The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-02-06
Pembina Chieftain Most Un-
assuming Man in Senate
Says Correspondent.
HAS NEITHER HORNS NOR
Cl0VEM FEET As REPORTED
But on the Other Hand Keeps Counsel
With Himself and Devotes His Time
and Energies to the Advancement
Of Such Legislation as His Consti.
tuents May Have Demanded.
(By George Davis.)

Bismarck, Feb. 6.-The man who has
a good word to say for Senator La
Moure will no doubt be assigned to the
same list as those who believe in sense
as against sensations in the estimate
OF certain egotistical spokesmen of the
present powers that be in this state.
But during the last few weeks l have
been studying the senator from Penn
bina at close range. 1t is true that
from the published reports of the SEN
sational politicians of the state, the
stranger would be led to believe that
he possesses norns and the cloven foot
and that his customary garb is scarlet.
When he spoke it would have been SUP
posed that sulphuric fumes issued from
his nostrils and that when his edict
went forth all that portion of the king
dom enclosed within the border lines
of North Dakota trembled and shook.
But on the contrary the man who
meets Senator LaMoure finds quiet
and unassuming man with a voice so
low that it is not audible for even Il
few feet, and with a manner so unas-
suming that he would never be select
ed as a man of even ordinary promln-
ence in crowd. 1 overheard a story
one day in the early part of the ses-
sion which we'll illustrates the opinion
of the men who know him best. a
gentleman who has been in many bat
ties with LaMoure and who would be
justified in holding malice against him
if anyone would was discussing the
string of slanderous stories which were
sent from Pembina county by the pres
ent adviser-according to his own
opinion of Governor Burke while he
Che adviseD was doing the muck
rake stunt for the morning democratic
daily of Grand Forks. The gentleman
said that if that correspondent had
Jud LaMoure's brains with the cor
respondents egotism and gall it would
take at least two capitol buildings 10
hold him.
1t may be true that he has played
the game Of politics and has often won.
But he has always played according
to the rules, and if defeated has nevel
sulked. But while playing the game OF
politics he has done much for the state
in the way of encouraging its develop
ment. He is today recognized as the
sponsor of the state institutions and 1t
is doubtful if any man in the state has
a more intimate knowledge OF their
needs and conditions than he. He has
been a member of the senate since the
first legislature under statehood con-
venced in 1889 and in 1877 and again
in 1885 he was a member of the ter
ritorial council, while in 1873 he serv-
ed in the house, this in all probability
being his debut in political life. He
served again in this body in 1885. He
has thus with the exception of four
sessions served in the law making
body of the territory and state since
1873. period of more than third of
a century. 1t is a remarkable public
career when viewed from the stand
point of a novice and is one of which
any man might we'll be proud.
But with all his experience and FAM
iliarity with the affairs of the state
which he has helped n a large measure
to create, he makes his influence felt