorn the
offer of corruptionist and smite in
the face the man who would offer
them bride, have for a mess of
pottage sold their political birthright
These are the things which are
charged against the gang and these
are the people who are included in
that term by those who are seeking to
turn the state over to the democratic
party.
If then by the gang is meant the
masses of the republican party who
have of their own volition made the
choice of their fellow men who have
served them in representative capa-
city, it is not amiss to consider at this
time what the party has done for the
state.
With merely score OF years of
state history behind it, the republican
party has built up a system of public
schools which are the admiration of
the leading educators of the country.
1t has given the state a combination
of higher educational institutions that
are the peers of those of the foremost
states. and it has placed in charge of
these institutions a class of men of
the very highest integrity and ability,
who have made the institutions they
! govern respected from one end of the
land to the other. 1t has placed nearly
every important law enacted in the
last twenty years on the statute book,
and it must be admitted that North
Dakota is at the very top of the list of
| we'll governed states. 1t has labored
! in season and out Of season to protect
the interests Of the wheat growers of
the state upon which crop they must
depend for support and from which
thousands OF them have become men,
! of wealth.
Contrast this with the records of the
leaders of the disruptionists and note
the difference. Spalding the candidate
for senator, speaking and voting in
congress for the admission free of
duty of Canadian wheat for the pur-
pose of reducing the price of this pro-
duct to the Minneapolis millers. The
same man lobbying in the interests of
fictitious residence for divorce appli-
Giants which would have made the
state an object of derision in the
minds of the moral people of the en-
tire country in order that the shame
thus brought to the state might be-
come source of revenue to a few
lawyers engaged in divorce practice.
OF which he was one. Voting. to the
eternal shame of the state, to pay him
self mileage for trin to the national
capital when he never made the trip.
Another leader seeking until the last
few days the nomination for governor
who entered into a combination to
hold up the price Of state printing and
secured more than it was worth from
the tax payers of the state.
The contrast is clear and the man
who stands at the parting of the ways
need have no difficulty in making the
selection of the road he will pursue.
There Is no need of personal abuse
and dirty insinuations. The issue is
one Of fact and the evidence is before
the jury. Those who are fighting for
the preservation of the republican
principles in North Dakota have not