Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-12-27
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TERM I'M "A SPEECH AT
4 WAS lib URN
GIVES THE LE4ADERs OF LATE.
'sljNsu URGENT CONVENTION
SOME HARD WHAckS
SAID THEY WERE ENGAGED in
y DisRuPTlNG THE REPUBLIC
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/ Washburn, ~. d., Dec. % Hon r..
R. Sinkier, candidate for congress
from, this state responded recently to-
an invitation of the Young Mems Re.
publican club Of Washburn, NJ D.
and delivered one of the best speech
es. heard In this part of the state
Mr.. Sinkler has a good delivery, a
wide scope of Information, sound judg-
nient with plenty of words to express
his opinion, which together with his
fund OF humor and ability will make
him a very formidable candidate for
the office to which he taspires. 4
In speaking OF insurgentism, he
said: s5ssss4: s' NJ
4 The spirit Of reform is in the air.
We believe in reform; we believe in
progress: we believe in going forward
and not Backward; we believe in good
government, in an incorruptable court;
in honest legislation; id the politics
of Roosevelt. You who believe, in
purity. in politics, in an incorruptable
court, in honest legislatures, lin adj
vancement in reform, in the eliInina-
ton of the dictator, are insurgents.
Do some Of YOU say not2 Wait. There
is not an honest man in the state of
North Dakota except those self seek
ers who organized that convention at
Grand Forks, who is not an insurg-
ent. They are not because they have
violated the first fundamental princi-
pal of insurgentism.i BY their acts
and not by name are men known,
mean insurgentism as it is in princi-
pie and not as it is practised, n as it
was intended to be, not as it is. AS it
is in fact, not as it has degenerated
into by the acts of ambitious men. i
mean right action, good government,
honesty in politics, reform advance
ment, progress and obedience to law
and order But il insurgentism, ais it
was made at Grand Forks, means
selfishness, vaulting ambition, rule or
ruin policies, packing of conventions,
boss rule, violation of the letter and
spirit OF the primary election law,
then I am glad to he known as only
a plain republican. 81 !.
The principles Of insurgentism was
right in its inception, but greed, am.
bition, self seekers if you please, have
gotten hold of the helm and the in
surgent ship, as they represent 1t, is
fast drifting to destruction Did Il
say fast drifting? It has already
struck the rocks and shoals of ruin,
but the principles which that organ.
ization once stood for will live as
long as time, for right will never per-
ish, and you and |, In the future, as
in the past, will go on working for
struggling for the principles that
have mentioned. The republican party
must be reunited. Any movement
which tends to disorganize should be
| discouraged. A father had a family
of sons who were perpetually quar-
reling among themselves. When they
4 failed to heal their disputes by his
exhortations he determined to give
them a practical lesson of the evils
Of disunion, and for the purpose one
4 day told them to bring him a bundle
4 of sticks. When they had done 81
ne placed the faggot into the hand,
of each in succession and ordered
them to break 1t to pieces. The.
each tried with all their strength
i and We're not able to do SO. He I'm
lloosed the faggot and took the stick
4 separately, one by one. and agail
i put them' into their hands, on which
they broke them easily. He then ad
. dressed them in these words: IN
sons if you are of one mind and unit
to assist each other, you will be a
this faggot, uninjured by all the al
tempts of your enemies, but il 20
4 ara divided among yourselves you wi
i be broken as easily as those sticks.
II The republican party divided will b