Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-10-20
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A +. PRACTICAL SIDE.

Even the Grand Forks Herald fears
the insurgent campaign is drifting
into dangerous channels. The Herald
says the personal element must not
be permitted to enter into the insur-
gent campafgn-that it is a fight for
principle and principle must not be
sacrificed to personal dislikes or pre-
ferences. The people who have been
battling for principles, so says the.
Herald, must not be permitted to
chase away after some candidate be-
cause he has the elements of personal
popularity, neither must they antag-
onize a candidate purely out of per-
sonal dislike. In short the campaign
must be conducted upon an extreme
ly high plane-so high that there
shall not be men or mouse in it
nothing but principle. III
All of which sounds like an essay
by a well grown scholl boy and con
tains a whole lot of bosh. The Her
ehia has hSoSucu SSuCu d uiSu SLdud-,
ard Of principle that it is in extreme
danger of falling off with bump.
The Herald knows. as all other prac-
tieal people know, that there is a
great big personal and practical ele-
ment in any campaign, and that the
time when people will follow a pure
ly abstract principle is a long way,
off. The Hera1d's ideal" campaign
for Dean Bruce has fallen pretty fiat
and the Herald knows it. Hence
these hifalutin expressions, warning
the independents and insurgents
against following off personal gods,
The Herald knows, as i everybody
else knows, that there must be per
sonality before any campaign, just
as there must be personality before
victorious army. There must be
a man to follow as well as an ideal
There must be flesh and blood and
warmth and individuality And to
endeavor to change the nature of
campaigns and the instincts of peo-
pie is a task the Herald, as ,sensf-
BILE and sane paper, will not waste
much time upon I.
The Herald in the last campaign
placed itself upon pedestal or right
eousness and exalted itself At the
outset of another campaign it has
taken it upon itself to say which
candidate is fit for popular support
and which one is not. 1t is wasting
a good deal of breath. The people
of the state of North Dakota want
a senator who has human qualifica-
tions as well as abstract idealism
They do not want him upon so high
a plane that they are unable to wills
per in his ear, neither do they wan
him to be cold, incalculable ant
unfeeling quantity. sie. z;
A primary election, more than an,
other, develops the personal side o
men and attracts support for then
through their personal qualities. |
results frequently in mistakes
gives the glib talker and superficial
fs reasoner an opportunity to deceiv
3 hasty public opinion. But it is no
~ system of campaigning in whic
X the abstract logieian will find him
81 self far in the lead. He is more an
u to be far in the rear. The man VIII
has done things who is a Worke
and a doer who knows how to NEE
people and treat them, who know
how to take his place among pull
lie men and among all men, who ha
& en- gagIng personal qualities and a
element In him that eompels huma
admiration, he is the man who wi
stand to the front in these primaI
campaigns. II the Herald wante
cold b1ooded logieians in Office
should BY all means have discourse
ed direct personal choice on the pa
& Of the people. for the people are vel
B human and they want man