Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-11-24

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4 box or secreted in the most circum-
spect hosiery.
1 1t has been the custom for long
time that people require of their can
/ didates certain pledges or promises
and declaration of their belief and
| intentions upon certain important
matters in order that voters may in
| telligently decide as to what line of
public policy the candidate stands
1 for and cast their ballots accordingly.
/ Formerly in the state the platform
of the party was the official declara
ton of principles and all candidates
| stood upon the platform, and the
party itself was pledged to the full
ffillment of it's promises. But the pri-
mary law has wiped out party con-
/ ventions and party platforms, SO far
as candidates for Office are concerned,
at this stage of the political battle,
and individual candidates are declar-
ing themselves along political lines.
This results in placing as many plat
forms before the people at this time
as there are candidates and from the
number of both there will be plenty
of winter reading for the voters. It
is a question if the demand of the
4 people for specific Information upon
i a great many topics as to the can
didate's intention does not result in
/ a series of declarations which are ex-
Iceedingly long, cumbersome and
tedious. There is such a thing as
promising too much and there is such
4 a thing as demanding too many
promises. And yet the candidate who
1 fails to declare himself upon amy one
of a dozen or more public Questions
i would probably be assailed with the
criticism that he fears to declare
himself and therefore has something
to hide. He would have his explain
/ ing to do before the election and the
4 candidate who protests and promises
too much is apt to have some explain
ing to do afterward, unless the pro-
portion between promise and per-
& Torrance changes, materially.
4 We read in the papers that deaf
and dumb couple from North Dakota
i were recently married in Minneapo-
1 lis. A typewriter served as the me-
dunn by which they made their vows
and by which their welded state
was proclaimed to them. Such a
marriage, if unusual. has Its adyan-
tages. For there will be no spoken
determinations afterwards. There
will be no breakfast table differences
i and no surly observations of the hus-
band upon the GOODNESS of the coffee.
4 For a deaf and dumb man or woman
II cannot carry typewriter around al
ways as a medium of exchanging
views Or information and not much
n friction would be developed by a
! typewriter spat. If the husband
came home too late at night, the wife
could not throw typewriter rebuke
out of the upstairs window at him,
as she can do with vocal cnastise-
ment. Neither could the husband
respond with typewriter expIana-
ttion, and thus the possibility of acute
J. iony 1TrCx n /. In
I body could click "a typewriter fast
enough to engender real quarrel,
and the passage of heated remarks
a to and fro between husband and wife
would be largely If not altogether
avoided. .4l:S;
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: We get some startling news items
from Ward county and the latest to
! be set forth In sensational headlines
is that a sixteen-year-old boy was
: killed and partially deYoured by d
ferocious lynx IL the fact Is as
/, stated, il is greatly TO be deplored
But we cannot resist the impression
that a careful @inv estigation might
a prove the fact not to be. We hope
4 so. even if II casts an unfortunate
nlentary upon the yeracity 81
some newspaper correspo ndent. For
NE are NOT familiar with all the wild
lanimals of Ward county Or even Of
3 North Dakota, but we were not pre-
pared to learn that there were Zero.