The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-06-01

the time the democratic nominations
were made The lions skin of reform
has not hidden the voice of the animal
beneath it.
The result of the matter is that the
people who at first were inclined to
give the disruptionists hearing are
turning from them in disgust. Their
real motives have been so glaringly
exposed that they can no longer con-
ceal the real purpose for which they
have sought to deceive the people.
The quasi-crimes which the disrup-
tioniSts have sought to make the public
believe were those of the republican
party have been incontestibly shown
to have been the acts OF those who
were seeking the loaves and fishes
through the instrumentality of demo-
cratic success. Under these conditions
men who were favorable to the dis
ruptionists because they believed the
motives We're pure, became Disguised
and have turned from them. They
have refused to be longer deceived.
Deserted by these men who alone
have given the movement semblance
of credibility, the leaders have hung
their heads in shame. and the columns
of the disruptionist press are to day
filled only with voice from the grave.
In some of the counties of the state
they were compelled to select men of
such we'll known political records for
places on the ticket and by such repre-
hensible methods that the honest
citizens have refused to give them
contenance. The press which until the
disruption purpose was exposed. was
filled to overt flowing with insinuations
against the republican party and its
leaders who happened to have been
trusted with positions of honor by the
party members, is now either trying
to explain the reprehensible records OF
it's leaders, apologizing for the bossism
methods by which the leaders have
sought to stiHe the voice of their
followers, or else are openly and
frankly condeming the whole proceed
ing as fraud and deception.
The disruptionist leaders have learn
ed to their dismay that the people of
this state are far too intelligent and
far too patriotic to be used as plant
tools by any clique or party. In fact
one of the manifest and most emphatic
denials-if no stronger term be used
Of the very charges which the disrup-
tionists press and leaders have rung
constantly upon the people, is the ab-
solute and indignant refusal of their
followers to be gagged with politlcal
representation in which they had no
part 1t is the first time that such an
attempt was ever made and the result
has shown that the party which
attempted it is doomed to defeat and
political disgrace.
1t is no wonder then that the cause
of the disruptionists is failing so rapid
ly that in many of the counties where
it has been preached longest and loud
est there remains not as much as a
clrporal's guard. Driven to by the
.eaders are only able to fight with
epithet and insinuation, the weapons
always employed by the beaten and
retreating. There is no question but
that had their cause possessed
shadow of sincerity and truth the in
telligence of the men who were ready
and willing to give them a hearing
and who are now most outspoken in
the purposes and methods of the dis
ruptionists, would have made their
showing a formidable one.
That the lime light of truth which
has been turned so full upon them has
driven these men from the support of
the party which is merely seeking to
crafty the desire for power even at
the sacrifice of the republican party
is conclusive evidence that their
claims never had the semblance of
truth for foundation
1t has been fight of the republican
party for the perpetuations of its prin-
ciples. 1t is the same principle on
the part Of the disruptionists who,
knowing the,purpose. have still sought
Cleveland and calamity, that caused |
the same party to attempt to sever the
union and build up in its own strong
hold nation the corner stone of which |
would be the bartering of human souls.
Yet the same spirit which permitted
the deluded followers of this other
disruption to return to their homes and |
assist in binding up the bleeding
wounds of the nation which they had
made, is manifest in the charity which
10 extended to those who have sought
the ruination of the republican party |