Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1906-05-31
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Information for Voters Re-
garding Record Of Ex- :
81
Cong. SpaIdIng.
Voted In Congress for Removal Of
4 Wheat Duty-Also for a No.
torlous Mileage Grab.

"When the devil was sick, the devil . monk
would be;
When the devil was well, the devil . monk
was he."
The present campaign being made
against the republican state admin
istration and members Of congress
nominated at the republican conven.
tion and elected two years ago, seems
to be a campaign started mainly by
B. F. Spalding of Cass county on ac-
count of his personal grievances. He
is plainly chagrined that the party
should turn him down. Because MIR.
Spalding was not given renomina-
tion for third term, the Grand Forks
Herald says he twas stabbed in the
back -; and although the delegates
from his own county were divided
against him on account of his defeat,
he tries to start a wave Of what he
calls "reform in politics, with the
idea, no doubt, of a personal vindica-
tion later on by a nomination to con-
gress or some other office.
AS matter.of fact there are hun.
dreds of other men in North Dakota
as we'll able to:represent the state in
congress as Mr.. Spalding, and more
entitled to recognition in that respect,
from party standpoint, than himself.
BY all rules of fairness, Mr.. Spald-
ing, having been twice honored by his
party in elections to congress, should
accept his Idefeat the same as other
good men have done, and who have
survived the shock to their personal
feelings. # -& -s'.I Es e..
But instead of that, Mr.. Spalding is
making speeches around the state
charging up all manner Of faults to
the republican administration, attack
ing the personnel of the organization
and attempting to show that in the
interests of the people change is
needed in theIparty management.
/ Asked to point out where the pres
ent administration has been derelict
or has not fulfilled the trust imposed
on it, Mr.. Spalding is unable to do so,
but falls back on generalities and per-
sonal attacks on members of the
republican committee, whom he does
not personally like, and whom he calls
It might, therefore, be well before
accepting Mr.. Spalding's sweeping
condemnation Of the republican ad-
ministration and conduct of the party
leadership, to inquire fairly into Mr..
Spalding's own record, and to judge
thereby whether he is entitled to be
sent back third time to the halls of
congress or to be placed in any other
Office of profit and trust at the hands
of the organization he twice cordially
endorsed. When he was the party
candidate he stumped the state as a
speaker and said nothing about the
great abuses he now finds to have then
existed. One Of the republican papers
of the state, referring to this part Of
Mr.. Spalding's record, says:
"TO understand the activity of ex-
Congressman Spalding in the campaign
against the republican organization of
the state, it is necessary to refer to
the fact that Mr.. Spalding is disap-
pointed candidate TOR Office. For
great many years, while at least some
Of the evils that he now complains Of
must have been existent, Mr.. Spalding
was leader In the republican organi-
cation. He served at its head during
one campaign, and was while mem.
ber of the organization, q frequent and
persistent candidate for Office. He
was an active and practical exponent
OF the methods he now SO ardently Op-
poses, and he found neither time nor
inclination in those days tOrefer to
any corruption or evil methods that
may have existed, as he claims now:
The pertinent inquiry has been made 2. *
OF him whether he would have been
making the speeches he is making
now had be been elected congressman
at the last election. We believe the
inquiry is still unanswered. IT Is ap-
parent. therefore, that MI. Spaldtngs
sudden conversion to the Dellei tnaL
ali things political are corrupt is due
solely to the fact that Burleigh -.
#Spalding was not nominated Tor con-
$gress by the people Of the state Iat the
last election. Mr.. Spalding' 's$ attitude
Us well summarized II the old familiar I'at
lines 5f:,s 5s.5: a. . y
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