Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-06-18
Politics and Politicians
Random Shots at Politics Over the State

& POitlCS and POIuCIdnSy
5 Random Shots at Politics Over the State :
TIE fight that has been put up since
the opening of the campaign by both
the stalwart and insurgent factions of
the republicans against Senator Hans
brough's candidacy for reelection is
beginning to show signs of having over
shot the mark. The past week the
campaign of the senior senator appears
to have. begun to make gains, judging
from the tone of some Of our republican
exchanges. The hint being thrown out
that he has not yet given up hope of
upsetting the calculations of political
enemies within the rank and file of his
own party. For a man figured to be
down and out "Hans" is certainly COM
ing down the home stretch in a way that
is making some of the rest of EN- take
an interest in things.
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Ex-Congressman Burleigh F. Spald-
ing has filed both republican and
democratic petitions for judge of the
state supreme court, which will result in
his name being found on the ballots of
both parties at the primary election.
The situation is one that leaves him
dead sure of having his name on the
ticket of one or the others party ballot
at the fall election. This is if no other
certainly a novel way of e%masculating
the political feature from judicial
matters. At the same time it is doubt
less one of the peculiarities of the
primary election law that will require
the attention of the repair shop of
North Dakota law makers when the
legislature meets next winter.
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Nels W. H%awkinson, formerly travel
ing salesman for a wholesale paper
house, but now operating a line OF lumber
yards and hardware stores in Ramsey
and Towner counties, is a progressive
republican candidate for representative
from a Towner county district. We
have known "Nels' for a long time in
fact since away back in the early COS
before he became so fat and bald, and
we know that, ever if he is a republican,
he will represent the people of his
district, if elected, in a praiseworthy
manner.
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The voters should also remember at
the primary election to elect their pre-
cinct committee. On the primary ballot
will be left an open space. The voter
will write the IA of three qualified
democratic voters within his precinct.
The three receiving the largest number
of votes will constitute the precinct
committee, and the one having the
largest number of votes will be the
chairman of the committee, and the
chairmen of the precinct committees
constitute the county centralcommlttee.
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The republican spell binders who have
been sent to Langdon to talk up politics
within the past ten days or so,don't seem
to have got any better strangle hold on
their hearers than the lightweight team
of youthful looking Norman elders who
are here from Senator Shoots multi
matrimonial precinct holding forth on
the religious beliefs of that hory-headed
old latter day saint, Brigham Young.
who is said to have had almost as many
wives as King Solomon,
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This is the second trial, and it is ar
admitted fact stated by those having &C
tual experience that the expense of ar
erection campaign to the Office seeker
5 under the new primary law is abou'
r double what it used to be under the ole
method. Poor men are thus PRACTICAL,
5 barred out of politics.
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> Every candidate on the the count,
ticket knows its up to him to get his 81
per cent of the vote cast by the party a
the election of two years ago, Demo
Gratis are not likely to be found visiting
with the republicans mex Wednesday.
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Six days more after this issue-ol
: Wednesday, June 24-is primary cleo
ton day. an event that has hee,
a%nxiously awaited-especially by tn,
man who is out for a job-since tn,
opening of spring.
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1t doesn't need a Hicks or a Foster T.,
Q forecast a political storm for Wednesda,
June "a. Every burned republican il
the state has been able to sniff thi
0 storm brewing for a couple ofyears bacI