Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-05-10

A BUSINESS MANS VIEW,

A BUSINESS MANS VIEW.
In a recent issue of the jamestown
Alert Is fair and sensible presenta-
ton OF issue in this state from Col
w. H. Robinson of Trail county. The
Alert says:
Col. Robinson is in touch with a
good many business and farming
interests in the Red river valley, and
does not believe that the SO called
lnsurgent movement will overturn
THE present political organization of
the party in the state There is not.
enough merit in the attempt. The
main argument Of the insurgents, he
says, seems to be a senseless but
often repeated cry against the gang"
This is merely term intended to cast
reflection on the state republican
organization, with no good ground cor
argument to back it up. Without an
organization, says the colonel, where
would the party be? -a@5
The insurgents use the word gang"
in an offensive sense, to create pre-
judice against the older organization
and at the same time to cover up
their own secret work of selecting
candidates for the various offices,
giving the rank and file no voice in
the choice and domineering over the
faction of the party they are trying to
form, for purely selfish purposes.
Everyone who knows the insurgent
leaders is well aware that they are
not men who would cheerfully become
martyrs in a holy cause, or who de-
vote their time and efforts to their
fellow men for purely humanitarian
purposes. IKE
. The term agang" can be equally as
well applied to the insurgent opposi-
ton as to the regular republican
organization Of the party; in fact CON
sidering the tactics the insurgents
are at present employing to build up
an organization, the term can be more
properly used to refer to them than
any other descriptive term.
@% The present state administration
has been run along good business
lines and the insurgent leaders, hay
ing failed to point out any real
grievance or misnlanagemen Of the
party affairs are compelled to resort
a to cry against the, gang With
this sole argument the leaders are
striving to get control of the state
convention to nominate certain as
pirants for office--chiedy men who
have failed to secure denominations,
or have not yet been recognized with
nominations by the party in its bien-
NAL conventions # .$ ST.
0 IN some states and cities it becomes
necessary to turn down what are IN
realty gangs of political freebooters
who get in office and assume a right
to plumber the public from tie power
conferred on them by law or custom.
But the present assault on the party
organization of this state is without
any good cause or reason, and, under
the circumstances the voters are not
going to respond to the frantic APP
pea1s Of the insurgent leaders as they
hope. @s,. s:#
ss IL IS claimed that the people are
going to display a great political 1lp-,
heaFal and that many counties are
going to pass into the control of the
fnsurgent leaders this fall. But ex-
4 perienae shows that no upheaya1
follows when there is no good reason
& for 1t, or without there is wide
spread knowledge of a necessity for
such movement at the polls.
There may be- a few counties where
4 local political factions are striving for
precedence, and where the. insurgents
4 will try to take advantage of such
. local differences to gain following.
I But these counties are few. The
present party organization has given.
to the republicans Of the state gem
orally honorable and capable efforts
and the results are open to inspection.
The republicans of the state are not
going TO disrupt the present organ
izatfon 70 please a few insurgent
leaders who use the term gang as
their only argument.
The official call for the republican
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